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I love speaking at conferences and sharing my experience and knowledge with audiences! Especially panels when you can invite a range of diverse voices

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Conference & Presentations

Me, in a pink suit with a bright orange lanyyard speaking into a microphone

Allyshift 2024 – Braver conversations on equitable culture

April 18, 2024

The team at Allyskills NZ (and important friends) created the amazing AllyShift 2024. I was honoured to be one of the MCs for the day.

Me, standing on a stage wearing a Star Wars dress speaking into a microphone

Preparing Educators to teach Computer Science

October 31, 2023

Excited to speak at my first international conference, and the first time I was on an all-woman panel too! Speaking to a room full of educators from around the world on how to break through the barrier of making computer science accessible.

me on a stage at Festival for the Future

Digital Equity – Why the big divide, and how do we address it?

June 9, 2023

My first time on the stage at Festival for the Future. A vibrant and fast-paced panel, talking about how digital equity really affects everyone, from young to old, across the motu.

Picture of a boardroom table with lots of people around it and a person presenting on a whiteboard

Stage Fright!

June 29, 2022

I was invited by the Spark Women in Tech group to talk about Public Speaking. How meta!

Me in a Yoda dress (Black trim with green and blue squares depicting Yoda) standing in front of a screen with a confused looking Keanu Reeves

Ad infinitum – burnout & mindsets

June 9, 2022

I spoke at Startup Garage about burnout, growth and fixed mindsets

Modern & Flexible Learning for Schools

March 30, 2021

Zoe Timbrell and I do the opening address at the Modern & Flexible Learning for Schools Conference

Press Play with OMGTech!

October 13, 2018

I did a presentation on offline activities that can engage our ākonga into digital technologies, all without a device in sight!

Mathematics & the rainbow

October 12, 2018

I did a presentation on the Binary Number System at ULearn 2018, and how it is relevant to computer science, our denary number system (i.e. 1 to 10!) and how that links to a rainbow

APIs for Amnesty

February 11, 2016

I outline the benefit of an API that we created to automate our CRM processes at Amnesty International Aotearoa NZ