Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Hacking Events Management

Avatar for Andrew Nesbitt Andrew Nesbitt
February 08, 2012
How-to & DIY
3
610

Hacking Events Management

An internal talk I did at Forward about organising awesome meetups.

Avatar for Andrew Nesbitt

Andrew Nesbitt

February 08, 2012
Tweet

More Decks by Andrew Nesbitt

See All by Andrew Nesbitt
Ecosyste.ms Conference talk at EasyBuild User Meeting
Avatar for Andrew Nesbitt andrew
0
340
Can my friends come too?
Avatar for Andrew Nesbitt andrew
5
2.3k
Elasticsearch on Rails
Avatar for Andrew Nesbitt andrew
1
470
24 Pull Requests
Avatar for Andrew Nesbitt andrew
0
570
Hardware Hacking with JavaScript
Avatar for Andrew Nesbitt andrew
1
360
Robotics 101
Avatar for Andrew Nesbitt andrew
4
870
Learning how to Tinker
Avatar for Andrew Nesbitt andrew
2
990
Nodecopter Pivotal
Avatar for Andrew Nesbitt andrew
1
170
BathRuby on Robots
Avatar for Andrew Nesbitt andrew
0
150

Other Decks in How-to & DIY

See All in How-to & DIY
私がカンファレンスのプロポーザルを書くときに考えていること
Avatar for ことみん / kotomin_m kotomin_m
1
490
ラズパイカメラ向け ケーブル延長基板・ハウジングの開発
Avatar for K.Masaki koheimasaki
PRO
2
440
LLMはTRPGのGMができる(確信)
Avatar for kgmkm kgmkm
0
2.2k
ATOMS3R-CAMとClaude SKILLSでタイムラプスチャレンジ #iotlt
Avatar for n0bisuke n0bisuke2
0
230
AWSと学生支援 - Education-JAWS #0
Avatar for awsj communty program manager - Shigeru Numaguchi awsjcpm
1
220
スイングやカードをいい感じに立てるスタンドの話
Avatar for niccolli niccolli
1
400
JAWS-UGとAWS - JAWS-UG彩の国埼玉設立のお祝い
Avatar for awsj communty program manager - Shigeru Numaguchi awsjcpm
2
620
あなたは何故コミュニティに参加するのか？
Avatar for awsj communty program manager - Shigeru Numaguchi awsjcpm
2
280
AIをフル活用！ 猫版MBTI「CATS診断」 爆速開発の裏側【個人開発のAIツール活用 LT Night 登壇用スライド】
Avatar for Shogo Omori omori0219
0
1.4k
Burnoutとの「対話」 〜 アジャイルコーチングを活用した、燃え尽き症候群を克服するスキル 〜 / Dialogue with Burnout by Using Agile Coaching Skills
Avatar for Hiroyuki Ito (TheHiro) hageyahhoo
0
660
JAWS-UGのご紹介 JAWS-UGとは？
Avatar for awsj communty program manager - Shigeru Numaguchi awsjcpm
0
5.5k
2025版 鯖落ちパーツで安価に機械学習用マシンを作ってみる
Avatar for bobfromjapan bobfromjapan
0
580

Featured

See All Featured
Building AI with AI
Avatar for Ines Montani inesmontani
PRO
1
680
Designing for Timeless Needs
Avatar for Cassini Nazir cassininazir
0
130
How People are Using Generative and Agentic AI to Supercharge Their Products, Projects, Services and Value Streams Today
Avatar for Helen Beal helenjbeal
1
120
Making the Leap to Tech Lead
Avatar for Ryan Cromwell cromwellryan
135
9.7k
Design of three-dimensional binary manipulators for pick-and-place task avoiding obstacles (IECON2024)
Avatar for konakalab konakalab
0
350
Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text
Avatar for Ines Montani inesmontani
PRO
4
2.3k
Winning Ecommerce Organic Search in an AI Era - #searchnstuff2025
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
0
1.9k
Noah Learner - AI + Me: how we built a GSC Bulk Export data pipeline
Avatar for Tech SEO Connect techseoconnect
PRO
0
100
ピンチをチャンスに：未来をつくるプロダクトロードマップ #pmconf2020
Avatar for Aki / @LoveIdahoBurger aki_iinuma
128
55k
Faster Mobile Websites
Avatar for Dean Hume deanohume
310
31k
The SEO identity crisis: Don't let AI make you average
Avatar for Varn varn
0
64
Become a Pro
Avatar for Speaker Deck speakerdeck
PRO
31
5.8k

Transcript

  1. Hacking Events Management

  2. Why? • Recruitment • Building your Brand • Fun

  3. Find Topics • New and growing communities • Host existing

    events • Mix it up

  4. Get a great venue • Easy transport • Lots of

    space • Good wifi

  5. It’s all about the speakers

  6. Finding speakers • Experts • Online communities • Mailing lists

    • Twitter • Companies

  7. Timing is everything • Err on the short side •

    Famous doesn’t always mean good • Don’t be afraid to cut them short

  8. Promotion • Mailing lists • Twitter • Lanyrd • Other

    events

  9. Tools • Eventbrite • Big.first.name • Mailchimp

  10. • They own your data • Not free • Butt

    ugly

  11. Have a website

  12. Provide food and drinks

  13. Video the talks

  14. Get feedback

  15. Experiment

  16. Great Artists Steal • Attend other meetups • Try out

    what works for them • Pick and choose the best practises

  17. Focus on what you love

  18. Help others with passion

  19. Organise the event that you want to attend!