INETA Regional Speaker Program
I recently took on the role of INETA User Group Mentor for Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. As a user group mentor, my responsibilities include being the groups’ primary INETA contact, as well as being among the first to hear about exciting programs coming out of INETA.
INETA recently announced the Regional Speakers Program to help formalize the process around identifying local speakers.
Some excerpts from the announcement:
This new initiative is designed to help user groups coordinate speaking engagements for meetings and community events such as code camps connect with local and regional speakers. Long term, we (INETA) hope to use this as a staging ground to evaluate regional speakers for the national Speakers Bureau. The first phase of the program, registering speakers and connecting user groups with Regional Speakers, is now available.
We invite you to register as a Regional Speaker on the INETA web site and enroll in the program. The registration is open to all, so please feel free to forward.
User Group leaders are encouraged to search for regional speakers and contact them directly via the website. The link will launch a peer-to-peer email conversation for you to make appropriate arrangements. The program is designed such that a user group could potentially schedule all of its speakers.