DDD Perth Blog
18 December 2025
2026 AGM Announcement
The DDD WA AGM is on 2 February 2026, in the Perth CBD and online. Nominations are open for office bearers and directors, along with what the director role involves.
7 December 2024
DDDWA AGM Announcement
The DDD WA AGM is on 20 January 2025, in the Perth CBD and online. Nominations are open for office bearers and directors, along with what the director role involves.
18 December 2023
DDDWA AGM Announcement
The DDD WA AGM is on 30 January 2024. Nominations are open for the office bearer roles on the 2024 committee.
18 June 2023
CFP is open for DDD Perth 2023
It’s that time of year again — the Call For Proposals for DDD Perth 2023 is on!
14 February 2023
Chairperson Report for 2022
Chairperson Rebecca Waters reports on 2022: 1,200 attendees, 49 sessions across nine tracks, CFP workshops, and the challenges ahead.
17 January 2023
The Directors behind DDD Perth
What each of the 12 roles on the recommended 2023 DDD Perth committee does, from chair and treasurer to sponsorship, technology and people.
10 January 2023
Announcement: DDD Perth 2023 AGM
The DDD WA AGM is on 21 February 2023. Nominations for office bearer and director roles on the 2023 committee close on 25 January.
9 September 2022
Speaker Pose Bingo @ DDD Perth 2022
Did anyone say bingo? This year DDD Perth will be introducing a new game on the day: Learn how to play!
12 August 2022
Speaker Skills Part 2 — Performance and Delivery Tips and Tricks
Part two of our speaker skills series covers delivery: timing, nerves, eye contact, questions, live demos and preparing for the day.
6 August 2022
Speaker Skills Part 1 — Planning, Format, Structure, and Slides
The first part of our speaker skills series covers planning a talk: knowing your audience, choosing a format and structure, and building your slide deck.
4 May 2022
10 Reasons to Speak at DDD Perth
It’s that time of year again, DDD Perth is open for CFPs! Here are 10 reasons why you should be a speaker at DDD Perth in 2022.
11 April 2022
DDD Perth Voting 2022 — Avoiding feeling stale(mate)
Please don’t ask me to play chess, I’m very bad at it.
30 January 2022
Become a Director of DDD Perth
DDD Perth is volunteer-run, and we’re looking for directors to lead logistics, audio visual and media for the 2022 conference.
13 December 2021
Announcement: DDD WA Annual General Meeting
The DDD WA AGM is on 20 January 2022. We’re looking for nominations for the office bearer and director roles on the 2022 committee.
29 April 2021
How our show is going to go on
In the midst of a lockdown, Chair of DDD WA Rebecca Waters talks about what the plan is this year to bring the conference back online.
26 April 2021
DDD Perth 2021: Call for Papers
DDD Perth is back again for 2021 and we are looking at our technology community for speakers for our August, in-person, conference.
5 February 2020
DDD Perth is back for 2020
Without a doubt, DDD Perth 2019 was huge. Let’s meet our new team members for 2020!
29 January 2020
In Their Words, Part Two
More from past speakers on what DDD Perth did for them, with Donna Edwards, Hadi Eskandari and Eumir Gaspar.
29 January 2020
In Their Words, Part One
Speakers from DDD Perth 2017 and 2018 on what speaking at the conference did for them, starting with Ming Johanson, Ben Lowry and Phil Delalande.
21 January 2020
On Submitting to Conferences
Tips from Global Diversity CFP Day on writing a proposal, building your slides, and getting through the day of your talk.
26 May 2019
Voting Rules
DDD Perth takes our voting pretty seriously! Here are some guidelines
11 April 2019
Meet the 2019 DDD Perth team
DDD Perth 2018 was record breaking and we’re back again this year for more!
9 July 2018
DDD Call for Presentations — By the Numbers
We received 201 talk proposals from 131 speakers in 2018, nearly double the year before. A breakdown by speaker experience, career stage, topic and talk length.
28 June 2018
DDD Perth Diversity & Inclusion 2018 Update
What we changed for 2018 to be more inclusive: a rewritten code of conduct, an accessibility review of the website, and a new logo for the whole software community.
27 June 2018
Why Sponsor DDD Perth?
Running this conference would not happen without our sponsors. Find out why they support us!
17 June 2018
Djilba is the time and theme for DDD Perth 2018
DDD Perth 2018 falls at the start of Djilba, the Noongar season of transition, and we’ve taken it as the conference’s theme.
2 June 2018
DDD for Night Owls
Introducing DDD by Night: evening events that take a deeper look at a single topic, born from the variety of proposals the conference receives.
6 May 2018
Our Journey towards Diversity
DDD Perth aims to be inclusive — so how are we doing?
29 March 2018
Speaker Profile: Donna Edwards
We chatted to Donna about her experiences at DDD Perth 2017
20 February 2018
Volunteer Spotlight: David Schokker
Volunteer photographer David Schokker on how he got involved with DDD Perth, what the day was like, and why he’d recommend volunteering.
8 February 2018
Global Diversity Call for Proposals Day
On 3 February 2018, Fenders and DDD Perth joined more than 50 cities running workshops to help first-time speakers write their first talk proposals.
2 February 2018
According to You
DDD Perth 2017 trended nationally on conference day. We round up the blog posts attendees, speakers and sponsors wrote about it afterwards.
24 January 2018
Meet the Team
The last 6 months at DDD Perth has seen us hit some amazing milestones.
28 June 2017
What Does DDD Stand for?
A self-confessed conference fan worried their first DDD Perth would be too developer-heavy. Instead, it felt like home.
22 June 2017
Why you should present at DDD Perth
Six reasons to submit a talk, from gaining presenting experience to growing your network, and why anonymous voting gives first-time speakers the same chance as anyone.
28 May 2017
DDD Perth 2017 Call For Presentations
The DDD Perth 2017 call for presentations is open, with changes aimed at a more diverse line-up of speakers after 2016 drew no submissions from women.
28 May 2017
Hello World!
Trying out Medium as a place for the DDD Perth team to share conference news and what we learn about running a conference.