My next conference speaking gig has just come in – the LAST conference in Melbourne at the end of June 2017. This event will mark a series of “firsts” for me.
Firstly (pun intended), this will be my first time attending a LAST conference so I’m looking forward to the huge variety of speakers they have and being part of a community-driven event.
Secondly, this will be the first time I’ve co-presented a talk at a conference. I expect this to be quite a different experience to “going solo” but, given that I’m doing it with my good mate Paul Seaman, I’m comfortable it will go very well.
Finally, this will be the first time I’ve given a conference talk about my involvement with the EPIC TestAbility Academy. Both Paul and I are excited about this project to teach software testing to young adults on the autism spectrum (and we’ve both blogged about it previously – Paul’s blog, Lee’s blog) and we’re pleased to have the opportunity to share our story at this conference. Working together to create a slide deck is another first for both of us and it’s an interesting & enjoyable challenge, for which we’ve found effective new ways of collaborating.
Thanks to LAST for selecting our talk, I’ll blog about the experience of delivering it after the event.
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