Irina Nazarova
The role of conferences and events is changing. Events should carefully engineer and facilitate people's productive connections and networking . As @sfrubyconf org team, here's what we do: - we collect full intros, with links, during each ticket sale - we design smaller groups, 50-70 people, that run in parallel with the main event, using those intros to connect people by interests: - Example 1. Performance&scale-oriented engineers with teams from scaleups like Gusto, Chime, Persona in one room (hiring purposes) - Example 2. Early stage/founding engineers together with early teams in another (hiring purposes) - Example 3. Founding teams of ambitious Ruby startups with @garrytan in another (strategy and fundraising-related purposes) - Example 4. Groups focused on open source, frontend, AI tooling and so on (collaboration purposes) - we force everyone in that smaller group to take a mic for 60 seconds and introduce themselves. We flip the table and bring you on stage. Why? It helps you connect! We do more, and here's really where my head is, this year. Early bird tickets go on sale on July 15! http://sfruby.com
