Speaking at the Flowmon Friday conference — from the speaker's perspective

I was asked to present a project at the Flowmon Friday conference. It didn't surprise me — Flowmon is a subcontractor so it makes sense they'd want to show off what solution had been built. I presented with a colleague — well, my colleague had one slide; the rest was on me — what the project is about, what we're able to detect, how we handle detected events, and what it offers its members.

The truth is I was a little nervous. I didn't go over time and there were even questions. One of them threw me off a bit. It was about security but wasn't at all specific. So I answered in general terms because I had no idea what exactly the question was getting at. I then got the response that this was precisely the kind of evasive answer that was expected. That stung — the questioner asked a vague question so they couldn't expect a more detailed answer. So I elaborated a little and added that if they wanted specifics we could chat during the break. Nobody came to find me.