I have spoken at many events since my first public talk in 2005. You can see a few of my talks on noti.st and on Conffab. Plus there are some older slide decks on Slideshare.

I was somewhere in front of the crowd at...

  • SydJS, April 2025. Less, But Better (reprise)
  • MC for the React track at Web Directions Summit (Sydney), November 2024.
  • Web Directions Code - opening keynote (Melbourne), June 2024. Less, But Better
  • SydJS, December 2023. React In Python With Dash
  • MC for the frontend track at Web Directions Summit (Sydney), October 2023.
  • Web Directions Hover (Sydney), March 2022. Real World CSS Custom Properties
  • SydJS, January 2020. Resetting The Baseline (long version)
  • SydCSS, December 2019. Wheel Of Talks night - speakers had 20 minutes to prepare a talk from scratch on a randomly-selected topic. Mine was 'performance' and my talk was Performance and Jank.
  • A11y Camp (Sydney), November 2019. Clickable DIVs and Other Icebergs
  • SydCSS, February 2019. You Might Not Need SCSS
  • Web Directions Summit 2018 (Sydney), October 2018. Things Designers and Developers Should Know
  • What Do You Know (Sydney), September 2018. Resetting the Baseline (short version)
  • Design Systems Meetup (Sydney), September 2018. The Naming Of Things
  • A11y Camp (Sydney), September 2017. Sneaking accessibility into your product
  • Web Directions Code 2016 (Sydney & Melbourne), August 2016. The Semver Talk 1.0
  • A11y Camp (Sydney), July 2015. ARIA: beyond a11y
  • Web Directions Respond (Sydney), March 2015. Should rolling your own be the way you roll?
  • SydCSS, December 2014. CSS Skills Garden
  • What Do You Know (Sydney), April 2014. Half Of The Next Thing
  • SydJS - October 2013. Static is not a dirty word (lightning talk)
  • Atlassian Summit (San Francisco), June 2012. The Right Tool For The Job, about using Atlassian UI (AUI) to develop Atlassian Plugins.
  • Web Standards Group (Sydney), September 2011. Standards... they grow up so fast. Co-presented with David Lewis.
  • SydJS, May 2011. Refactor Wars
  • Web Directions South - Ed Directions workshop (Sydney), 2009.
  • Edge of the Web (Perth), 2008. Hacking Humans
  • Local Government Web Network Conference - day two keynote (Sydney), August 2008. Steering the glacier
  • Open Publish (Sydney), July 2008. W3C Standards Are Not Enough
  • Web Standards Group (Sydney), February 2008. W3C Standards Are Not Enough
  • Open Standards (Sydney), 2007. Beyond Compliance: Why should the W3C have all the fun?
  • Web Directions South (Sydney), 2006. The long road: Standards advocacy in large organisations
  • OZeWAI (Melbourne), December 2005. Sticks, carrots & staying sane. Presented remote from Brisbane, which was very unusual at the time!
  • Organised the WANAU Brisbane Web Accessibility Forum (Brisbane), August 2005.
  • Web Standards Group (Brisbane), June 2005. Sticks, carrots & staying sane