November 22, 2019

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Meetups We Love: Scaling a local meetup into an international conference

Meetups We Love: Scaling a local meetup into an international conference

Papers We Love has gained strong traction and sustained incredible growth over just three years. It is clear that this community's success is not a coincidence. Theres a desire to understand and relate to academic and industry research. Elaine Greenberg explains how the community aims to build a body of resources to help practitioners refine and explore ideas and their connections.
Talk Title Meetups We Love: Scaling a local meetup into an international conference
Speakers Elaine Greenberg (Fastly)
Conference O’Reilly Open Source Convention
Conf Tag Making Open Work
Location Austin, Texas
Date May 8-11, 2017
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
Video

Three years ago, a group of friends started Papers We Love, a meetup focusing on the intersection between the tech industry and academia. Each month, a speaker would discuss an academic paper that inspired them, their career, or their work. Topics ranged from distributed systems to design to physics and math, sometimes incorporating philosophy and history. While the first meetup took place with just over 30 people in New York, the idea of the meetup quickly propagated. It only took a month after the first meetup in New York for a new Papers We Love chapter to start in San Francisco. Soon after these meetups started publishing their event videos online, more Papers We Love meetups started popping up around the world, first in Toronto and Los Angeles then quickly expanding to London and Stockholm. After just two years, Papers We Love could be found in over 25 cities, each contributing their own flavor and opinion on technology and academia. Three years after the first meetup, Papers We Love Conf took place in September 2016, with over 200 attendees from around the world. The talks yielded hundreds of tweets, thousands of video views, and an excited and energized global community. Elaine Greenberg delves into how this modest meetup gained such strong traction and sustained incredible growth. It is clear that this community’s success is not a coincidence. There’s a desire to understand and relate to academic and industry research. Elaine explains how the community aims to build a body of resources to help practitioners refine and explore ideas and topics and their connections. Topics include:

conference math cisco video distributed system paper
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