📋 Agenda 📋

• 1.00pm: Introduction to global diversity CFP day
• 1.20pm: CFP advice
• 1.40pm: What should you speak about?
• 2.15pm: Break
• 2.30pm: Crafting your biography
• 3.15pm: Exclusionary language awareness
• 3.30pm: The conference speaking experience
• 4.30pm: Building up your speaker profile
• 5.00pm: Bonus activity (will be fun, please be on)
• 5.30pm: Wrap-up

✍️ Call for proposals ✍️

• CFP Land
• Upcoming CFP deadlines
• Confs.tech
• Calling All Papers (Twitter)
• CallbackWomen (Twitter)
• PaperCall event directory

✍️ Writing your CFP ✍️

How to come up with conference proposal ideas

http://bit.ly/cfp-ideas

Structure:

Currently ____
Before that ____
Also _______

Interview questions:

1. What brightens your day?
2. What's the coolest thing you've accomplished?
3. What were the major influences in your life?
4. What are some of your talk ideas?
5. What's important about you that isn't on your resume?

✨ Build your speaker portfolio ✨

• Share slides/code/demos with audience
• If you do the social medias, remember to add hashtags and mentions
• Use platforms like https://noti.st/ or https://speakerdeck.com/
• Have a speaking section on your own website

📋 Useful links 📋

• Don’t feel like an expert? Share anyway.
• How To Rock The Call For Papers And Get Your Talk Picked
• How to Manage Your Fear of Public Speaking
• Advent speaker tips, Speaking Tips
• Global Diversity: helping designers break into the speaker circuit
• The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks
• Becoming a Tech Speaker
• All about giving technical talks on stage

🎉 Bonus activity! 🎉

It will be fun. Please be on.

❤️ Thank you ❤️

We need a group photo for the social medias before you go.