Talks

I speak regularly on feature flagging, observability, developer experience, and the craft of open standards, and I’m available to hire for conferences, meetups, and in-house sessions. Slides and abstracts for most talks live on Sessionize, with recordings and decks linked below where available.

Upcoming

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I take the stage as a CNCF Ambassador, an AAIF Ambassador, and an OpenFeature maintainer and technical steering committee member, which means the talks come from inside the projects rather than from the outside looking in. Every session is built around something I’ve actually had to make work in production, never a vendor pitch and never a slide deck read aloud.

Topics I speak on

Feature flagging

Flags that survive contact with production: patterns, failure modes, and OpenFeature.

Observability

Release confidence with OpenTelemetry, and what SREs actually need to see.

Developer experience

Platform engineering, and the plumbing that decides whether shipping is a strength or a tax.

Open standards

Vendor neutrality, and the governance that keeps them honest.

Engineering with agents

Shifting engineering left, the Left of the Loop thesis.

Formats

Conference session

30–45 minutes, or a lightning talk.

Keynote

Including co-delivered keynotes, which I enjoy more than the solo kind.

Workshop

Hands-on, half or full day.

Meetup or user group

Talk, podcast, or panel.

In-house session

Same material, tuned to your stack and your problems.

Practicalities

Language

English or German (native), and I'll happily do a German-language keynote.

Travel

Based in Austria, and I travel for the right event wherever it is.

Fees

Community conferences, meetups, and CNCF events are usually travel-only. Corporate events and in-house sessions are paid engagements, so ask me.

Fit

Give me a rough audience profile and I'll tell you honestly whether one of my sessions fits, or propose something that does.

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Featured

2026

2025

Meetups & community

Want me to speak at your event? Get in touch with the date, the audience, and roughly what you want them to walk away with. I’ll come back honestly about whether I’m the right fit.