Presenter Terms

✓ Keynotes

✓ Talks

✓ Workshops

✓ Panels

✓ Moderation

✓ Video series

✓ Cloud Native tech

✓ Development tools

✓ Programming languages

✓ History of computing

✓ Software development methodologies and culture

✓ Developer relations

✓ Careers in tech

✓ English

✓ Spanish

✓ French

✓ Be in permanent contact with the conference team. I will notify you of my arrival at the conference center, city, or hotel, and I will give you my personal details (email, phone, WhatsApp, Telegram, & Signal) for you to contact me at any time. I will have a working mobile phone connection for you to reach me whenever you are in the world (unless I’m on board of a flight, of course.)

✓ Deliver a fitting talk for the intended audience. I tend to deliver a unique talk every time I can and it will be an up-to-date talk.

✓ Deliver the talk on time and sticking to the defined format and duration. I need to know what time frame you expect and what format you want it to be in. I will show up at the times you need me to be there and set up on stage with enough time for AV people to wire up microphones and other equipment. I will have rehearsed my talk and I’ll be sure about the time required to deliver it.

✓ Be available for conference attendees. Conferences to me are more about the people than about the content. Therefore I will try to be there for questions and feedback.

✓ Be available for other promotional parts of the event. I am happy to do interviews or give you feedback to use in conference wrap-ups

✓ Promote my presence at your event. I will toot on Mastodon and blog before, during, and after the event about what my presentation, interesting things I see, and people I meet.

✓ Publish my slides and screen recording after my talk. If there is a good enough connection, this normally happens right after the presentation. I publish my slides on Speaker Deck. If needed, feel free to download them from Speaker Deck (in PDF format) and show them in your website.

✓ I like to use my own computer as I have them set up the way I need and there may be coding examples.

✓ I use a 10th generation Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop running Fedora Linux 38. It has a built-in HDMI port. I haven’t had any issues connecting various Linux laptops to projectors, TVs, or other similar devices in the past 5 years.

✓ I use my own Logitech clicker.

✓ I only send slides in advance in PDF format when there is live translation or signing. Then I will also have a list of terms to translate and put some time aside with the translators to go through the deck.

✓ My slides are in HTML and 16:9 format. I will have them on a memory stick with the needed fonts. I can provide a PDF if needed.

✓ I don’t use any audio in my slides, but some GIF animations or video might be useful sometimes.

✓ I normally use speaker notes, and I bring my own clicker. If possible, I appreciate having a "nanny screen" where I can see my slide notes instead of having to refer to the screen behind me. If this is not possible, I use my own laptop screen as one.

❏ Provide me with a prime speaking slot. I’ve proven to be a good keynote (in particular, closing keynote) speaker and find interesting topics to open or close conferences.

❏ Deliver a professional stage setup. I bring my own laptop and connectors, but I expect at least a power plug and a microphone. I am very good with audio engineers but I am not there to fix audio issues or set up projectors. I expect this to work and be available. I normally don’t need an internet connection, but would love to know in advance whether one will be available at the event.

❏ Record and publish my talk. Recordings are a great advertisement for your conference and I make sure my presentations make sense without being in the room. My slides contain the full speech, so they can be consumed without watching the video.

❏ Keep me out of sponsorship discussions. I am at your event to present technical subjects. I will not "pay to play" and I won’t speak at sponsored speaking slots. I am happy to provide you with contacts of who to invite instead. I am also happy to introduce you to company colleagues dealing with sponsorships, but this is not - at all - what I do. If you are looking for a corporate sponsoring to sell speaking slots, please don’t contact me.

❏ I don’t expect to be paid for my presentations if your conference helps me in my work. However, to ensure I don’t under-bid peers, I’d like conferences to offer free diversity tickets for the value of a speaker fee instead.

❏ If possible, I’d like you to cover my travel and hotel. I need to be able to concentrate on your event. I can not do so if I need to find lodging and organise travel in addition to presenting. I don’t expect first class or business class flights, but I do expect to arrive a day before the event and leave the day after with lodging organised in between. I don’t want to book and pay myself and get reimbursed.

✓ Please provide the contact details (email, phone, WhatsApp, Telegram, & Signal) of a contact person in your team in advance, so that I can notify them of such events. I don’t want to dive into your website to find such information in case of emergency.

✓ When I can not attend for some reason or another, I will try to find a replacement presenter to fill in for me. I cannot guarantee this, however.

✓ When for some reason you decide to slash my speaking slot, I expect you to cover any cost incurred so far, particularly if I booked other appointments around your event that aren’t refundable.