My life in tech

The First Colorado Front Range Girl Geeks Dinner, Broomfield, March
South by Southwest, Austin, March
CommunityOne, San Francisco, May
Innovating Employee Engagement/Executing Social Media for Internal Communications, Chicago, June – invited speaker on Utilizing Social Media Tools to Build Engagement and Community
FISL – Porto Alegre, Brazil, June – co-speaker on Using Video to Communicate About Open Software
New Zealand Ministry of Education, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2009 – series of presentations on social media and video
Kernel Conference Australia, Brisbane, July
Community Leadership Summit and OSCON, San Jose, July
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing – poster session on video, Ariza. Also interviewed about video and community for Ed & Ashley’s 5 Minute Show.

Oracle Open World, San Francisco, October
Front Range OpenSolaris user group meeting, Broomfield, October
Solaris Security Summit at LISA, Baltimore, November
SuperComputing

2010

Community Leadership Summit West, Bay Area, January – Unconference session leader, Community Video
NAB, Las Vegas, April
Workshop: The Changing Role of Technology Marketers – WITI Summit, Santa Clara, June
Sun Product Management Team meetings, MPK
The last Sun Tech Days, Hyderabad
Farewell, MPK – August
Employees Making Videos webinar for Communitelligence
Oracle Open World, San Francisco, October
LISA 10, Santa Clara
The Faces of Sun farewell video, November

2011

2012

SCaLE 10x
dtrace.conf
Using Video to Communicate Technology, talk at FISL
ZFS Day and illumos Day
NAB

2013

Open ZFS Developer Summit
Marketing your tech talent at the Monktoberfest
LISA 13 and metrics workshop
Women in Advanced Computing Panel, USENIX LISA 13

2014

2015

[more to add here]

2016

The Techies Project, April
Visit to Facebook’s Prineville Data Center, August

2017

Dockercon
First week at AWS, Seattle, June
Netflix 100M Party, June
AWS Evangelists’ Summit, Seattle, July
Marketing Your Open Source Project, Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, Los Angeles, September (not filmed, but there’s a writeup and slides)

2018

Marketing Your Open Source Project (the AWS version), Southern California Area Linux Expo, Pasadena, March
AWS Summit Milan, March
I Will Survive: How Deirdré Straughan Built a Career in Tech Without Being An Engineer, May 2018 (I was a guest/interviewee on my friend Melinda Byerley‘s podcast, Stayin’ Alive in Tech)
EkoSystem Day, San Francisco
Amazon Linux 2 launch, San Francisco
Unconference session on marketing open source at the Community Leadership Summit, Portland, July
VMworld, Las Vegas, August
Dreamforce, San Francisco, September
My Career Evolution from Tech Writer to… Many Things, internal Amazon tech writers’ conference, Seattle, October
All Things Open – Marketing Your Open Source Project, Raleigh, October

2019

Marketing Your Open Source Project, AWS Summit Berlin, February
Marketing Your Open Source Project, AWS Summit Milan, March

^ Marketing Your Open Source Project, OSCON, July – slides

Marketing Open Source (builders’ session), re:Invent, Las Vegas, December

2020

2021

Deirdré leaving is absolutely @awscloud's loss. This is an opinion held by absolutely everyone who has ever spoken to her for more than five minutes. https://t.co/IpmtVXRdag
— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) August 20, 2021

“Inbound to @awscloud is free, outbound is very expensive” is about to stop being a purely customer-side problem. pic.twitter.com/wffgikouPY
— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) August 27, 2021