I regularly speak at developer conferences, academic conferences, meetups and universities. Below is a list of my keynotes, conference talks, seminars and lectures, with link to slides (and recordings where available).
| Date | Type | Title | Venue | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | ||||
| July 2024 | Seminar | Introduction to Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers slides blockchain security consensus |
COSIC Course on Cryptography and Cyber Security | Leuven |
| June 2024 | Seminar | A gentle introduction to Ethereum and Smart Contracts slides smart contracts ethereum solidity |
SecAppDev 2024 (Secure Application Development course) | Leuven |
| June 2024 | Seminar | Designing ‘Least Authority’ JavaScript apps slides security javascript |
SecAppDev 2024 (Secure Application Development course) | Leuven |
| May 2024 | Seminar | Blockchains as Trusted Computers: unraveling the tech behind Web3 slides blockchain web3 |
The Future of Blockchain Platforms | Leuven |
| March 2024 | Seminar | Object-capabilities meet smart contracts slides blockchain smart contracts javascript |
IFIP Working Group on Programming Language Design | Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2023 | ||||
| October 2023 | Guest Lecture | Introduction to JavaScript and Asynchronous Control Flow slides javascript promises |
Guest Lecture in the course Comparative Programming Languages KU Leuven | Leuven |
| June 2023 | Seminar | Trust through replication: research challenges in decentralized applications slides web3 blockchain smart contracts |
Joint DistriNet-COSIC-Bell Labs Workshop on Security, Privacy & Verifiable Computing | Leuven |
| April 2023 | Seminar | Exploring the design space of smart contract languages slides web3 smart contracts |
IFIP Working Group on Programming Language Design | Delft |
| 2022 | ||||
| November 2022 | Seminar | Object-capability security for JavaScript applications slides video recording javascript security |
Seminar on Cybersecurity at KU Leuven | Leuven |
| November 2022 | Seminar | Secure and dependable software services for the Internet of Value slides web3 smart contracts |
My inaugural lecture at KU Leuven | Leuven |
| January 2022 | Conference Talk | A Practitioner’s Guide to Hardened JavaScript slides video recording javascript security smart contracts |
Blue Lava JavaScript Web3 Conference | Virtual |
| 2021 | ||||
| May 2021 | Conference Talk | Architecting robust JS apps: a practitioner’s guide to Secure ECMAScript slides javascript security |
Techorama IT Conference | Virtual |
| February 2021 | Seminar | The Future of Software Development slides video recording software engineering machine learning |
Building the Network for the Cloud Nokia student seminar | Antwerp |
| January 2021 | Conference Talk | A gentle introduction to Digital Currencies and Smart Contracts slides smart contracts ethereum solidity |
IFIP Working Group on Programming Language Design | Virtual |
| 2020 | ||||
| June 2020 | Conference Talk | Architecting robust JavaScript applications slides video recording javascript security |
jsconf.be 2020 | Virtual |
| 2019 | ||||
| October 2019 | Conference Talk | Pair Programming with an AI? Augmenting Software Developers with Machine Learning video recording software engineering machine learning |
Bell Labs Unix50 | Murray-hill, NJ |
| October 2019 | Seminar | Architecting robust JavaScript applications slides javascript security |
Peopleware ICTech Day | Antwerp |
| June 2019 | Conference Talk | Browsing NPM packages more effectively with Code Compass slides machine learning software engineering javascript |
jsconf.be | Bruges |
| 2018 | ||||
| May 2018 | Workshop | Streaming all the data: JavaScript for real-time data and video stream processing (tutorial on WorldWideStreams and XStream) slides stream processing javascript |
jsconf.be | Bruges |
| May 2018 | Conference Talk | Control-flow Goodness in Modern JavaScript slides programming javascript |
IFIP Working Group on Programming Language Design | Antwerp |
| December 2018 | Seminar | Will software developers soon be replaced by AI? The sense and nonsense of Artificial Programming slides artificial intelligence program synthesis |
FWO Kennismakers | Antwerp |
| 2017 | ||||
| Aug 2017 | Conference Talk | XStream: Declarative authoring of distributed stream processing pipelines (Or, embedded DSLs make for great stream processing APIs) slides stream processing javascript |
IFIP Working Group on Programming Language Design | Park City |
| June 2017 | Conference Talk | From Documents to Dialogues: scripting the Conversational Web using Chatbots slides chatbots |
jsconf.be | Bruges |
| April 2017 | Keynote | From Documents to Dialogues: Programming Technology for the Conversational Web slides chatbots |
ProWeb 17 (workshop at <Programming> 2017) | Brussels |
| 2016 | ||||
| December 2016 | Seminar | Microservices and docker: from theory to practice slides microservices DevOps |
KULeuven KULAK Postgraduate Centre seminar on microservices | Kortrijk |
| May 2016 | Conference Talk | ECMAScript 2015 and beyond slides programming javascript |
js.be Belgian JavaScript User Group meetup | Brussels |
| May 2016 | Keynote | Control Flow Goodness in ECMAScript 2015 and Beyond slides programming javascript |
jsconf.be | Bruges |
| April 2016 | Guest Lecture | Virtualizing The Object (aka the JavaScript Meta-object Protocol) slides reflection javascript |
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Programming paradigms course | Louvain-la-Neuve |
| March 2016 | Seminar | Writing Robust JavaScript Code using Modern JavaScript slides security javascript |
SecAppDev (Secure Application Development) and Belgian OWASP chapter meetup | Leuven |
| 2015 | ||||
| October 2015 | Conference Talk | ECMAScript 2015: the Future of JavaScript is Now! slides video recording javascript programming |
SPLASH 2015 Industry Track | Pittsburgh |
| September 2015 | Seminar | ECMAScript 6: the Future of JavaScript is Now! slides javascript programming |
Ordina JOIN’15 developer event | Mechelen |
| April 2015 | Keynote | The road to ES6, and beyond: a tale about JavaScript’s past, present and future slides javascript programming |
jsconf.be | Bruges |
| 2014 | ||||
| September 2014 | Invited Talk | ECMAScript 5 and 6: the present and future of JavaScript slides javascript programming |
Cegeka | Leuven |
| July 2014 | Seminar | Membranes as Ownership Boundaries slides javascript security |
Dagstuhl Seminar on Scripting Languages and Frameworks | Dagstuhl |
| March 2014 | Keynote | JavaScript: the Good, the Bad, the Strict and the New Parts slides javascript programming |
First jsconf.be | Bruges |
| February 2014 | Seminar | Writing Robust JavaScript Code slides javascript security |
SecAppDev (Secure Application Development) seminar | Leuven |
| 2013 | ||||
| October 2013 | Seminar | Bitcoin: payments at the scale and speed of the Internet slides bitcoin |
Steering Committee meeting of the MobiCraNT research project | Brussels |
| July 2013 | Seminar | When Peer-to-peer meets Money: an introduction to Bitcoin slides bitcoin |
Software Languages Lab research seminar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Brussels |
| July 2013 | Conference Talk | Trustworthy Proxies: virtualizing objects with invariants slides javascript reflection |
ECOOP, the European Conference on Object-oriented Programming | Montpellier |
| March 2013 | Seminar | JavaScript: the Good, the Bad, the Strict and the Secure Parts slides javascript security |
SecAppDev (Secure Application Development) seminar | Leuven |
| 2012 | ||||
| December 2012 | Conference Talk | Tradeoffs in language design: the case of Javascript proxies slides javascript reflection |
IFIP Working Group on programming language design | Austin, TX |
| June 2012 | Tutorial | The Javascript Meta-object Protocol slides javascript reflection |
ECOOP 2012 Summer School | Peking |
| June 2012 | Keynote | AmbientTalk: Modern Actors for Modern Networks slides ambienttalk distributed systems |
Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTfJP) at ECOOP 2012 | Peking |
| May 2012 | Lecture | Clojure in a nutshell, a 2-hour introductory lecture to the Clojure programming language slides clojure functional programming |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Brussels |
| February 2012 | Conference Talk | Evolution in Programming Language Design? slides programming languages |
IFIP Working Group on Language Design | London |
| February 2012 | Conference Talk | Experiments with MapReduce in Erlang slides erlang distributed systems |
Erlang Factory Lite | Brussels |
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