Speaking & Events
I’ve been invited to speak at events about various subjects, and other events I’ve worked or attended. If you’ll be where I am in the near future, I hope you’ll say hi!
I’ll be posting links to slides, videos and transcripts as they become available. Want me to speak at your event? Contact me.
Upcoming Events:
SXSW Interactive Festival, Austin, Texas, March 9-13, 2012.
Past Events:
American Business Group, Milan, February 17, 2012.
Speaker. Online Tools for Entrepreneurs: Create. Collaborate. Communicate. (a condensed version).
LeWeb conference in Paris, December 7-9, 2011.
Ignite Speaker. “The Future of Working: the Distributed Company.” Slides and video in English.
Girl Geek Dinner Milano #18, Milan, Italy. October 14, 2011.
Speaker. “Productivity on your Android Mobile: Top 10 Tips and 40+ Apps.“ Slides in English.
KnowCamp, Modena, Italy. October 8th, 2011.
Speaker. “Digital Curation: The New Frontier of Knowledge.” Slides in English.
WordCamp San Francisco 2011 – San Francisco, CA. August 2011.
Speaker. The annual official WordPress conference. I presented on the Large-Scale Installs day: “WordPress for Large-Scale Installs.” Slides in English.
BlogHer ’11 – San Diego, California. August 2011.
Panel speaker. Presented on a panel about extending websites with community features (and featuring BuddyPress and bbPress, too): “Adding Community Features to your blog”
Groupon Affiliate Webinar – June 2011.
Solo presentation event. “Working with WordPress” presentation and live Q&A. Most popular webinar in their history.
WordCamp Milan 2011 – Milan, Italy. May 2011.
Speaker. Presented “Come fare soldi con WordPress (best practices per consulenti WP)” in Italian. (translated: How to make money with WordPress – best practices for WP consultants).
Professional Women’s Association of Milan – Milan, Italy. May 2011.
Solo presentation event. Presented “Create, Collaborate, Communicate: Online tools for Entreprenuers” in English.
Stampa Estera – Foreign Press, Milan, May 2011.
Solo presentation event. Presented “How to use WordPress as a website (not blog)” to foreign journalists, in Italian. Slides in English and Italian.
SXSW Festival: Interactive, March 2011.
Participant and WordPress.com Happiness Bar. Attended the festival and worked Automattic’s trade booth, the Happiness Bar. Made a brief appearance on TWIT Live (This Week in Tech) by Leo LaPorte at 36:45.
Forum della Communicazione Digitale – Digital Communication Forum, February 2011.
Speaker. Presented an Ignite on “La nuova azienda digitale” – “The new digital company: distributed, online, transparent“ in Italian. Slides in English and Italian.
Girl Geek Dinners, New York City, October 2010.
Participant. I attended the event which featured Jessica Hammer and Kelly Farrell.
WordCamp New York City – NY, NY. October 2010.
Speaker and Happiness Bar.Presented “How to Use Featured Images with WordPress” in English, and worked at the Happiness Bar. Slides in English.
Social Media Week – Milan, Italy.
Speaker. Interviewed at the Social Media Breakfast about social networking and geo-localization, in Italian. Video in Italian.
Girl Geek Dinners Milano – Dinners #1-14.
Organizer and Speaker. Attended dinner #1, and organized dinners #2-14 as main sponsorship coordinator. Retired in 2011, but a frequent attendee. Presented “Getting Involved in Open Source Software” in Italian in 2008. Slides in English and Italian.