Have you ever wondered why some developers spend days preparing slides, walk on stage for no money, and speak to people they don't know? At first glance, speaking is an unthankful job. Either everybody laughs at your strong accent or some developing superheroes know more than you have. It takes you days of preparation. Speaking makes you sweat, before the talk, during the talk, and later when you watch yourself on video. Speaking makes you pee much more often than is healthy. But still, conferences are full of unpaid speakers. There are way more reasons to give a talk than not to do it. In this talk, we talk about talking. And more concretely, why you should talk as well. As a bonus, I will tell you about my biggest failures when talking (please remind me).

1. The !
“Why should you talk”
talk!
Christian Grobmeier
Twitter: @grobmeier!

2. Current status:

3. 5
Reasons
2
Talk

4. Reason I

5. 1989

6. 1996

7. Reason II

8. Preparation = Value

9. Reason III

10. Stand out.

11. Reason IV

13. Reason V

14. DO YOU TRUST
ME?

15. Focus
on
your
job.

16. How did
speaking
help you?

17. Consultation gigs!
Long term contracts!
Business leads!
Learned through others!
Hired people!

18. Why are you not
speaking?

19. Nothing to tell?

20. STAGE
FRIGHT?

22. PRACTICE!

23. One last thing.

24. Looking glass self

25. Presentation Zen
by Garr Reynolds!

26. Thanks for all.
Reach out
Christian Grobmeier
http://www.grobmeier.de!
Twitter: @grobmeier!
LinkedIn: http://j.mp/glinkedin!
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cg@grobmeier.de!
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27. Image Credits
All images from Unsplash, except personal images and the book cover from
Presentation Zen.
Study room: Jez Times
Statue of Liberty: Anthony DELANOIX
Bar: Kevin Curtis
Crazy probably dying a horrible death: Alex Wong
Worker: Lotte Löhr
Women: Alex Harvey
Empty room: Johnny Clow
Tiger: Edewaa Foster
Rehearsal room: Karim Boubker
Car: Josh Felise