2021 Speaking Engagements

Exploring whats new in .NET 6 Featured on Microsoft ANZ Developer's #NewBreakpoint Comunity talk with David Gardiner discussing what is new in .NET 6 https://twitter.com/MicrosoftDevANZ/status/1463...

.NET Internet of Things Spoke at .NET Conf with my talk ".NET Internet of Things" https://youtu.be/rJihxeL5cGI

Leadership Through Self-Awareness Gave the keynote at NDC Sydney with my talk "Leadership Through Self-Awareness" https://youtu.be/Ye8Pks1_IJ4

VS Code: optimising productivity today Co-hosted a table topic at Microsoft Ignite 2021: "VS Code: optimising productivity today" Community discussion of how best to use Visual Studio Code to optim...

Travel with me to .NET MAUI Spoke at Azure Community Conference India and gave my talk "Travel with me to .NET MAUI" https://badge.azconf.dev/badge/05caefbc-5476-46f8-93bc-171580b0f506

Travel with me to .NET MAUI Spoke at Microsoft Reactor Syndey online and gave my talk "Travel with me to .NET MAUI" https://youtu.be/Xj_HNQrxnHc

Travel with me to .NET MAUI Gave my talk "Travel with me to .NET MAUI" at Full Stack Day NZ online https://www.fullstackday.com/MelissaHoughton.html

NDC Melbourne Hosted and helped to organise the NDC Melbourne Conference Livestream https://youtu.be/KS2gQ_0-zXg

JavaScript in the Cloud Gave a new version of my talk "JavaScript in the Cloud" for O'Reilly's Infrastructure & Ops Superstream Series: Microservices and DevOps event hosted by Sam Newman https://l...

The Magic of Building Community in Software ✨ Joined Fabian Böck on BOECK & XOXO Talks to discuss Software Communities, .NET, and the future of tech with IoT https://youtu.be/Tw1yL8b8rDQ

MVPBuzzChat Joined Christian Buckly on Episode 123 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2021/07/mvpbuzzchat-with-melissa-houghton.html

Digital Twins: A practical solution to islands of things Gave my talk "Digital Twins: A practical solution to islands of things" at Connectar.DEV Digital Twins change how we use IoT and bridge the ...

Global Diversity CFP Day Spoke on a panel about "How to get into conference speaking" at Global Diversity CFP Day

New Breakpoint Episode 3 - Community Show Spoke on a panel for Microsoft AU #NewBreakpoint about tech communities https://youtu.be/TVjeIg9yn7Q

JavaScript in the Cloud Gave my talk "JavaScript in the Cloud" at Tech(K)Now Day https://youtu.be/8PLgczqm8A8

Easy, Breezy, Beautiful: Angular Material Gave my talk "Easy, Breezy, Beautiful: Angular Material" at Tech(K)Now Day https://youtu.be/yMbiRUyuaOY

JavaScript in the Cloud Spoke at the Women Who Code Melbourne meetup and gave my talk "JavaScript in the Cloud" https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Women-Who-Code-Melbourne/events/274426629/

New Breakpoint Episode 6 - Women in Tech Community Show Hosted a panel for Microsoft AU #NewBreakpoint about Women in Tech https://youtu.be/FG-as0lDEyA

JavaScript in the Cloud Spoke at BrisJs meetup with my talk "JavaScript in the Cloud" https://youtu.be/5fNB97PZed0?t=798

Easy, Breezy, Beautiful: Angular Material Gave my talk "Easy, Breezy, Beautiful: Angular Material" at the Angular Sydney Meetup https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/angularsydney/events/277847609/

Battles of an Impostor Gave a keynote at the Women Tech Global Conference with my talk "Battles of an Impostor" https://www.womentech.net/speaker/Melissa/Houghton/44409

Microsoft Build: Build inclusive communities like a pro Co-hosted a table topic at #MSBuild Learn the benefits of community building and connect with other Microsoft Build attendees to discuss best...

JavaScript in the Cloud Spoke at Azure Serverless Conf and gave my talk: "JavaScript in the Cloud" Hosted by @AaronPowell https://youtu.be/lMGdookmHR8