Demographics
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Attendee Statistics
We have been asked about who comes to DDD East Midlands. All tech professionals are welcome but below is a high level view from Eventbrite information about who attends the conference.
Job Titles
From the past two events it can be seen that the attendence is very engineering heavy. There are all levels of a business that attend, with a good showing from Directors and Heads of department as well. 2021 had a wider range of professions joining the conference, which is a trend we would like to continue.
2021
Top 5 Job Titles
Further breakdown
| Job Title | Percentage % |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer (Graduate - Senior) | 47.2 |
| Director/VP/Founder | 6.3 |
| Recruitment Consultant | 6.3 |
| CTO/CEO | 5.6 |
| Head of Engineering | 5.6 |
| Software Engineer (Lead) | 4.2 |
| Architect | 3.5 |
| DevOps Engineer | 3.4 |
| Student | 2.8 |
| Product Manager | 2.8 |
| Delivery Manager | 2.8 |
| Designer | 1.4 |
| QA Engineer | 1.4 |
2019
| Job Title | Percentage % |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer (Graduate - Senior) | 47.0 |
| Director/VP/Founder | 8.5 |
| Head of Engineering | 7.0 |
| Software Engineer (Lead) | 5.6 |
| Student | 5.6 |
| Architect | 4.4 |
| Recruitment Consultant | 4.4 |
| CTO/CEO | 3.3 |
| Designer | 3.0 |
| QA Engineer | 2.2 |
| UX Consultant | 1.9 |
| Product Manager | 1.9 |
| DevOps Engineer | 1.9 |
Attendee Pronouns
2021
In 2021 we had more people share their preferred pronoun with us with only 5.9% preferring not to share. As per usual the highest percentage was for those using He/Him pronouns at around 69%. She/Her was the preferred pronoun of 23% of attendees and 2% preferred They/Them.
2019
55% of the attendees did not provide their preferred pronoun on their ticket submission so it is hard to get an accurate view with that data. 12.2% of attendees put down She/Her or They/Them as their main pronoun, and 69% used the pronouns He/Him.
Talk Statistics
We collect statistics from Sessionize about the talks submitted, the level of "entry" for each talk and the speakers past experience / whether they request extra support. These stats help us notice trends in popular topics.
2021
Quite possibly because of the effects of the pandemic, but there was a larger sway towards the topics of management and core skills. People focused topics. Cloud was still high ranking as with the previous event, and there was a good mix of topics from different disciplines.
Like the previous event, most of the talks submitted were at a beginners level. For the next event we will try to support potential speakers on submitting more advanced talk levels.
2019
Talks submitted all had a least one tag attached about its subject area. This graph shows the number of submissions with each tag, which shows a definite trend towards process, architecture and hosting. We encourage talks in all areas of technology, so we made efforts to see if we can make efforts to strengthen submissions in other areas as well.
Another area of focus was that there would be talks at all levels for people to vote on and attend. The majority of talks were focused at an introductory level, which is normally beneficial to a lot of the audience. It is great that we had intermediate and advanced submissions as well, and would be great if we could get these proportions a bit higher.
