Follow Friday: Conferences Edition (6 January 2023)

Happy Friday, friends! 🎉 Follow Friday is your weekly opportunity to shout out fellow DEV Community members doing awesome work. Check out the comments and follow someone new!

Inspired by this week's Top 7 post on speaking at conferences when you're afraid of public speaking by @blackgirlbytes, this week we're talking about conferences!

Whether you attend them or not, conferences are a big part of tech career culture. Come for the networking and inspiring talks, stay for the swag and afterparties (or maybe the other way around? 🤔). There are no shortage of DEV community members with tips on how to give an amazing talk, or how to prepare for your first-ever conference experience.

Plus, I always enjoy reading conference recaps from folks on DEV to learn more about how different organizations get people together to learn and celebrate.

So, devs: who are your favorite DEV community members sharing about conferences?

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Join in on the #FollowFriday fun by @mentioning your favorite author to follow on the topic of conferences (and letting us know why you love their posts!) ⤵️

Comments

[Michael Tharrington]

I wanna give props to @andrewbrown who wrote on a particularly difficult subject in regards to inclusivity (or rather lack thereof) and conferences recently here:

You're running an online conference but get called out for having an all-male speaker lineup 2 days prior. Yo, What do you do?

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 ・ Dec 4 '22 ・ 5 min read

#discuss #serverless #aws

Also worthy of mention, @bekahhw recently started up a discussion asking folks what conferences they're most excited for in 2023:

What conferences do you want to go to in 2023?

BekahHW for Deepgram ・ Jan 9 ・ 1 min read

#discuss #conferences #codenewbie #watercooler

[Andrew Brown 🇨🇦]

Thanks Michael!

[Matt Eland]

Me! I'm sharing about CodeMash 2023 happening next week (CodeMash.org) in Sandusky, Ohio. Also, the CFP for Stir Trek (StirTrek.com) in Columbus, Ohio on May 5th opens in a few weeks, so watch out for that as well!

Full disclosure: I help the organizing team on both conferences.