Exactly eight years ago I wrote this short piece about devrel departments not putting up videos of their proposed speakers. The problem hasn’t been solved, so here it goes again: When selecting speakers for our conferences we always hunt for a video of a prospective speaker, unless we’ve seen them for ourselves in the flesh. If we cannot find a video, we do not invite the speaker, since we cannot guarantee to our audience that they are excellent presenters. Not all conferences do so, but we d...

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