Álvaro Herrera, and Boriss Mejías, both longtime members of the Postgres developer community, explore the value of giving conference talks—as well as the work involved, the time it takes, and the many different types of conference talks, including presentations about about failure and things that have gone wrong.  

In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, Claire and Pino guide the conversation on questions like: Should you add humor to your talks? How does your personality—introvert or extrovert—affect your conference presentations? Is it OK to give the same conference talk at different events?  

*[Update: July 2024] Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres. All of the past podcast episodes from Path To Citus Con—now called Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano—can be found here: https://talkingpostgres.com

Some of the links mentioned in the order they appeared: 

• Postgres Storytelling: Support in the Darkest Hour: Boriss’ Citus Con talk 
• A Curious Moon book by Rob Conery 
• Tomas Vondra's talks on YouTube
• pgDay Paris 2022
• FOSDEM PostgreSQL devroom
• FOSDEM PGDAY 2023
• Nordic PGDay 2022
• PGConf.EU 2022
• LFMF: How a CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY led to a 6 hour downtime by Gunnar "Nick" Bluth