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Recorded an episode on The Reconfigured Podcast After connecting through Polywork opportunities, this Saturday I joined @technolaaji as a guest on his podcast and recorded a session that will be co...

Architect's Guide to SaaS Migration I presented the Friday morning SUGCON event keynote with Pieter Brinkman, providing tips and guidance on how to move from a Sitecore platform DXP to Sitecore com...

DevRel Hiring Manager AMA Are you a #DevRel leader looking for insights on your team planning? Are you a DevRel team contributor looking to better understand what leaders are looking for? Listen to...

Building Lasting Relationships panel I was invited to participate in a panel on relationship building featuring panelists from several different occupations as part of an ongoing Coach's Corner pan...

Sitecore User Group Baltics - SaaS to the Future The tour continues!!! This time in Europe for a virtual presentation talking about Sitecore, SaaS, and the future. I joined up with JF L'Heureux wit...

Sitecore User Group Pittsburgh - SaaS to the Future This stop on the tour took me virtually to Pittsburgh to chat with the folks about where Sitecore is heading! See the slides...

DDD 2021 - Stepping Up - Becoming a leader in your team My 2021 tour of my Stepping Up presentation took me to one of the oldest community events, the Developer!Developer!Developer! 2021, in the UK...

SaaS to the Future I spoke at SUG Minneapolis/St-Paul about our roadmap and vision. Sitecore has been talking about transitioning to SaaS for a while now, and with all the recent product releases a...

Become a Leader @ Agile DevOps East As this session continues its tour, I got the chance to have this session as part of the virtual Agile DevOps East conference today. See the slides...

Stepping Up - Becoming a Leader in your team I brought my Becoming a Leader session to the Big Data and Dev Conference, delivered virtually to a hybrid in-person and virtual audience. See the slides

SaaS to the Future I spoke at SUG Atlantic Canada on our vision and roadmap. Sitecore has been talking about transitioning to SaaS for a while now, and with all the recent product releases and acqu...

Stepping Up - Becoming a Leader in Your Team I was able to deliver my Becoming a Leader session again, this time for the JavaScript and Friends 2021 conference. Originally a hybrid event, it was sw...

Making the Case for Upgrading to Sitecore 7.2, 7.5 & 8 This was one of my first webinars that I've done, and for this session I joined my colleague Amanda Shiga to talk about doing upgrades. At the...

Unlock the power of the xDB: A day in the life of a Sitecore marketer I co-presented with Amanda Shiga on the topic of Sitecore xDB. For my part, I spoke a bit about the infrastructure planning sid...

SUGCON NA 2015 - Continuous Integration This was my first time in New Orleans and I really loved this city. With Sitecore Symposium not happening this year, some community folks got together and cr...

Advance ALM and DevOps Practices with Continuous Improvement At Agile DevOps East, in Orlando, I got the chance to talk about continuous improvement and trying to adopt more DevOps practices one st...

Continuous Integration and Deployment As part of Akshay Sura's unofficial Sitecore training series, I presented a session on continuous integration and deployment for Sitecore solutions. Watch the ...

What's all this noise about Sitecore on Azure? I travelled down to beautiful Toronto, by train, and flew back by plane, all in one day, just so I could do this 'farewell' presentation to the Toront...

Sitecore GSKO Tech Day - MarTech Deep Dive This was the first Sitecore Global Sales Kick Off I had been involved in after starting at Sitecore and I was able to deliver a session with my colleague ...

Continuous Improvement of DevOps practices in a Sitecore context I spoke at the Montreal Sitecore User Group on continuous improvement, specifically focusing on how we can get better at bringing a ...

Sitecore Symposium 2017 - Effective DevOps for Sitecore I moderated this panel featuring Derek Hunziker, Kam Figy, and Joe Bissol. It was a lot of fun getting these three guys to talk about what ha...

Montreal SUG - Symposium Panel This was a fun way for me to help recap the big news at Symposium. I decided to run part of this panel like a gameshow and our panelists had to answer multiple-choice...

Sitecore Digital Destiny Tour - Seattle I joined the North American leg of the Sitecore Digital Destiny tour, co-delivering the event keynote as well as delivering my own "What's New" session. This...

Sitecore Digital Destiny Tour - Chicago I joined the North American leg of the Sitecore Digital Destiny tour, co-delivering the event keynote as well as delivering my own "What's New" session. This...

Sitecore Digital Destiny Tour - Atlanta I joined the North American leg of the Sitecore Digital Destiny tour, co-delivering the event keynote as well as delivering my own "What's New" session. This...

Sitecore Digital Destiny Tour - New York I joined the North American leg of the Sitecore Digital Destiny tour, co-delivering the event keynote as well as delivering my own "What's New" session. Thi...

XP Services Scale up and Scale out During the SUGCON Europe event in Berlin, I spoke about scaling of our services architecture which drives a lot of Sitecor's digital marketing data operations. Wa...

Sitecore Cortex for GSKO Tech Day Every year the Sitecore sales team gathers for a kickoff. Technical Marketing would run the technical enablement days during these physical events, and during this...

Sitecore & SaaS, our shared journey Shortly after my Agile DevOps West session, I spoke with my colleague Rob Earlam at the first Sitecore User Group Columbus. We talked about where Sitecore is hea...

Stepping Up - Becoming a Leader in Your Team On June 9th, I presented my Becoming a Leader session at TechWell's Agile DevOps West. It was my first time as part of the 'West' edition, and several y...

Who Watches the Watchers? (Symposium 2018) I decided to tread into the world of ethics and machine learning with this presentation at Sitecore Symposium 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Download the slide...

Machine Learning Insights (SUG Montreal) My colleague Amanda Shiga and I jumped in the van and drove to Montreal for this user group. Amanda spoke to some of the trends and uses of machine learning...

Machine Learning Insights (SUG Jordan) I presented virtually to the SUG Jordan along with my colleague and friend Amanda Shiga. Amanda spoke to some of the trends and uses of machine learning and A...

Who Watches the Watchers (SUG Chennai) As part of my tour of my ethics and machine learning talk, I delivered this presentation virtually to SUG Chennai. Watch on YouTube

Who Watches the Watchers (at DevFestMN) I brought my ethics in machine learning talk to downtown Minneapolis for my first trip to Minnesota, and also my first ever Google Developer Group conference...

NESUG 10 Year Anniversary Just prior to presenting my The Power of Being a Better Neighbor talk at Symposium, my colleague Amanda Shiga and I flew down to Boston to celebrate the New England Siteco...

Punch it, Chewie! I did the introduction for this session with performance specialist Matt Dubbs. We talked about the importance of performance testing, and some specific things you can do to find ...

Brand Trust - The Power of Being a Better Neighbor At Sitecore Symposium 2019, in Orlando, I donned the red cardigan, did some singing, and brought my Mister Rogers theme to the stage to talk about...

Ethics in a Machine Learning World A variation on my "Who Watches the Watchers" talk, this webinar spoke about the challenge to embed ethics into the building and use of AI and ML. Watch on demand ...

Symposium Memories (panel) Wearing my red cardigan, I moderated a panel in Montreal with several panelists who shared their thoughts on the Symposium session in Orlando. I took this roadtrip to Mon...

Baby Steps for Metrics I spoke for the first time at a DevRelCon event during the virtual DevRelCon Earth global conference. I shared my thoughts on how to get started with metrics and taking those...

A tour to Sitecore 10 As part of my What's new in Sitecore 10 tour, I spoke at SUG Chennai to show off the latest release. Watch on YouTube

Stepping Up - Becoming a leader in your team I spoke at DevSum on becoming a leader within your team. The recording will be available for 14 days after the event on their Solid Tango portal.

As part of my What's new in Sitecore 10 tour, I appeared at SUG Denmark to show off some short demos and highlights of the latest product release. Watch on YouTube

As part of my What's new in Sitecore 10 tour, I appeared at the SUG Baltimore/Cleveland mashup to show off some short demos and highlights of the latest product release. View slides and video on No...

As part of my What's new in Sitecore 10 tour, I appeared at SUG Schweiz to show off some short demos and highlights of the latest product release. View slides and video on Notist

I spoke at DNN Summit 2021 on building up trust through three tactics: • Be Honest • Be Kind • Be Helpful. Watch it on YouTube

Hiding in Plain Sight: Leveraging Social Media While Protecting Your Privacy I delivered a talk for Incubator13's webinar series to help local young entrepreneurs and others start building a brand ...

Stepping Up - Becoming a leader in your team. I delivered a lightning talk version of this session at the Minnesota Developers Conference (virtually). Watch the replay on YouTube.

Alongside CMO Scott Anderson, I presented at the Digital Destiny Tour in Tokyo, delivering our keynote "Fusion of digital and context- Aiming to improve customer value" See the event page

At Sitecore Symposium 2017 in Las Vegas, I delivered the Sitecore and Microsoft Azure portion of our keynote, showcasing the easy spin up of Sitecore in the cloud using Microsoft's Azure Marketplac...