Get your tickets now for the 2018 Hackaday Superconference. Join us November 2nd-4th in Pasadena, California!
This is the ultimate hardware conference. Hackers, designers, and engineers from all over the world converge — from the greenest beginners to those who have made history with their designs. This is the Hackaday community, these are your people, and you need to be here. Supercon is your chance to experience all things involved in hardware creation — the weekend is filled with unparalleled talks and workshops — but the experience of Supercon transcends the organized event. We call it a conference but it’s truly a hacker village with a who’s-who of hackerdom in attendance.
Call for Proposals
We want you to present a talk (or a workshop) at this year’s Supercon! Please submit your proposal using this form.
The number one question we get about CFP is “I’m excited about X, should I submit a proposal?” The answer is yes. Don’t self-eliminate — if you have an idea for a talk we want to hear from you. Supercon is a flat conference, your proposal will be judged on the idea and how you plan to present it, not on how many other amazing speaking slots you’ve secured.
To help get your mind moving about topics, we suggest that you consider this list of themes your talk might fit into: Engineering Heroics, Prototyping, Research, Product Development, Full-Stack Fabrication, and of course Wildcard.
Tickets! Get Your Tickets Here!
Are you a true believer? We’ve just opened up the Call for Proposal today, so we can’t tell you who’s speaking or what workshops will take place. However, we suspect there are many of you ready to take the plunge right now. Those first 96 true believers get an incredibly low ticket price of $128.
Even at full price, the admission fee is an incredible value (see for yourself). Each ticket comes with admission for all three days, a custom hardware badge to hack on, admission to the Friday kick-off party and Saturday Hackaday Prize party, food and beverage throughout the conference, and much more.
This is the fourth year we’ve hosted the Hackaday Superconference. You can check out all of the talk videos from last year, there’s a slew of articles on the event, and of course an incredible hardware hacking scene throughout. In large part, the packed and jovial community atmosphere is why we’ve added Friday as a full day of workshops and badge hacking!
Get your ticket and book your travel. We look forward to hanging out with a huge chunk of the Hackaday community at Supercon!
“The number one question we get about CFP is “I’m excited about X, should I submit a proposal?” The answer is yes. Don’t self-eliminate — if you have an idea for a talk we want to hear from you.”
Number two question: “do I need to have public speaking experience”? For $128 I think someone mumbling their way through isn’t going to cut it.
Practice makes perfect. If the topic is strong and your knowledge is deep, the rest will come. Every great speaker had to start out with that first nerve-wracking presentation. You can always try out versions of your talk at the local hackerspace and other gatherings. People are happy to help you practice, just ask around!
I’m in!
I already got my ticket ! Was I the first one this year ? :-)
I’m pretty sure zakqwy was the first one this year. Glad you’re coming this year!
YES
:-( zakqwy, I owe you a beer.. :-) You were faster than me…
Thanks for announcing it earlier!
Absolutely… travel plans are a thing so we try to get info out as soon as we have major details like venue rental nailed down. See you in November!
Hey Mike, I make this comment every time there is an event on HaD “How about an event calendar on HaD that shows cons in advance or so that we can plan which ones to attend?” Every time it is met with crickets or another user complaining about something similar but never seems to result in a calendar. I appreciate ya giving us plenty of warning on this one :) Could ya maybe think about it and pass the idea along to the gang?
Thanks
Duly noted. You might want to check the events page on a regular basis too:
https://hackaday.io/events
iCalendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar
Wish I could make it. Could afford fuel to get there and back but that’s about it. Maybe next year. :)
can students go to hackaday superconference
A shame it’s so expensive! I don’t suppose there’s any sort of student pass or education discount? Or perhaps free entry if I volunteer? The badge computer looks awesome, but I can’t justify the cost, and doubt I’d be able to convince my robotics club team to fund us going.