These are a list of talks I have deliberately prepared and delivered throughout my career. This list excludes internal work talks and those given for academic assessment purposes.

2024

  • Code Camp Wellington – Wellington, New Zealand – 13th April - “Dry, Wet, Spot….What?” (Slides)

2023

  • Dev World 2023 – Melbourne, Australia – 30-31 March – "Introduction to backend development for iOS devs” (Video)

  • CocoaHeads Sydney – Sydney, Australia – 28th March – "Introduction to backend development for iOS devs” (Video)

2022

  • CocoaHeads Sydney – Sydney, Australia – 21st April – "How to Solve (almost) Any Problem” (Blog post, video (starts at 8:20))

2020 - 2021

There was a pandemic.


2019

  • CocoaHeads Auckland – Auckland, New Zealand – 4th December – "The Code Was The Easy Part: Introducing an iOS UI Library at a Corporate” (Similar video)

  • 123 Tech – Auckland, New Zealand – 23rd October – “My Career So Far”

  • Dev Word 2019 – Melbourne, Australia - 4th September - "Dev Chats with Tim Oliver (Lightning Talk)” ( Video)

  • Dev Word 2019 – Melbourne, Australia - 4th September - "The Code Was The Easy Part: Introducing an iOS UI Library at a Corporate” (Slides, Video)

  • CocoaHeads Auckland – Auckland, New Zealand – 8th August – "Structuring Your Code with the Model-View-Presenter Pattern” (Similar Video)

  • .Net Meetup – Wellington, New Zealand – "Start Your Career Right"(Slides)

  • Summer of Tech Summer Series – 17th of January – “Developing Developers (with Hannah Gray)”

2018

  • Digital Technologies for High Schools (DT4HS) - Wellington, New Zealand - 13th December - “The Tech Industry”

  • Junior Dev Wellington (Meetup) – Wellington, New Zealand - 19th September - "A Guide to the Internet for Junior Developers" (Slides)

  • Mobile Refresh – Wellington, New Zealand – 7th September – "Android vs iOS: A 100% Fully Serious Comparison" (Slides)

  • Dev Word 2018 – Melbourne, Australia - 27th August - "Structuring Your Code with the Model-View-Presenter Pattern” (Slides, Code, Video)

  • Dev Word 2018 – Melbourne, Australia - 27th August - "Sam Jarman’s 12 Step Guide to Becoming an iOS Developer” (Blog Post, Video)

  • Guest Lectures for VUW SWEN 325 – 8th, 9th August – "An Introduction to Mobile UX (Parts 1 & 2)"

  • ITx 2018 – Wellington, New Zealand – "Start Your Career Right" – July 13th (Slides)

  • Code Camp Wellington – Wellington, New Zealand – "Start Your Career Right" – April 14th (Slides)

2017

  • Career Panel with Summer of Tech, Wellington, New Zealand – November 30th

  • Work In Progress – Wellington, New Zealand – November 8th – "What will be the Features of the Next Economy?" (Script)

  • Dev World 2017 – Melbourne, Australia – August 30th – "Australia vs NZ: A 100% fully serious bro comparison" (Video)

  • Dev World 2017 – Melbourne, Australia – August 30th – "Stability Through Rapid Growth" (No slides or video, sorry!)

  • Dev World 2017 – Melbourne, Australia – August 29th – "Careers Panel" (Panel with 4 others)(No video, sorry!)

  • Mobile Refresh – Wellington, NZ – August 25th - "What's New in Push Notifications?" (Slides)

  • CS Unplugged Guest Talk – Online – May 3rd – "Agile Methodologies" (Video)

2016

  • NZ CIO Forum – Wellington, NZ – December 7th – "The Future - A Millennial's View" (Blog) (Slides)

  • CS4HS – Christchurch, NZ – December 1st – "The Future" (Blog) (Slides)

  • Microsoft Ignite – Auckland, NZ – October 25th – "The Future of Apps" (Video) (Slides)

  • CocoaHeads NYC – New York City, USA – October 14th – "User Notifications in Depth"

  • Dev World 2016 – Melbourne, Australia – August 29th – "User Notifications in Depth" (Video)

  • ITx – Wellington, NZ – July 11th – "The Future" (Transcript)

  • NZCSRSC – Wellington, NZ – April 28th – "From CS Lab to Startup Land"

  • Summer of Tech – Wellington, NZ – March 10th – "Who Am I?"

2015

  • Summer of Tech Summer Seminar Series (Meetup) – Wellington, NZ – November 24th – "So you wanna build an app?" (Slides)

  • Wellington Web Development (Meetup) – Wellington, NZ – October 1st – "So you wanna build an app?" (Slides)

  • Dev World 2015 – Melbourne, Australia – August 29th – "Swift as a First Programming Language" (Video)

  • Summer of Tech – Wellington, NZ – August 24th – "Mobile Marketing Automation"

  • Cocoaheads Wellington (Meetup) – Wellington, NZ – August 20th – "Swift as a First Programming Language" (Video)

  • Cocoaheads Wellington (Meetup) – Wellington, NZ – May 14th – "Experiences with iBeacon" (Blog Post)

  • Enspiral Dev Academy – Wellington, NZ – March 30th – "Creative and Powerful Marketing at Scale" (Slides)

  • Cocoaheads Wellington (Meetup) – Wellington, NZ – March 12th – "Introducing DogeKit" (GitHub)

2014

  • University of Canterbury Computer Science Lecture – Christchurch, NZ – October 15th – "Introduction to Mobile Programming"

  • IITP Connect Presentation – Christchurch, NZ – March 20th – "Five Years of IT"

  • University of Canterbury Computer Society Event – Christchurch, NZ – March 20th – "Why I Love Mobile"

2013

  • Christ's College Programming Club – Christchurch, NZ – August 21st – "So You're Interested in Programming - Now What?"

Panels

  • Summer of Tech – Wellington, NZ – January 29th 2014 – "Bridging the Student and Industry Gap"

  • Canterbury Software Summit – Christchurch, NZ – October 2013 – "Sofware Heroes Panel Discussion" (Video)

Podcasts and Radio

  • Access Granted Podcast, September 20th 2018, “Mobile Refresh 2018” (Listen)

  • IT Career Energiser Podcast, September 17th 2018, “Your Code Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect” (Listen)

  • Learn Swift Podcast - May 23 2018 - "Sam Jarman, iOS Dev @ BNZ" (Listen)

  • Access Granted Podcast - January 29 2018 "No time for messing around, just get into it" (Listen)

  • This Could Be Interesting – October 1 2016 – "TCBI #3" (Listen)

  • Radio New Zealand This Way Up – April 23 2011 – "Food Apps" (Listen)