Engineering Leadership

How to Speak at
6 Conferences
in 2026

A free, live masterclass for engineers who want to speak at technical conferences in 2026 — even if you’ve never spoken at one before. Learn how to strategically choose the right events, write CFPs that get accepted, and secure funding to cover your travel and ticket costs.

Live Session: Wednesday 11th March at 12pm EST Only 50 Seats Available

Instructor presenting at Data on Kubernetes Day

But here's the
background story.

Speaker presenting to audience in lecture hall

8 Years Ago

Humble beginnings,
Ogun State, Nigeria.

Few years into my software engineering career, I started speaking at meetups in my University in Ogun state, Nigeria. Small rooms of 5 to 10 people.

Little did I know this is the start of something that will change my life.

Divine Odazie speaking at KCD Africa 2022 — Deploying Spring Boot on Amazon EKS

4 Years ago

Virtual conferences
Honing my skills

From speaking at small meetups, I graduated to speaking at virtual events like Ansible Community meetups, Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs).

This taught me a lot about presentation, getting CFPs accepted, doing technical demos, etc.

The turning point — Divine Odazie's conference speaking breakthrough

Went Global

USA, Spain, UK, etc —
2022 - Present

In October 2022, I was fully funded to attend KubeCon North America in Detriot, USA, and spoke at the DoK (Data on Kubernetes) day, and since then I have been traveling all over the world.

Europe, UK, Asia, and even the Middle East.

"If I from a small town in Nigeria can do this. You, wherever you are now, with your experience can do so much more."

Divine Odazie helping others in the developer community

Today

Now the mission is to
help others get there faster.

We don’t have a talent shortage. We have a visibility shortage. There are brilliant engineers everywhere — but too few are stepping onto stages.

From helping a Senior Principal Engineer deliver a highly rated talk at AWS re:Invent 2025 to organizing, and hosting conferences/meetups in Atlanta and London I know what it takes to share technical knowledge.

Agenda

What you'll walk away with

01

How to strategically choose the right conferences

02

CFP framework that improves acceptance rates

03

How to secure funding that covers travel + tickets

But don't just take it from me

What Senior Engineers are saying...