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Browser Panel: Commitments to the Web Platform
September 30, 2019 — View Source Conference 2019
Keynote: Community Driven Software Development
June 11, 2019 — PayPal DevCon 2019
Keynoting the PayPal DevCon 2019 sharing lessons learned from the Open Source world
Developer Panel: The Future of Open Source
April 18, 2019 — Devhub
Open source software has been a hot topic over the last couple of years, especially with big shots like Google, Amazon and Facebook joining the game. But what does the future hold for it and what role will OSS play in the software ecosystem?
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Enterprise Open Source
November 07, 2018 — NodeConf EU
Paul, Gordon and Ahmad discuss 3 different perspectives on node success, including some of the problems and the challenges we face over the coming years.
Panel: Modern Software Practices of Node in the Enterprise
July 24, 2018 — Node Summit 2018
Annual Node.js Conference focused on the business of Node.js and the ecosystem that makes it work
Emcee @ Node Summit 2018
July 24, 2018 — Node Summit 2018
Annual Node.js Conference focused on the business of Node.js and the ecosystem that makes it work
Executive panel – Creating a Culture of Digital Transformation
June 20, 2018 — Adobe Experience Makers
Adobe and partners are bringing together 300 digital leaders from Canada’s top brands to explore the HOW of delivering world-class digital experiences.
Scaling Documentation and Team Practices
June 14, 2018 — GitHub Constellation Toronto 2018
How to scale your technology culture around documentation and inclusive community practices to support thousands of developers across a large Enterprise business all while going through a full digital transformation!
Architect's View on Backend for Frontends (BFFs)
March 13, 2018 — Always Forward with dshaw
We’ll explore alternative approaches to BFF, Does the BFF still have a place in our architectural toolkit? Is GraphQL the best answer?
Scaling Documentation and Team Practices
February 21, 2018 — GitHub Constellation Seattle 2018
How to scale your technology culture around documentation and inclusive community practices to support thousands of developers across a large Enterprise business all while going through a full digital transformation!
Milliseconds to Millions - Benchmarking & Optimization for Fun and Profit!!
July 13, 2017 — FullStack 2017
The past 10+ years of affordable and easy to scale cloud services & platforms has dulled our collective edge when it comes to matters of performance optimization and benchmarking our software creations.
Building a Technical Team (The Right Way)
October 30, 2016 — TWG
If you are hiring developers or engineers for your business, how do you source, select and hire a technical team without a technical background? How do you attract and retain senior developers?
Mentor / Judge
October 02, 2016 — Next 36 Startup Sprint: National Disruption
100 bright, entrepreneurial minds take over Lighthouse Labs in Toronto and build, hack, design, and prototype projects around the theme of “National Disruption”. The winning team will receive a spot at The Next 36 National Selection Weekend
Fast Secure Usable APIs in Node.js
September 17, 2016 — Hack the North
Hack the North is the biggest Canadian hackathon being held at University of Waterloo.
Diversity In The Workplace
September 10, 2016 — Fireside Conference 2016
Looking at and beyond your profile pic, a Diversity Panel Moderated By: Michael Waxman, with Danielle Graham, Takara Small, Ahmad Nassri, Karen Schulman
Future of smart glasses
July 26, 2016 — We Are Wearables
The original Canadian Google Glass Explorers reunite to talk on the future of smart glasses
Build, publish and maintain modern OSS Node.js Packages
June 28, 2016 — Toronto Node.js
Building and publishing packages with ES2015/ES2016, covering everything from transpiler choices, testing, and publishing on npm.
Canada and the U.S. Technology Relationship
June 16, 2016 — U.S. - Canada S.A.G.E. Summit
A Panel on Technology and Shared Economy Ecosystem between Canada and the U.S.
The Rise of Open Source
June 15, 2016 — Big Data Toronto 2016
Navigating and Contributing to the Open Source Community.
Beyond Agile: The Open Development Methodology
June 02, 2016 — Canadian Tech @ Scale
The Open Development Method is a summary of lessons learned in leading large teams around Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and other common methodologies.
Beyond Agile: The Open Development Methodology
February 29, 2016 — DevTO
The Open Development Method is a summary of lessons learned in leading large teams around Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and other common methodologies.
Be The Maestro: Microservices Orchestration With Kong, Galileo & Gelato
February 11, 2016 — NodeDay Amsterdam
Building Microservices & APIs in Production, how to achieve orchestration harmony like a true maestro!
Career Debugging
January 16, 2016 — Dev.Config
From shell scripts to IDEs, we programmers spend a lot of time finding tools to optimize our development workflow. But how often are you given tools to debug your career?
The "No foobar" guide to new features in ECMAScript 6
November 17, 2015 — JavaScript Open Day Toronto
ES2015 brings a vast number improvements and features to our beloved JavaScript, we’ll go over all the new additions through short and sweet real world examples and preview some of of the evolving ECMAScript features coming in 2016.
The Hacker's Bio: World Premiere
November 15, 2015 — Full Stack Toronto
An exploration into the daily lives of Software Developers, Hardware Tinkers, Engineers and Technologists to better understand the culture, mindset and motivation of this generation.
What is The Open Development Methodology?
November 14, 2015 — Full Stack Toronto
The Open Source Natural Workflow as a Software Development Methodology
Open Development Methodology
July 06, 2015 — Tech Toronto
The Open Development Method is a summary of lessons learned in leading large teams around Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and other common methodologies.
Rocket Fuel for your APIs
April 28, 2015 — Discovery 2015: Ontario Centres of Excellence
Future of Computing Zone
RESTful Applications: Past, Present and Future
November 22, 2014 — Full Stack Toronto
From Egyptian gods to SOA, we’ll cover some API mythology, History and best practices, as well as cover the future of web standards and protocols and what that means for the APIs of tomorrow.
Google Glass - One Year Later
August 27, 2014 — We Are Wearables
It’s been just over a year since Explorers have worn Google Glass out in the wild and the world has never been the same since. Despite the fact that Glass is not officially available in Canada, a small group of Explorers have been living with Glass here in Toronto.
API Love Story
August 26, 2014 — HTML Toronto
Ahmad has a love/hate relationship with APIs, from the early days of building service APIs for mobile in early 2007 to modern day Hypermedia APIs and building tools for API developers around the world.
Google Glass at the ROM
July 22, 2014 — Royal Ontario Museum
A presentation of Google Glass experience with the Royal Ontario Museum
Automating Frontend Workflow
June 21, 2014 — AngelHack Toronto
An introduction to automating frontend development workflows with Yeoman