Public Speaking, Keynotes and Sessions
Complete honesty in the technology industry, you will get the warts and all version. I don’t speak about the company line, marketing speak of technologies and so on. What I do talk about is how to get things done with the tools that are out there. I keep it light hearted, I don’t mock anyone else apart from myself…. basically I have a laugh. It’s entertainment with information.
| Date | Conference | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8th November 2025 | NI Developers Conference | Hallucinations are Marketing BS: What LLMs Actually Do Wrong (and how to catch it). |
| 21st Oct 2023 | NI Developers Conference | Data is Business, Business is Data: The AI Redux |
| 7th June 2023 (3:30pm) | Digital DNA Belfast | Tughans Panel on ChatGPT |
| 7th June 2023 (10:30am) | Digital DNA Belfast | Data is Business, Business is Data |
| 23rd April 2023 | Raise Ventures | Deep Dive into ChatGPT for startups - use cases, limitations, LLMs, data protection, biases |
| 7th December 2022 | O'Reilly AI Superstream | MLOps: Kubernetes, Microservices and Prometheus. |
| 22nd October 2022 | NI Developers Conference | Data is Business, Business is Data |
| 29th June 2022 | Raise Ventures - Tech for Non Tech | Deep Dive: AI/ML for Startups |
| 16th June 2022 | AI:NI Derry Meetup | Sentiment, Synthetic Data and Blueprint Based AI Development. |
| 21st April 2021 | Raise Ventures Tech for Non Tech | Data is Business, Business is Data. |
| 24th March 2021 | Kafka Amsterdam Meetup | Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) using Kafka, KSQL, Kafka Connect and Logstash |
| 11th/12th May 2021 | Kafka Summit Europe | Capacity Planning Your Kafka Cluster |
| 2nd November 2020 | Cleveland Kafka Meetup (11pm GMT) via Meetup | From Message to Cluster - A Realworld Introduction to Kafka Capacity Planning. |
| 29th October 2020 | NXNW Tech (Ireland) Meetup | An Introduction to Kafka |
| 2nd April 2020 | Beltech 2020 Details here. | AI Panel |
| 22nd June 2020 | Bash! TBA | Me yapping about Kafka..... |
| April 25 2019 | NxNW Tech Meetup: Collaboration with AI-NI | The DeskHoppa Story and the Plans For AI. Tickets |
| April 29 – May 2, 2019 | Strata Data Conference, London | Learning how to perform ETL data migrations with open source tool Embulk. |
| December 3/4 2018 | ClojureX 2018, London | Learning how to design automatically updating AI with Kafka, Clojure and Deeplearning4j |
| October 18 2018 | Big Data Belfast 2018, Belfast | Learning how to design automatically updating AI with Kafka and Deeplearning4j (Non technical introduction version) |
| June 19th 2018 | Digital DNA, Belfast | Panel Session: How are businesses using AI today and what are the challenges? Hosted by Invest NI Tickets |
| June 9 2018 | NI Developers Conference, Belfast | Breaking Down Algorithm Design Problems Using Poker |
| May 23/24 2018 | Strata Data Conference, London | Learning how to design automatically updating AI with Apache Kafka and Deeplearning4j |
| May 3 2018 | Beltech 2018, Belfast | Betting on Artificial Intelligence, Three Use Cases to Replace a Job. |
| April 23 2018 | Machine Learning Bash (Instil), Belfast | Betting on Artificial Intelligence, Three Use Cases to Replace a Job. |
| December 2017 | ClojureX, London | How I Bled All Over Onyx |
| September 2017 | SmartRetail, Belfast | An Introduction To Customer Loyalty |
| June 2017 | NI Developers Conference, Belfast | Large Scale Streaming in Limavady (Kafka, Kinesis and Onyx) |
| April 2017 | Beltech 2017 | Artificial Intelligence Public Debate, Belfast |
| December 2016 | ClojureX, London | Introduction to Onyx Framework |
| April 2014 | Beltech 2014 | Keynote: The Reality of Big Data |
| 2013 | Devbash, Belfast | Introduction to Hadoop and Big Data |
| September 2013 | CultureTech 2013 | Data Mining and Dating (improvised standup) |
| September 2012 | Devbash 2012 | Getting Started with BigData |