Speaking

Over 30 conferences on four continents have invited me to speak about software engineering, product management, business strategy, and developer experience. I’ve done 20–40 minute talks, keynotes, half-day workshops, and internal trainings.

Contact me if you would like to have me talk at your event.

Previous engagements

2024
- October 26, 2024: Interledger Summit – Meet the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Digital Financial Inclusion panel (video)
- January 18, 2024: SamNet – Intro to the social web and federated social networks (video)
2023
- November 20, 2023: Stockholm Social Web Meetup: Intro to the social web and federated social networks
- November 6, 2023: Interledger Summit – Supporting the social web’s creator economy with open payments (video)
- September 12, 2023: Open Payments Huddle – Supporting the social web’s creator economy with open payments
- September 21, 2023: FediForum – Supporting the social web’s creator economy with open payments
- October 18, 2023: Nordic APIs Platform Summit – Introducing Leaf Computing (video)
- June 2023: Apidays Helsinki – Introducing Leaf Computing (video)
- April 2023: API Conference London — Introducing Leaf Computing
- March 2023: FediForum — Acceptable monetization models in the fediverse
2022
- April 2022: LeadDev — How to run a progressive ERG
2021
- December 2021: LeadDev — Keeping up momentum in remote teams
- October 2021: IT Workplace of Tomorrow, remote — RAW: Remote Async Work
2020
- October 2020: Future of Micropayments, remote — 3 wins Web Monetization needs to succeed in 2021
- September 2020: Leading the Product, remote — Spotify’s Failed Squad Goals (video)
2018
- May 2018: WeAreDevelopers World Congress (Vienna) — JSON API: Your smart default (video)
- April 2018: API Conference London — Pragmatic design with JSON API
- January 2018: APIdays Paris — Pragmatic design with JSON API
2017
- October 2017: Nordic APIs Platform Summit — Pragmatic design with JSON API
2016
- November 2016: API Strategy & Practice — keynote, Scaling Fitbit’s API strategy and practices
- July 2016: Node Summit — How Fitbit uses Node.js in production
- June 2016: API X (São Paulo) — closing keynote, Scaling Fitbit’s API strategy and practices
- March 2016: SXSW Interactive — API mentorship sessions
2015
- March 2015: SXSW Interactive — Distributed app architectures and revenue models
2014
- October 2014: Web Directions Sydney – Elements of API Excellence (slides)
- April 2014: SF API Meetup – API design patterns beyond CRUD REST
- March 2014: O’Reilly Fluent Conference – UX research methodologies for developers (video, slides)
- March 2014: SXSW Interactive – From good to great API design (slides, audio)
- February 2014: Developer Week San Francisco – “Designing experiences for developers” presentation and panel
2013
- October 2013: API Strategy & Practice Conference – API integrations with Node.js workshop
- June 2013: APIdays SF – API design panel moderator
- May 2013: APIdays Mediterranea – Developer Experience practice and theory (Slides with speaker notes)
- March 2013: SXSW Interactive – Developer Experience: The UX of APIs 3 hour workshop (slides, Storify of #DX workshop tweets) One of the highest rated workshops by attendee reviews!