Talk Topic Suggestions

Want to give a talk but having trouble coming up with an idea? Feel free to pick any of the following, or as a guide to come up with an idea of your own!

5-minute lightning talk topic suggestions:

1. A Message to Myself a Year Ago
2. Asking Questions in Slack
3. Benefits of Speaking
4. How <Non-Technical Thing> Has Helped Me in My Career
5. How I Landed My First Programming Job
6. How to Become a Manager and Why Anyone Would Want To
7. How to Find a Mentor
8. How to find an open source project to contribute to
9. How to Sync a Fork
10. How to Take a Sabbatical From Work
11. Intro to X in 5 Minutes
12. Java vs JavaScript
13. JavaScript Truthy and Falsy
14. Learn this one simple trick that compilers want to keep secret
15. Make $250/Day Working from Home with Just a Computer
16. Microsoft Teams releases game-changing features that you won't believe!
17. My Favorite Easter Egg
18. My Favorite Tutorial(s)
19. One Weird Trick to X
20. Rubber Duck Debugging
21. The Best Talks I've Seen This Year
22. The Coolest Thing I Learned This Year
23. The Last Time I Brought Down Production
24. The Silliest App(s) I've Made
25. The Program I Can't Work Without/My Favorite Little Program: name
26. The Worst Interview Experience(s) I've Had
27. The Worst Project(s) I've Worked On
28. What I Want to Learn Next and Why
29. What I Wish I Had Known When I Was Learning X
30. What It's Like to "Not Be Technical" In Our Field
31. What Not to Do When Starting a Project
32. What the First Day Working at a Big Company Is Like
33. What the First Day Working at a Small Company Is Like
34. Why X is a Skill Worth Developing
35. Why X Is Better Than Y
36. Why/When Python is Better Than JavaScript
37. Wouldn't It Be Cool If X?
38. What are data structures and how are they used?
39. Getting Started with Debugging
40. How to Start a Python Project
41. How to Get Your Website on the Internet
42. Salary negotation for a new job
43. Salary negotiation for an existing job
44. Creating a 30-second intro/elevator pitch about yourself
45. Why I Chose This Tech Stack: Tech List
46. Starting a Project in Technology X
47. How to Get Started with Technology X
48. Projects to Put on Your Portfolio
49. Where to Start when You're Starting Over as a Career Changer
50. Dealing with Imposter Syndrome when Everyone Else Your Age is a Senior Dev or Manager
51. Convincing Hiring Managers that You Know Things when You Don't Feel Like You Do
52. Converting Academic Knowledge into What Hiring Managers Want
53. Dealing with ageism in hiring practices
54. Dealing with health concerns while finding a job
55. Being involved in a tech community when I can barely be involved in my life
56. Navigating hiring and job seeking with a mental disorder or health condition
57. Neuro-divergence and tech: Succeeding when you don't think like everyone else
58. How, when and If to bring up medical or mental conditions
59. Challenges facing minorities in tech locally and how to respectfully address them