Conferences
I have travelled the world talking about technical and business topics. From Japan and India to most countries in Europe, to the US and Canada. In front of small audiences at local user-groups to thousands of people at large international events.
2024
Sourcing Journal Fall Summit New York, NY, USA, 12th November
Gave a talk on "What We Can Learn From Fast Fashion"
EcomExpo Vilnius, Lithuania, 19th September
Gave a talk on "Made, Sold, and Promoted by China"
2023
EcomTLV Tel Aviv, Israel, 19th June
Gave a talk on "Future of E-commerce"
TheNTWKSummit Barcelona, Spain, 18-19th May
Gave a talk on "Marketplace Trends, panel"
2022
Seller Fest Lietuva Vilnius, Lithuania, 28th December
Gave a talk on "Amazon M&A Market"
GO Ecommerce Tel Aviv, Israel, 31st May
Gave a talk on "Resetting e-commerce expectations"
2021
Deliverr Conference by Deliverr Remote, 4th October
Gave a talk on "Latest eCommerce marketplace trends"
2020
Amazon Experts Webinar by BuyBoxer Remote, 22nd April
Gave a talk on "Coronavirus trends and how to read them"
Amazon Sellers Event/Meetup ASGTG Brooklyn, NY, USA, 15th January
Gave a talk on "Marketplaces Year in Review 2019"
2019
Retail Ascendant Gathering Palo Alto, CA, USA, 15th October
Gave a talk on "Accelerating Brand Success Through Global Marketplaces"
Connect hosted by ChannelAdvisor Austin, TX, USA, 8-9th April
Gave a talk on "Amazon in the Year 2020"
Prosper Show Las Vegas, NV, USA, 17-19th March
Gave a talk on "Amazon Private Label Brands"
2018
Retail Global Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV, USA, 9-11th October
Gave a talk on "Global strategies for American retailers"
Catalyst hosted by ChannelAdvisor San Diego, CA, USA, 17-19th April
Gave a talk on "The New Face of Brands in the Age of Amazon"
eCommerce Innovation Summit San Francisco, CA, USA, 20-21th March
Gave a talk on "What is a Brand in the Age of Amazon"
2017
Retail Global Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV, USA, 12-14th September
Gave a talk on "The Future of Marketplaces", slides
2016
PyCon JP conference Tokyo, Japan, 21-22nd September
Gave a talk on "Building an interpreter in RPython", slides
PyCon conference Portland, OR, USA, 28th May - 5th June
Gave a talk on "Building an interpreter in RPython", slides
PHP UK conference London, UK, 18-19th February
Gave a talk on "From PHP to Machine Code", slides
2015
PHP Barcelona conference Barcelona, Spain, 30-31st October
Gave a talk on "From PHP to Machine Code", slides
PHP Japan conference Tokyo, Japan, 3rd October
Gave a talk on "From PHP to Machine Code", slides
NYPHP user group New York, NY, USA, 25th September
Gave a talk on "From PHP to Machine Code", slides
Future Insights Live conference Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2-4th June
Gave a talk on "How To Keep Calm And Ship It", slides
Kaunas PHP user group Kaunas, Lithuania, 13th May
Gave a talk on "From PHP to Machine Code", slides
Vilnius PHP user group Vilnius, Lithuania, 7th May
Gave a talk on "From PHP to Machine Code", slides
2014
Build Stuff conference Vilnius, Lithuania, 19-23th November
Gave a talk on "Making decisions with data", slides
True North PHP conference Toronto, Canada, 6-8th November
Gave a talk on "Building software fast"
Gave a talk on "Beyond the PHP mountain"
PHPCon PL conference Szczyrk, Poland, 26-28th Septemeber
Gave a talk on "Beyond the PHP mountain"
PHP UK conference London, UK, 21-22th February
Gave a talk on "What Makes Technology Work", slides
Delivered the Opening Keynote to over 700 people
2013
Lone Start PHP conference Dallas, TX, USA, 28-29th June
Gave a talk on "Virtualized Development", slides
Gave a talk on "You Can't Optimize What You Can't Measure", slides
Web-5 conference Béziers, France, 14-15th June
Gave a talk on "Process any amount of data. Any time", slides
Dutch PHP conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 6-8th June
Gave a talk on "Growing spiders to crawl the web", slides
Symfony Live Portland conference Portland, OR, USA, 20-24th May
Gave a talk on "Process any amount of data. Any time", slides
phpDay conference Verona, Italy, 17-18th May
Gave a talk on "Building distributed systems", slides
Future Insights Live Las Vegas, NV, USA, 29th April - 2nd May
Gave a talk on "Throw some data science at it", slides
Web conference, part of InfoShow Kaunas, Lithuania, 20th April
Gave a talk on "How not to get fired"
Whisky Web II conference Edinburgh, UK, 12-13th April
Organised my second conference and delivered the opening keynote
Melbourne PHP user group Melbourne, Australia, 19th March
Gave a talk on "You Can't Optimize What You Can't Measure", slides
Sydney PHP user group Sydney, Australia, 28th February
Gave a talk on "REST. Let's get the facts straight", slides
PHP UK conference London, UK, 22-23th February
Gave a talk on "You Can't Optimize What You Can't Measure", slides
SunshinePHP conference Miami, FL, USA, 8-9th February
Gave a talk on "Virtualized Development", slides
PHPBenelux conference Antwerp, Belgium, 25-26th January
Gave a talk on "Process any amounts of data. Any time", slides
2012
Future of Web Apps Prague, Czech Republic, 27-29th November
Gave a talk on "The only PHP framework you'll need: Symfony2", slides
Future of Web Apps London, UK, 15-17th October
Gave a talk on "REST. Let's get the facts straight", slides
New York City PHP user group New York, NY, USA, 1st October
Gave a talk on "Introduction to Symfony2", slides
REST Fest Greenville, SC, USA, 13-15th September
Gave a talk on "RESTful Open Data", slides
Funconf Dublin, Ireland, 31st August - 2st September
Just attended
Sheffield PHP User Group Sheffield, UK, 13th June
Gave a talk on "REST: The bar fight"
Login conference Vilnius, Lithuania, 31st May - 1st June
Gave a talk on "Open Data", slides
DrupalCamp Scotland Edinburgh, UK, 25-26th May
Gave a talk on "Symfony: An Introduction"
phpDay conference Verona, Italy, 18-19th May
Gave a talk on "Lazy Evaluation: stop wasting memory and time", slides
4Developers conference Poznań, Poland, 17-18th April
Gave a talk on "Choosing The Right NoSQL Database", slides
RESTful Design workshop, part of World Wide Web conference Lyon, France, 17th April
Just attended
Whisky Web conference Edinburgh, UK, 13-14th April
Organised my first conference and delivered the opening keynote
ConFoo conference Montreal, Canada, 29th February - 2nd March
Gave a talk on "Doctrine 2", slides
Gave a talk on "RESTful Web Services with Python", slides
PHP UK conference London, UK, 24-25th February
Just attended
PHPBenelux conference Antwerp, Belgium, 27-28th January
Gave a talk on "Doctrine 2: An Introduction", slides
2011
PHPDays, part of OSIDays conference Bangalore, India, 20-21th Nov
Teached a workshop on "Doctrine 2"
Gave a talk on "The new era of PHP frameworks"
PHP Barcelona conference Barcelona, Spain, 28-29th October
Gave a talk on "PHP in the Cloud", slides
Gave a talk on "Doctrine 2", slides
ZendCon conference Santa Clara, CA, USA, 17-20th October
Teached a workshop on "Doctrine 2"
PHPNW conference Manchester, United Kingdom, 8-9th October
Gave a talk on "Doctrine 2", slides
Azure All Access conference Dublin, Ireland, 6-7th October
Attended to showcase and discuss Azure and PHP integration and developments,
Edinburgh PHP user group Edinburgh, UK, 28th September
Gave a talk on "Doctrine 2", slides
PFCongress conference Utrecht, The Netherlands, 17th September
Gave a talk on "The new era of PHP frameworks", slides
Dynamic Languages conference Edinburgh, UK, 29th August
Gave a talk on "RESTful Web Services with Python", slides
PHP North East user group Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 19th July
Gave a talk on "What is Doctrine ORM and should I use it?", slides
JumpInCamp! Seattle, WA, USA, 19-24th June
Invited by Microsoft to help various PHP projects improve support for Windows, SQL Server and Azure
Dutch PHP conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 19-21th May
Teached a workshop on "Doctrine 2"
Gave a talk on "The new era of PHP frameworks", slides
phpDay conference Verona, Italy, 12-14th May
Gave a talk on "Doctrine 2", slides
Gave a talk on "Optimizing Zend Framework", slides
Web conference, part of InfoShow Kaunas, Lithuania, 9th April
Gave a talk on "Plaktuko problema", slides
4Developers conference Warsaw, Poland, 4th April
Gave a talk on "Zend Framework 2.0: Let’s Rock!", slides
DrupalCamp Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal, 26th March
Gave a talk on "Drupal and Windows?! Yes", slides
PHP UK conference London, UK, 25th February
Just attended
2010
JumpInCamp! Seattle, WA, USA, 16-19th November
Invited by Microsoft to work on Doctrine 2 SQL Server support
Forum PHP Paris, France, 9-10th November
Gave a talk on "Doctrine 2", slides
Microsoft /web day Vilnius, Lithuania, 5th November
Gave a talk on "PHP on Windows", slides
PHP Barcelona conference Barcelona, Spain, 29-30th October
Gave a talk on "Doctrine 2", slides
PHPNW conference Manchester, UK, 9-10th October
Gave a talk on "Optimizing Zend Framework", slides
Dutch PHP conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10-12th June
Gave a talk on "Doctrine 2", slides
PHP North West user group Manchester, UK, 1st June
Gave a talk on "Practical ORMs", slides
phpDay conference Corropoli, Italy, 12-14th May
Teached a workshop on "Practical ORMs"
Lithuanian PHP conference Kaunas, Lithuania, 24th April
Gave a talk on "Būk žingsniu priekyje!", slides
First talk in a PHP conference
JumpInCamp! Zurich, Switzerland, 6-10th April
Just attended
Microsoft MIX10 Las Vegas, NV, USA, 15-17th March
Just attended
PHP UK conference London, UK, 26th February
Just attended
2009
PHPNW conference Manchester, UK, 10-11th October
Attended first ever PHP conference
Quotes
Some quotes from people who have recently attended my talksThis was the talk that I learned the most from, I find it fascinating that he can debug just by correlating data points across many systems. I plan to start using the techniques ASAP. - about "You Can't Optimize What You Can't Measure" at Lone Star PHP conference
I really like the way Joe presents his message. His slides are laid out well and he does a great job speaking to the crowd interactively without just reading off slides the entire time. With the real-world examples he shares, it was very helpful. - about "You Can't Optimize What You Can't Measure" at Lone Star PHP conference
Presentation and content were wonderful. Thank you - about "Virtualized Development" at Lone Star PHP conference
One of the better talks of DPC13. Very fun, entertaining and interesting. Used good examples from his own experience, and showed some good code examples. And a lot of tips what to do, and not to do. - about "Growing spiders to crawl the web" at Dutch PHP conference
Great speaker presenting great content backed up with some real life experience. Everything a talk needs!
Really enjoyed the talk and the humorous approach. Will most certainly be implementing statsd sometime in the near future. Liked the way stats were correlated to deployments that would be a big win for me.
Really good talk. Liked the examples on how to make a spider act more like a human being. Presentation was good, lots of good examples, mixed with a good dose of humor.
Interesting and insightful. The talk was delivered very professionally.
