Speaking

Over 30 conferences on four continents have invited me to speak about software engineering, product management, business strategy, and developer experience of Web APIs. I've done 20–40 minute talks, in-depth workshops, and keynotes.

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

Previous engagements

• January 18, 2024: SamNet 2024 – Intro to the social web and federated social networks (video)
• November 20, 2023: Stockholm Social Web Meetup: Intro to the social web and federated social networks
• November 5–8, 2023: Interledger Summit – Building Open Payments API and Web Monetization support into the social Web
• September 12, 2023: Interledger Foundation’s Open Payments Huddle
• September 21, 2023: FediForum – Building Open Payments API and Web Monetization support into the social Web
• October 18, 2023: Nordic APIs Platform Summit – Introducing Leaf Computing
• June 2023: Apidays Helsinki – Introducing Leaf Computing
• April 2023: API Conference London — Introducing Leaf Computing
• March 2023: FediForum — Acceptable monetization models in the fediverse
• April 2022: LeadDev — How to run a progressive ERG
• December 2021: LeadDev — Keeping up momentum in remote teams
• October 2021: IT Workplace of Tomorrow, remote — RAW: Remote Async Work
• 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)
• May 2018: WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018 in Vienna, Austria — 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
• October 2017: Nordic APIs 2017 Platform Summit — Pragmatic design with JSON API
• 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
• March 2015: SXSW Interactive — Distributed app architectures and revenue models
• October 2014: Web Directions Sydney
• April 2014: SF API Meetup – API design patterns beyond REST
• March 2014: O’Reilly Fluent Conference – UX research methodologies for developers
• March 2014: SXSW Interactive – API design patterns beyond REST
• February 2014: Developer Week San Francisco – “Designing experiences for developers” presentation and panel
• October 2013: API Strategy & Practice Conference – API integrations with Node.js workshop
• June 2013: APIdays SF – API design panel moderator
• May 2013: APIdays Medeterranea – Developer Experience practice and theory
• March 2013: SXSW Interactive – 3 hour Developer Experience workshop (one of the highest rated workshops by attendee reviews!)