Dave has spoken extensively around the world as an invited guest at conferences, lectures, workshops and seminars. In that time, he has developed a solid reputation as an insightful, knowledgable and thought-provoking speaker who's entertaining delivery style is an eclectic mix of wit, charm and humor.
Agile In The Large - Large Scale Product and Application Development
Software Practice Advancement 2007, Cambridge UK, March 24 -28
Radical Thoughts on the Future of Programming 2010-2020
Brisabane, Australia and Seoul, Korea, August 2006
Transitioning Very Large Companies to Agile Methods
Dave Thomas and Robert C. Martin, SD 2006 Best Practices Conference and Expo, September 2006
Hot Old Ideas - Experiences of an Old Country Programmer
JAOO 10th Annual Conference, October 2006
How Will We be Programming in 2016?
JAOO 2006 10th Annual Conference Keynote Panel, October 2006
Agile Methods
OOPSLA 2006 Panel - Portland, Oregon, October 2006
Aspects: Passing Fad or New Foundation?
OOPSLA 2005 Panel
Fostering Software Robustness in an Increasingly Hostile World
OOPSLA 2005 Panel
Computational Diversity, Practice and a Passion for Applications
OOPSLA 2005 Onward
Scaling Agile Development
JAOO Conference, September 2005
6th Generation Languages - Back To The Future
JAOO Conference, September 2005
The Joy of Scripting
JAOO Conference, September 2005
Who Will Write Software in 10 Years from now - and Where?
DSL Panel of Experts JAOO Conference, September 2005
Model Engineering - The Role of Models in Software
UML Design World Keynote, June 13, 2005.
Transitioning AOSD from Research Park to Main Street
AOSD 2005 Conference Keynote, March 17, 2005.
Programming in the Large - The Challenges of Building Applications Using Modern Object Technology
Keynote, JAOO Conference, September 2004
Panel on Domain Driven Development
JAOO Conference, September 2004
Going Long and Deep - Building Sustainable Competitive Advantage with IC/IP
Ottawa Presidents Club, July 2004; Brockville TEA, May 2004
Worse is Worse: Challenges Building Large Scale Software with Class Libraries and Frameworks
ECOOP Workshop on Practical Problems of Programming in the Large, June 2004
First Class Execution: Actors and Messages
Invited Talk: 2nd Workshop on Object-Oriented Language Engineering for the Post-Java Era: Back to Dynamistic.
Domain Oriented Programming
IBM Research, April 2004.
Open Augment – Back To The Future
An XML Conference Keynote 2003.
Model Driven Development - The Case for Domain Oriented Programming
OOPSLA, October 2003.
Panel: Meeting the Challenge of Software Engineering Education for Working Professionals in the 21st Century
OOPSLA, October 2003.
Panel: Model Driven Architecture: How far have we come, how far can we go?
OOPSLA, October 2003.
Panel: Reuse Repositories and Reuse? The Realities
OOPSLA, October 2003.
SPIN Talk - Scaling Agile Development
Ottawa Software Process Improvement Group, September 2003.
Smalltalk Back To The Future
Ottawa Smalltalk Users Group, September 2003.
Open Augment
Ottawa XML Users Group Talk, September 2003.
You Can’ Do That With Smalltalk! – Can You? Lessons From The Past – Challenges For The Future
Dave Thomas, John Manzo, Narti Kitiyakara, Russell Stay, Aldo Dagnino at ESUG, August 2003.
Content Engineering – Challenges and Opportunities
Omnimark Users Group, Baltimore, Dec 2002.
Agile Experiences. XP/Agile Universe 2002
Chicago, August 2002.
Agile Software And The Agile Alliance
Agile Oz 2002, May 2002.
Scaling Agile Development
Agile Oz 2002, May 2002.
The Care and Feeding Of Angel Investors
OCRI TEB, April 24, 2002.
Computational Diversity and a Passion For Applications Objects are Not Everything
Net.ObjectDays 2001, September 2001.
Escape from Middleware - Application Development with and by Intelligent End-User
Net.ObjectDays 2001, September 2001.
Escape from Middleware - Application Development with and by Intelligent End-Users
Evolve Conference 2001: Pervasive Business, May 2001, Sydney Australia.
Aspect-Oriented Programming, Fad or the Future
Panel at the 14th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2000).
Just In Time Software - A Process for Software Manufacturing, Software Architectures and Component Technology - The State of the Art in Research and Practice
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, January 2000.
Building Embedded Systems Using Objects, Components and Virtual Machines
STJA Conference, Erfurt Germany, Sept 1999.
The Technology and Sociology of Software Reuse: Experiences of a Playing Coach
Jav Aus 99, Sydney, Australia, February 1999
Visual Application Development – Lessons from the IBM Visual Age Experience
IEEE Visual Languages Conference, Halifax, Canada, September 1998
Universal Virtual Machines: Object Engines for Business and Engineering
Belgian Smalltalk Users Group, Leuven University, Belgium, July 1998
The Technology and Sociology of Software Reuse: Experioences of a Playing Coach
1998 Middleware Development Best Practices Conference, Toronto, May 1998
UVM Virtual Machines – Object Engines for Business and Engineering
Objectos Distribuidos ’97, Curitiba, Brazil, December 1997
Distributed Objects and the Internet
TOOLS Pacific, Melbourne, November 1997
UVM Virtual Machines – Object Engines for Business and Engineering
CASCON ’97, Toronto November 1997
Messages, MUDS and Massive Parallelism: Life after Java and WWW
ECOOP ’97, Jyvaskyla, Finland, June 1997
If ODP is the Answer, what is the Question? -- A Pragmatic Look at the Challenges of Building Enterprise Applications
ICODP’97, Toronto, May 1997
A Look Over the Horizon: What Hot Technologies/Markets are Next?
IBM World Wide Production Solutions, Orlando, April 1997
Just in Time for Software - I wish! Objects, Software, IC’s, ORBS and all that Stuff
IBM World Wide Production Solutions, Orlando, April 1997
Managing Software Development in Web Time Software
Software Development Conference, San Francisco, March 1997
Life in the VisualAge: Can an Ant Marry an Elephant?
Gemstone AGM, Portland, January 1997
Visual Machines -- Object Engines for Business and Engineering
SIGS Object Expo Switzerland, Zurich, November 1996
Software Quality Assurance in the Era of Just in Time Software
61CSQ Conference, Ottawa, October 1996
Technology Executive Breakfast
OCRI, Ottawa, September 1996
Application Architecture – Staying on Course in Turbulent Seas
Object World Australia ‘96, Sydney, August 1996
Application Architecture – Staying on Course in Turbulent Seas
Object World Singapore, Singapore, August 1996
VisualAge – Mainframe to Set Top Box, Industrial R&D Experience on the Road to Object Utopia
IBM Embedded Systems Forum, New York, July 1996
Experience on the Road to Utopia: An Industrial Research and Development Perspective
COOTS ’96, Toronto, June 1996
Distributed Technologies - Competing for a Network Centric World
Association of Computer Machinery, Nashville, May 1996
OO Technology Panel
IBM ’96 Technical Interchange, Nashville, April 1996
Ubiquitous Smalltalk, COMMON ’96
San Francisco, April 1996
Object Utopia Keynote Address
ISOTAS ’96 Kanazawa March 1996
Ubiquitous Smalltalk, La Technologie Objet au coeur des systemes d’information
Ingenia,Paris, February 1996
Component Based Software Engineering Keynote Address
TRIO, January 1996
Software Quality Assurance
Software Engineering ‘95, Paris, November 1995
Ubiquitous Smalltalk: Mainframe to a Watch Keynote
OOPSLA ’95, Austin, October 1995
OO Software Engineering Tutorial
Object World Frankfurt, October 1995
Software Quality Assurance Keynote Address
Object World Frankfurt, October 1995
Experiences on the Road to Utopia Keynote Address
ECOOP ’95, Aarhus, Denmark, August 1995
Smalltalk Application Development and Delivery Tutorial
Object World Australia, Sydney, August 1995
Smalltalk Software Quality Assurance
Object World Australia, Sydney, August 1995
Component Based Software Development Keynote Address
Object World Australia, Sydney, August 1995
Component Based Software Engineering
COSAC, Carleton University, Ottawa, April 1995
Achieving a Competitive Edge in New Application Development: The Coming Revolution in Component Object Technologies
IIR, Client-Server Computing Summit, Taipei, February 1995
Component Based Software Engineering
Smalltalk Solutions ’95, February 1995
Component Based Software Engineering Keynote Address
OOP’95, Munich, February 1995
Smalltalk: The OO 5GL for the Rest of Us
UBILABS, Zurich, November 1994
Component Based Software Engineering Keynote Address
Unican Executive Symposium on OT, Toronto, October 1994
Component Based Software Construction: The transition from craft to engineering
Object World Germany, Frankfurt, September 1994
Component Based Software Construction: The transition from craft to engineering
Object World Australia, Sydney, September 1994
Smalltalk: The Emergence of a Standard OO 5GL for Enterprise Computing
Database Client-Server World, Boston, June
1994
DND/CSE Conference, Ottawa, June 1994
CIPS, Toronto, April 1994
BCS UK Object Technology '94, Oxford, March 1994
Objex, San Francisco, March 1994
DCI Database Client-Server World, Chicago, December 1993
Object World Germany, Frankfurt, September 1993
Software World/Client-Server World, Toronto, May 1993
Experiences of a Project Manager: avoiding the potholes on the road to OO Utopia
Objex, San Francisco, March 1994 and OCRI ISO Seminar, February 1994
Object-Oriented Programming for Electronic Forms
Canadian Business Forms Assoc., Toronto, October 1993
Experiences of a Playing Coach and Smalltalk - an OO 5GL for the Rest of Us
Object World Australia, Sydney, September 1993
Teaching OO
SUNY Oswego OO Education Symposium, New York, March 1993
Technical Issues in OO Product Development
Object World, Boston, February 1993
Cooperative Processing, from Beginning to End
Fall Common, Anneheim, October 1992
The Role of Methods and CASE in OO Development
OOPSLA '92, Vancouver, October 1992
Object Utopia
IBM OOT Symposium, Boeblingen, October 1992
Managing OO Software Engineering, Developing Common applications using OOT and Commercial Applications Using OOT
Object World, San Francisco, July 1992
Repository: Living Memory or Paperless Archive
DSS Workshop, Hull, June 1992
Object-Oriented Modeling of Distributed Systems and ENVY: A Place for SW to Grow
Department of National Defense, OO Workshop, Valcartier, May 1992
Smalltalk: The OO 5GL for the Rest of Us
IBM Common, Atlanta, April 1992
Collaborative Distributed Applications Development and Experiences of a Playing Coach
Software World '92, Toronto, April 1992
Experiences of a Playing Coach
Software Development '92, Santa Clara, February 1992
Some of My Best Friends have Survived an Alliance
Government of Ontario, Chicago, February 1992
Experiences of a Playing Coach
Peopleware, Boston, September 1991
Implementing OO Languages
ACM/SIGPLAN PLDI, Toronto, June 1991
Development of Commercial Applications/Products Using Object-Oriented Technology
Object World, June 1991
Tools for the Developer and User
Patricia Seybold's Technology Forum, Boston, April 1991
Canadian Innovation
Patent and Trademark Institute AGM, Ottawa, March 1991
Smalltalk in the Real World
BM Object-Oriented Technology Symposium, New York, February 1991
A View of Object-Oriented Computation in the 21st Century
Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS), Ottawa, February 1991
Application Modeling: A Just-In-Time Software Life Cycle for Smalltalk
IBM Office Technology Initiative, Dallas, December 1990
A View of Object-Oriented Computation in the 21st Century
Health and Welfare Canada, November 1990
A View of Object-Oriented Computation in the 21st Century
Colloquium Series, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, October 1990
Experience Packaging Products Developed with Smalltalk: Tuning for Time and Space
IBM- Watson Research Centre, August 1990
Object-Oriented Technology
Teleforum, N. Dean Meyer & Assoc., July 1990
Object-Oriented Projects: What Can Go Wrong
Moderator, SCOOP East, Boston, May 1990
A View of Object-Oriented Computation in the 21st Century
Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), Ottawa, May 1990
Object-Oriented Concepts
IBM SHARE Conference, March 1990
Object-Oriented Design
Ada in Sweden and Ada in Norway, November 1989
The Future of Smalltalk
NCR Corporation, October 1989
Managing Object-Oriented Software Engineering
CASEExpo'89, Sweden, September 1989
Tools for Object-Oriented Software Development
CASEExpo'89, Sweden, September 1989
Managing Object-Oriented Software Engineering
Allen-Bradley, August 1989
Software Engineering with Objects
University of Bari, May 1989
Object-Oriented Design
Hewlett Packard, February 1989
Actra - A Multi-processor Smalltalk System
Rockwell International Science Center, February 1989
Object Oriented Programming
Ministry of Transport, February, 1988
Software Engineering Tools for Smalltalk Programming
Apple Computer, December 1987
Using Smalltalk in Embedded Realtime Systems
BNR, September 1987
Using Smalltalk in Embedded Realtime Systems
Tektronix, August 1987
Visual Programming
Ottawa Human Factors Society, April 1987
Using Gateways to Build Open Systems
OCRI, December 1986
A Survey of Object Oriented Programming Systems
OCRI, September 1986
Actra - A Multi-processor Smalltalk System
Tektronix Research Laboratories, April 1986
Actra - A Multi-processor Smalltalk System
University of Montreal, February 1986
Fifth Generation Computer Systems
Municipal Information Systems Society, January 1986
Fifth Generation Computer Systems
High Tech Update, December 1985
Qualitative Visual Programming
BNR, July 1985
Artificial Intelligence and Fifth Generation Computers
OCRI, May 1985
Computing as a Discovery Process - Logo for Children and Adults
WISE, May 1985
Object-Oriented Data Bases
Mitel, March 1985
DOC Office Communications Seminar Chairman
October, December, February, and April 1984 - 1985
The Actra Project
OCRI Research symposium, December, 1984
Fifth Generation Financial Software
Cognos, June 1984
Local Area Networks
High Tech Update, December 1983
Data Administration Symposium
February 1980 - 1982
Office Automation Personal Computing
DOC December 1981
Software Engineering in the 80 's Keynote Address
Interxchange 1981
Woof - World of the Future
HCUA 1982
The Way Ahead
Interxchange 1980
Data Base Administration Tools
DPI, March 1980