Public Speaking

From SusoSight

I never thought that I would be into public speaking, however I do enjoy it. Still, I get a bit of butterflies in my stomach before its my time "to go on". I wanted to make a list of the events that I've spoken at before to remind myself that things will be ok. Not all of these are "public" per se. Some of them are at private events. I find that even if I'm unprepared, if I know the topic, I still do pretty well and people seem receptive to my speeches.

In parenthesis are the approximate number of people in attendance.

  • 2017-12-02 - CEWiT / CACR Cybersecurity camp - Several talks on security (17)
  • 2017-09 - BroCon at NCSA - Using awk to analyze Bro log - (160)
  • 2017-08 - NSF Cybersecurity Summit - Security Log Analysis - (~20)
  • 2017-07 - Prague, Czech Republic - CLI Magic - This was a major event in which I invited people from around Prague to come watch me speak at the Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University. (~70 in person and over 200 live streamed)
  • 2017-05 - GPN Annual Summit - Security Log Analysis (10)
  • 2016-11 - CEWiT / CACR Cybersecurity camp - Several talks on security (~20)
  • 2016-06 - CACR Cybersecurity camp - Several talks on security (~20)
  • 2016-05-06 - CACR Brown Bag - Presentation and demo on ImageMagick vulnerability (9)
  • 2016 April - CACR Brown Bag - Presentation on Website hacking and OverTheWire (10)
  • 2015 Jan - SWAMP All Hands meeting - Cybersecurity presentation (~30)
  • 2012 - Indiana Linux Fest
    • Hour long presentation on Command Line Magic. (~50)
    • libvte vulnerability talk (~40). Both were well received. One person put on the feedback survey that my climagic presentation was the best at the conference.
  • March 26th, 2011 - Indiana Linux Fest - Hour long presentation on Command Line Magic. (~40, didn't actually count though). I did this one live using notes instead of from slides. It was well received.
  • January 25th, 2011 - Fountain Square Ballroom - Host of the Epoch Day 15K party. (~40)
  • September 10, 2010 - Ohio Linux Fest 2010 - Hour long presentation on Command Line Magic twitter/identi.ca feed. (~50)
  • August 15, 2007 - WGCL Talk Radio - 30 minute Interview about Bloomingpedia (Potentially thousands of people listening, did well despite being tired from not getting enough sleep)
  • July 21, 2007 - Monroe County Public Library - Bloomingpedia intro presentation (12, only 2 people were there for the presentation though, this was taped for CATS TV broadcast.)
  • April 2006 - IU Linux Fest 2006 - Linux Vendor panel with 5 other people from major corporations (IBM, HP, Sun, etc.) (~50)
  • April 2006 - IU Linux Fest 2006 - Presentation on Xen virtualization (~30)
  • Februrary 2006 - Indiana University USSG meeting - Panel on wikis with 2 other people (~15)
  • January 2006 - BLUG - SSH and You (14)
  • Fall 2005 - Indiana University - Guest speaker in class covering Bloomingpedia (~50)
  • 2005 - Indiana University - Guest speaker in SLIS class covering Linux (~20)
  • March 2004 - Ivy Tech, Bloomington - Linux class special guest (~15)
  • 2003 - IU Russian class - Sang in front of class in Russian (~14)
  • September 2002 - Wedding of David and Recbecca Planchon - Best man speech (~18)
  • April 2001 - ApacheCon 2001 - Apache and Frontpage extensions (~ 30)
  • December 2000 - BLUG - Advanced Bash Usage (~15)
  • April 1999 - Indiana University - Mealpoints refund protest speeches (~20)
  • January 1998 - Indiana University - Security presentation in class (~40)
  • 1990 - Warsaw Middle School - Main character in history class play I was the only one who memorized all my lines (~60)