History of speaking engagements

• A landscape of unintended consequences (video, slides), related post memory safety: necessary, not sufficient
• RTMP: how did we get to now? (Demuxed 2019), slides. video
• EmberConf 2019 Closing Keynote, video, notes, slides
• Full stack in a stackless world, Fluent, San Jose, CA, June ’18
• Build planetary scale apps with Firebase with Doug Stevenson (video), Google I/O, Mountain View, CA, May ’18
• Convergence of serverless APIs and compute, (video)Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark, May ’18
• Absorbed into the Borg: What Happens After Your Startup is Acquired, Girl Geek X, Apr ’18
• Introducing Cloud Firestore (video), Firebase DevSummit, Nov ’17
• How to Build Robust Mobile Applications for the Distributed Cloud (video), Google I/O, May ’17
• Erlang/Elixir Keynote: Language Encodes Wisdom (video), Mar ’17
• Communication is a Technical Skill (video), Rocky Mountain Ruby, Oct ’16
• Technical Leadership (video), hack.summit(), Feb ’16
• What is your software saying behind your back? (slides), Business of Software, Sep ’15
• Transparency Wins (slides, video), Taiwan Ruby Conference, Sep ’15
• Making Software Fun (slides), Brighton Ruby, July ’15
• Designing for Fun (video, slides), AltConf, June ’15
• The Power of Transparency (slides), MagmaConf, June ’15
• Ripple Effects (video, slides), Hack Summit, Dec ’14
• Ruby in Government, Ruby Rogues podcast, Mar ’14 (podcast)
• Why no Ruby in Government? SF Ruby Meetup, Jan ’14 (slides, discussion)
• Lessons Learned and Future Thoughts, Louisville High School, Aug ’13
• Video for the Mobile Web, Dutch Mobile Conference, Jun ’13
• Reflections on My Career as a Computer Science Entreprenuer, Immaculate Heart High School, Feb ’13 (slides)
• Crafting Software Products, SCNA, Nov ’12 (slides, video)
• Agile Business Development, JRubyConf, May 2012, (slides, video)
• What It’s Like To Be A Software Engineer (video)
• Teaching Code Literacy, Strange Loop, Sept ’11 (slides, video)
• Pie: the Making of a DSL for Simple Games, RubyConf, Nov ’10 (notes)
• Test First Teaching, Golden Gate Ruby Conference, Sept ’10 (slides
• Learning TDD through Test First Teaching, East Bay Ruby Meetup, April 2010 (video)
• International Web Applications, Ruby Kaigi, Aug ’10 (slides, video)
• Cross-Platform Mobile Applications with Ruby, Mountain West Ruby Conference, March 2010 (video, slides)
• Mobile Ruby, LA Ruby Conf, Feb ’10 (slides)
• The Mobile Phone is the new PC. Ignite Bay Area | Women Innovators, Dec ’09 (slides)
• Mobile Applications with Ruby, RubyConf, Nov 2009 (slides)
• Rails Webservices APIs and always up-to-date documentation with Cucumber aka Streamlined Geek Talk, July ’09, (notes, video)
• Cinematic Interaction Design, Interaction 08, Feb 2008
• How to Build Webtop Applications, AjaxWorld, Sept. 2007
• The Cinematic Web, presentation, DCamp, May 2006
• The Future of Digital Product Design, panel, BayDUX, Dec. 2004
• Designing Next Generation Web UI in a Declarative XML Framework, GraceHopper 2004
• User Interface talk: The future of the Web is not the past of Windows with Bret Simister, July 2004
• W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents, June 2004 (position paper)
• Making data easier to use with Laszlo, Macromedia User Forum, 2003
• Developing Multiuser Applications, Macromedia Web World 2000
• ChikTek ’97, keynote speaker. A showcase of women using interactive technologies for artistic pursuits. Sponsored by San Jose State University and the San Jose Museum of Art.
• How to be a Software Engineer, SFWebgrrls, 1997
• Streaming Shockwave Futures, Macromedia User Conference, 1997
• CyberDog Unleashed (Shockwave demo), Apple WWDC, 1996

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