Talks and Appearances
Upcoming
Nothing in the diary at the moment. New dates are sent out in the newsletter.
If you’re organising a conference or a meetup and think I’d fit the programme, get in touch.
Selected talks
A few worth starting with, from the 84 below.
- 22 July, 2026, “Setting Agents Loose, Staying in the Loop” on LinkedIn Live (online webinar) [video]
- Available now, GOTO Book Club, interview with Abby Bangser (interview) [video]
- 3 February, 2025, “From Bottleneck to Enabler: Pulling infrastructure coding out of the value stream” at Config Management Camp in Ghent, Belgium [notes] [slides] [video]
- 21 September, 2023, Thoughtworks XConf Europe 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands [slides] [video]
- 25 July, 2019, Thoughtworks XConf in Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia [video]
- 13 June, 2016, QCon New York in New York, US [video]
Conference talks and workshops
- 23 June, 2026, “Humans on the Loop: Taking agents end to end” at PlatformCon London in London, UK [notes] [slides]
- 4 June, 2026, “Pulling Continuous Delivery inside the agentic loop” at Craft Conference in Budapest, Hungary [notes] [slides]
- 1 November, 2025, “Next generation self-service models for infrastructure” at DevOpsDays Istanbul in Istanbul, Türkiye [notes] [slides]
- 3 October, 2025, “Application driven infrastructure deployment: enabling more effective software delivery” at GOTO Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark
- 18 September, 2025, XConf Europe 2025 in Madrid, Spain
- 10 September, 2025, London DevOps in London, UK
- 3 February, 2025, “From Bottleneck to Enabler: Pulling infrastructure coding out of the value stream” at Config Management Camp in Ghent, Belgium [notes] [slides] [video]
- 20 November, 2024, PulumiUP Europe 2024 (online)
- 30 October, 2024, Sportradar Connect Tech Talk in Wrocław, Poland
- 4 July, 2024, Agile on the Beach in Cornwall, UK
- 12 June, 2024, PlatformCon 2024 (online)
- 18 May, 2024, DevOpsDays São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil
- 27 February, 2024, DeveloperWeek Online (online)
- 21 February, 2024, DeveloperWeek Onsite in Oakland, California, US
- 5 February, 2024, Config Management Camp 2024 in Ghent, Belgium [video]
- 21 September, 2023, Thoughtworks XConf Europe 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands [slides] [video]
- 29 September, 2022, DevOpsDays London 2022 in London, UK [slides]
- 24 September, 2022, Software Architecture fwdays’22 conference, Ukraine (online) [video]
- 3 August, 2022, Ambev Tech & Cheers in São Paulo, Brazil
- 29 July, 2022, Thoughtworks XConf Latinoamérica 2022 in Quito, Ecuador [video]
- 20 May, 2021, Thoughtworks XConf TWSEA (online)
- 27 April, 2021, Infrastructure WebConf Europe Vol.4 (online)
- 15 October, 2020, ThoughtWorks Munich (online)
- 7 October, 2020, Cloud Engineering Summit (online)
- 1 October, 2020, ScotSoft (online)
- 25 July, 2019, Thoughtworks XConf in Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia [video]
- 23 July, 2019, Thoughtworks XConf in Sydney in Sydney, Australia
- 5 July, 2019, Thoughtworks XConf in Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain
- 4 July, 2019, Thoughtworks XConf in Munich in Munich, Germany
- 3 July, 2019, Thoughtworks XConf in Manchester in Manchester, UK
- 20 June, 2019, GOTO Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2 April, 2019, Istanbul Tech Talks in Istanbul, Türkiye
- 31 October, 2018, “Building evolutionary infrastructure” at Velocity in London, UK (workshop)
- 3 October, 2018, ThoughtWorks Talks Tech in Bangkok, Thailand
- 2 October, 2018, Stack 2018 Developer Conference in Singapore, Singapore
- 18 September, 2018, “Continuously Delivering Infrastructure as Code” in Glasgow, UK
- 6 September, 2018, Jazoon Tech Days in Bern, Switzerland [video]
- 6 August, 2018, Agile2018 in San Diego, US
- 14 March, 2018, Landing Festival in Berlin, Germany
- 8 March, 2018, Agile India in Bangalore, India
- 1 December, 2017, DevTernity in Riga, Latvia
- 25 October, 2017, DevOpsDays Singapore in Singapore, Singapore
- 13 July, 2017, Thoughtworks XConf Manchester in Manchester, UK [video]
- 11 July, 2017, Thoughtworks XConf Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany
- 21 April, 2017, Agile Alliance Technical Conference in Boston, US
- 13 March, 2017, DevOps Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal
- 9 March, 2017, Book Meetup in Johannesburg, South Africa
- 6 February, 2017, Config Management Camp in Gent, Belgium [slides]
- 15 November, 2016, GOTO Berlin in Berlin, Germany
- 14 November, 2016, Guild42 in Bern, Switzerland
- 28 October, 2016, Swisscom Software Day in Zurich, Switzerland
- 18 October, 2016, O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London, UK
- 28 September, 2016, CoOp and ThoughtWorks Manchester in Manchester, UK
- 20 September, 2016, Velocity New York in New York, US
- 30 August, 2016, Galvanize Platte in Denver, US
- 21 July, 2016, ThoughtWorks Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain
- 14 July, 2016, Thoughtworks XConf Manchester in Manchester, UK
- 12 July, 2016, Thoughtworks XConf Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany
- 29 June, 2016, ThoughtWorks Madrid in Madrid, Spain
- 21 June, 2016, Infracoders London in London, UK
- 13 June, 2016, QCon New York in New York, US [video]
- 13 April, 2016, GOTONights Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands [video]
- 24 September, 2015, “Automating for Agility” at operability.io in London, UK [notes] [video]
Podcasts and interviews
- Available now, Tech Lead Journal (interview) [video]
- Available now, GOTO Book Club, interview with Abby Bangser (interview) [video]
- 14 July, 2022, “Sensible Default Practices” on Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (podcast)
- 25 February, 2021, “Infrastructure as Code” on Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (podcast)
- 1 September, 2020, Tech Lead Journal (podcast)
- 1 August, 2020, Pragmatism in Practice (podcast)
- 1 September, 2016, Software Engineering Radio (podcast)
Webinars and online sessions
- 22 July, 2026, “Setting Agents Loose, Staying in the Loop” on LinkedIn Live (online webinar) [video]
- 22 May, 2025, “Infrastructure as code: Now and next” on LinkedIn Live (online webinar)
- 28 March, 2025, ThoughtWorks Technology Radar (online webinar)
- 22 March, 2022, Developer Observability Masterclass, sponsored by Lightrun, Thoughtworks, and RedMonk (online webinar)
- 29 June, 2021, “Application Driven Infrastructure” (online webinar)
- 13 May, 2021, Thoughtworks Webinar, a conversation with Angela Bishop about how organizations have used cloud in dealing with the business shifts over the past year (online webinar)
- 9 February, 2021, Thoughtworks Webinar, with Thao Dang (online webinar)
- 27 January, 2021, “CI/CD” on Infrastructure & Ops Superstream Series, hosted by Sam Newman (online webinar)
- 28 June, 2016, NGINX Webinar (online webinar)
Book events and other appearances
- 15 July, 2025, Pulumi, panel discussion and book signing in New York, US
- 10 July, 2025, Pulumi, panel discussion and book signing in Chicago, US
- 2 April, 2025, KubeCon Europe, book signing in London, UK
- 18 August, 2016, Book launch in San Francisco, US
- 7 July, 2016, Book launch in London, UK