title	conference	date
Ruby Awards & Ruby Fellows	RubyConf 2026	2026-07-14
An inaugural set of Ruby Central honors recognizes concrete contributions: wnb.rb wins a Ruby Heart Award for creating a sustained inclusion network; The… Talk on
Unlocking AI Agentic UX with Google’s AP2 Standard and the x402 Protocol	DevWorld 2026	2026-05-07
Claims that agents need native payment rails and shows a working stack combining x402 payment responses with AP2 authorization and verifiable digital… Talk on
Opening Words Day 1	DevOpsDays Tel Aviv 2024	2024-10-30
Day starts with logistics and concrete calls to action: three parallel tracks (main, Cloud Native & OSS, Serverless), two limited-seat workshops run by Sila DB… Organiser on
DBaaS on Demand: Provisioning Couchbase Capella w Terraform	DevOpsDays Tel Aviv 2024	2024-10-30
Demonstrates using HashiCorp Terraform plus the open source Couchbase Capella Terraform provider to provision Capella resources with just a management API key… Talk on
How to Decipher User Uncertainty with GenAI and Vector Search	hayaData 2024	2024-09-24
Shows how BERT and GPT embeddings plus vector indexes turn vague queries into semantic matches, not keyword hits, and compares distance metrics (Euclidean… Talk on
Change the Climate Before Changing the Weather	RubyConf 2022	2022-11-29
Workplaces resist change but a concrete three‑step method shows how to move them: start with yourself, use active listening to map others’ self‑interest, then… Talk on
On Being an Early Career Dev in Your 30s	RubyConf 2021	2021-11-08
Argues that second‑career devs hit two friction points: hiring filters that label résumés overqualified but underprepared and pay‑cut privilege that narrows… Talk on
Self-Care on Rails	RailsConf 2021	2021-04-12
Claim: practical Rails work solves family problems. Built a Rails birthday app that uses WebRTC via Vonage/Twilio to create watch‑party video rooms so kids… Talk on
On The Fast Track to Station	FOSDEM 2021	2021-02-06
The Transformation of a Docs Portal Into a Docs Platform Tool In 2017 Nexmo (now Vonage) launched their first documentation portal as a Ruby on Rails site… Talk on
Roots for Advocates: Applying Community Organizing Principles to Developer Relations	DevRelCon Earth 2020	2020-06-30
Argues that community organizing’s concrete claim is that one-to-one relational meetings are the prime tool for restoring power (defined as the ability to… Talk on
What's Love Got To Do With It?...	Birmingham on Rails 2020	2020-01-31
Claim: language shapes thought and automated sentiment needs concrete data checks. A Rails WhatsApp app fetches headlines from NewsAPI, sends them to IBM… Talk on
What's Love Got To Do With It? Ruby and Sentiment Analysis	RubyConf 2019	2019-11-18
Shows a concrete pipeline: a Ruby app that fetches headlines via News API, sends the concatenated text to IBM Watson NLU for sentiment and emotion scoring, and… Talk on
Lightning Talks	RailsConf 2019	2019-05-01
Skip anything that only restates the topic and pick talks that give concrete outcomes: the actual toolchain and commands used, the precise claim and version… Lightning on
From Rabbi to Coder: How To Prepare for the Technical Interview	JSConf EU 2018	2018-06-02
A rabbi-turned-developer describes a concrete path: attends Flatiron School, carries a tiny whiteboard everywhere, grinds through Cracking the Coding Interview… Interview on
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