Previously, when we closed the call for speakers, we shared some information about the selection process. Now we want to take the opportunity to follow up on that process and to share some applications’ statistics and the selection process that led to the schedule we now have presented.
Applications statistics
A total of 93 speakers applied with 149 session topics, which means that many speakers submitted multiple session topics (we allowed the submission of up to three session topics per speaker).
Below, you can see a so-called pivot table with all speakers categorized by gender and origin. Two of the submissions were submitted with 2 speakers, one male and one female speaker in the same session: