title	conference	date
BFF4EAE: Your Backend's New Best Friend Forever	droidCon USA 2026	2026-07-16
Argues that BFFs should stop shuffling JSON and become action-shaped APIs that ship intent not data, moving orchestration, retries, circuit breakers and… Talk on
Congratulations, You're Staff. Now Why Are You Still Stuck?	droidCon USA 2026	2026-07-16
Explains why the habits that made someone indispensable as Staff — owning work, being the “hero” and single point of failure — block promotion and gives… Talk on
Building a Strong Engineering Culture – Stacy Devino	TechLead Conference 2025: AI in Orgs	2025-09-18
Claims measurable change: a team cuts headcount in half after a full rewrite and revenue doubles every year; another effort grows demand from $550M to $3.1B in… Talk on
You’re Not an Android Developer Anymore	droidcon New York 2025	2025-06-25
Claim: Android engineers now act as product owners and generalists, not just coders — companies expect CI/CD, analytics access, QA shifted left, and feature… Talk on
The Future of Android	droidcon New York 2025	2025-06-25
Eight panelists argue that AI is already changing Android workflows rather than replacing engineers: cloud coding agents like Codeex run parallel jobs and… Talk on
Keynote: Get Happy, get Known, get Paid	droidcon London 2019	2019-10-24
Claims that sweat equity is a lie and that brand plus strategy matter more than raw effort, cites specific outcomes: handing out 3,000 stickers to create… Talk on
A Talk about Talking : Making a Memorable Presentation	droidcon NYC 2019	2019-08-26
Concrete checklist for shows and meetings: define why anyone should care, draft an outline with three core points and rehearse those until natural, get… Talk on
Fate is Bull$h!t: Get Happy, Get Known, Get Paid	droidCon Berlin 2019	2019-07-01
Argues that fate is bull$h!t and that career progress follows three steps: get happy, get known, get paid. Claims concrete wins — no coding exams for last… Talk on
Exoplayer 2 rescue VideoView	Chicago Roboto 2019	2019-04-25
Claim: Exoplayer2 replaces VideoView with a small, working player. Demonstrates code that builds a player in 20 minutes, plays HLS and downloaded MP4, uses… Talk on
Smooth Criminals, Android animations and how not to get robbed.	DevFest Florida 2019	2019-01-19
Walks through exact tools and tradeoffs: Lottie runs After Effects as canvas animations but hits scaling and memory limits on full‑screen or low‑end phones… Talk on
Animations : Smooth Criminals	360\|AnDev 2018	2018-07-19
Covers concrete tools and gotchas: shows Lottie use and Lottie performance caveats, introduces Kairi and Shapeshifter for AnimatedVectorDrawable workflows, and… Talk on
Firebase Analytics for Android, LIVE!	Windy City DevFest 2018	2018-01-12
Live-coding shows exact Android steps: add Google Services plugin and firebase-analytics dependency, drop google-services.json into app, and use… Talk on
Spread your Wings with Spannables	360\|AnDev 2017	2017-07-13
Claims that Spannables render faster and crisper than Html.toText() is slower and fuzzier get demonstrated with concrete patterns: use ReplacementSpan’s draw… Talk on
Async Task, Threads, Pools and Executors	360\|AnDev 2016	2016-07-28
Names four core thread types: thread handler async task and handler thread and shows when each actually makes sense. AsyncTask stays tied to an activity and… Talk on
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