Recording https://womeninapis.substack.com/p/what-do-you-do-when-everything-goes

What do you do when everything goes wrong?

The night before her talk at apidays India, Deepti had a nightmare.

Her slides disappeared.

Her demo failed.

Everything she’d spent weeks preparing stopped working.

She woke up relieved.

It wasn’t real.

The next morning, she walked onto the stage.

And then it happened.

For real.

In this episode of GET /Ready, Deepti shares what happened next, and the lessons she’s learned from more than 15 years of public speaking, engineering leadership, and helping teams adopt AI.

Together, we explore:

• Why preparation isn’t the same as perfection.
• How to recover when things don’t go to plan.
• The small habits that make speaking feel less daunting.
• Why your experience is often more valuable than you think.

Whether you’re preparing your first conference talk or your fiftieth, this conversation is full of practical advice you can put into practice straight away.