Experts in your audience
Geertjan Wielenga: What do you do when you're in a situation when you know your audience is more knowledgeable than you? Maybe you have some experts sitting in the audience and you're a bit concerned about that. How do you react?
Andres Almiray: What I would do first is try to understand the audience and discover at what particular level they are with the tech. If you figure out that they know more than you do, you will have to find a way to finish what you started.
If you have a few more points that you can make related to your talk, then make them, but if you definitely feel that there is no way that you can climb this particular slope, and that the audience is at the top of the mountain, I don't know how you would try to solve that.
Personally, I haven't found myself in this particular situation yet. Some people in an audience will figure out that I'm not very well known for a particular topic. They may decide that they...
