KellyAnn Fitzpatrick
Appearances
Oxide and Friends
Conferences in Tech
I do not give you permission to drop dead. That's not happening.
Oxide and Friends
Conferences in Tech
One thing I think that you mentioned, the whole point of the pumpkin, there's a pumpkin circumstance, but then there's also that element of can you get feedback on your talk? Which if you're looking at conferences from like the more kind of academic point of view, talks are almost that they can be that thing that you're kind of maybe even still working on.
Oxide and Friends
Conferences in Tech
So if nobody's going to your talk and nobody's giving you feedback on your talk, that's a big change from, I think, how things were many years ago.
Oxide and Friends
Conferences in Tech
There is a question in the chat about what the hallway track is. Is that a Gen X term? No, but I think that's a really good point because like those of us who go to conferences all the time and like Steve clearly has been running like Monctober Fest for a while. Like we've privileged the hallway track, but like the question of like, what is it if you're not used to that term?
Oxide and Friends
Conferences in Tech
Your grad student conference experience was just very different and much better than mine is what I'm hearing.
Oxide and Friends
Conferences in Tech
Oh, I love that Fantasia. What a, what a nice word that would have been.
Oxide and Friends
Conferences in Tech
Two hours in is also when the beer, I think, is served at lunch.
Oxide and Friends
Conferences in Tech
You actually sound unwell. This is not like pretending to be unwell.
Oxide and Friends
Conferences in Tech
I want to weigh the lanyards that I have, though. Instead of counting the number of conferences, just the weight of conference lanyards and badges.
Oxide and Friends
Conferences in Tech
My first, so I was an academic before I was in tech and I was a medievalist. So when we talk about the history of Red Monk, that's why I'm willing to talk about it. Because, you know, for me, decades is not that long. Sorry, Stephen. And so my first conference was with Medievalist and they have a very different view of the world, even compared to say like other folks in the humanities.
Oxide and Friends
Conferences in Tech
So you would go to a Medievalist conference and be like, you talk your papers and you talk and then there'd be like a party, there'd be a banquet, there'd be wine, there'd be beer, there would be actual need, right? So going from that to the tech industry wasn't too bad. But my first actual tech conference was Monctoberfest 2015.