2026
Speaker, Canadian Avalanche Association Spring Workshop (May 2026)
Speaker, International Snow Science Workshop (September 2026)
Invited Speaker, Solologic Learning Summit (October 2026)
Invited Speaker, Utah Snow & Avalanche Workshop (November 2026)
Invited Speaker, Wyoming Snow & Avalanche Workshop (November 2026)
2025
Chair, SREcon Americas (Mar 2025)
Keynote, Community of Human and Organizational Learning (June 2025)
Invited Speaker, Patient Safety Community (October 2025)
Speaker, BuildStuff Software Developer Conference – Lithuania (Dec 2025)
2024
Invited Speaker, SRECon Americas, “Hard Choices, Tight Timelines: A look at tradeoff decisions during incidents”, San Jose (March 2024) with Courtney Nash
Invited participant, Resilience Engineering 20 year Reflections Symposium, Portugal (October 2024)
2023
Invited Speaker, QCon Americas (June 2023)
Keynote Speaker – DevOpsDays New York (June 2023)
Speaker – “Followship A proposed model for incident organization for how to have better incidents” SRECon Americas (March 2023)
Invited Lecturer – Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Maritime Studies (Safety Management)
Speaker – International Snow Science Workshop, Bend, OR (October 2023)
2022
Invited Lecturer – Clemson University Department of Industrial Engineering (Mar 2022)
Speaker – “The Water We Swim in: Why the hardest problems in DevOps are difficult to see and talk about.” DevOps Days Denver (April 2022)
Invited Speaker – Association of Canadian Ergonomists (May 2022)
Invited Speaker – WorkSafeBC Human Factors Community of Practice (June 2022)
Invited Speaker – Parsing the post-mortem: psychological safety for learning cultures, Etsy Code as Craft speaker series (Aug 2022)
Workshop Facilitation – Learning from Incidents in software engineering (Sept 2022)
Keynote Speaker – 4Corners Snow & Avalanche Workshop (Oct 2022)
Keynote Speaker – Knowledge & Power: A socio-technical systems discussion on the future of SRE, SRECon EMEA (Oct 2022) with Lorin Hochstein
Invited Speaker – WorkSafeBC Occupational Safety Officer regional meeting (Dec 2022)
Speaker – Move Fast and Learn Things: Principles of Cognition, Teaming, and Coordination to Support High Performance and Resilient Site Reliability Engineering, SRECon APAC (Dec 2022) with Nora Jones
2021
Invited Speaker – Canadian Avalanche Association Spring Workshop (May 2021)
Invited Speaker – Colorado Avalanche Information Center (2021)
Invited Speaker – WorkSafeBC Emerging Risks Analysis group (Jan 2022)
Invited Speaker – Unity Technologies, Site Reliability Engineering Community of Practice
Invited Speaker – Xero, Resilience Engineering Community of Practice
Workshop Facilitation – “Joint Cognitive Systems” RubyConf (Nov 2021) with John Allspaw
2020
Keynote Speaker – SRECon Americas (Dec 2020)
Invited Speaker – Netflix Systems Engineering Community of Practice (Oct 2020)
Invited Speaker – Indeed, Site Reliability Engineering Community of Practice (Nov 2020)
Invited Speaker – Virtual International Snow Science Workshop (Oct 2020)
Invited Speaker – How Many is Too Much? Controlling the cognitive costs of coordination in large-scale incident response, QCon London (March 2020)
Invited Speaker – Weber County Search & Rescue (2020)
Invited Speaker – Southwest Alaska Avalanche Center (2020)
Invited Speaker – Northwest Avalanche Center (2020)
Invited Speaker – Southwest Colorado Avalanche Center (2020)
Invited Speaker – Canadian Avalanche Association Virtual Spring Conference (2020)
2019
Invited Speaker – Bend Snow & Avalanche Workshop (October 2019)
Invited Speaker – Teton County Search & Rescue, Snow & Avalanche Workshop Pro Dev day (October 2019)
Invited Speaker – Teton County Search & Rescue, Snow & Avalanche Workshop Rec Awareness day (October 2019)
Invited Speaker – Utah Avalanche Center Snow & Avalanche workshop, Pro Dev day (November 2019)
Invited Speaker – Utah Avalanche Center SAW, Recreational Avalanche Day (November 2019)
Speaker – Resilience Engineering Association Symposium – Kalmar, Sweden (June 2019)
Workshop Facilitation – Lund University Learning Lab; San Francisco, CA (May 2019)
Invited Speaker – “Human Factors & Resilience Engineering in off-shore oil & gas” – Libra Consortium, Porto Alegre, Brazil (April 2019)Invited
Speaker – Sierra Avalanche Center Professional Development Day – Lake Tahoe, USA (March 2019)
Speaker – “The costs of coordination in DevOps” & “Mental models” – DevOpsDays Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada (March 2019)
2018
Speaker – “Sensemaking in the snow: Cognitive work of avalanche forecasting” – International Snow Science Workshop (2018)
Speaker – “Mental models: Why saying I don’t know is a sign of expertise not incompetence” DevOps Days Columbus (2018)
Closing Keynote: “Operating at the edge of the envelope” – RE:Deploy conference (2018)
Workshop Facilitation: “Sense-making in the snow” – College of the Rockies (2018)
Workshop Facilitation: “Sense-making in the snow” – College of the Rockies Adventure Tourism Business Operations (2018)
2009–2017
Keynote: “Risk, Resilience & Safety 2.0” – Strategic Natural Resource Consultants All Hands meeting (2016)
Master of Ceremonies: Enbridge Quality Summit (2015)
Poster Presenter – “The human behind the factor” International Snow Science Workshop (2014)
Speaker: “Safety as organizational change management” – WorkSafeBC Human Factors Community of Practice (2013)
Master of Ceremonies: Vancouver Island Safety Conference (2012)
Panelist – Safety Across High Risk/High Consequence Industries (2011)
Speaker: “All hands on deck: how safety culture can help attract & retain talent” – Truck Loggers Association Annual conference (2011)
Speaker – Western Silviculture Contractors Association (2009)