Future of Tech "Conferences"
- 1. Future of Tech “Conferences” Daisuke Maki (@lestrrat) May 23, 2019
- 5. 2009 “grassroots” Organizer: • We’ll get the venue and sort out sponsors • You bring the content!
- 6. 2009 “grassroots” APendees: • We have stuff we want to talk about! • Let’s go talk some more about it aUerwards!
- 7. 2019 “grassroots” APendees: • Entertain us! Barrage us with informaXon! • Give us expensive swags! Feed us! • I’m here to listen to other great speakers
- 8. 2019 “grassroots” Organizer: • We’ll get the venue, food, hotels, entertainment, speakers, really cool swags, booze, and we will raise all the money required for this
- 9. Organizer: • We’ll get the venue and sort out sponsors • You bring the content!
- 10. I thought conferences were for ppl who wanted to be heard…
- 11. What’s going on?
- 14. “Conferences” have become common This is a good thing!
- 16. ETOOMANYEVENTS
- 17. We are all fighXng to secure speaker and aPendee Xme/aPenXon
- 18. Big Players changing consumer expectaXons • OSCON • Google I/O • re:Invent • Decode • etc
- 19. Big Players • Big conferences need to gather WAY more aPendees • They bring good theme/speaker/content • But most notably they bring….
- 20. GLITZor, “wine and dine”
- 22. “Google I/O swag” images
- 23. “OSCON sponsor booth” images
- 24. Is glitz bad? No
- 25. Truth: To fight the war of “glitz” is to fight the war of aPriXon.
- 26. Truth: Glitz aPracts those who may otherwise be uninterested (new blood) (but also those who are there solely for the glitz)
- 27. Corollary: Glitz (if handled incorrectly) dilutes the core values of the event
- 29. Where to go?
- 30. We’re planning a mercari-wide conference in the future
- 31. We could reminisce of the old days, but… the landscape has already changed
- 32. • Focus on tech/engineers • But provide the right amount of glitz • To scale the event • To make our engineers proud to be on stage Future Event (this is harder than you may think)
- 33. What else can we do? Where should we go? Thoughts? Let me know!