First In-Person Presentation: My Experience and Lessons Learned from SQLBits2023 🐲
I work as a Data Engineer for a couple of years and this year I had a goal to present a session in an in-person event for the very first time 🎯
Last year I decided that I wanted to be more into helping and sharing knowledge in the Community of Data, so I decided to start writing here as a way to fulfill that purpose. But there are other ways to share knowledge, like technical sessions online and/or in-person and that was a thing that I wanted to have a taste of “How it is”.
A goal for me this year was to do 2 in-person events and one of them was SqlBits2023.
Goal setting plays a big role because you have to trace a path to get there and things become more clear. Setting this presentation as a goal gave me clarity and motivation, I was able to measure the outcomes and progress, increased my productivity in working on the presentation, and helped me with my personal growth.
Preparation
I started to work on this presentation 3 months before the day, I’ve already written a story on this that I will leave the link to: How I´ve prepared for SQL Bits 2023 — Data Platform Conference but basically this is what I did.
- Read the book “Talk Like TED” to improve my presentation knowledge.
- Used that knowledge to build the story of my presentation and to build my deck.
- Started to practice for me…
