# Attending Conferences (And Speaking At Them)

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There are plenty of reasons why you would attend a conference in the IT industry. From connecting with colleagues to presenting your ideas to others. You can gain knowledge and solve the challenges you might be facing. Yeah, that sounds kind of selfish but it actually benefits the whole community.

At Infobip we advocate for attending conferences whether as speakers, panelists, or simply as attendees... Specifically: Engineering has [a dedicated education budget.](/handbook/benefits/engineering-education-budget.md)

As an engineer at Infobip, there is simply a huge amount of technical challenges you will encounter in your everyday work. 

* We encourage all of our engineers to share the knowledge they gain by solving such problems. 
* Some engineers are more keen to hold such talks, some are simply not. 

Both of it is equally fine! However, if you are shying away from public performing simply due to the feeling you might not be good enough, but you still have the wish to try it out - then worry not. We'll arrange you with the means to overcome that feeling and assign you with a coach to help you work that out.

Throughout the years, **many of our engineers participated as speakers on conferences**. Some of those were locally known, and some of them a worldwide known stages. You are free to apply wherever you might see the topic you'd like to talk about would be fit.


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