meganspeir/public-speaking

Repository dedicated to the planning, coordinating, and shipping of our first Women In Public Speaking Workshop

GitHub’s First Public Speaking Workshop For Women
At GitHub HQ in San Francisco, CA
Saturday, February 22nd, from 11:00am-4:00pm
(food, beverages, moral support and also plenty of fun provided)

Keynotes:

Meet Our Keynote Speakers:

• Denise Jacobs, Speaker, Author, Creativity Evangelist, Passionate Diversity Advocate
• Diana Kimball, Expert Novice, Bright Soul, and Harvard MBA Set Out on Making the World A Better Place

Our Awesome Mentors For The Day:

• Ana Hevesi, Community Developer at StackExchange, Conference Organizer, Brilliant Wordsmith, So Damn Well-Spoken
• Andi Galpern, Expert Web Designer, Rockin' Musician, and Passionate Tech Educator
• Alexis Finch, Sketch Artist, Has Probably Seen More Conference Talks Than Ted Himself, Badass Women's Advocate
• Alice Lee, Designer and Illustrator at Dropbox, Super Talented Letterer, and Organizer of Origins
• Anita Sarkeesian, Creator and Host of Feminist Frequency, Pop Culture Trope Expert , Probably the Most Hilarious Human Alive
• Angelina Fabbro, Average Developer with Above-average interest in helping you feel confident in your presentation skills
• Ash Huang, Designer at Pinterest, Really Quite Handy with Gifs IRL
• C J Silverio, Cats, Weightlifting, and Node.js, Not Necessarily In That Order.
• Divya Manian, Crazy Talented Speaker, Avid Coder, and Armchair Anarchist
• Garann Means, JavaScript Developer, Incredible Writer, Proud Austin-ite, and Beyond Powerful Speaker
• Emily Nakashima, Resides in the East Bay, Programs at GitHub
• Jackie Balzer, Writes CSS Like It's Her Job (It Is), Leads An Army of CSS Badasses at Behance
• Jen Myers, Former Passion Projects Speaker, Dev Bootcamp Instructor, Fantastic Keynoter, and Starter of Brilliant Things
• Jesse Toth, Developer at GitHub, Cal CS Grad
• Jessica Dillon, Lover, Fighter, Javascript Writer
• Jessica Lord, Open Sourcerer, Former Code For America Fellow, Changing The Way The World Interacts With GitHub/Code/Javascript
• Julie Ann Horvath, Passion Projects Creator, Developer, and Designer of Websites and Also Slides
• Kelly Shearon, All Things Marketing and Content Strategy at GitHub, Could Write You Under A Table, Super Cool Mom
• Luz Bratcher, Helvetica-loving UX designer at Design Commission, Event Admin for Seattle Creative Mornings
• Mina Markham, Badass Lady Dev, Girl Develop It Founder/Instructor, Generally Rad Person
• Netta Marshall, Lead Designer at Watsi, Formerly Rdio, Professional Ninja, Owner Of Best Website Footer On The Internet
• Raquel Vélez, Hacker of The Web (node.js), Robotics Engineer, Polyglot, (Cal)Techer
• Sara Pyle, Supportocat at GitHub, Amateur Shapeshifter, and Professional Superhero
• Sonya Green, Chief Empathy Officer, Leads Support at GitHub
• Tatiana Simonian, VP of Music at Nielsen, Formerly Music at Twitter and Disney
• Willo O'Brien, Heart-Centered Entrepreneur, Speaker, Coach, Seriously Positive Person

Working/Hacking in small groups with our mentors:

• HOW TO: Choose a topic to speak about. (Alexis Finch)
• HOW TO: Find a conference or event to speak at. (Garann Means)
• HOW TO: Write a talk proposal and personal bio. (Mina Markham)
• HOW TO: Write content for your talk. (C J Silverio)
• HOW TO: Make your slides beautiful and also visible from a far. (Andi Galpern)
• HOW TO: Ship it. (Angelina Fabbro)
• HOW TO: Handle Q&A. (Divya Manian)
• HOW TO: Solicit feedback (before and after your talk). (Jen Myers)

Lightning talks: Be bold and also brave.