# Event Director at BarCamp Cyberjaya 2024

> Led the team that brought BarCamp Cyberjaya back in 2024, a free, participant-driven unconference hosted by IT Society.

- Role: Event Director, BarCamp Cyberjaya 2024
- Dates: Apr 2024 – Sep 2024
- Location: Faculty of Computing & Informatics, MMU Cyberjaya
- Skills: Event Management, Leadership
- Web version: https://tharshen.xyz/experience/barcamp-cyberjaya-2024

I was the **Event Director** of **BarCamp Cyberjaya 2024**, hosted by IT Society MMU Cyberjaya on **21 September 2024** at MMU's Faculty of Computing & Informatics. Entry was free.

## What's a BarCamp?

BarCamp is an **unconference**. There's no fixed agenda or pre-booked speaker list. Participants pledge topics and vote on the ones they want to hear. Topics fall into three categories: **Tech, Non-tech and Nonsense**. Past talks range from _"Why Cryptocurrency Failed? From a Technical Perspective"_ to _"Do you like pineapple on pizza?"_ It's open to anyone, not just people in tech.

## Running it

Our team hit a lot of challenges early on and still pulled the event off. I'm proud of the committee. Everyone did their part to the fullest, and the event wouldn't have happened without them.

Being director taught me what it means to be a good leader. I made mistakes along the way and learned from them. To help future teams, I wrote the **BarCamp Handbook** so they can organise BarCamp without starting from scratch.

I stepped down after the 2024 edition, and it was great to watch the 2025 team take it further with 217 sign-ups before the event.

## Links

- [BarCamp Cyberjaya](https://barcampcyber.wordpress.com/)