Big Techday Speakerinfo
The Event
The BTD
The Big Techday is a one-day conference on science and technology, particularly IT. It is organized by TNG once a year, because it is fun. The next Big Techday is in planning. The programme will be similar to the agendas of its predecessors.
Size
The general lecture programme comprises with up to six to seven parallel tracks and about 40 talks.
Language
The conference language is German. However, many talks, especially from invited speakers, are given in English. We have at least one English talk at any given time.
Time and Form
Date and Venue
The next Big Techday is in planning. We are expecting about 1.500 guests.
Food
During the whole event, cost-free catering is provided, including coffee breaks, lunch buffet and a dinner.
Participants
Guests
The guests are people with technical/scientific curiosity and a deep interest in information technology. Attending will be amongst others students of the relevant subjects, members of user groups and of the society for computer science, employees of IT-intensive companies and the employees of TNG. Additionally, we will stream the talks without any restriction. You may make friends and colleagues aware of your talk and the conference. Participation in the Big Techday is free of charge.
Speakers
Most of our speakers have an IT background, but some also come from other areas such as physics and mathematics. Among them are scientists as well as practitioners. Some are also adventurers and artists.
Requests to the Speakers
The Talk
The speakers can freely choose and handle their topic. The idea is that the speakers will talk about something that they themselves consider important, new, interesting, surprising, or technically cool.
Deliverables
In the following, we would like to draw the attention to some information that we ideally would need as soon as possible, but no later than two weeks before the Big Techday.
We kindly request the following information from all speakers, which we will publish on the website:
Title and language of the talk - We kindly require this information no later than four weeks before the Big Techday.
Profile picture (at least 624 x 624 px, if possible JPG)
Abstract of the talk (approx. 800 characters)
Short biography (approx. 800 characters)
As our website is available in two languages, we would be delighted if you could provide us with a biography and abstract in German and English. Otherwise, we will translate all texts into German or English. In addition, we may make some stylistic changes in the abstract and biography if necessary. Of course, we will not make any changes to the actual information in the texts. If we have to shorten texts significantly, we will ask for the speaker's consent before publishing.
If contact details are to be published on our website, we kindly ask for the email address, website, LinkedIn and/or Xing account to be used with the explicit permission for use.
We ask our speakers to inform us if they consent to a livestream of their talk.
We also ask each speaker to please state whether they allow their talks to be recorded on video and whether the video - of course, only when authorised by the speakers - may be published on the internet.
Duration of the talk
Approx. 45 min presentation and approx. 10 min Q&A
Costs
TNG bears eventual costs of the speakers, e.g. for travel and accommodation.
