This page is an archive of my past speaking engagements. For more information, please visit the main speaking page.
A few of my talks are available in video at the bottom of this page, if you want to watch them.
Past engagements, from most recent to oldest:
2009: I’ve taken a bit of a break from speaking and attending conferences after way too much travel in 2007-2008
- 02.2009 LIFT09, Geneva (workshop co-host: Where will you work tomorrow? — video)
- 10.2008 Head Conference, Internet (online): Going Solo: My Story and What I Learned (speaker)
- 10.2008 Web2.0Expo, Berlin, DE: Gender Issues in Web 2.0 Careers (panelist)
- 10.2008 SHiFT, Lisbon, PT: Online Culture: what parents, teenagers and teachers need to know (speaker)
- 04.2008 Club44, La Chaux-de-Fonds (speaker)
- 03.2008 SXSW Interactive, Austin, TX, USA (core conversation co-host: Opening the Web to Linguistic Realities
- 03.2008 SXSW Interactive, Austin, TX, USA (panel moderator: Lost in Translation? Top Website Internationalization Lessons)
- 03.2008 BlogTalk, Cork, Ireland (panel moderator)
- 03.2008 WebCamp SNP, Cork, Ireland (speaker: The Case for SPSNs from a User Perspective)
- 02.2008 LIFT08 Conference, Geneva (open stage speaker: Going Solo: Being a Freelancer in a Connected World)
- 11.2007 Schweizerische Verband für interne Kommunikation, Zürich (speaker: Blogging in Internal Communications)
- 11.2007 ParisWeb, Paris, France (speaker: Multilinguisme web et problématiques associées)
- 11.2007 BlogOpen, Novi Sad, Serbia (speaker: Being a Blogging Consultant)
- 11.2007 Web2Open (Web 2.0 Expo), Berlin, Germany (speaker: Waiting For The Babel Fish)
- 09.2007 MScom Alumni Jour Fixe, Zürich (speaker: How Blogging Brings Dialogue to Corporate Communications)
- 07.2007 Google Tech Talks, Mountain View, CA, USA (speaker: Waiting For The Babel Fish)
- 06.2007 Reboot, Copenhagen, DK (speaker: While We Wait For The Babel Fish)
- 03.2007 Blogcamp, Zürich (speaker: Multilingual Blogging)
- 02.2007 Cyberaddictions, Geneva (panel)
- 12.2006 LeWeb3, Paris, France (panel)
- 12.2006 Global Web Manager Network Group (UN), Geneva (speaker)
- 12.2006 Rézonance: L’Age de Peer, Geneva (panel)
- 11.2006 Association Suisse pour la Communication Interne, Lausanne (speaker)
- 11.2006 Stamm Genilem Web 2.0, Lausanne (speaker)
- 02.2006 Nuit du Journal Intime (panel)
- 11.2005 Société des Informaticiens de Suisse Romande (panel)
Teenagers and Digital Spaces (Talks in schools, to teenagers, parents, or teachers, unless specified)
- 02.2005 International School of Lausanne (ISL), Le Mont
- 09.2005 Collège du Martinet, Rolle
- 10.2005 Collège de Pailly
- 10.2005 Collège de Moudon
- 11.2005 Association CIAO, Lausanne (partner for “Internet” theme: http://www.ciao.ch/f/internet/infos/)
- 12.2005 Haute Ecole Pédagogique (HEP), Lausanne (training for IT teachers)
- 01.2006 Ecole Vinet, Lausanne
- 05.2006 Ecole d’Etudes Sociales et Pédagogiques (EESP), Lausanne (lecture for social workers)
- 05.2006 Société Suisse pour la Santé des Adolescents, Berne (talk at yearly assembly)
- 06.2006 Colloque sur le développement psychosexuel des adolescents à l’ère d’internet, Cartigny (international medical research workshop)
- 08.2006 Collège de Vallorbe
- 10.2006 Haute Ecole Pédagogique (HEP), Lausanne (talks for IT teachers)
- 11.2006 Unité Multidisciplinaire de Santé des Adolescents (UMSA) (talk and panel for medical/social audience)
- 11.2006 Ecole Parents Prilly
- 02.2007 Collège de Moudon
- 03.2007 Collège Thurmann, Porrentruy
- 03.2007 Université Populaire Porrentruy
- 03.2007 Collège des Trois-Sapins, Echallens
- 05.2007 Ecole Vinet, Lausanne
- 05.2007 Association CIAO, Lausanne (yearly assembly keynote)
- 02.2008 Collège Grenier, Pontarlier (France)
- 02.2008 Ecole Protestante d’Altitude, St-Cergue
- 06.2008 International School of Lausanne (ISL), Le Mont
Videos
From oldest to newest:
- Challenges in Multilingual Blogging (BlogCamp Zürich, Switzerland — 09.2007 — video credit Greg Vernon)
- Waiting For The Babel Fish (Google Tech Talk, Mountain View, CA, USA — 07.2007)
- Discussion excerpt: Webmaster of the Future (Webmaster 2.0) (BarCamp Lausanne, 09.2007 — in French — video credit Sandrine Szabo)
- Multilinguisme et problématiques associées (ParisWeb, Paris, France — 11.2007)
- Two short excerpts of Being a Blogging Consultant (second excerpt) (BlogOpen, Novi Sad, Serbia — 11.2007 — video credit Darko Buldioski)
- Going Solo: Being a Freelancer in a Connected World (5 minute Open Stage speech, LIFT08, Geneva, 02.2008)
- The Case for SPSNs from a User Perspective (WebCamp SNP, Cork, Ireland — 03.2008)
- pretty bad video of the panel I moderated at BlogTalk (BlogTalk, Cork, Ireland — 03.2008)
- video recording of the panel I co-hosted at LIFT09 on coworking (LIFT09, Geneva — 02.2009)
There are more videos of my interviews for TV on my press appearances page, and radio audio (mostly in French, though). More recordings exist but have not been edited or compiled for online viewing yet.
In addition to my speaking engagements elsewhere, I have organised and hosted the Going Solo conference which took place on May 16th in Lausanne (Switzerland) and SoloCamp, September 12th in Leeds (UK).
