Well it’s getting around to that time of year when conference submission are due.
Now, I go through this process a few times a year, it doesn’t change.
What to submit?
When you take into consideration the process and the timeliness of the talks, blogs on the topic and similar talks, is it really worthwhile.
I often wonder if the benefits outweigh the outlay of time and effort. Does your talk really change things, even just a little, for the people attending.
The Speaker
It’s not just getting a submission together that is the hard part, the entire process can be time intensive.
Webstock 2012 is my second Webstock, my first being for Webstock 2011, but you know what the people at Webstock are so friendly that it feels like I have been going forever.
What I like about this conference it isn’t overloaded with streams, vendors or the like, it’s just kept simple, one main stream, and a minor secondary stream for a limited number of sessions.
With a range of the best speakers from around the world, talking about their passions. It’s like every talk is a keynote, yes the quality is that high.
We now have the famous Webstock card game and webstock bingo in full force, the second day starts a little later, just as well considering the night before.
After an amazing reception that seemed to go on forever, and a relaxing dinner with friends it was time to pick it all up again the hustle back to the Town Hall for WebStock part II.
So far the conference had been all it was promised to be. To say it had been anything short of entertaining and informative would be a lie. In fact it was shaping up to be much more than that.
There is this gem of a conference that happens every year in Wellington, New Zealand at the end of February it’s – Webstock. Now I have been hearing about it time and time again and how amazing it is.
However I hear that about a lot of conference, to often they don’t live up to the hype. You attend and they just let you down with the corporatisation.
Webstock for me is just at the wrong end of the year, being post Christmas, you have to make the decision to go in the quiet period of January when money can be tight. Hence I usually miss Webstock.
