Speak
Send a short proposal with the form on this page. FDE Club is a community for forward deployed engineers in Switzerland. The best talks are about a real deployment: the customer problem, what you built, what failed in production and what you would do differently. No product pitches. An organiser reads every proposal.
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| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Who can propose | Anyone who has worked on a real deployment. You do not need to be a member. |
| What a talk is about | One real deployment: the customer problem, what you built, what failed and what you would do differently. |
| What is declined | Product pitches, sales talks and recruiting. |
| How to propose | With the form on this page. A few sentences are enough. |
| Who reads it | An organiser. Nobody else can read a proposal. |
| What speakers disclose | Their employer and any commercial interest. |
Proposal
A few sentences are enough. An organiser reads every proposal.
Who can speak?
Anyone who has worked on a real deployment can offer a talk: forward deployed engineers, the people who lead forward deployed teams, and engineers who do the same work under another title. You do not need to be a member to send a proposal.
Speakers state their employer and any commercial interest in what they present. That is one of the house rules.
The guide says what the role is: What is a forward deployed engineer?
What makes a good talk?
A good talk is about one real deployment. It has four parts.
- The customer problem.
- What you built.
- What failed in production.
- What you would do differently.
No product pitches. A talk that sells a product or a service is declined, and so is one that recruits.
Leave out what a customer has not agreed to share. Meetups run under the Chatham House Rule by default, and client confidential material stays out of the room.
What happens after I send a proposal?
This page confirms that your proposal arrived, and an organiser reads it.
The club sends no automatic email to the address you type, so nobody can use this form to send mail in the club's name. If your talk fits a meetup, an organiser writes to you.
No meetup is scheduled yet. You can send a proposal now.
What happens to my details?
The club uses them to plan talks and for nothing else. The form asks for your name, your email address and what you would talk about. The company is optional. Only the organisers can read a proposal.
If you are signed in when you send it, the proposal is part of your data export and is deleted with your account.
To have a proposal removed, write to hello@fdeclub.ch. The full text is in the privacy notice.
You do not need to be a member to offer a talk. Membership is free and by application.