Talks & workshops
I like building useful things, and talking about how we build them.
Here are talks and hands-on workshops I’ve given on AI, software engineering, and AWS. Practical patterns, real tools, and things you can take back to your own work.
Around Northern Colorado, with links to the original events. NoCo AWS Meetup is now NoCo AI Builders.
NoCo AI Builders
An LLM demo is easy to love. A product that works again tomorrow? That’s the good stuff. Five workflow patterns for making agents more reliable and affordable, and how to move from open-ended exploration to predictable execution.
NoCo AWS Meetup
Bring a laptop, leave with your own assistant. A hands-on workshop deploying OpenClaw to AWS with CDK, connecting it to Telegram and an LLM, and adding a GitHub-backed memory store for persistent context.
Fort Collins Internet Pros (FCIP)
A look at where AI development tools have been, where they are now, and where they might go next. Tim Kleier and I explored everything from code completion and semantic editing to autonomous agents, spec-driven development, and self-evolving systems, with demos along the way.
Why the red-green-refactor cycle still matters when you’re building with AI coding tools. Less chasing the latest craze, more staying grounded in work you can understand and test.