A selection of talks I've given since 2017, mainly on technical subjects.

• [Upcoming] Swarms, Civilizations and Games. Seeing how agents behave when they can talk to each other with the A2A protocol

  Venue: GDG DevFest 2026
  Date: 7th November 2026
  
  [Upcoming] This talk focuses on how the Google A2A protocol works and how it can be used to create swarms of agents that work together by talking to each other.

• From Bioreactor to Bioprocess Intellgience: how Invert accelerates bioprocess using AWS

  Venue: AWS Community Day Malta 2026
  Date: 16th October 2026
  
  This talk focused on the way Invert uses AWS to give back 98% of non-lab time to bioprocess scientists so they can spend more time in the lab.

• AI ta’ Malta – Your local AI

  Venue: CryptoĦub Malta
  Date: 30th September 2026
  
  This talk focused on the Vuċi Project (vuci.mt), on how AI can be used to preserve a dying language and even help revive it.

• Thriving Human Agency in an increasingly Agentic World

  Venue: TechTok Malta 2026
  Date: 16th September 2026
  
  This talk focused on my personal experience of going from zero agentic capability to developing software fully using agents over a period of 10 months while working at a YC backed startup.

• Let me convince you about Kubernetes

  Venue: GDG DevFest 2025 Valletta
  Date: 25th November 2025
  
  This talk focused on going from zero Kubernetes knowledge to using helm to deploy multiple different services. It uses Minecraft servers and bots as examples of how Kubernetes can allow you to flexibly deploy the same piece of software to make something that works better that the sum of its parts.

• Migrating 150 Engineers from GitLab to GitHub with a single day of downtime

  Venue: TechTok Malta 2025
  Date: 19th September 2025
  
  This talk focused on how 150 engineers were migrated from GitLab to GitHub in a single day with near zero disruption and what it took to plan and execute it.

• Migrating 150 Engineers from GitLab to GitHub with a single day of downtime

  Venue: AWS Community Day Malta
  Date: 30th May 2025
  
  This talk focused on how 150 engineers were migrated from GitLab to GitHub in a single day with near zero disruption and what it took to plan and execute it.

• AI and Maltese Law

  Venue: GDG Meetup “Build with AI”
  Date: 6th May 2024
  
  This talk focused on the similarities between Lawyers and Software Engineers, then shows how grounding an LLM's output in laws placed in a RAG database can correct hallucinated output.

• Practical Introduction to Kubernetes

  Venue: GDG DevFest 2023
  Date: 6th December 2023
  
  This talk focused on explaining the basic of Kubernetes, starting from containers going all the way to autoscaling deployments across multiple nodes.

• Demystifying AI and Machine Learning

  Venue: Internal Hotjar talk
  Date: 1st December 2023
  
  This talk focused on helping people understand what Machine Learning actually is without using buzzwords, in a time when AI hype was really taking off.

• Scaling with Kubernetes

  Venue: Google I/O Extended
  Date: 2nd August 2023
  
  This talk focused on how Kubernetes can be used to scale applications, both from a reliability and a cost perspective.

• Introduction to WebAssembly

  Venue: MaltaJS
  Date: 24th October 2019
  
  This talk introduced early WebAssembly capabilities.

• Demystifying Machine Learning

  Venue: LaveCon UK
  Date: 9th June 2018
  
  This talk focused on helping people understand what Machine Learning actually is without using buzzwords, before the LLM explosion.

• Evaluating AI performance in Road Traffic Sign Recognition

  Venue: GDG Malta
  Date: 12th April 2018
  
  This talk described the results of my Bachelor's Degree thesis which focused on benchmarking pre-processing techniques to improve recognition of traffic signs using CNNs without altering the model.

• Supercharging Charity Live Streaming using CharityBot

  Venue: LaveCon UK
  Date: 24th June 2017
  
  This talk introduced a new way to track charity livestream fundraising using the built in Chromium instance of OBS.