Talks
On stage and at the lectern.
Conference keynotes, AWS community days, meetup talks, and salon evenings — past and upcoming.
Upcoming (1)
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18 September 2026
Throwing balls at production: a juggler's guide to incident response
DevOps Days London — London, United Kingdom
When a system fails mid-deploy, the same instincts that keep three balls in the air keep an incident from cascading. A talk on prioritisation, recovery, and why the dropped ball isn't always the first thing to pick up.
TechChange
Past (2)
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12 November 2025
Adding the third ball: incremental load and team capacity
Agile Summit — Berlin, Germany
A live-juggling keynote on how teams absorb new work — and the moment the cascade collapses into a fountain. Includes a short audience exercise.
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3 December 2024
Where the Cloud Meets the Cascade: AI, Community, and the Patterns Underneath
AWS re:Invent — Las Vegas, United States
A community-track session on the structural similarities between juggling, distributed systems, and the way humans absorb new tools. Includes a live three-ball cascade and a brief Amazon Q demo running side-by-side.
BrainTech Recording