Conferences on akos.ma

What's in Your Container? Securing the Software Supply Chain Without Slowing Down

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200

How do we secure massive, complex supply chains without slowing your developers down to a crawl? This talk provides a simple preview to Red Hat’s Trusted Software Supply Chain, based on three pillars: Transparency through the Trusted Profile Analyzer; Identity, thanks to the Trusted Artifact Signer; and Guardrails, with the Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes.

Bestseller Talk

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Ten years ago, almost to the day, I delivered what turned out to be the “best-selling” talk of all my conference speaking career, with effects that I can feel to this day.

How to Get a Standing Ovation as a Conference Speaker

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

I keep on attending otherwise interesting talks and conference sessions being flushed down the toilet by appalling deliveries. This is my plea to you: please, please, PLEASE: if you have to speak in public, follow these rules to ensure a standing ovation at the end of your talk.

Share Your Terminal Live on the Web With ttyd

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100

If you’re in the business of giving demos or talking at conferences, webinars, or other gatherings, sooner or later you’ll have to show your terminal for a demo; in this case, this week’s article will surely interest you: ttyd.

How to Speak, by Patrick Winston

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0100

I’ve been recommending this talk a lot lately to people new to the art of speaking, who find themselves all of a sudden boosted to the front stage of an event and in dire need of help.

The Last Day of a Tech Conference

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Have you ever stayed until the end of a conference, and walked down the halls of the conference center during the last day of an event?

Memories of WWDC 2008

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Exactly 15 years ago, on Monday, June 9th, 2008, I published a blog post with a picture taken in the big room of the Moscone conference center in San Francisco, waiting for Steve Jobs to introduce the iPhone 3G to the world at the annual Apple World Wide Developers’ Conference 2008.

How to Use Demo Magic

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

My colleague Tobru recently pointed me to demo-magic, and I now seriously wonder how could I ever do a live demo without this. The description of the project says it all:

Comments about the AWS Serverless Workshop

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Yesterday I attended the AWS Swiss Cloud Day (what a fantastic event!) and participated in the workshop about Serverless computing taught by a very competent team lead by Magdalena Gargas and Scott Gerring.

How to Use a Microphone

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

At some point in your professional speaking life you will have to hold a dynamic microphone in your hands in front of an audience, just like a rock star. Not only should you be aware that it’s not a pepper mill, there’s a few more things to keep in mind while using them.