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What I Learned at My First Tech Conference - Peer Pressure & Developer Soft Skills - Joshua Gawley

ACCU Membership: https://tinyurl.com/ydnfkcyn --- What I Learned at My First Tech Conference - Peer Pressure & Developer Soft Skills - Joshua Gawley - ACCU 2025 Short Talks --- Attending your first tech conference can be overwhelming, especially when imposter syndrome in tech is real. In this lightning talk from ACCU 2025, Joshua Gawley, a final-year computer science student, shares his first tech conference experience and reflects on what it’s like to be a junior developer surrounded by seasoned professionals. This talk, titled "What I Learned at My First Tech Conference - Peer Pressure and Developer Soft Skills," offers a fresh perspective on software engineering soft skills, peer pressure in engineering culture, and the unexpected importance of people skills in technical careers. With humor and humility, Joshua discusses the real pressures of attending a programming conference for the first time, and how developer communication skills can be just as critical as technical know-how. He also touches on prompt engineering and the growing relevance of AI tools like Claude, along with how future software engineers will need to adapt. From dealing with peer pressure to finding your place in a team, this talk is ideal for any computer science student, junior developer, or new grad software engineer preparing for the tech industry. Whether you're attending your first coding conference or mentoring someone who is, this talk explores what to expect at a developer conference and how to grow from the experience. For anyone seeking tech career advice or insights into the balance between technical vs people skills, Joshua’s reflections are honest, helpful, and surprisingly relatable. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share if you found this helpful — and drop a comment with your own first-time tech conference stories! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction: Who Am I? 00:11 - What Is “Pre-epression”? 00:26 - First-Time Conference Nerves & Imposter Syndrome 00:58 - Observing Peer Pressure in Engineering Culture 01:28 - Lessons Learned from Conversations & Talks 02:14 - The Two Pillars: Technical Skills and People Skills 02:56 - AI, Prompt Engineering & Future Careers 03:08 - Final Takeaway & Shameless Self-Promotion Slides: https://accu.org/conf-previous/accu2025/ Join think-cell as a C++ Developer and work on cutting-edge challenges with a focus on code excellence, innovation, and working alongside an international team of experts — apply now to be part of a team shaping the future of business presentations. https://www.think-cell.com/en/career --- Joshua Gawley Final year student studying Maths and Computer Science at the University of Bristol. Video Sponsored By JetBrains --- The ACCU Conference is the annual conference of the ACCU membership, but is open to any and all who wish to attend. The tagline for the ACCU is 'Professionalism in Programming', which captures the whole spectrum of programming languages, tools, techniques and processes involved in advancing our craft. While there remains a core of C and C++ - with many members participating in respective ISO standards bodies - the conference, like the organisation, embraces other language ecosystems and you should expect to see sessions on C#, D, F#, Go, Javascript, Haskell, Java, Kotlin, Lisp, Python, Ruby, Rust, Swift and more.The ACCU Conference is a conference by programmers for programmers about programming. Discounted rates for members. ACCU Membership: https://tinyurl.com/ydnfkcyn 2025 Program: https://accu.org/conf-previous/accu2025/ https://accu.org https://www.accuconference.org/ https://mastodon.social/@ACCUConf   / accu-conference   https://bsky.app/profile/accuconf.bsk...   / accuorg     / accuconf   --- YouTube Videos Filmed, Edited & Optimised by Digital Medium: https://events.digital-medium.co.uk #accuconf #impostersyndrome #techcareers #techcareer #techconference #ai #promptengineering #juniordeveloper #programming #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineer #softwareengineering #softwareengineers #engineeringlife