Author and speaker, Emma Jane Hogbin, has been delivering public presentations and workshops for over 20 years. She loves to teach and inspire others and is best known for her presentations technical presentations. Her fun approach to very technical topics never fails to engage even the greatest of technophobes.
Her books are available on Amazon (Git for Teams, Front End Drupal, Drupal User's Guide, and Drupal's Building Blocks).
Past Presentations
Below is a selection of past conference presentations and workshops.
2017
In 2017 I gave a series of presentations with Dan Young on "Humane Teams". This presentation looked at our experience of running face-to-face and remote teams. The presentation evolved over the year as Dan gained more experience running a remote team.
- DevOps Days - London - [video]
- Software Architecture Conference - London - October
- Agile in the City - Bristol
2016
- LOPUG - Reverse Engineering People - London - March
- Git Merge - New York - April
- Agile Manchester - Pacing Sprints
- OSCON - Git for Teams (workshop) - Austin - May
- AtlasCamp Barcelona - The golden rules of Git
2015
- OSCON Amsterdam - A Rebasing Workflow for Git
- Cambridge UX User Group - Git for Designers
- DrupalCon Barcelona - Reverse Engineering People; Speaker training; Business Summit
- Operability.IO - Cultivating Empathy
- UpFront Mini (Manchester) - The Golden Rules of Git
- dotnetsheff - Demystifying the Holy Wars of Git
- TechNottingham - Teaching People When the Tech is Unknown
- Atlas Camp (Prague) - Reverse Engineering People
- NYC Camp (New York City) - Managing Change; Avoiding the Git of Despair
- OSCON - A Rebasing Workflow; Git for Teams of One or More
- Drupal North - Managing Change
- DrupalCon Los Angeles - Avoiding the Git of Despair
- Drupal Open Days (Dublin, Ireland) - Managing Projects the Drupal Way
- Git Merge (Paris) - Teaching People Git
- DrupalCamp London - Managing Projects the Drupal Way
- ConFoo.ca - A Rebasing Work Flow and Peer Reviews: Are they worth it?
- /dev/winter - Cambridge UK - Git for Teams of One or More
2014
- TrueNorthPHP - HOWTO Empathy (keynote)
- Brewing Agile - Was It Something I Said?
- O'Reilly Webcast - Git for Grown-Ups
- DrupalCon Amsterdam - Getting a CLUE at the Command Line
- DrupalCon Amsterdam Business Summit (facilitator)
- Harvard Extension School - guest lecturer on Drupal, and version control using Git
- OggCamp - The Evolution of Social Coding
- DrupalCon Austin - The Danger of Having No Why
- OSCON - Git for Teams of One or More (half-day workshop; and one-hour session)
- DrupalCamp Toronto - Keynote presentation (The Unlikely Superhero); session (component-based web design)
- LoneStar PHP - Git for Teams of One or More
- MinneWebCon - Component-Based Web Design (workshop; and one-hour session)
- DrupalSouth - Keynote presentation (The Unlikely Superhero); workshop (PSD to Theme the SMACSS Way)
2013
- BADCamp - What's New in Drupal 8; PSD to Theme The SMACSS Way; Git Makes Me Angry Inside
- DrupalCon Prague - Git Makes Me Angry Inside (video), Mastering Git for the Drupal Developer's Workflow, Community Tools Workshop
- CMS Expo - morning keynote / kickoff session, Work Flow for Solo Developers and Small Teams
- php|tek - Beyond the Bike Shed (session); Git Makes Me Angry Inside (intro workshop to version control)
- DrupalCon Portland - Was It Something I Said? The Art of Giving (and getting) Actionable Critiques (pre-selected as a featured presentation)
- DrupalCamp Toronto - Git Makes Me Angry Inside and From Interior Decorator to Architect: Changing How We Work
- TwinCities Drupal Camp - Work Flow for Solo Developers and Small Teams, PSD to Theme Workshop, moderator wrap-up panel
- OSCON - Was It Something I Said?
2012
- DrupalCon Denver - speaker training
- DrupalCon Denver - From PSD to Drupal Theme
- CMSExpo - Drupal Flyover and Responsive Themes For Drupal.
- TwinCities DrupalCamp - Keynote presentation, Intro to Drupal for Non-Coders, Intro to Responsive Web Design for Drupal
- DrupalCon Munich - speaker training
- DrupalCon Munich - Evaluating Base Themes
- PHP for Developers - online workshop
- DIG London - Work Flow for Solo Developers and Small Teams
- DrupalCamp Toronto - Evaluating Base Themes
- DrupalCamp Toronto - Work Flow for Solo Developers and Small Teams [video]
- Site Building Fundamentals - online workshop
- Work Flow for Solo Developers and Small Teams - online workshop
2011
- Free Software and Open Source Symposium - Five Secrets to Building Faster Themes and Site Building Extravaganza
- DrupalCamp Toronto - Selling Hopes and Dreams [video] [slides]
- DIG London (Ontario) - Five Profitable Tips to Building Better Web Sites and Responsive Web Design: Retrofitting your site
- Waterloo Region Drupal User Group - Selling Hopes and Dreams
- From PSD to Drupal Theme. Acquia webinar.
- DrupalCon London. Session on Forensic Theming.
- Getting Connected: Taking your business online, Walkerton and Sauble Beach.
- DrupalCon Chicago. Pre-conference training (Theming for Non-Themers) and conference presentation (Forensic Theming).
2010
- Intro to Web Design, Owen Sound, October 3
- Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association Summit, September 28
- Web Writing Workshop, Owen Sound, September 10
- SEO Workshop, Owen Sound, August 8 [online mini-workshop]
- Open Source technology summer camp, Ottawa, Ontario, August 14 [slides]
- DrupalCon, PHP for Drupal Designers and Presenting You! (speaker training), SanFrancisco, April 16-21
- CMS Expo, Intro to Drupal Theme Design, Advanced Drupal Theme Design, Chicago, May 3-5
- Southern California Linux Expo, Beautiful in Print [slides], Lessons from Life Coaching [slides, video (I'm a few speakers in)], February 20, Los Angeles
- Women in Open Source, Writing Effective Self-Help Guides for World Domination [slides], How to Give a Lightning Talk (aka Presenting You!) [slides], February 19, Los Angeles
- Technical Communicators Association of New Zealand, February 15, Wellington, New Zealand
- Kiwi Foo Camp, invited participant, February 12-14, Mahurangi College, Warkworth, New Zealand
- DrupalSouth, PHP for Designers (Front End Drupal) [slides], The "We" Economy [slides], January 24-25, Wellington, New Zealand
- Linux Conf Australia (in NZ), Writing Effective Self-Help Guides for World Domination [slides], January 18-23
- Business Mini-Conf, The 100 Mile Client Roster [slides], January 18, Wellington, New Zealand
- Haecksen Mini-Conf, Version Control for Mere Mortals [slides], January 18, Wellington, New Zealand
- Front End Drupal Intensive, January 11, Vancouver, Canada
2009
- Drupal Front End Tips and Tricks (aka PHP for Designers), Drupal Camp Chicago [slides]
- Drupal Front End - PHP for Designers, Do It With Drupal, New Orleans [slides]
- Writing Effective Self-Help Guides for World Domination, Ontario Linux Fest [slides] [video]
- PHP for Designers, DrupalCon Paris, France [slides] [video]
- Bazaar for Mere Mortals, OSCON, San Jose, CA [slides]
- bzr vs git smackdown. Open Source Bridge Portland, OR
- Conference chair. Writing Open Source, Owen Sound, Canada
- Presenting You! presentation and workshop, DrupalCon Washington DC
- The Themer's Toolkit, DrupalCon Washington DC
- Version control for mere (and freelance) mortals, SCaLE 7x, Los Angeles, USA [slides]
- Drupal multi-site for fun and profit, FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium [slides] [video]
2008
- Theming Forms, Drupal Theme Workshop (Centre for Social Innovation, Toronto) [slides]
- Version control for mere (and freelance) mortals, OntarioLinuxFest, Toronto [slides]
- Subverting Proprietary Economics, Free Software and Open Source Symposium, Toronto [slides]
- DrupalCon Szeged, Hungary Presentations:
- Open for (small) Business - subverting traditional economic models [slides] [video]
- BoF - Crafty Drupal
- BoF - Front End Drupal - The Book!
- Podcasting at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery
- Moving In: How to port your content from * to Drupal, Waterloo Drupal Group
- Form an orderly queue, ladies OSCON (Portland, OR) [notes] [slides - awarded SlideShow of the Day on July 28]
- Form an orderly queue, ladies LugRadioLive UK (Wolverhampton, UK) [video]
- Crafty Drupal, DrupalCampToronto
- Moving In: How to port your content from * to Drupal, DrupalCampToronto [slides]
- Attended BSDCan (it's not a presentation, I know, but it was an excellent conference!)
- HICK Tech (conference chair, Owen Sound)!
- Form an orderly queue, ladies, LugRadioLive USA (San Francisco) [video]
- HICK Tech, The rural technology experience, NotACon (Cleveland, OH) [slides] [video]
- The Business of Art (Owen Sound) [slides]
- Getting Connected in Owen Sound, Markdale, Durham and Meaford [handout] [slides]
- Taking Your Business On-line info session (Owen Sound)
- Intro to Podcasting, Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound) [handout] [slides]
2007
- A Tour of the GBCN Web site with its builders (Hanover) [slides]
- On-line Promotion, Ontario CONTACT (Mississauga) [slides]
- HICK Tech (conference chair, Owen Sound)
2006
- Accessibility training for the City of Owen Sound
- Web Site Action Plan, Business Enterprise Centre (Owen Sound)
2004
- Documentation, Libre Software Meeting (Bordeaux France)
- Presentation Boot Camp, Toronto Perl Mongers
- Presentation Boot Camp, KW LUG
- Presentation Boot Camp, BGLUG