2023
- June 2023 - LeadDev StaffPlus London, “Solving the puzzle of staff+ time management”
- March 2023 - QCon London, program committee member, sponsored “Staff+ Engineering in Practice” and “Architectures in 2025” tracks
- March 2023 - LeadDev, “How to navigate uncertainty as a senior individual contributor” panel moderator
- February 2023 - LeadDev StaffPlus London, review committee
2022
- September 2022 - LeadDev, “Building happy and effective data teams” panellist
- August 2022 - LeadDev, “Common mistakes new staff engineers make… and how to avoid them” panel moderator
- May 2022 - Docker, Invited by the Mental Health Awareness ERG “Q&A with Blanca Garcia Gil - career highlights and tips for managing the ups and downs of working in tech”
- May 2022 - QCon Plus, “5 Behaviours to Become an Effective Staff-Plus Engineer”
- April 2022 - QCon London, StaffPlus track, “5 Behaviours to Become an Effective Staff-Plus Engineer”
- March 2022, DevoxxUK Track review team (tracks: Data & AI, Build & Deploy)
- February 2022, LeadDev London review committee
- January 2022 - LeadDev panel moderator“Understanding the role of a Principal Engineer”
2021
- December 2021, LeadDev Together, “Measuring Success in Your Organization” panel host
- September 2021, LeadDev StaffPlus Live co-host
- September 2021, LeadDev StaffPlus Live, Luminary Interview with Ada Ehmke
- September 2021, LeadDev StaffPlus Live, Luminary Interview with Lea Kissner
- July 2021, DV8, “Sprinboards and pitfalls for your career in tech”
- July 2021, LeadDev meetup, “Forging the path to faster shipping in enterprise orgs” panel moderator
- May 2021, DevoxxUK track review team (tracks: Data & AI, Build & Deploy)
- April 2021, LeadDev, “Carving a modern engineering organisation from an enterprise” panellist
- April 2021, London Microservices, “Beyond the distributed monolith”
- February 2021, InfoQ Live, “Evolving analytics in the data platform”
- January 2021, LeadDev, “Evaluating when it’s time to tackle technical debt” panel moderator
2020
- December 2020, AWS User Group UK, “How improving Redshift performance leads to faster business insights”
- March 2020, QCon London , “Beyond the Distributed Monolith: Rearchitecting the Big Data Platform”
2019
- December 2019, London Java Community, DevoxxUK new speaker academy
- September 2019, LeadDev London Meetup, “Getting excited about maintaining legacy systems” (slides)
- May 2019, DevoxxUK, Birds of a Feather session facilitator on “Getting Started with Public Speaking”
- April 2019, UXDX London, Q&A session
2018
- September 2018, Bristol Voxxed Days, co-presented “7 Serverless Recipes for Big Data Architectures”
- June 2018, London Serverless Days, co-presented “7 Serverless Recipes for Big Data Architectures”
- May 2018, DevoxxUK, co-presented “7 Serverless Recipes for Big Data Architectures”
- April 2018, London Java Community, co-presented “7 Serverless Recipes for Big Data Architectures”