Author, speaker, trainer, Emma Hogbin has been delivering public presentations and workshops for over 20 years. She loves to teach and inspire others and is best known for her presentations on retaining women in IT and the 100 mile client roster. Her fun approach to very technical topics never fails to engage even the greatest of technophobes. If you're interested in having Emma speak at your event, or you are interested in hosting a workshop, please get in touch.

My first book on theming Drupal, Front End Drupal, is now available: buy it on Amazon. 

Upcoming Engagements

• SEO Workshop, Owen Sound, August 8
• Open Source technology summer camp, Ottawa, Ontario, August 14
• Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association, September 28

Past Technical Presentations

Below is a selection of past conference presentations and workshops.

2010

• DrupalCon, PHP for Drupal Designers and Presenting You! (speaker training), SanFrancisco, April 16-21
• CMS Expo, Intro to Drupal Theme Design, Advanced Drupal Theme Design, Chicago, May 3-5
• Southern California Linux Expo, Beautiful in Print [slides], Lessons from Life Coaching [slides, video (I'm a few speakers in)], February 20, Los Angeles
• Women in Open Source, Writing Effective Self-Help Guides for World Domination [slides], How to Give a Lightning Talk (aka Presenting You!) [slides], February 19, Los Angeles
• Technical Communicators Association of New Zealand, February 15, Wellington, New Zealand
  
• Kiwi Foo Camp, invited participant, February 12-14, Mahurangi College, Warkworth, New Zealand
• DrupalSouth, PHP for Designers (Front End Drupal) [slides], The "We" Economy [slides], January 24-25, Wellington, New Zealand
  
• Linux Conf Australia (in NZ), Writing Effective Self-Help Guides for World Domination [slides], January 18-23
• Business Mini-Conf, The 100 Mile Client Roster [slides], January 18, Wellington, New Zealand
• Haecksen Mini-Conf, Version Control for Mere Mortals [slides], January 18, Wellington, New Zealand
• Front End Drupal Intensive, January 11, Vancouver, Canada

2009

• Drupal Front End Tips and Tricks (aka PHP for Designers), Drupal Camp Chicago [slides]
• Drupal Front End - PHP for Designers, Do It With Drupal, New Orleans [slides]
• Writing Effective Self-Help Guides for World Domination, Ontario Linux Fest [slides] [video]
• PHP for Designers, DrupalCon Paris, France [slides] [video]
• Bazaar for Mere Mortals, OSCON, San Jose, CA [slides]
• bzr vs git smackdown. Open Source Bridge Portland, OR
• Conference chair. Writing Open Source, Owen Sound, Canada
• Presenting You! presentation and workshop, DrupalCon Washington DC
• The Themer's Toolkit, DrupalCon Washington DC
• Version control for mere (and freelance) mortals, SCaLE 7x, Los Angeles, USA [slides]
• Drupal multi-site for fun and profit, FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium [slides] [video]

2008

• Theming Forms, Drupal Theme Workshop (Centre for Social Innovation, Toronto) [slides]
• Version control for mere (and freelance) mortals, OntarioLinuxFest, Toronto [slides]
• Subverting Proprietary Economics, Free Software and Open Source Symposium, Toronto [slides]
  
• DrupalCon Szeged, Hungary Presentations:
  • Open for (small) Business - subverting traditional economic models [slides] [video]
  • BoF - Crafty Drupal
  • BoF - Front End Drupal - The Book!
• Podcasting at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery
• Moving In: How to port your content from * to Drupal, Waterloo Drupal Group
• Form an orderly queue, ladies OSCON (Portland, OR) [notes] [slides - awarded SlideShow of the Day on July 28]
• Form an orderly queue, ladies LugRadioLive UK (Wolverhampton, UK) [video]
  
• Crafty Drupal, DrupalCampToronto
• Moving In: How to port your content from * to Drupal, DrupalCampToronto [slides]
• Attended BSDCan (it's not a presentation, I know, but it was an excellent conference!)
  
• HICK Tech (conference chair, Owen Sound)!
• Form an orderly queue, ladies, LugRadioLive USA (San Francisco) [video]
  
• HICK Tech, The rural technology experience, NotACon (Cleveland, OH) [slides] [video]
• The Business of Art (Owen Sound) [slides]
• Getting Connected in Owen Sound, Markdale, Durham and Meaford [handout] [slides]
• Taking Your Business On-line info session (Owen Sound)
• Intro to Podcasting, Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound) [handout] [slides]

2007

• A Tour of the GBCN Web site with its builders (Hanover) [slides]
• On-line Promotion, Ontario CONTACT (Mississauga) [slides]
• HICK Tech (conference chair, Owen Sound)

2006

• Accessibility training for the City of Owen Sound
• Web Site Action Plan, Business Enterprise Centre (Owen Sound)

2004

• Documentation, Libre Software Meeting (Bordeaux France)
• Presentation Boot Camp, Toronto Perl Mongers
• Presentation Boot Camp, KW LUG
• Presentation Boot Camp, BGLUG