Every abstract I've pitched
One page per submission - 267 of them - showing what I pitched rather than a tidied-up version written afterwards. Some got accepted, some got turned down, some are still out there waiting. The CFP tracker has the full accept/reject record and links into these pages.
Where the text was captured when I sent it, the page says "as submitted". Where it came out of my Sessionize or PaperCall talk library instead, it is tagged below and on the page itself: those platforms keep one abstract per talk and reuse it for every event, so the wording is right for the talk but may have drifted since that particular submission. Submissions I have no text for at all are not listed here.
2026
- What goblins and druids can teach us about enterprise AI
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- How to survive and thrive in a BigCo
- What goblins and druids can teach us about enterprise AI
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- Making and Maintaining the Case to Stay on Cloud Foundry
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- Vibe DevEx: Can Intent-Based Chatbots Fix the "Department of No"?
- What goblins and druids can teach us about enterprise AI
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Vibe DevEx: Can Intent-Based Chatbots Fix the "Department of No"?
- Here comes the normies - how DevOps can improve AI slop-apps
- You answered successfully, but not correctly - observing AI hijinks
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- Vibe DevEx: Can Intent-Based Chatbots Fix the "Department of No"?
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- Vibe DevEx: Can Intent-Based Chatbots Fix the "Department of No"?
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- Vibe DevEx: Can Intent-Based Chatbots Fix the "Department of No"?
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- Vibe DevEx: Can Intent-Based Chatbots Fix the "Department of No"?
- State of Spring, 2026
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- VCF + Tanzu Platform = The Private Cloud Enterprises Actually Needs
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- AI Platform Architecture in Practice
- You answered successfully, but not correctly - observing AI hijinks
- How to Survive and Thrive in a BigCo
- Vibe DevEx: Can Intent-Based Chatbots Fix the "Department of No"?
- When goblins code enterprise AI agents
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- When goblins code enterprise AI agents
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- When goblins code (enterprise) AI agents
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- Vibe DevEx: Can Intent-Based Chatbots Fix the "Department of No"?
- AI IRL - Running my life on Claude Code
- Who called that MCP tool? Building a toolchain for agent usage tracking
- Token costs, prompt traces, and audit logs: enterprise AI observability today
- The eternal recurrence of open source drama
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- Vibe DevEx: Can Intent-Based Chatbots Fix the "Department of No"?
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- When goblins code (enterprise) AI agents
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
- AI IRL - Running my life on Claude Code
- AI Platform Architecture in Practice
- How to survive and thrive in a BigCo
- When goblins code (enterprise) AI agents
- 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
2025
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- When goblins code enterprise AI agents
- When goblins code the enterprise AI agents
- Three Cloud Foundry Stories
- 2025 to 2030: A marketing strategy for Cloud Foundry
- Building the AI Magic Bullet - Enterprise Style
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- When goblins code (enterprise) AI agents
- When goblins code (enterprise) AI agents
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Developer productivity is waste
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Building the AI Magic Bullet, Enterprise Style
- When goblins code (enterprise) AI agents
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Let's Make Better Mistakes This Time: A Platform Engineering Panel
- What the goblins can teach us about AI - Lessons learned from two years of playing D&D with GenAI
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- When goblins code enterprise AI agents
- Building the AI Magic Bullet - Enterprise Style
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
- Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
2024
- We built it, and no one came - How to Market Your Internal Developer Platform
- Goblins are the only thing holding back the AI Takeover: Using Cloud Foundry and Dungeons & Dragons
- Developer Productivity is Waste
- Low Growth DevOps
- We Fear Change
- FinOps?! But I just learnt DevOps! Or, Kost Management With FinOps
- Developer productivity is waste
- Low Growth DevOps
- We Fear Change
- Developer Productivity is Waste
- We Fear Change
- Developer productivity is waste
- How to survive and thrive in a BigCo
- Working with Reluctance to Change
- Developer productivity is waste
- Goblins are the only thing holding back the AI Takeover: Using Cloud Foundry and Dungeons & Dragons
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
2023
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Day Two Digital Transformation: We Fear Change
- Financial Sector Webinar Series: Customer Experience & Innovation
- Financial Sector Webinar Series: Escaping the Legacy Trap
- Getting to Daily Builds: Improving Software Delivery Speed and Quality
- How Cloud Native Improves & Ensures Security, Governance, and Trust in Finance
- State of Kubernetes 2023: Solving Kubernetes Challenges
- State of Kubernetes 2023: Solving Kubernetes Challenges
- Stop Tech Debt and Start Using Faster, More Secure Paths to Production
- The People Side of Building the Path to Production
- Transforming Service Delivery in the Public Sector
- Why You Should Treat Your Platform as a Product
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- If it's BS work, have the BS-artist do it - Using AI for Bureaucratic Toil Removal
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- ytt: Absolving the Crimes of YAML
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Lessons Learned from 7 years of Running Developer Platforms
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- 7 Lessons from 7 Years of Running Platforms
- 7 Lessons from 7 Years of Running Platforms
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Lessons Learned from 7 Years of Running Developer Platforms
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
- Escaping the Legacy Trap - a proven method for application modernization
- Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms
2022
- The Enterprise DevOps Whimper - surviving the trough of disillusionment
- Escaping the Legacy Trap: How to Modernize the Apps That are Holding you Back
- Escaping the Legacy Trap: Modernise the Apps That are Holding you Back
- How to Measure Developer Productivity with Metrics and More
- Learn why Kubernetes is here to stay - State of Kubernetes 2022
- Learn why Kubernetes is here to stay - State of Kubernetes 2022
- Why Kubernetes is Here to Stay
- Why You Should Treat Your Platform as a Product
- Kubernetes is not for developers...?
- [VIRTUAL] Lessons Learned from Running Developer Platforms & Communities
- The Enterprise DevOps Whimper - surviving the trough of disillusionment
- Krafting the kubernetes developer experience
- Kubernetes is not for developers...?
- Krafting the kubernetes developer experience
- Kubernetes is not for developers...?
- Krafting the kubernetes developer experience
- Kubernetes is not for developers...?
- Kubernetes is not for developers...?
- Lessons Learned from Running Developer Platforms & Communities
- Kubernetes is not for developers
- Krafting the kubernetes developer experience
- Kubernetes is not for developers
- Kubernetes is Not for Developers...?
- Kubernetes is not for developers...?
- Krafting the kubernetes developer experience
- Kubernetes is not for developers...?
- Krafting the kubernetes developer experience
- Kubernetes is not for developers...?
2021
- Preview of "Changing Mindsets: the missing ingredient to digital transformation"
- Kubernetes is not for developers…?
- We Fear Change
- Platform as a Product - transforming from service delivery into continuous operations
- Beyond DevOps metrics - technical, business, and culture metrics for the software defined business
- Future Proof Connected Mobility - A Data Driven Approach
- Beyond DevOps metrics - technical, business, and culture metrics for the software defined business
- Working with Reluctance to Change
2020
- Kubernetes for Day 2: FedOps
- CloudAustin 10th Anniversary - The Beard Is Back
- The Enterprise DevOps Whimper - surviving the trough of disillusionment
- Understanding Dev, Understanding Ops - avoiding in garbage culture in, garbage culture out
- Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means
- Understanding Dev, Understanding Ops - avoiding in garbage culture in, garbage culture out
2019
- How AirFrance KLM is Modernizing 2,000 Legacy Applications
- Monolithic Transformation: How Large Organisations Get Better at Software (EMEA)
- The meatware, it stinks DevOps, product thinking, & cloud native
- Monolithic transformation cloud native london 2019
- Platform as a Product, DevOps evolving
- Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means
- Platform as a Product - transforming from service delivery into continuous operations
- Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means
- Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means
- Platform as a Product - transforming from service delivery into continuous operations
- Better software is better than worse software, Istanbul
- Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means
- How to survive and thrive in a BigCo
2018
- Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means
- Michael Cote Night! Not Actually A DevOps Talk
- Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means
2017
- Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy
- Understand the What, Why & How of Digital Transformation Featuring 451 Research
- How DevOps Killed Enterprise Architects
- Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy
- Surviving & Thriving in a Big Company
- Ignite Karaoke at SpringOne Platform 2017
2016
- Pivotal & the big, noisy, dirty machines
- Docker industry research roundup, circa. 2015
- Executing Your Cloud Strategy: Managing your organization's Digital transformation
- DevOps for Normals
- DevOps for Normals - DevOpsDaysDFW 2016
2015
- Briefing IT Analysts, tips for vendors
- DevOps & Cloud for CorpDev Types
- PaaS market perspective
- [insert keynote here]
- Cloud State of the Union, 2015 - or, "what's up with cloud? 5 years later"
- Night of the Living Donkeys
- DevOpsDays Detroit 2015
- Cloud Native Promises in the Land of Continuously Delivered Microservices
- "Failing fast" for the uptight
- CI/CD from a donkey perspective
- Orienting yourself to continuous delivery & microservices
- Becoming a Software Defined Business
2014
- DevOps, from a storage perspective
- The Cloud^H^H^H^H^HDevOps Milieu, circa March 2014
- When is this DevOps Unicorn Going to Sprout Wings and Fly? - DevOps Days Austin, May 2014
- Dealing with industry analysts, for startups
- Selling to Hoodie and the Sticker-Festooned - Building a Developer Relations Program to Win Over Developers as Paying Customers
- Work Smarter Not Harder: Processes and tools for better IT operations (or, "DevOps, it's a thing")
- OpenStack Summit 2014 - When is this DevOps Unicorn Going to Sprout Wings and Fly?
- What cloud trends mean for you - an analyst's view
- What Does "Enterprise Grade" Mean, Really?
2012
- How a BigCo actually got some innovation done - The Longer Story of Crowbar
- Re-integration: Don't fear "closed" systems
2011
- Innovations in Requirements Management for Better Feedback and Better Software
- Innovations in Requirements Management for Better Feedback and Better Software
- Building the Cloud with Cisco, RedMonk and Zenoss
- Building a Hybrid Cloud
- Automating People Back into IT
2010
- Dealing with Analysts, 2010 Update
- What's up with "cloud"?
- The Role of Automation in Cloud Computing
- Pragmatic Cloud Computing, or, Dealing with Morlocks, or, Agile Infrastructure
- Consumer Tech to Enterprise Tech
- The Pragmatic Cloud - for developers
- Real Clouds Aren't Fluffy
2009
- Java One 2009 Trip Report
- Efficient Root Cause Analysis in the Face of Datacenter Complexity
- Cloud Computing and Linux