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19 February 2018, Hackers & Founders Building, Herengracht, Herengrancht 504, Amsterdam

Lint, lint, lint and away!

I will be discussing linting your documentation. More to follow.

Fosdem 2018

Speaking
3 February 2018, ULB, Campus du Solbosch, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles

Tool the Docs room

This year at Fosdem I'm helping organise the Documentation tooling developer room, so drop on by.
30 January 2018, CIte Internationale, 17 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France
Are you into APIs? Then you should be at API Days Paris and I'd love to meet with you to talk about planning and documenting this glue of modern applications.
4 December 2017, Intercontinental Festival City Hotel, Dubai
I'm back at Finovate for the first time in 3 years, and this time in Dubai. I'd love to hear about what you're working on.
24 November 2017, Meat Market, 5 Blackwood Street North Melbourne VIC 3051 Australia

Conversational UIs for Writers

Developers of voice and chat assistants are crying out for good writers to help them create the conversational interfaces of the present and future. In this talk, I will introduce what constitutes a 'good' conversational experience and how we, as writers, can benefit from this trend.

ChangeCon

Speaking
21 October 2017, Zagreb

Are we all doomed and what can we do about it?

As programmers, designers, writers and those who pursue 'creative' pursuits we consider ourselves mostly immune to the predicted forthcoming robot invasion of our jobs.
19 October 2017, Belexpocenter, Španskih boraca 74

Are we all doomed and what can we do about it?

As programmers, designers, writers and those who pursue 'creative' pursuits we consider ourselves mostly immune to the predicted forthcoming robot invasion of our jobs.
29 September 2017, Lviv Arena, Ukraine
Attended IT Arena in Lviv to meet the technology community and discover new projects.
21 September 2017, IXDS Munich, Ganghoferstraße 68b, 80339 München

a panel discussing trends and highlights from IFA

Joined a Munich panel discussing trends and highlights from IFA.
19 September 2017, IXDS Berlin, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 39-40, 10999

a panel discussing trends and highlights from IFA

Joined a Berlin panel discussing trends and highlights from IFA.
10 September 2017, Autoclub of the Czech Republic, Opletalova 1337/29, 110 00 Praha 1-Nové Město, Czechia

Documentation beyond words

In this presentation I will explore other ways to communicate concepts beyond words to show that documentation needn't just be about technical writing.
8 September 2017, Various venues, Berlin
Attended Startup Night in Berlin to meet founders and learn about new ideas and projects.

Third one

Speaking
5 September 2017, Blinkist office, Sonnenallee 223, 12057, Berlin

Removing Berlin from audio

Chris is talking about sound quality and editing out echoes. Especially useful in Berlin Altbaus!

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