Writing a Title and Abstract

A short talk about what some of the things that make a successful talk submission for DDD Brisbane.

Transcript

1. Writing a Title and Abstract GETTING YOUR TALK SUBMISSION NOTICED
2. The Title Explain what you’ll show Explain a problem Target your audience
3. Common Successful Patterns Building {a thing} [with {a technology}] Building a conversational user interface Building Maintainable Software Build your own Marketplace: Online Payments Building Droids with JavaScript Building APIs with MVC6 and OAuth
4. Common Successful Patterns {doing a thing} Thinking in React Building a conversational user interface Thinking like a hacker Let’s build a native mobile app with NativeScript and Angular 2 Building Maintainable Software Designing an API
5. Common Successful Patterns {a topic}: {a hook} Deploying Straight to Production: A Guide to the Holy Grail The Actor/Model pattern in .NET: Akka.NET vs Orleans for the curious Event Driven Cloud Computing: Azure Functions vs AWS Lambda Back to basics: simple, elegant, beautiful code Making ReSharper Sharper: How to make your own R# plugin
6. Common Successful Patterns {an interesting question?} What makes React different? What’s it like being an open source maintainer anyway? Panel: What is quality code? Sweet, you’re agile! Now what?
7. The Abstract Start with a “why”-based intro Explain exactly what you’ll do Explain the exact problem you’re addressing Make a connection with the attendee
8. Abstract structures that work Here’s the problem … is the solution I’ll show you …
9. Abstract structures that work Have you wandered about …? I’ll tell you … By the end, you’ll …
10. Other Tips Thank about talks that have disappointed you in the past. Were the abstracts not clear enough about what to expect? Convince the attendee that your talk is worth seeing. Look at abstracts for past conferences. Which ones catch your eye? Avoid Buzzfeed. It doesn’t work online and it doesn’t work here. 
11. Questions to ask yourself Would I be interested in this if I knew nothing about it? Do I know why this talk has been written? Do I know why I should attend this talk? Do I know what I’ll learn by the end of it?
12. Links Past Agendas ◦ DDD Brisbane ◦ DDD Melbourne ◦ DDD Perth Blog Posts ◦ What your conference proposal is missing ◦ Conference Prompts: Or How to Submit Proposals and Influence People ◦ What I learned from reading 429 conference proposals ◦ Lessons learned in Public Speaking
13. Shameless Plug Presentation Skills Workshop Tuesday October 4 (6-8pm) Tickets (DDD-PSRESERVED) DDD Brisbane Saturday December 3 (all day) Tickets