Here is our top 25 list of topics you can use to build your 5-minute lightning talk. Feel free to pick any or come up with your own using these suggestions as a guide:
- How
<Non-Technical Thing>Has Helped Me in My Career - How I Landed My First Programming Job
- How to Find an Open Source Project to Contribute to
- Benefits of Speaking
- How to Become a Manager and Why Anyone Would Want to
- How to Find a Mentor
- Rubber Duck Debugging
- The Coolest Thing I Learned This Year
- The Last Time I Brought Down Production
- The Program I Can't Work Without/My Favorite Little Program: name
- What I Want to Learn Next and Why
- What I Wish I Had Known When I Was Learning X
- What the First Day/Month Working at a Big/Small Company is Like
- Why X is a Skill Worth Developing
- Why X is Better Than Y
- How to Get Your Website on the Internet
- Salary Negotation for a New/Existing Job
- Creating a 30-second Intro/Elevator Pitch About Yourself
- Why I Chose This Tech Stack: Tech List
- How to Get Started with Technology X
- Projects to Put on Your Portfolio
- Where to Start When You're Starting Over as a Career Changer
- Dealing with Imposter Syndrome When Everyone Else Your Age is a Senior Dev or Manager
- Neuro-divergence and Tech: Succeeding When You Don't Think Like Everyone Else
- Challenges Facing Minorities in Tech Locally and How to Respectfully Address Them