Publications & Talks

  • Nordic APIs LiveCast

    Designing Human-Centered APIs

    Virtual, January 2022

    Human-centered design is a common phrase these days in the software product world. Taking a human-centered design approach means starting with the people you’re designing for and designing and building your solution alongside them, with empathy and iteration. This can feel foreign or challenging to an API team, and especially for a product team that also happens to maintain an API: after all, aren’t we building for applications, for machines, rather than for humans? In this talk, I discuss how to reframe this perspective, connect with your users, and better build APIs for and with humans.

  • Civic Design Conference

    Making space for community knowledge-sharing in a distributed world

    Virtual, December 2021

    Staying connected and learning from your teammates on a distributed team or in a highly siloed organization can be hard. Written knowledge-bases (if you have them) can be dry or become out of date, and replicating hallway conversations where you can bump into new people or share stories (and commiserations!) with coworkers can feel out of reach in a virtual environment. Despite the obstacles, I’ve found that cultivating an engaged remote community and fostering peer-to-peer knowledge sharing is possible. This talk will cover real-world tactics I use at the US Digital Service to engage communities and empower people to be resources to each other, whether they’re in the same room or thousands of miles apart.

  • Lesbians Who Tech Debug 2021

    Making space for community knowledge-sharing in a distributed world

    Virtual, December 2021

    See above.

  • Lesbians Who Tech Debug 2020

    Build Your Own Documented & Tested Healthcare API in 30 Mins

    Virtual, 2020

    Entering the healthcare tech space with a more general web development background? Here’s a hands-on introduction to FHIR concepts and how to apply REST API concepts and OpenAPI (formerly known as Swagger) open source tools to building a healthcare API, complete with interactive documentation and tests. Come away with your own API and a better understanding of FHIR, OpenAPI, and the rich open source ecosystem and community supporting good API development and healthcare interoperability.

  • APIDays New York

    Healthcare Interoperability: From Buzzword to APIs

    Virtual, July 2020

  • REST Fest US East 2019

    Greenville, September 2019

    When your ~API~ data is the contract: When working in low-tech or civic tech fields, APIs aren't always the answer -- at least not until you solve the data problem.

  • API Days Helsinki

    Helsinki, June 2019

    I co-facilitated an API workshop for EU government teams as part of the APIs4DGov initiative.

  • REST Fest EU 2019

    Wroclaw, May 2019

    I primarily helped to organize this conference, but also gave a brief talk on ActivityPub and W3C initiatives on open standards for social network data and APIs.

  • APIdays Global 2018

    Bridging the Gap: Applying Lessons from API products to Healthcare Enterprise Integrations

    Paris, December 2018

    Leading the integrations team at a fast growth startup that lives at the intersection of healthcare and social services, I have worked with clients on both the payor and provider sides of the industry. Each of these groups have different resources and approaches to technology and business, but both are struggling to adopt modern API practices. This talk covers what I wish I’d known before trying to build out an API program at a startup serving these enterprise customers with complex, highly customized, on-prem legacy IT systems.

  • Redox Healthcare Interoperability Summit

    Bridging the Gap: Applying Lessons from API Development to Healthcare Enterprise Integrations

    Denver, November 2018

  • REST Fest US East 2018

    Putting the 1-1 in Publ1c 1nfrastructure

    Greenville, September 2018

  • API Strategy and Practice Conference

    I Believe You But My Enterprise Don't: Adopting Open Standards in Enterprise Healthcare

    Portland, November 2017

  • Nordic APIs Platform Summit

    I Believe You But My Enterprise Don't: Adopting Open Standards in Enterprise Healthcare

    Stockholm, October 2017

  • APIdays Zurich

    Finding the Function: A Practical Look at Microservice Implementation

    Zurich, September 2017

  • API Strategy and Practice Conference

    Boston, November 2016

  • APIdays Australia

    Melbourne, March 2016

  • APIdays Global 2015

    Paris, December 2015

  • APIStrategy Conference Austin

    November 2015

  • Rocky Mountain Ruby (Opening Keynote)

    API-in-a-Box: Civic Hacking with Hypermedia API Containers

    September 2015

  • RESTFest

    September 2015, September 2016, September 2017, May 2018, September 2018, May 2019

  • Women Who Code – Boulder/Denver

    September 2015

  • GlueCon

    API-in-a-Box: Solving the Local Data Problem with Docker and Elasticsearch

    May 2015

  • APIdays Paris

    The Pursuit of APIness

    December 2014