Speaker Information

API Inspector Summit
January 27-30, 2009
Galveston Island Convention Center
Galveston, Texas

The Call for Papers is now closed.

Upcoming Deadlines:

* Note that it is the Speaker's responsibility to provide their finalized presentation as well as a short biography to their Session Moderator, as well as to Matthew Cunningham (cunninghamm@api.org) by November 17, 2008. The Planning Committee has agreed (April 2008) that any presentation not finalized and submitted by the deadline will be considered withdrawn and will be removed from the program. As result, the speaker will not be considered for future Inspector Summit conferences. Please submit your finalized presentation on time.

Speaker Resources:

• Feedback from past API conferences has shown that any "sales presentation" will leave your audience cold. API does not allow the promotion of individual companies or products during session presentations. Should you desire to sell, please consider exhibiting or sponsoring instead.
• If you have a Q&A period, have some interesting questions planted in the audience by your session moderator. As a rule, don't spend more than 2 minutes per questions.
• Instead of a many page handout, consider bringing 200 copies of a one page "resource sheet" to be distributed during your session. 

"Oral Presentation Advice", by Mark D. Hill, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"How to Give a Bad Talk", by David A. Patterson, Computer Science Division, University of California-Berkeley

Visit the API Inspector Summit website here.

Questions? Please contact Matthew Cunningham at cunninghamm@api.org or call 202-682-8158.