Tag: conferences
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Hard pass with a 20% registration discount
The author at SCALE, March 2023. I’ve been having a terrible time getting talks accepted at conferences. Talking at conferences has, you know, been a huge part of my life for about 20 years, so this is kind of a bummer. Care to join me in some self-pity-partyingcare? I’ve got the wrong haircut What gives…
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Researchers at the University of Manchester followed 25,000 11- to 14-year-olds over three school years, tracking their self-reported social media habits, gaming frequency and emotional difficulties to find out whether technology use genuinely predicted later mental health difficulties. Participants were asked how much time on a normal weekday in term time they spent on TikTok,…
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Survey on what people value for sponsorint B2B conferences
“What drives investment in third-party events: High-quality lead generation (67%) Credibility through association with analysts or peers (63%) Expansion into new accounts or buying centers (47%)” 🔗 Why B2B marketers are doubling down on events in 2026
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All of the nerd content I’ve made this fiscal year, so far
This is “content” I’ve made from November, 2024 to today that has something to do with my work. Mostly “to do with” means “talks about the tech world,” if not directly about the concerns and products we have and do at Tanzu. Items include videos, podcasts, white papers, published recordings of conference talks, guesting on…
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Platform engineering for private cloud
Here’s a recording of my latest “how to do platform engineering in large organizations” talk. In this version of it, I go over what matters most for private cloud platforms. Here’s the slides for the talk if you’re into that kind of thing. This talk is based on many years of observing people run platforms,…
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Tech continues to be political | Miriam Eric Suzanne – ”I don’t know how to attend conferences full of gushing talks about the tools that were designed to negate me. That feels so absurd to say. I don’t have any interest in trying to reverse-engineer use-cases for it, or improve the flaws to make it…
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What junior/senior developers and CTOs need to know about internal developer platforms
This is from last Fall at the SHIFT conference, but it still holds up: Relative to your interests Why Are Pants So Big (Again)? – tl;dr: you can wear comfortable jeans again. // “There’s constancy, I thought, and then there’s becoming a relic of yourself” And: “If you zoom out far enough, all the paroxysms…
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idling insignificantly
How to survive giving a lot of presentations at conferences I think it was John Willis who told me that a long time ago. Relative to your interests What is Technical Debt? – “In practice, my observations are that most development teams, even in small companies, are too far separated from these types of financial…
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It’s hard to make content from 20 yeas of transcripts
In Iowa I was in Des Moines this week to give one of the keynotes at DevOpsDays Des Moines (it went well). Here’s some snapshots from around town: CEO Therapy This week’s Software Defined Talk: This week, we discuss Netflix’s DVD deprecation, the remote work debate, and how to fork an open-source project. Plus, thoughts…
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What they don’t tell you about conference MC script writing
A quick one today, no time to compile the links and stuff Writing good MC scripts for the keynote sessions I’ve been writing the MC script for our upcoming SpringOne conference. I was supposed to go be one of the MCs but had to cancel. It would have been awesome to know both sides of…
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Link catsup
I’m at Cloud Foundry Day today – travel, conference, etc. I realized I’m giving the last talk, which is kind of a good slot to have. I’ll have to do some kind of “end of the conference” commentary on life. It’s Germany, and it’s hot. People leave the doors open for a breeze, so there’s…
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How to do a vendor pitch at a tech conference, working the booth, at HallwayCon, etc.
If you work at a company, or in an open source projects, you’ll have a lot of chances at a tech conference to sell your organization’s stuff: products, cloud services, consulting, promoting your project, or just yourself. You’ll get a lot of opportunities to do this, especially if you’re a sponsor of the event and…
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The mandatory trainings will continue until you accept The True DevOps
Some notes on attending conferences, notes on enterprise open source comercio-community, asides and waste book…lots of links. Suggested epigraph and theme are on vacation this week. FOMO and Family at Conferences FOMO is OK, but it is also not OK. All the things you’re missing out on are extra work that drive only marginal profit…
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How to improve your podcast skills, more travel tips, speaking at conferences
This week: Getting better at making podcasts by listening to them, more business travel tips, upcoming talks of mine, links, and random notes. Current Status I’m at VMware Explore this week, I was at DevOpsDays Dallas last week. That’s right: two weeks of travel away from home. I don’t recommend that length of travel. Things…
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Stop with the DevSecOps videos already – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #70
This is a bit of a ICYMI edition. I’ve been posting on my blog a lot more, so I’ll give some pointers to that. DevOps Loop Better clean up my desk. Our second DevOps Loop conference is coming up on June 22nd. It’s free, and we’ve put in a lot of work to get an…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #51
Lots of original content this week, and unstructured tips on moderating a panel. Since it’s been two weeks, a passel of links too. We fear change This is a the first new talk I’ve done in awhile. It came out alright – I could do a lot more commentary on the existing organization change models,…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #50
Nothing profound this time. Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam Free DevOps conference, DevOps Loop, Oct 4th Promotional gif A conference I helped put together, DevOps Loop, is next week. I’m putting together my presentation “fear of change.” So far, I’m playing around with the notion of going over fear of change in more literary sources. There’s…
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