Jakob Bradford, Jon Skeet, Chris O'Dell and I have exchanged a number of emails, Google Hangouts, and suggestions in the past few months that could be used to improve diversity at NDC conferences. I was a speaker at NDC Sydney, and it was one of the most heavily gender skewed events I had attended in years. Ultimately, NDC … Continue reading Diversity at NDC London
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NDC Sydney
NDC Sydney wrapped up last month, and because it happened between a bunch of other things (preparing for our move to Seattle, recording the podcast with Scott Hanselman, a conference call with Jon Skeet & Jakob Bradford - post coming soon!), I hadn't take the time to digest it all. My talk First, my talk - Video Transcoding … Continue reading NDC Sydney
Lessons learned in Public Speaking
Every year, I try to learn something new. 2014 was javascript, 2015 was back to CS fundamentals, and 2016 is my Year Of Public Speaking. I've been lucky to be able to present the same talk multiple times this year, which is an overview of the new video transcoding system we built at the ABC: Internal presentation at … Continue reading Lessons learned in Public Speaking
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