Kris Howard

Upcoming

• "Machine Learning for Software Developers (...and Knitters)", Re-factor Conference, June 2, 2021
• Panelist, AWS Women in Cloud - Germany, June 29, 2021
• TBC, FemTechConf, September 24-25, 2021

Past

• "Machine Learning for Software Developers (...and Knitters)", #EveryoneCanContribute Cafe, May 26, 2021
• "Machine Learning for Software Developers (...and Knitters)", WeAreDevelopers Machine Learning Live Event, May 26, 2021
• "Machine Learning for Software Developers (...and Knitters)", Berlin AWS User Group, April 13, 2021
• IWD Panel, Pretoria AWS Meetup, March 13, 2021
• "Taking Control of your Tech Career," Build Stuff Lithuania, Nov 11-15, 2020
• "Architecting and Running Microservices on AWS," AWS Dev Day Online - Modern Application Development, October 15, 2020
• "The Potential of Technology to Unite People," IT Career Energizer Podcast, August 31, 2020
• “Squad Goals - Building Confidence and Support Networks,” Ladies of Lendi, July 1, 2020
• Guest Host, AWS Serverless Community Day Online, June 26, 2020
• "Knitted Disruption," Brisbane AI Meetup, June 25, 2020
• Panelist, AWS Builders Live Webinar, May 25, 2020
• "Granny was a Hacker", Dev Around theSun 2020, May 13, 2020
• "A Newbie's Guide to Getting Started with AWS", AWS ANZ Summit Online 2020, May 13, 2020 - Slides
• "How I Built a Serverless, Voice-Powered Meetup Calendar App", Sydney Serverless Meetup, May 6, 2020
• Keynote, AWS Girls Tech Day - Sydney, December 4, 2019
• Locknote - "Knitted Disruption", DDD Brisbane, November 30, 2019
• "Knitted Disruption", Build Stuff Ukraine, November 18-19, 2019
• "Knitted Disruption", Build Stuff LT, November 13-15, 2019
• "Serverless in Production: Lessons from a Skeptic", DevNQ, October 30, 2019
• "Roald Dahl, BAMF", PubConf Sydney 2019, October 18, 2019
• "Serverless in Production: Lessons from a Skeptic", AWS Gold Coast Meetup, October 9, 2019
• "Serverless in Production: Lessons from a Skeptic", Sydney Tech Leaders, September 19, 2019
• "So you want to be an AWS Solutions Architect?" Panel, AWS User Group Perth, September 5, 2019
• "Serverless in Production: Lessons from a Skeptic", YOW! Perth, September 5, 2019 - Slides
• "Serverless in Production: Lessons from a Skeptic", AWS Community Day Melbourne, August 30, 2019 - Video
• “My First Serverless Application”, Girl Geek Sydney, June 12, 2018
• “Building Applications That Last,” Voxxed Days Singapore, June 1, 2018 - Video Slides
• "Ep 80: Crafting a Community," Greater Than Code Podcast, May 16, 2018
• “Knit One Compute One,” Voxxed Days Melbourne, May 3, 2018
• “State of the Nation: Women in IT ANZ,” AWS Summit Sydney - Live Twitch Stream, April 12, 2018 - Video
• “Better Tech Talks,” Women Who Code Singapore, March 12, 2018 - Video
• “Building Software That Lasts,” Agile India 2018, March 9, 2018 - Slides
• “Better Tech Talks,” MeasureCamp Melbourne 2018, February 24, 2018
• Organiser for Art + Tech miniconf at LinuxConfAU 2018, January 23, 2018 - Videos
• “The Campsite Rule - Leaving the Tech Industry Better than We Found It,” Tech Talks @ Pivotal Labs, January 9, 2018
• “Knit One Compute One,” Visualisation Matters 2017, November 21, 2017
• Judge at Health Hack Sydney 2017, November 4, 2017
• “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” Ignite Sydney 17, November 1, 2017 - Video
• “All About Ravelry,” Hand Weavers and Spinners Guild of NSW, October 28, 2017 - Slides
• “The Campsite Rule - Leaving the Tech Industry Better than We Found It,” IIBA Business Analysis Professional Day, October 25, 2017 - Slides
• “The Campsite Rule - Leaving the Tech Industry Better than We Found It,” BrisRuby, October 24, 2017 - Video, Slides
• “Knit One Compute One,” Brisbane and Gold Coast Internet of Things (IOT) Meetup, October 23, 2017
• “The Campsite Rule - Leaving the Tech Industry Better than We Found It,” Google Developer Group DevFest Melbourne 2017, October 21, 2017 - Slides
• “The Campsite Rule - Leaving the Tech Industry Better than We Found It,” Girl Geek Sydney, October 10, 2017 - Slides
• Locknote - “The Campsite Rule - Leaving the Tech Industry Better than We Found It,” DDD Perth, September 16, 2017 - Video, Slides
• Emcee at Shindig Sydney 3.0, August 31, 2017
• “All About Ravelry” Workshop, Knitters Guild NSW, July 22, 2017
• “Talent - Harnessing your competitive advantage in the digital world,” Women in Digital Sydney, July 11, 2017
• “Traversing the Org Chart,” OFX Lunch and Learn, July 4, 2017
• “Knit One, Compute One - The Knitters’ Version,” Knitters Guild NSW 2017 Camp, June 18, 2017 - Slides
• “My Website is Old Enough to Vote – The Challenges of Maintaining a 20-year-old Website,” Wordpress Melbourne, June 14, 2017 - Slides
• “My Website is Old Enough to Vote,” The Web Meetup, June 13, 2017 - Video, Slides
• “Knit One, Compute One,” Sydney CocoaHeads, May 18, 2017
• “Squad Goals - Building Confidence and Support Networks,” CoderFactory Academy - Sydney, May 17, 2017
• “Granny Was a Hacker,” Sydney Python Users Group (SyPy), April 27, 2017
• “Traversing the Org Chart,” Agile Brisbane, April 20, 2017
• “Knit One, Compute One,” Gold Coast Techspace, April 19, 2017
• “Knit One, Compute One,” Girl Geek Dinners Sydney, April 11, 2017
• “Knit One, Compute One,” Software Art Thou? at Zendesk, Mar 23, 2017 - Video
• “Squad Goals - Building Confidence and Support Networks,” UNSW New Wave Speaker Series, Mar 13, 2017
• “Knit One, Compute One,” Newcastle JS, Mar 8, 2017
• “Be Bold for Change,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Internal Presentation, Mar 6, 2017
• “Knit One, Compute One,” Harbour Front Hong Kong, Feb 28, 2017
• “Traversing the Org Chart,” Agile Hong Kong, Feb 27, 2017
• “Traversing the Org Chart,” YOW! Night Singapore, Feb 22, 2017
• “Knit One, Compute One,” TECH BOLEH TAHAN Singapore, Feb 20, 2017
• “Traversing the Org Chart,” elabor8 Lunch and Learn Melbourne, Feb 16, 2017
• “Traversing the Org Chart,” ANZ - Internal Presentation, February 14, 2017
• “Knit One, Compute One,” YOW! Night Perth, February 7, 2017
• “Traversing the Org Chart,” Sydney Alt.Net User Group, Jan 31, 2017 - Video
• “Granny was a Hacker” - Lightning Talk, Open Hardware Miniconf 2017 at linux.conf.au 2017, January 17, 2017 - Video
• “Knit One, Compute One,” WOOTConf (Women of Open Technology Miniconf) at linux.conf.au 2017, January 16, 2017 - Video
• “It’s All About the Pitch,” CBA Soapbox Club, January 13, 2017
• “Knit One, Compute One,” ng-sydney - Angular and Javascript meetup, Jan 11, 2017
• Hack and Tell: “My Website is Old Enough to Vote,” Women Who Code Sydney, December 12, 2016
• “Knit One, Compute One,” YOW! 2016 Conference Brisbane / Melbourne / Sydney, December 1-9, 2016 - Slides
• “Granny Was a Hacker,” Melbourne Python Users Group, November 7, 2016
• “My Website is Old Enough to Vote - Monetising 20-year-old HTML,” WordPress Sydney October 31, 2016 - Slides
• “Knit One, Compute One,” YOW! Connected 2016, October 5-6, 2016 - Slides, Video
• “My Website is Old Enough to Vote - The Challenges of Maintaining 20-year-old HTML,” WordCamp Sydney 2016, September 24-25, 2016 - Video, Slides
• Panelist at Be Your Confident Self workshop at Web Directions, September 20, 2016
• Panelist at Stripe’s 2nd Birthday Meetup, September 16, 2016
• Panelist at Sydney Technology Leaders Meetup, September 15, 2016
• “Granny Was a Hacker,” PubConf Sydney, August 5, 2016
• “Granny Was a Hacker,” TEDx Melbourne, August 3, 2016 - Video
• Emcee at #EqualityHacks Food for Thought Breakfast, July 15, 2016
• Panelist at Sydney Technology Leaders Meetup, July 14, 2016
• “My Website is Old Enough to Vote - The Challenges of Maintaining 20-year-old HTML,” SydPHP Meetup, June 20, 2016
• Judge for Chronic Pain Australia Hackathon, May 22, 2016
• Sydney Fashionista Challenge - Tech Mentor, FashHack Australia, May 7, 2016
• “Taking the Management Leap,” YOW! West 2016, May 3-4, 2016 - Video, Slides
• SydJS - Guest Curator and Lightning Talk, SydJS, April 20, 2016 - Video
• Panel Moderator, Women Techmakers by GDG Sydney, April 19, 2016
• “Knitting and E-Textiles,” CampJS 2015, November 20-23, 2015 - Slides
• The Dream Collective Career Summit - Melbourne, The Dream Collective, October 24, 2015- Video, Slides
• SheSays Speed Mentoring - Sydney, SheSays Australia, October 8, 2015
• The Dream Collective Career Summit - Sydney, The Dream Collective, September 19, 2015 - Slides
• “Presenting Your Hack” and Mentor, AWShine Hack - Sydney, September 5-6, 2015 - Slides
• Panel judge, “Out of the Garage” Pitch Fest Party - Sydney, September 1, 2015
• Panel emcee for “Debugging Diversity - Why It Matters and What To Do?” Sydney Technology Leaders, August 13, 2015
• Emcee for “Designing Your Personal Brand,” Girl Geek Sydney at Canva, July 28, 2015
• Wireframing Workshop, Create-a-Thon by TiE Women, July 18, 2015 - Slides
• “Leveraging Content & Design to Grow Your Food Startup,” Food Tech Australia Meetup, July 9, 2015 - Slides
• “How to Win Hackathon - SheHacks Edition,” Girl Geek Sydney - SheHacks Hackathon, May 8, 2015 - Slides
• “How to Win Hackathon,” Mi9 - Hackathon 8, May 7, 2015 - Slides
• “Presenting Your Hack: Channeling Your Inner Peggy Olson,” Vodafone - Glitch Hackathon, April 16, 2015
• Panelist for Sydney Technology Leaders Meetup, April 9, 2015
• “Responsive Ads - This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things… Yet,” Web Directions Respond Conference, March 19, 2015 - Video, Slides
• “Granny Was a Hacker” (Ignite version), Ignite Sydney #13, March 17, 2015 - Video, Slides
• “Punch the Monkey - Why (Some) Banner Ads Suck,” Girl Geek Sydney, February 10, 2015 - Slides
• “M-Dot Sites: Not as Sucky as you Think,” Web Directions What Do You Know - Smackdown Edition, September 3, 2014 - Slides
• “Granny Was a Hacker: Knitting as Computer Code,” Web Directions What Do You Know, April 3, 2014 - Slides
• “Presenting Your Hack: Channeling Your Inner Peggy Olson,” Girl Geek Sydney, February 11, 2014 - Slides
• “DO ALL THE THINGS! - Productivity Hacks for the Rest of Us,” Girl Geek Sydney, August 13, 2013 - Slides
• “Wireframing: How a Napkin Can Save You a Million Bucks,” Girl Geek Sydney, November 13, 2012 - Slides
• “Knitting Geekery,” Girl Geek Sydney, July 31, 2012 - Slides
• “Welcome to the Knitternet,” various Knitters Guild NSW meetings, 2009-2010 - Slides

The best way to reach me is via email at kris.howard AT gmail, or else @ me on Twitter.

I’ve been blogging over at web-goddess.org since 1999.