I’ve been speaking in front of people for a long time, and I don’t just mean the dreaded group project presentation at University. I was fortunate enough to speak at the user conferences that StarRez put on for its customers while I was working there, and would venture over the US each year to do a few talks about some technology. Usually this was domain specific to the student housing industry but I also snuck in the odd bit of general purpose tech, like REST web services or designing event centric logic flows. Talking tech to a largely non-technical audience was a fun challenge and doing an open Q+A session for product enhancements in front of 600+ people was also interesting.
I also delivered the Day 2 Technical Keynote at the AACUHO conference in Hobart in May of 2017, doing a talk to housing industry professionals about the rise of the conversational UI and the various bot platforms that abound. This talk was very non-technical to suit the audience and was received well, with just the right balance between piquing interest around bot technology, and spreading just a small amount of fear as the potential of not being reactive to the change in this space.
As far as meetups and conferences go I have spoken, or will speak, at the following events:
2021:
- NDC Melbourne 2021 - 29th July 2021 - Records - Video
- Melb.NET - 1st June 2021 - Hot Visual Reload Studio 2022 - Video
2020:
- .NET Conf 2020 - 12th November 2020 - Source Generators - Video
- dotFest.ru 2020 - 17th October 2020 - Source Generators - Video - Russian Dub
- Adelaide .NET User Group - 14th October 2020 - Source Generators - Videp
- NDC Sydney 2020 - 14th October 2020 - Source Generators - Video
- Melb.NET Inaugural Meetup - 8th September 2020 - Source Generators
- Alt.Net Sydney August 2020 - 25th August 2020 - Source Generators - Video
- DDD By Night May 2020 - 21st May 2020 - Panel discussion on Microsoft Build announcements
- Microsoft Build 2020 - 20th May 2020 - Exploring Visual Studio Codespaces - Video (YouTube) - Video (Channel 9) (Note: Conversation with host, not a planned/scripted talk)
- NDC London 2020 - 27th to 31st January 2020 - Lowering in C# - Video
- .NET Oxford - 28th January 2020 - A (very) opinionated guide to MSBuild and Project Files, as part of the UK .NET Tour 2020 - Slides - Video
2019:
- Alt.Net Melbourne - 26th November 2019 - Project File Power Up: Things you should know about project files and MSBuild
- .NET Down Under Tour - October 2019 - Lowering in C#, and .NET Panel
- Sydney - 19th October
- Melbourne - 21st October
- Brisbane - 23rd October
- Adelaide .NET User Group - 9th October 2019 - Pragmatic Performance
- NDC Oslo 2019 - 17th to 21st June 2019
- Alt.Net Melbourne - 28th June 2019 - Lowering in C#
- VIC.NET Meetup - 2nd May 2019 - Whats New in Visual Studio 2019
- Alt.Net Melbourne - 30th April 2019 - Short version of Whats New in Visual Studio 2019
- Melbourne Visual Studio 2019 Launch - 3rd April 2019 - Keynote: Whats New in Visual Studio 2019
- Alt.Net Melbourne - 26th February 2019 - Contributing to Microsoft via Open Source
- NDC London 2019 - 28th January to 1st February 2019 - Pragmatic Performance - Slides - Video
2018:
- NDC Sydney 2018 - 19th to 21st September 2018 - Pragmatic Performance - Video
- Melbourne .NET User Group - 12th September 2018 - Pragmatic Performance
- Alt.Net Melbourne - 29th May 2018 - Overview of Span<T> - Slides - Video
- DDD by Night March 2018 - 15th March 2018 - Introduction to Amazon Echo Skills - Slides
2017: