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Elementary tips that can help you give an effective tech talk
Starting of 2019, I had 5 ambitions to achieve and one of them was delivering 10+ tech talks around the year which would keep me engaged in learning technology despite of switching to a managerial position at work. I feel accomplished when I attempted 15+ talks until this point of the year and 40+ talks in the last 3 years. Thanks to the job I took this year, it gave me more opportunities than I could ask for :)
While there are dozens of articles explaining on how to be a good public speaker, I thought of collecting my learnings with this blog.
Public speaking comes naturally to some while takes a lot of practice for others to deliver an impactful speech. Bang on this time we are speaking about giving an effective tech talk and just not an effective public speech. While some of the audience may not know anything about the technology you’re speaking, some of them may be totally convinced with a competitive technology and some of them in and out of the topic you’re speaking, explaining how machine works and understands is an art. While I’m on my way to pursue this art, I though of sharing my learnings under the following section :
Before your talk -
Speak what you love, love what you speak :
You take a tough decision when you decide the topic you want to speak. How did you make a choice to speak about a topic? How do you know if the audience would like it? Don’t you think you are wasting time on deciding on a silly question? Choose what you like to practice and the audience will like it because you have convinced yourself before you are trying to convince someone else. Make them think like the way you are!
Map your route before you arrive :
Yes, that’s what you need to explain what you know. You need not recite or write your entire speech but create pointers on what you are planning to speak. On the day of your talk, just add interesting fillers, some humour (if you know you are good at it), and share some experiences you had while you were…
