I dipped my toes into public speaking in 2011. Since then, I joined a company that promotes public speaking among its employees and have been an advocate for it ever since.

You will find below:

  • Pictures of me in action at various events
  • Testimonials from event organizers
  • A list of all my talks, as an attemp at trying to keep count of all the events I spoke and will speak at. You can of course use it to track me down and talk to me in person at an upcoming event!

Speaking at various conferences

Testimonials

Here's what event organizers have to say about me and my performance on stage at their events:

Tim Bourguignon convinces through his technology independent expertise. As a keynote speaker, he enriched our 2016 community pre-event at the Technical Summit and made the 130 participants not only think but also revise their opinions!"

Jan Schenk - Community Manager Microsoft Deutschland

Tim gave a keynote about mentoring on our Agile Lead Camp in May 2018. It was a joy to follow his presentation full of anecdotes and references to major blockbusters all symbolized through his nice handdrawn slides. Accompanied by his vivid and enthusiastic talk this is a must-see for everyone. Thanks a lot Tim!"

Mukadder Karasu - Orga-Team B-DoSE, arxes-tolina GmbH

We had the pleasure to meet Tim the first time at the Agile Lead Camp where he held this talk about mentoring "You'll never make it alone". We were impressed and invited him at once to the annual Tech Summit of our company to do the same talk. It was really inspiring and supportive for our teams and highly recommended to everyone who deals with people. Thank you, Tim!

Carolin Metzner, Scrum Master, think project! GmbH

Tim convinced us through his professional, but also friendly appearance on the Manage Agile conference. His talk "1001 Pitfalls, Corporate-ScrumMaster Anti-patterns" was very well receivedby the audience, which the evaluations confirmed. We would be glad to have him again in the program of one of our agile conferences."

Alexander Bertler - Project Manager HLMC Events GmbH

Tim has helped us twice on short notice at the TopConf Linz conferences. He delivered top notch talks, about Craftsmanship and Mentoring, that received some of the best attendee ratings. I would strongly encourage you to consider Tim for your next event."

Chris Frei - Topconf Founder

Keynotes and bigger rooms...

Most accurate speaking-log to date ;)

~Last update: 2023.06.07 || Sum:89 || Countries: 8 || Podcasts: 12 || Webinars : 1~

2024 [1]

  • MATHEMA Campus, Leadership im Keller, talk about remote leadership (April 2024)

2023 [2]

2022 [1]

2021 [1]

  • Untold Developer Stories I spoke about mentorship, leadership, my role as a Chief Learning Officer, and the DevJourney podcast (July 2021)
  • DevTalks Show #49 talking about DevJourney and podcasting
  • The state of Low-Code/No-Code tools, DWX Conference, Online (July 2021)
  • DevTalk Podcast #64 - All about podcasting in general and the DevJourney podcast in particular (March 2021)

2020 [2]

  • Junior to Senior Podcast #12 talking about leadership and communication
  • How will our future workspace look like? 2/2 (Participative Workshop, NIK Online, November 2020)
  • How will our future workspace look like? 1/2 (Participative Workshop, NIK Online, July 2020)

Canceled due to the Coronavirus outbreak:

  • Podcasting 101 (MATHEMA Campus, Erlangen Germany, May 2020)
  • You will never make it alone (MicroXChg, Berlin Germany, April 2020)
  • Agility, two steps back - an agile theater play with David Tanzer (JavaLand, Phantasialand, Brühl, Germany, March 2020)
  • Podcasting 101 - Community Activity (JavaLand, Phantasialand, Brühl, Germany, March 2020)

2019 [10]

  • Podcasting 101 (IT Hubb Braunschweig, Braunschweig Germany, November 2019)
  • The paradox of the no-code-developer (Herbstcampus, Nuremberg Germany, September 2019)
  • You will never make it alone (Developer Week, Erlangen Germany, June 2019)
  • Agility, two steps back - an agile theater play with David Tanzer (Developer Week, Erlangen Germany, June 2019)
  • Agility, two steps back - an agile theater play with David Tanzer (MATHEMA Campus, Nuremberg Germany, May 2019)
  • Keto: it's a no grainer (MATHEMA Campus, Erlangen Germany, May 2019)
  • What if Luke Skywalker had gone drinking instead? with Lisa Messerli (MATHEMA Campus, Nuremberg Germany, May 2019)
  • What if Luke Skywalker had gone drinking instead? with Lisa Messerli JavaLand, Phantasialand, Brühl, Germany, March 2019
  • Mentoring Fight-Club community event JavaLand, Phantasialand, Brühl, Germany, March 2019
  • ‘What would YOU Call This Talk?’ And Other Powerful Questions OOP, Munich, January 21st-25th 2019

2018 [20]

  • You will never make it alone
  • You will never make it alone
    • Private Keynote for a client, ~Berlin, Germany, November 8th 2018
  • Agilität, 2 Schritte zurück with David Tanzer
  • You‘ll never make it alone
  • ‘What would YOU Call This Talk?’ And Other Powerful Questions with Amitai Schleier
  • Strangle Your Legacy Code with Amitai Schleier
  • ‘What would YOU Call This Talk?’ And Other Powerful Questions
  • You‘ll never make it alone
  • You‘ll never make it alone
    • .Net Day Franken, Nuremberg, Germany, April 28th 2018, Talk elected "best talk of the conference" by the attendees
  • ‘What would YOU Call This Talk?’ And Other Powerful Questions
  • Mentoring für Ahnungslose - Workshop
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
    • Mayday @Mayflower, Munich, Germany, April 6th 2018
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
    • Private event for a client, ~Karlsruhe, Germany, March 19th 2018
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
    • JavaLand, Phantasialand, Brühl, Germany, March 13-15th 2018
  • Mentoring speed-dating community event
    • JavaLand, Phantasialand, Brühl, Germany, March 13-15th 2018
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
    • OOP, Munich Germany, February 5-9th 2018
  • 9 practical ideas to up your game right now (Pecha Kucha)
    • OOP, Munich Germany, February 5-9th 2018
  • Developer's Journey
    • Code Days, Munich Germany, February 5-9th 2018
  • Developer's Journey

In addition to those talks, I was a conference track moderator at the Manage Agile, Berlin Germany in October 2018. I also reviewed papers for 3 conferences: MATHEMA Campus, Herbstcampus & Javaland and was a member of the program commitee for the first two.

2017 [18]

As hinted in 2016, I started 2017 by building on my two topics: Developer's Journey and Agile Leadership. "The forgotten art of mentoring" talk emerged from DevJourney and overlaps more or less with it depending on the length of the talks.

Here's where you can catch a glimps of me... or where you missed me already:

  • The forgotten art of mentoring + Mentoring Speed-Dating
  • The forgotten art of mentoring + Mentoring Speed-Dating
  • The agile league of extraordinarily shortsighted agile super-leaders
    • Manage Agile, Berlin Germany, November 15th 2017
    • Rated in the top 5 Talk of the conference
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
    • TopConf, Düsseldorf Germany, October 6th 2017
  • The agile league of extraordinarily shortsighted agile super-leaders
    • TopConf, Düsseldorf Germany, October 6th 2017
  • The agile league of extraordinarily shortsighted agile super-leaders
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
  • If only unicorn-developers could grow on trees!
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
  • The agile league of extraordinarily shortsighted agile super-leaders
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
    • NCrafts, Paris France, May 18th 2017 (<- Cancelled du to health issues)
  • The Unicorns strike back, the forgotten art of mentoring
  • The agile league of extraordinarily shortsighted agile super-leaders
  • The agile league of extraordinarily shortsighted agile super-leaders
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
  • The forgotten art of mentoring
  • The forgotten art of mentoring

This year, Vasco Duarte trusted me in hosting a french spinoff of the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast. We created 6 episodes in french, which were published every saturday during the summer. You can find the episodes here:

And of course, I continued hosting the DevJourney podcast. Find our more on devjourney.info

2016 [9]

In 2016, I stepped a bit out of the tech circuit to concentrate on the soft skills developer need to become excellent. I order to prepare the release of the book I am writing (see here and here), I talked at a few different events.

Building on the experience of the last years, I also created a few new Agile talks that I will probably roll out in 2017 as well.

  • Ach, wenn Einhorn-Entwickler auf Bäume wachsen würden! (DevJourney Keynote)
  • 1001 Pitfals, Corporate Scrum Master antipatterns
  • Agile Mythbusters
  • Developer's journey
    • Techs'R'Us, Live Event organized by Microsoft Germany, June 2016
  • Developer's journey
    • .NET Day Franken, Nürnberg, Germany, June 2016, Talk elected "best talk of the conference" by the attendees
  • Developer's journey
  • Developer's journey
  • Developer's journey
  • Breeding unicorn developers

2015 [5]

Because of some non-work-related hickups, I decided to pull up a little bit on the talks front early in 2015.

Nevertheless, I responded to the challenge of creating a new talk, but not alone. With my colleague Thomas Künneth we created the talk App-ocalypse Now / The backside of your app that we presented a multiple conferences.

On another front, I was guest on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and had the chance to discuss with Vasco Duarte over 5 Episodes about my career path as an agilist and a Scrum Master and some of the learnings I gathered until now.

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast Logo

Here is a summary of the talks I gave:

2014 [7]

In 2014 I did some research on the idea or writing a Regex DSL (you can read about all my findings and research process in the blog - the first post of the series is called The birth of SimpleExpression). In this Talk, I describe the idealistic original view of the DSL, the syntaxic research, the implementation and re-work of the language and the final implementation. This research project became another card in my deck called Lost in Translation.

Following the same process, I also wrote about 5 OpenSource libraries that deserve more love. NodaTime, Json.NET, JsonFx, RestSharp and TinyIoC. The first post of the series is called "Running a marathon barefoot." This also became a talk with the same name.

Here is the summary of my appearances:

2013 [6]

In 2013 I added two presentations to my deck.

After a very appreciated screencast about Simple.Data at the .NET User Group Franken's Tools Slam (video in German), I pushed the envelope and created a full presentation to introduce Simple.Data (available on slideshare) and was able to present it a couple times.

This encouraged me to explore the world of C# Dynamics further and create add another presentation to my deck: C# Dynamics in the Wild. The slides are also available on slideshare. This talk explores the dynamic keyword of C# 4.0 and its usages in frameworks and applications.

Here is a summary of my appearances:

2012 [2]

Encouraged by a job I partially chose exactly for this reason, I finally stepped up and created my first talk about combining NancyFX and Simple.Data (talk on slideshare) for Rapid Application Development following the Super Duper Happy Path.

I was able to present it twice in 2012:

2011 [1]

  • Writing code for a living & Living for writing code two day session as a guest at the UIST (University of Information Science and Technology) in Ohrid, Macedonia.

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