Nina Zakharenko gives some great advice about giving tech talks.
We talk about a blog series that Nina wrote called "The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks". This episode is full of great help and encouragement for your own public speaking adventures.

Some of what we discuss:

overcoming the fear of public speaking
breathing and pausing during talks
planning your talk as well as planning your time to get ready for the talk
writing proposals and getting feedback on proposals
Nina's talk in PyCascades on programming Adafruit chips
types of talks that are often rejected
pre-recording demos to avoid live demo problems
why you should speak, even if you are an introvert
benefits of public speaking
a super cool announcement at the end

Special Guest: Nina Zakharenko.

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Links:

The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks — Nina's series of posts with lots of advice on giving excellent tech talks.
Azure for Python developers — Tutorials, API Reference | Microsoft Docs
How to Do a Deep, Diaphragmatic Belly Breathing
Example accepted and rejected conference talk proposals — Nina's examples
Allison Kaptur's PyCon Proposal examples
Emily Morehouse's proposal examples.
Brandon Rhodes' example PyCon talk proposals
Nina's PyCascades talk on Python and LEDs — PyCascades – Light Up Your Life – With Python and LEDs, starts at 13:26.
Nina has a keynote at PyCon 2019 — woohoo!

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71: Memorable Tech Talks, The Ultimate Guide - Nina Zakharenko