Need an engaging speaker for your project, company meeting, or conference keynote? External speakers bring a new perspective, teach skills, and reinforce the message you’re sending to the team. Bringing in an external expert gives your message a boost in credibility and engagement. I have experience delivering in-person and remote talks to communities, conferences, and corporate events. Email talks@duckalignment.academy and let’s come up with a talk that fits your needs.
I will make free appearances via video conference (or in person, within a reasonable distance from my location) for:
We had the pleasure of inviting Ben to deliver a motivational talk for the InvenioRDM open source community. His key messages were incredibly spot-on, resonating deeply with our community and receiving high praise. I can wholeheartedly recommend Ben as a speaker to any open source projects out there striving to build a welcoming and vibrant community.
Lars Holm Nielsen, Head of Open Science Repositories, CERN
Collaborating with Ben on the inaugural Fedora Mentor Summit was an inspiring experience. His leadership and deep understanding of Open Source community and program management helped us smoothly kickstart the event, engage community, and set a path for future success. Ben was exceptional with his management skills ensuring a smooth and productive process – a true asset to the open source world.
The Apereo community and our projects, although focused on higher ed, are often siloed within academics, research, administration, or infrastructure. Finding and building opportunities to collaborate and co-create can be challenging. Ben’s work to help open source projects work together and his thoughtful approach to building communities of practice that span projects provided the information–and motivation–for Apereo’s diverse contributors to better work together across higher education’s broad technology landscape.
Patrick Masson, Executive Director, Apereo Foundation
Topics
I can speak from experience on a wealth of topics, including:
Open leadership principles
Feature management processes
Distributed collaboration
Bug tracking and triage
Community building and engagement
Codes of conduct
Open source philosophy and strategy
Project/program management
Documentation and writing
This is not an exhaustive lists of topics I can present on. See the Talks category on this site or my personal website for slides and recordings from past talks.
Email talks@duckalignment.academy if you have something else in mind. If I can’t speak on the topic, I have an extensive network that I can reach out to and I may be able to find the right fit for your needs.
