Summary: <p>I ran out of time in episode #272 to tell you about why preparing to be a speaker for ILTACON was <em>way</em> more stressful that preparing for <a href="https://7ms.us/7ms-257-speaking-at-secure360/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Secure360</a> a few months ago. The main points of difference/stress were:</p> <ul> <li> <p>ILTA wanted to see PowerPoint deck progress weekly, whereas with Secure360 it was pretty much "Your talk is accepted - see you at the conference!"</p> </li> <li> <p>ILTA is going to show a "speaker slide" with bio a few minutes before the sessions starts. That way the session is focused on content (and probably avoids people who like to talk about themselves too much :-)</p> </li> <li> <p>ILTA requested my PowerPoint and handouts a few <em>weeks</em> before the session so they could put on their Web site for attendees to see. Although that put some pressure on me to get content done early, I think it's great because presumably some people at the talk will have screened the content and therefore be more tuned in. </p> </li> </ul>
