Professional Networking: How can I find on the internet an expert in a given field?
3rd September 2013
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We launched a speaker directory for Lanyrd recently that might help here—it lists the most prolific speakers for thousands of topics, based on our dataset gathered across many conferences around the world.
We have a tech focus at the moment, so it will give you the best results for tech topics. This also assumes that speaking on a topic is a proxy for being an expert on the topic, which may or may not be true!
Some examples:
You can find other topics by searching on http://lanyrd.com/speakers/
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