Speaking

Talks & panels

Conference talks, panels, and workshops spanning AI adoption, open source platform architecture, community building, and educational innovation. Most are recorded — links where available.

Topics available

  • AI attribution and process transparency in professional and institutional contexts
  • GenAI integration in education — balancing capability with integrity
  • Agentic systems architecture and the operational reality of AI adoption
  • Platform architecture, open source, and enterprise Linux ecosystems
  • Building inclusive technology communities at scale
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Past

2025

panel

Activating Community To Grow in Cloud Native

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 — London, UK

With Lisa Tagliaferri (Chainguard), Divya Mohan (SUSE), Edith Puclla (Percona)

2024

panel

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

With Brooke Williams

talk

Elevating Cloud Native Education

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 — Paris

With Anwesha Saha (Boston University)

2023

keynote-series

DevConf.US Keynotes & Intern Showcase (Multiple Years)

DevConf.US — Boston, MA

2022

talk

Leveraging Community To Transform Ford's Software Development Teams

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 — Detroit, MI

With Rebecca Riss (Ford Motor Company), Satish Puranam (Ford Motor Company)

2020

KBE Insider Monthly Livestream

talk-series

Cloud-Native Development & Container Orchestration (Multiple Years)

DevConf.CZ — Brno, Czech Republic

2017

talk-series

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

Red Hat Summit — Various

2016

talk

Software Collections and Container Development Kit

DevNation 2016 — San Francisco, CA

Re-thinking Linux Distributions

— Brussels

2013

Guerilla Improvement: Getting Started in DevOps Without Buy-In

2012

talk

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

OSCON 2012 — Portland, OR