Speaking archive
The complete record of talks, workshops, panels, moderated sessions, internal talks, and media appearances currently documented in my source materials.
The 45-engagement figure used in my booking materials counts delivered public talks, workshops, panels, moderated sessions, and fixed-term guest teaching engagements since 2017.
Each booking counts once: repeated sessions, multi-day programs, and multi-part series do not inflate the total. Internal talks, media appearances, ongoing teaching roles, accepted-only sessions, and cancellations remain visible but excluded.
01Upcoming
- 2026Commit Your Code — The Put That Sh*t On Agent: Building Multi-Agent AI Systems That Actually Talk to Each Other · Sep 4 · Plano, Texasupcoming
- 2026ACM Richard Tapia Conference — Your Brain Trust: How Peer Mentorship Unlocks Harder Technical Problems · Panelist · Sep 17 · Atlantaupcoming
02External talks, workshops, panels, and moderated sessions
- 2026RenderATL — The Put That Sh*t On Agent: Building Multi-Agent AI Systems That Actually Talk to Each Other · live demo
- 2026/dev/color MLPD Series — Vibe Coding with Guardrails: Rebuilding MajorKey with Claude Coderecorded
- 2026OpenTeams · OSA Community — Can AI Agents Extend the Half-Life of Open Source Software? A Conduit Case Studyrecorded
- 2026Atlanta Cloud + AI Conference — AI agents for open-source maintenance
- 2025Atlanta Developers' Conference — Beyond APIs: Building Interoperable AI Systems with MCP and A2A Protocols
- 2025BITCON — Beyond APIs: Building Interoperable AI Systems with MCP and A2A Protocolsrecorded
- 2025/dev/color MLPD Series — Beyond APIs: Building Interoperable AI Systems with MCP and A2A Protocolsrecorded
- 2025GoWest — Conduit: Real-Time Data Streams Made Simple (and Fast) with Gorecorded
- 2025BlackTIDES Data · bidWeek — MCP and A2A workshoprecorded
- 2025Mela AI — Secure the Bag & Keep It · accepted/announced; delivery unverifiedaccepted
- 2025iSTEAM SKN Champions Hub — AI Game Development Camp · St. Kitts · one week
- 2024BITCON — AI workshop covering LangChain, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI agents
- 2024The Bean Path Tech Talk — Using AI Agent Workflows to Create Your Personal Research Teamrecorded
- 2024Data 4 Black Lives III — AI agent research workflows
- 2024Kura Labs Industry Insights — Growing a Tech Career in the Age of Generative AI · Panel
- 2024Dream Machine AI Academy — LLM fine-tuning workshop · Atlanta Tech Week
- 2024Southern Spark Conference — Using AI to augment your workflow · Jackson, Mississippi
- 2024Career fireside chat — Building a Tech Career in the Age of AI
- 2022MagnoliaJS — You Can Get with
thisor You Can Get With That: Global State Management in Reactrecorded - 2021RenderATL — You Can Get with
thisor You Can Get With That: Global State Management in React - 2020AWS re:Invent — How the Sausage is Made: S3 Log Ingestion Lambda · Co-presented with Vinit Patel
- 2020LeadDev — Minimizing Risks in Code Deployment · Panelrecorded
- 2020ACM Richard Tapia Conference — DNP: Mental Health Management · Session organizer and co-presenter
- 2020Black Is Tech Virtual Conference — The Will Test
- 2020Refactr.Tech — The Will Test: A Minority Engineer's Guide to Evaluating Company Culturecancelled
- 2020In Streaming Color — Data science and Wakandan-name generation during a 25-hour benefit livestream
- 2020DEI.dev Meetup — The Will Test
- 2020CMD-IT — Standing Against Racial Injustices · Panel
- 2019ACM Richard Tapia Conference — The Will Test · Birds of a Feather session
- 2019ACM Richard Tapia Conference — Wakanda Name You Got · Technical panel
- 2019Strata Data Conference — The Will Test · Better Together Diversity Networking Lunchrecorded
- 2019/dev/color in Motion — The Will Test · Breakout panel
- 2019Trapathon — Tech professional panel · Oakland
- 2018ESGF Face-to-Face Conference — ESGF Installer Status Report and ESGF 3.0 Beta Release Announcement · Washington, DC
- 2017ESGF Triennial Report — ESGF Installer Status Update · Washington, DC
- 2017ESGF Face-to-Face Conference — ESGF Installer Status Report · San Francisco
- 2017/dev/color in Motion — Moderator, Jeff Dean breakout session · Microsoft
- 2017ACM Richard Tapia Conference — Resume-writing panel
03Additional counted, earlier, and internal work
- 2026RenderATL University — From Vibe Coding to AI Engineering · Three-workshop series counted once
- 2026Sister Circle · Emory University — Cracking the Technical Interview: Strategies, Frameworks & Resilience · slides
- 2020New Relic UI Unconf — E2E Odyssey: Lessons Learnedinternal
- 2020New Relic TDP All Hands — The Will Testinternal
- 2020ModelExpand — Evaluating company cultures · Bootcamp session
- 2020ModelExpand Inclusive Recruiting Bootcamp — Facilitator · Three-part series counted once
- 2019/dev/color Guild Roundtable — Recruiting and Retaining Black Software Engineers · Panel
- 2019University of the Virgin Islands — Machine-learning, data-science, and cybersecurity summer program · St. Croix and St. Thomas
- 2018University of the Virgin Islands — Raspberry Pi and touchscreen summer program · St. Croix
- 2017SAP Design Thinking Deep Dive for Minority Serving Institutions — Panelist · Stanford
- 2017University of the Virgin Islands — Python, game creation, and cybersecurity summer program · St. Croix
- 2016Software Improvement Networking Group — Plotting Categorical Data with D3.js · Livermore, California
04Interviews and media
- 2026RenderATL livestream speaker series — Host · Deep Dive: AI Dev Tools & Building in the Open with Francesco Ciullarecorded
- 2026RenderATL livestream speaker series — Host · From Pivot to Purpose: David vonThenen on AI, ML & Career Reinventionrecorded
- 2026RenderATL livestream speaker series — Host · Leading with Purpose: Community, Code & What Faris Is Buildingrecorded
- 2026RenderATL livestream speaker series — Host · Robotics, Students & Community: The Work of Nolan S. Coderecorded
- 2026Africans in Tech — Office politics, layoffs, and AI · “Meet William Hill” profile cliprecorded
- 202611Alive · NBC Atlanta — AI and the future of gamingrecorded
- 2025Stats On Stats — AI, Software Engineering, and the Future of Tech · Includes the NBA x AI RAG demorecorded
- 2020Revision Path, episode 352 — Career journey from Mississippi to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and New Relicaudio
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