Dare Conference

What to talk about

Your submission should cover one or more of these themes:

• Vulnerability and courage. Techniques for making brave choices. How to face your fears. Engaging in difficult conversations. Dealing with failure. Overcoming perfectionism and shame.
• Turning pro. Fighting the resistance (your lizard brain) and shipping your work. How to approach your work as an artist. The challenge of personal productivity. Building your personal platform through publishing, presenting, and community.
• How to lead in a challenging and inclusive way. Organising an inclusive and diverse community. Finding your people. Feminism. Changing the culture of your organisation.
• Techniques for change-makers. Building a learning organisation (lean). Cross-discipline approaches to cultural change. Making your customers awesome. Gamestorming and improvisation.
• Case studies. How you screwed up and what you learned. How to break down organisational silos (and why it’s so hard.)

How to submit

• Along with your session description, include a link to a video of you speaking. This can either be a past speaking gig, or a 3-5 minute video of you describing your talk. Recording quality isn’t important (webcam or iPhone video is fine), as long as we can hear the audio.
• We can only accept solo proposals, and you can only submit one idea (choose your bravest.)
• Propose your talk using this form by Monday 25 February, at midnight London time. Any questions, drop us an email.

We’ll let you know whether we’ve accepted your talk by 4 March. Thank you for being brave with us!

Terrifying = good

When you’re ready to submit, read your talk title out loud. Does the idea of presenting this to a hundred peers terrify you? Then you're on the right track—because when you dare to take risks, your audience will, too.