Aymen Ben Amor: How to Organize Developer Conferences

Links

- Codecrafters (partner): https://tej.as/codecrafters

- React Africa: https://react-africa.com/

- React Paris: https://react.paris/

- Aymen on X: https://x.com/aymen_ben_amor

- Tejas on X: https://x.com/tejaskumar_

Summary

Aymen Ben Amor, founder of BeJS Conferences, shares his journey of starting and organizing successful tech conferences. He discusses the origin of BeJS Conferences and the inspiration he drew from attending his first conference. Aymen emphasizes the importance of creating a community and fostering connections among attendees. He also highlights the challenges of marketing and selling conference tickets, particularly in the post-COVID era.

Aymen's commitment to diversity is evident in his efforts to ensure a balanced speaker lineup and provide opportunities for first-time speakers. He shares his vision of expanding conferences to underrepresented regions and cultures. Aymen's dedication to creating a memorable experience for speakers is reflected in the personalized gifts and activities he organizes.

Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:04:15 Founding BeJS

00:13:39 The Speaker Experience

00:19:57 Conferences in the Middle East

00:27:28 Solving Diversity & Inclusion

00:34:07 Repeated Speakers and New Opportunities

00:41:55 Marketing: The Biggest Challenge

00:50:09 How to be Confident on Conference Day

00:57:55 Interesting Technology Aymen is Using

01:05:13 Learning at Conferences

01:12:45 Rethinking Conference Format

01:18:33 Inspiration from other Conferences (GitNation)

01:23:16 React Brussels

01:27:42 Conclusion

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