I spoke at a live event!

I've been a speaker in a couple of webinars, but before this, I had never spoken really in front of people at an event. Internal company events, yes, but those are different scale.

Luckily, I got to speak with a close friend and colleague, who always makes me feel really safe. We've also hosted a webinar together before, and we work closely together at Exove, especially in accessibility.

How did it go?

Things are never perfect, but I think we did fairly well. We also got really nice and positive feedback from people. People were also happy to see accessibility as a topic, and we even got some requests for new talks.

Feelings before and after

I was weirdly calm until about 30 minutes before the talk. Don't know why, really. But after that, I got quite nervous, though it was still a bit surprising that I wasn't in a complete panic.

Afterwards, I felt really happy that we decided to talk at the event, that we got in and that we actually did it.

The event itself

The event was DrupalCamp, where there were a lot of talks on different topics throughout the day. Very inspiring, there were new and exciting things about Drupal as well as many other nice topics about, for example, usability and green ICT. The event itself was great, as always. This time we were in Espoo instead of Helsinki, which was an interesting change of pace. Luckily, I wasn't alone, so I didn't have to worry so much about getting to the venue.

It was also nice to meet new and old friends and colleagues and have great discussions at the event and the afterparty.

Can't wait for next year again, or at least I really, really hope we get to have yet another DrupalCamp in Finland.