Speaking & Publications

Sharing Innovation Across Communities

25+ years of conference presentations, keynotes, workshops, and publications spanning technology innovation, community building, and academic-industry collaboration.

Schedule a keynote, workshop, panel, or intimate salon focused on practical AI adoption, inclusive community-building, and cross-domain innovation strategies your audience can use right away.

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Current Speaking Topics

AI Attribution & Professional Credibility

Industry-first frameworks for transparent human-AI collaboration across professional domains

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GenAI Integration in Education

Systematic protocols for responsible AI adoption balancing productivity with educational integrity

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Cross-Domain Innovation Transfer

Methodologies for adapting successful frameworks across industries and professional contexts

methodology-transferinnovationcross-domain

Academic-Industry Bridge Building

Creating authentic partnerships that deliver mutual value and measurable student outcomes

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Inclusive Community Building at Scale

Proven strategies for creating genuinely representative technology communities with sustainable support

community-buildingdiversity-inclusionsustainable-growth

Currently Exploring

Ambient Presence for Distributed Teams

How persistent channels, rituals, and governance patterns can restore a sense of shared presence in remote collaboration.

Explore trail: Distributed Work

Applied AI Collaboration Patterns

Practical ways teams can adopt AI responsibly while preserving trust, attribution, and professional standards.

Community-Led Technical Learning

Scalable models for workshops, salons, and peer learning that strengthen local and global technology communities.

Past Engagements

Talks, panels, workshops, and publications (most recent first).

Activating Community To Grow in Cloud Native

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 • London, UK • 3/19/2025 • panel • Co-presenters: Lisa Tagliaferri (Chainguard), Divya Mohan (SUSE), Edith Puclla (Percona)

Panel on activating community to grow in cloud native.

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What We've Learned: Teaming up journalism and computer science students to produce data-driven investigations for news outlets

C+J Symposium 2024 • Boston, MA • 10/27/2024 • panel • Co-presenters: Brooke Williams

Lessons from the Justice Media Computational Lab's 20+ published investigations.

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We launched the Justice Media Computational Journalism co-Lab in January 2021, and students have since published about 20 data-driven investigative news stories with nine news organizations including front-page Boston Globe investigations and projects for ProPublica, USA Today, and GBH.

Elevating Cloud Native Education

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 • Paris • 3/20/2024 • talk • Co-presenters: Anwesha Saha (Boston University)

Bridging the gap between academic curricula and industry cloud-native demands.

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The rapid evolution of cloud native technologies poses a unique challenge in aligning academic curricula with industry demands. Academic coursework is notoriously slow to change and many students, who wish to enter industry, are woefully unprepared leaving the burden of cloud native development education on the organizations that hire them.

DevConf.US Keynotes & Intern Showcase (Multiple Years)

DevConf.US • Boston, MA • 8/18/2023 • keynote-series

Welcome/opening keynotes and annual Intern Showcase presentations, 2018-present.

🔗2019 Intern Showcase 🔗DevConf.US Archive
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As founder and organizer, delivered welcome/opening keynotes and led the annual Intern Showcase presentations at DevConf.US from 2018 to present. See the archive for details.

Leveraging Community To Transform Ford's Software Development Teams

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 • Detroit, MI • 10/26/2022 • talk • Co-presenters: Rebecca Riss (Ford Motor Company), Satish Puranam (Ford Motor Company)

How Ford partnered with KubeByExample to upskill their workforce for cloud-native development.

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This presentation showcases the power of community to drive transformation from traditional software development methodologies to next generation cloud native development. Ford turned to KubeByExample, sponsored by Red Hat and supported by Boston University, to upskill their workforce and accelerate automotive software development.

KBE Insider Monthly Livestream

KubeByExample.com • 3/1/2020

Host of monthly Kubernetes community interview show. March 2020 - August 2024. 50+ regular viewers.

Cloud-Native Development & Container Orchestration (Multiple Years)

DevConf.CZ • Brno, Czech Republic • 1/24/2020 • talk-series

Various presentations on cloud-native development and container orchestration, 2015-2020.

🔗DevConf.CZ Archive 🔗Recording Playlist
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Presented a series of talks on cloud-native development and container orchestration at DevConf.CZ from 2015 to 2020. See the archive and playlist for details.

Red Hat Summit: Software Collections & CDK 2 (Multiple Years)

Red Hat Summit • Various • 5/2/2017 • talk-series

Software Collections: Easy access to the cutting edge; CDK 2: Docker, OpenShift Enterprise, and Kubernetes on your desktop. Multiple years.

🔗Recording 🔗Slides 🔗Red Hat Summit
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Presented on Software Collections and CDK 2 at Red Hat Summit over multiple years. See the event site for recordings and slides.

Software Collections and Container Development Kit

DevNation 2016 • San Francisco, CA • 6/27/2016 • talk

Software Collections and Container Development Kit (two presentations).

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Delivered two presentations on Software Collections and the Container Development Kit at DevNation 2016. See event site for recordings and slides.

Re-thinking Linux Distributions

FOSDEM 2016 • Brussels • 1/30/2016

Introducing modularity concepts that became RHEL AppStreams.

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As the power pendulum swings towards developers and open source, Linux Distributions face a challenge: how to get more relevant to the new power brokers? This talk discusses work in Fedora, CentOS, and Red Hat EL communities to provide an operating system and content where 'things' are packaged traditionally but 'content' is provided in native developer formats.

Guerilla Improvement: Getting Started in DevOps Without Buy-In

Dr. Dobb's • 6/13/2013

Leading DevOps transformation from the bottom up without management mandate.

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DevOps need not be a top-down mandate to succeed. With these steps, developers and operations staff can lead the way implementing DevOps techniques and later show the organizational benefits to management.

Working with Python 2.6 and 3.2 on the same machine (without virtualenv)

OSCON 2012 • Portland, OR • 7/19/2012 • talk

Solving version conflicts using open source Software Collections technology.

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Have you ever needed to work on applications in two different versions of the same language at the same time? There are many ways to do this, most of which involve a lot of mechanics or are custom to a single language or both. Join this session to learn a new and easier way to solve this problem using an open source technology called Software Collections and a simple application that will warn you when you get close to your subway stop.