 I need at least one round of applause for my slide. Thank you. Obviously, learning how to give great presentations from the best. Just to make a counterpoint. Thanks for all coming. This is super nice. Like Jin said, the global diversity CFP day has essentially the goal to increase the variety of people that come on stage at global events. This is important for a few reasons. So there are more people within five flight hours around Singapore than pretty much anywhere else in the world. Like it's like almost one third of the world's population. Yet all the technology that we use all day, or most of it really, is kind of created in the US or in Europe. That's just how it grew. Nobody's fault, really, I guess. But I think it's like a good advantage to have more representation from here on the global stage as well. So anybody who has developed something is creating something important or works with something and wants to share their experience should get the chance to do that not only at events here but elsewhere as well. So the idea of the global CFP day is essentially getting you all across the world so that you can get in touch with local cultures, with local experiences, and they can get in touch with the experiences from here. That was one of the main reasons why we started organizing JS Conf Asia here. It became one of the main reasons, really. I would love to take credit for it right from the start. But really I just wanted to have a fun event. That was the main reason. And then it became more and more responsibility over time. So JS Conf Asia exists essentially to bring great excuses to people to come here and present about great tech and to showcase talent from here in tech that wants to share. So with that I have to say thank you because I assume that all of you kind of would like to contribute something to some event at some point. So you're the heroes here in a way, trying to put your efforts out there and make this world hopefully a bit more colorful in general. Now going to the CFP. The CFP is a process and every event has it slightly different. It's for call for proposals, sometimes called call for speakers or call for applications. I mean it's all kind of the same thing in the sense that it's there to give community members the chance to contribute to an event. Ours became rather option full, let's say, as you can apply not only for talk but workshops, art contributions and so on. This is based on the idea that events just are better. The more people contribute to it, more people get invested in it, more things are being presented at the event and shared and talked about and showcased. It creates a much richer experience for everybody and that's why more and more conferences essentially just see themselves as a stage that you need to cramp in a lot of people and get everybody excited about it and get them to do something in some form. Even if you're just lazy, just pay a ticket, it's fine, you still love you, you still help us make it happen. But really what we like is people that contribute something to the event, like giving a talk. And so that's how most conferences work and that's why most conferences have these call for proposals. They're typically web forms or email submissions, something like that and they rely for their content creation on people applying there. And I think what we want to go through today is what can we apply with? What is likely to be accepted? How do I write a good proposal? How do I make that a good talk? How do I go from there? What do I need to sell here if I really want to be chosen to go on stage? And then there are many criteria. Like I'm a conference organizer myself and for the last six years I tried to curate a program for JS Conf Asia. This year I have a bit of help from Huijing as well, which makes it a bit easier. We try to be incredibly objective on how we choose and we have a lot of criteria. Often the criteria on where you are based is one of the most important one because it's directly tied to economics. If you need to fly everybody from New York here, it's going to be a very expensive event because it's a lot of flight tickets and hotels we need to pay for. So in general we need to somehow mix it all up and figure out how to make it economically viable, make it diverse and interesting, cover all the topics we want to cover and get like a wide variety of different voices and opinions and experiences on stage so that you can have an exhilarating time at the event. It's not an easy task. It's a kind of fun task, especially if it works. It's really rewarding in the end to do that and I think it creates really really cool events in the end. Now this year we got about 600 applications already for the event that we have in June. That sounds like a lot. If you subtract all the ones that are not from Southeast Asia you're suddenly left with maybe 60. Which is still more than we have space, but just to showcase you where people are doing this, where people pick up that kind of self-confidence and say like I'm going to go try this and I'm going to apply for something because I know something or I want to go there. I want to try this out and you can do the same. You can do the same. You can go to any other JSConf or many other events out there in the web space or other tech space and just say I would love to visit Denver or Columbia or whatever. Like any place in the world where there's a conference, JSConf is all over the world now for example and you can just take your idea and apply there. It takes about five to ten minutes to fill out a form, specifically if you're a bit prepared for it and who knows maybe you get chosen because most of these conferences have diversity criteria meaning while they would love to represent local efforts there's always going to be this 30 to 50 percent depending on the conference where you have international speakers and you have some budget for it so you might even be flown out there. I think that's actually why most people apply to our conference because Singapore has gotten a quite good international reputation now and so many people are curious and want to come here and why not try to give a great talk and get a free ticket? Like that's I think the biggest excuse on why people put a lot of effort into a lot of applications. So that's kind of how the mechanics work in the background and how you can benefit and how you can benefit the event. As part of that I would like to showcase a few things like that were my favorite things and from there started a conversation about what to do what not to do in these kind of proposals and so every year for the last years I kind of create a top six top ten depends on how many I find of quotes that I find in applications of actual people that apply for my conference or our conference now and some of them are just hilariously funny or misguided or like leave you like if you as a curator read it if you try to put yourself into my shoes having to pick a good talk for a conference and you're going to be like rolling your eyes and like okay like why would that make sense so we're going to go through that and let me just show you a bunch of those oh great I even didn't organize the slides in the correct order perfect two slides and I fucked it up anyway okay so here's the top six that we had a while back number six where it's very interesting cardigans during his presentation this is really something people write in their presentation in their application for JS Conf Asia like they like our form specifically is a bit unique because we don't ask very precise questions we just say give us your top five why do we need to let you or that special person that you're recommending on stage like give us the best arguments you can come up with on why we want that person and some people write where's very interesting cardigans during his presentations and to be honest as a curator I kind of like that because it signals a certain amount of humor you know it obviously depends on the other reasons that that person gave us to make that decision but it's it's fun and to be honest this year I don't know like I recreated a character limit this year so you had to your application had to be at least 250 characters and I feel like it kind of sucked the fun out of it a bit like I felt like this year the applications were all very like aspiring like very effortful and hard working and like like people put very serious applications in and like I feel like the years before where we didn't have that character limit we got a lot more just random fun and sometimes stupid stuff so I kind of miss that a bit but yeah so number five it's from Texas this biggest state in the US next to Alaska if you have applicants from Alaska you should take them first which I I thought was also really shows that there's a little bit of humor again then number four element craze of a new CSS hotness so hard I'm so cool so cool like I don't know what happened there but like I don't know I just like humorous things and like whenever I think it just makes it so much easier for me as a curator sometimes to just like go through hundreds of applications and you're like uh like you know the 50s talk about whatever and a bit of humor always helps number three stay awesome stay performant I thought that's that was the end there was just a quote that somebody had put in in the end then number two was kind of hilarious and he actually made it into the the conference in 2015 turned out a little bit of a dry talk but like from a from a perspective it was very rich it was very scientific and I get to why all these things are interesting in a bit and number one loves bacon you love bacon bacon is good so that the whole point of this is like a little bit of humor is always a good thing if you you have a hard time doing that there can be other things that you choose for yourself by going deep into topics by really showcasing that you know about the topic sharing some of the knowledge that you have about the topic or your experiences and tell the story there's something there for everybody personally I like humor and that is due to our event having three specific items that we curate for which are educational value inspirational value and entertainment value so if you have all three in your proposal you're very likely to be accepted if you have two of them that's the absolute minimum to be accepted meaning your talk needs to have something that is educational to the audience in some way shape or form right meaning you're sharing something and in that sense I would encourage you to rather go deep into a topic rather than broad talks that just cover everything from the start to the beginning and just rush through all the the items are typically more of a show off like it's more like the only thing that the audience really can take away from it is like oh yeah cool you're awesome and like that's not really a good talk like it's not it doesn't give anything it's more like look I made it on stage and I'm awesome so what I would like to encourage you to do is typically go deep and really share something about one topic famously like Lea Verou I don't know if you know her she's a speaker from Greece that does it more professionally these days and works on the CSS spec and other things and she can do a 45 minute talk about border radius CSS border radius just round borders but there's just so much about it and I encourage you to watch her talks on youtube there are a lot of them and it's just she goes so deep into that topic it becomes absolutely fascinating and so that's typically a good talk if you take something even a mundane topic we're gonna have a talk this year about numbers like numbers in javascript and it turns out you can't stretch that forever it's just infinitely deep of a topic if you really go into all the nitty gritties of it and you'll you'll definitely find most of the audience will take something out of that so that's just generally go deep not broad like that's a better talk stories are good telling stories is always fantastic like if you have a really good story to tell like something with ups and downs and things going wrong and right and you can actually showcase that it's a great thing to do okay let's go into the next year so these were my top 10 in 2016 number 10 was because it's me has a nice beard it wants to be like me it's also it's a great reason who can deny that has great table manners your coat will explode I thought was fantastic too really wants to meet Tim Oxley in person order the pizza on stage at JSConf before or I'm a simple guy I like my champagne bubble bath at precisely 105 degrees and I put my 7,100 dollar Japanese unwashed dinner pans one leg at a time just like you number two no humans are permitted in the maze but the warm glow of its reactors make it an ideal home for millions of giant rats I mean that's about the story part and number one I'm willing to present in a dinosaur one see so you can kind of see like audiences love entertainment and this is the third part that we try to curate for educational like I said go deep not brought inspirational and try to showcase people what they can do with their knowledge that they have that they weren't aware of before that's kind of the my definition of inspiration like specifically on the web it's just quite easy to do because a lot of people might build react apps but you can actually use the same kind of syntax the same kind of thing that that you've used to create amazing animations or even do very simplistic machine learning without really adding a lot to your knowledge you can just take it out of context and suddenly you can do amazing things with it and it becomes really inspirational to people that that's something that can do now so inspirational I think is something that's very exciting to stretch people's imagination on what they could do I think one of the first talks that I remember that I thought was really cool was a very purposeful one from Kate Chapman in Indonesia where they use web development at the time to work for open street map and map out all the flood level in Indonesia for disaster prevention and she gave like hands down code on like what they're using how they're using it to create mapping data on the web to do that and photos on site on how they map things out and so on I mean programming is everywhere and it's sometimes crazy to see where people apply it and how and that becomes really inspirational those are all good things in a talk it's like interestingness and the entertaining part like the I'm willing to present in a dinosaur onesie is the third thing right it's like it's fun like I love Tim Holman last year who gave a fantastic art talk about generative art how you can very simplistic coding skills can create very artistic outputs and I don't know he introduces people to his LinkedIn profile that's just full of dogs like dog pictures and he's just an average toothbrusher so like that kind of stuff makes it just so that people really don't mind following your content if it's like something about it is entertaining and that doesn't mean you need to be funny or anything but just wear a dinosaur onesie um jazz and drones is cool who disagrees makes awesome homemade pizza I'm not sure why that's relevant but I thought it was cute my friend asked me to apply here which I was also like okay great um that might not work by the way just FYI has never even visited Singapore yet actually which is most applications like if they're honest most people are like I've never been to Singapore would love to go and like cool doesn't really help me curate but it's like of course if you can organize a visit from Captain America I wouldn't say no oh I forgot one in between there leads global developer relations at a software company valued at nine billion not sure how that's relevant but impressive I don't know like it doesn't really like these kind of things don't make you necessarily favorable I think people try to use them as like oh you know I'm serious like I know what I'm doing um I'm not sure like we have sponsored talks for this at our event but then it depends I think some events might take this more serious than others we don't really I'm like good for you um we all know FOMO the fear of missing out but do we know of it's slightly easier to pronounce cousin the fear of choosing the wrong JavaScript framework again like these kind of things tell me that that person at least wants to make something entertaining in a way so that people are more interested to follow what he wants to share um number three Trump's tweets move markets so what if you could create a bot that made stock trades based on these tweets uh it's a very simple setup you know it's like okay yeah you got me um how do we do that now and uh just showcases a certain talent for for a presentation to be able to do these things and number two has some really new and exciting content to share wow I mean how can I say no um I really hope to get tickets to the event but buying tickets is too mainstream um it's just like yeah thanks for trying uh so I mean people put all kinds of stuff in there and like to be honest this year they're way more boring than that um like people really started to put a lot of effort into applications um writing out really deep stories or or ways of how they want to present it um yeah it's it's actually quite interesting this year I didn't expect it and I think it's really because of the character limit that we made people write a lot more so that it feels more serious now or something and I don't know what changed but like I felt like in the last years there was a lot more fun stuff in there which personally I like because it makes my work a bit more entertaining uh and I think a conference gets more entertaining too because of of these kind of things it's always good to not take it too serious you know professional yes but not all too serious it's like we're still all just human beings and it's cool when that comes across on stage as well so that the gap between audience and speaker is not too wide it's actually JSConf was founded on the principle to be a non-stage conference and I wish we could still do that but we're too big now that we have to go for venues that are having enough seating and that sadly all have a stage um but the first events of JSConf all around the world were just flat floor conferences so it was just round tables and you would walk in front and you were standing on the same level of floor and that was a psychological thing so that people feel like these are just others of us they are not in any way better or different they're just developers wanting to share something and I thought there was very very um like a good choice of setup and I wish we could still do it but it's just you don't find venues for 500 people that are flat floor um and the people in the back wouldn't be able to see much anymore so we have to sadly put a stage in um but yeah that's kind of the spirit behind it so and then I hope that throughout the day today we can get a little bit into like making you craft example CFPs and see what you have in mind as of right now what you would uh or could present on and then helping you make it something that seems appealing to conference organizers so that they hopefully accept your talk to a conference worldwide back to Huijin so uh next person we have is