Talks
I speak regularly on feature flagging, observability, developer experience, and the craft of open standards. Slides and abstracts for most talks live on Sessionize — recordings and decks linked below where available.
Featured
OpenFeature's Positive Impact on Confidence at Dynatrace
How OpenFeature changed the way we ship at Dynatrace — including the OpenTelemetry integration that gave SREs real visibility into flag evaluation in production.
Upcoming
- DevoxxUK 2026 — London, May 6–7. Fun with Flags: How OpenFeature Solves Your Feature Flag Headaches. Slides
- Cloudland 2026 — May 19–22, Heide Park (Germany). Agenda
- Quo vadis Cloud Native – Aufbruch ins zweite Jahrzehnt — keynote with Mario Fahlandt (Kubermatic). May 20, in German.
- CNCF Showcase: Cloud Native zum Anfassen — workshop, May 20, in German.
- JNation 2026 — May 26–27, Coimbra, Portugal. Fun with Flags. Conference · Slides
- ContainerDays Hamburg 2026 — Sep 2–4. Fun with Flags. Conference · Slides
2026
- KubeCon EU 2026 — Amsterdam. 18 Bluetooth Controllers Walk Into a Bar: Observability & Runtime Configuration with CNCF Tools — with Manuel Timelthaler. Recording · Slides
- Cloud Native Innsbruck 2026 — Fun with Flags: How OpenFeature Solves Your Feature Flag Headaches. Slides
2025
- KubeCon EU 2025 — London. OpenFeature’s Positive Impact on Confidence at Dynatrace — with Todd Baert. Recording.
- Devoxx Morocco 2025 — Marrakech. Fun with Flags: How OpenFeature Solves Your Feature Flag Headaches. Slides
- JavaCro 2025 — Rovinj. Fun with Flags: How OpenFeature Solves Your Feature Flag Headaches. Slides
- JCON OpenBlend Slovenia 2025 — Portorož. Fun with Flags: How OpenFeature Solves Your Feature Flag Headaches. Slides
- Cloudland 2025 — Fun with Flags: How OpenFeature Solves Your Feature Flag Headaches. Slides
Meetups & community
- Java User Group Graz — Apr 2026. Fun with Flags. Event · Slides
- Cloud Native Linz — Feb 2026. 18 Bluetooth Controllers Walk Into a Bar — with Manuel Timelthaler. Event · Slides
- Java User Group Switzerland — Jun 2025, Zürich. Fun with Flags: Bringing the Fun Back into Feature Flagging with OpenFeature. Event · Slides
- Java Vienna Meetup — May 2025. Fun with Flags: Bringing the Fun Back into Feature Flagging with OpenFeature. Event · Slides
- Platform Engineering Vienna — OpenFeature Special Edition — Apr 2025. OpenFeature’s Positive Impact on Confidence at Dynatrace. Event
- Platform Engineering Vienna Meetup — Dec 2024. Fun with Flags: Bringing the Fun Back into Feature Flagging with OpenFeature. Event · Slides
- Cloud Native Graz (CNCG) Meetup — Oct 2024. Fun with Flags: Bringing the Fun Back into Feature Flagging with OpenFeature. Event · Slides
- Grazer Linuxtage 2023 — Beyond Pushing Code: Dynatrace’s Open Source Journey on GitHub.
Want me to speak at your event? Get in touch or check the Sessionize profile for a session catalogue.