Internal Tech Conferences: Accelerate Multi-team Learning

by Victoria Morgan-Smith, Matthew Skelton

Internal tech conferences can make a significant impact on an organisation's level of sharing, learning, and communication by accelerating multi-team learning across technology departments. The pace of change in IT means that cross-department learning is essential, and many organisations have found that an internal tech conference is an excellent way to achieve this.



This book provides practical advice on how to prepare, run and follow-up on an internal tech conference, together with case studies from several organisations showing the approaches in common and the adaptations for each situation.



This book is for people involved in technology leadership in some people in "official" positions of leadership (CIO, CTO, Head of Engineering, IT Operations Manager, etc.) and those in more informal technology leadership positions, such as team leaders, senior engineers, and people who simply like to lead by example.

143 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 16, 2020

Reviews

[Matthew Schroyer · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book could’ve just been a checklist or a short article. Probably useful for anyone where this is their first time setting up any kind of an event but anyone else that’s had any experience with running events will find this useless. It’s too bad because I really like the team to apologies group but this just seems like a money grab

[Tobias · Rating 4 out of 5]

We are just about to organize our first internal tech conference. Reading this book has given me so many ideas, concrete tips, and confidence that we can create a fantastic experience for our participants. It covers the birds-eye perspective – Why you would organize an ITC – and, in great detail, the more practical What and How. It should be mandatory reading for any organizer!