title	conference	date
Build Systems, Not Code	AI Engineer World's Fair 2026	2026-06-29
Claim: engineering moves up a layer — an agentic system called Relocation Scout is built with modular skills and sub-agents, structured outputs written into… Talk on
Building an Autonomous Engineering Org	AI Engineer World's Fair 2026	2026-06-29
Claims a full conversion of an enterprise engineering org into an agentic one using internal agents like Goose and Claude Code plus Anthropic MCP design… Talk on
Building an AI Native Engineering Org	Enterprise AI Summit Spring 2026	2026-04-09
Block builds an internal coding agent Goose and pilots it with 50 handpicked AI champions to convert 3,500 engineers from IDE helpers to orchestrators of… Talk on
From Experiment to Enterprise: How Block Operationalized MCP at Scale	AI By the Bay 2025	2025-11-17
Block deploys MCP organization-wide in about two months, building an open-source MCP client called Goose that connects to Snowflake, Jira, PagerDuty and other… Talk on
The accidental AI revolution	LeadDev New York 2025	2025-10-15
An internal developer tool becomes a company-wide agent: Goose autonomous AI agent boosts engineers by 20% more efficient and lets 75% save 8–10 hours/week… Talk on
How Block Operationalized MCP At Scale	All Things Open 2025	2025-10-12
Claims rapid rollout: Block scales MCP across a 12,000 person company in two months and achieves measurable gains. Engineers using Goose save about 8–10 hours… Talk on
Panel: Shipping Agentic Experiences - Going Beyond Pilots to Production	GraphQL Summit 2025	2025-10-06
Panel details why so many agentic projects fail and which concrete fixes scale: an open‑source agent Goose now powers millions of merchants, supports 20 LLM… Panel on
Keynote: Air Fryers, Automation, and AI	TestMu Conference 2025	2025-08-19
Connects air fryer success with concrete automation outcomes: an AI agent called Codeame Goose uses browser drivers (Selenium/Playwright via model context… Talk on
The Strategic Power of DevRel: From Community to Business Impact	WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025	2025-07-09
Panel argues DevRel is essential for developer-facing products and ties value to business metrics like adoption and retention, not just marketing. Companies… Talk on
MCP Mashups: How AI Agents are Reviving the Programmable Web	WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025	2025-07-09
Revives the old API mashup idea by showing a working pipeline: Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers act as universal adapters so an agent can call Google Maps… Talk on
Modern Day Mashups: AI Agents are Reviving the Programmable Web	Frontend Nation 2025	2025-06-03
MCP (Model Context Protocol) claims to let AI agents stitch APIs together with little maintenance: over 4,000 MCPs exist now, under 500 from official vendors… Talk on
Air Fryers, Automation, and AI	SeleniumConf & AppiumConf Valencia 2025	2025-03-26
A concrete claim: AI agents can extend, not replace, Selenium by doing browser actions, generating test projects, and triaging failures. The open‑source agent… Talk on
Interview – Angie Jones	SeleniumConf & AppiumConf Valencia 2025	2025-03-26
Onsite report from SeleniumConf & AppiumConf Valencia 2025 says attendees return to work empowered, with many taking notes and building on the spot while… Interview on
Codename Goose: An open source local AI agent built on MCP	All Things AI 2025	2025-03-17
Goose is an open‑source local AI agent that runs locally and connects to any LLM that supports tool calling, using 1,700+ MCP servers as extensions. It… Talk on
Owning Our Narrative	Agile Testing Days 2024	2024-11-19
Argues that the tester role stays constant while methods change and gives four concrete lessons: automation as a tool—used to run thousands of records in a… Talk on
How I Bought Booze with a JSON Web Token	Connect.Tech 2024	2024-11-18
Shows how a delivery app replaces photo IDs with a cryptographically signed verifiable credential encoded as a JSON Web Token using the web5 SDK, where the… Talk on
Giving the individual control of their data: Open Source Decentralized Web Nodes	WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024	2024-07-17
Claim that apps no longer need to hold user data and demos of concrete tooling: an open-source SDK implements DIF’s decentralized web nodes standard, a DID… Talk on
The Power of Developer Communities	WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024	2024-07-17
Developer communities drive product-led growth through concrete programs and numbers: Atlassian Marketplace reports ~5700 apps, ~20,000 third-party developers… Talk on
The Ultimate Dev Event! Join 50+ Industry Experts for Talks, Panels & Live Coding	Frontend Nation 2024	2024-06-04
Calling all devs! Frontend Nation is the biggest FREE online frontend event EVER. Join 50+ industry superstars for 3 days of talks, workshops &… Talk on
JSON Web Tokens for everyday usages	Frontend Nation 2024	2024-06-04
Demonstrates using the Web5 SDK to issue W3C verifiable credentials as JWTs, for example a Louisiana mobile driver's license issuing an age-over-21 credential… Talk on
All Things Open 2022 - Keynotes - Tuesday, November 1st 2022	All Things Open 2022	2022-11-01
Claims a new platform called Web5 that combines familiar account convenience with user-owned identity and data; shows concrete standards and implementations… Talk on
Refactoring the Web	All Things Open 2022	2022-11-01
Claims that the web lacks an identity layer and that a Decentralized Web Platform (called Web 5 by TBD at Block) fixes it with three concrete parts… Talk on
Refactoring the Web	RenderATL 2022	2022-06-01
Clear claim: a working decentralized web platform built from three open standards — decentralized identifiers (DIDs), verifiable credentials, and decentralized… Talk on
Visual Validation	Connect.Tech 2021	2021-11-08
Automated visual testing replaces brittle DOM checks with image comparisons powered by machine learning, catching misaligned labels, overlapping text, and… Talk on
Panel Discussion: Code Quality	JSNation Live 2021	2021-06-09
Discussion on quality in JavaScript projects with insights from John Papa, Angie Jones, and Jason Palmer. Insights on identifying and measuring quality in code… Panel on
Modern Java: Beyond Version 8	Craft Conference 2021	2021-06-02
Shows how Java 8 test code for verifying an accounts table gets shorter and safer using var for local type inference, Streams instead of loops, and new Stream… Talk on
Opening Keynote: CodingFutureCoders	!!Con 2021	2021-05-15
Argues that 1980s marketing caused a dip in women studying CS and that early exposure fixes it, cites Twitter ages and NPR's decline, and highlights… Talk on
Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework	JSWorld Conference 2021	2021-02-22
Claims that DOM-based automation misses visual regressions and that Applitools Eyes fixes that by taking screenshots and using ML to compare them rather than… Talk on
All Things Open 2020 Keynote Speakers Day #2	All Things Open 2020	2020-10-19
Four short keynotes give concrete takeaways: a set of 10 guidelines for surviving code reviews (don’t take it personally, contribute reviews, collaborate… Talk on
10 Commandments of Navigating Code Reviews	All Things Open 2020	2020-10-19
Ten concrete rules: a list of ten guidelines that aim to help underrepresented contributors navigate biased and rude feedback, backed by a cited study that… Talk on
All Things Open 2020 Keynote (Speakers Only) Day #2	All Things Open 2020	2020-10-19
A set of ten concrete rules — the 10 commandments — explains how to survive and shorten code review cycles: assume comments target the code, detach from a… Talk on
The Build That Cried Broken: Building Trust in Your Continuous Integration Tests	Spinnaker Summit 2020	2020-10-19
Team fixes a flaky CI by triaging 4,000 tests into a trustworthy and an investigational build, logging each test result to a small DB to surface flaky and… Talk on
No Hate on Java 8, But 9–14 Reign Supreme	SpringOne 2020	2020-09-01
Modernizes a Java 8 Selenium test using concrete Java 9–14 features: replace repetitive declarations with var (local type inference) and rules for use; replace… Talk on
Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework	React Rally 2020	2020-08-14
Demonstrates adding visual testing to a Cypress suite so screenshots become assertions, using a machine‑learning visual service to compare baseline vs… Talk on
Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework	JetBrains Technology Day for Java 2020	2020-07-10
Automated DOM checks miss visual problems so visual validation compares screenshots instead of just the DOM, catching issues like flipped layouts, hidden text… Talk on
JetBrains Technology Day for Java 2020	JetBrains Technology Day for Java 2020	2020-07-10
Nine short sessions show concrete tools, code and outcomes: Bootiful Testing demos Spring Boot test slices and Mockito based examples; Good Old Stream API… Talk on
Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework	JSConf Hawaiʻi 2020	2020-02-05
Shows that adding visual validation (Applitools) to Cypress tests finds real issues DOM assertions miss: misaligned buttons, text off-page, hidden labels… Talk on
Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework	Full Stack Fest 2019	2019-09-04
Automated DOM assertions miss UX and visual regressions so visual validation uses screenshots plus ML comparison to catch misaligned labels, color changes… Talk on
Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework	AppiumConf 2019	2019-06-13
Shows how to add visual validation to an Appium framework using Applitools Eyes to catch layout and UX regressions that DOM assertions miss, with live native… Talk on
The reality of testing in an artificial world	The Lead Developer London 2019	2019-06-11
An ad recommendation system uses machine learning to choose which creative to show via an ad recommendation API, trained by feedback from customers. Testing… Talk on
Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework	Craft Conference 2019	2019-05-07
Demonstrates adding visual validation to functional tests using Applitools Eyes (Java demo) to catch UI regressions that assertions miss — flipped book covers… Talk on
Level up: playing the automation game	SeleniumConf Chicago 2018	2018-10-18
Built a competitive dress-up web app called Diva Chicks web app with hundreds of thousands of players and maps five concrete game design rules to automation… Talk on
The AST CASTcast: Episode 2: A Day in the Life of an Automation Engineer	CAST 2017	2017-08-16
A full-day, hands-on workshop that teaches how to build an automation framework from scratch and leave with working code on a laptop, demonstrates how to shift… Talk on
The Build That Cried Broken: Building Trust in Your Continuous Integration Tests	SeleniumConf Austin 2017	2017-04-04
Team inherits 4,000 flaky UI tests and builds a disciplined plan: create a stable CI pipeline separate from unstable and bug pipelines, log every test run to a… Talk on
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