Public plenaries, panels, and, podcasts covering a variety of topics across libraries, talent, technology, and entrepreneurship.
📅 2023
- AIIP: Global, Mobile, Social, Local: Becoming the Modern Information Professional
- SAGE Insights: Lean Library & Skilltype Partnership
- The Patty-G Show: Shhh…Listen Up: Librarians Can Train Online
- New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week: Future of NOLA Tech Ecosystem
- New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week: Stayin’ Alive
- ASERL: DEI Success Stories and Exceeding Expectations: Skilltype
📅 2022
- Knowledge Graph Technology Showcase (Winter 2022) E3: Skilltype
- Black Tech NOLA: Founder’s Chat
- ATLA: Culture or Collections: Navigating the Next Chapter in Libraries
- Against the Grain: A Conversation with Tony Zanders
- Phelps Dunbar: Connecting the Dots in the Startup Ecosystem
- Out to Lunch New Orleans: You Know It with Tulane Professor Peter Ricchiuti
- Out to Lunch Baton Rouge: Look It Up: Skilltype
- San Jose State University: To Mint Or Not To Mint: The NFT Question
- Charleston Hub: Library Discovery and Access in a Post-COVID World
- Louisiana State University: Coding a Career
- New Orleans Entrepreneurs Week: Serving Communities, Scaling Companies
- ER&L: Developing a data-driven approach to library organizational development
- TDNet: Interview with Skilltype CEO Tony Zanders
- RLUK: Identifying Global Expertise in the Modern Library Economy
- ALIA: Diversifying the Library Workforce Using Linked Data
- VALA: The Overnight Transition to Online Training
- The Future Trends Forum: The Future of Academic Libraries and Work
📅 2021
- NISO: Team-Building
- CNI: Identifying Global Expertise in the Modern Library Economy
- CharlestonCon: Library & Little Guys – Small Businesses & Libraries Partner to Reach Shared Goals
- CharlestonCon: Diversity is Not a Webinar – Navigating the Library Industry in the Age of DEI
- AAHSL: Future-proofing Health Science Libraries: Strategic Planning Workshop for Leadership Teams
- RLUK: Introducing Skilltype — Talent Management for the GLAM Sector
- RLUK: Future-proofing the research library: Designing talent strategy for 2030 and beyond
- PALCI: Sharing Our Expertise
- IFLA: Opportunities to reimagine professional development through online learning
- NCAAL: Revisiting Our Entrepreneurial Roots – Libraries as a Renaissance of Black Invention
- ASERL: Uncomfortable Conversations with Librarians – a DEI Perspective
- Metrolina: The Next Chapter – Libraries Post-Pandemic
- Black Tech NOLA: Black In Business – Marketing Your Technology as a Black Founder
- ARL: Building Better – Rethinking Work
- VALA: New Ways of Learning – Lifelong Learning Reimagined with New Technology
- BREW: RESOLVE Redux – Advancing the Conversation
📅. 2020
- LYRASIS: Leadership During Crisis – Leading in the New Now
- METRO NYC: From Downturn to Downturn: Applying 2010 Lessons to 2020
- CNI: Modernizing Scholarly Professional Development with A11Y and AI
- CharlestonCon: Reimagining the Conference Experience in a Post-COVID Library World
- ARL: Analyzing Library Expertise – Interrogating Expertise Data at Gonzaga University
- SLA: Rethinking Professional Development in LIS
- VALA: Preparing for 2030 with Skilltype – A Digital Marketplace for Information Professionals
- ARL: Exploring Careers in Libraries and Archives
- The Kindle Chronicles: Interview with Tony Zanders at Skilltype
📅. 2019
- OCLC: Developing Staff Talent and Future Leaders
- Black Tech NOLA: The Next Generation of Tech – From Consumers to Creators
- BCALA: From Plagiarism to Profitability – How the Library Helped Me Find My Way
📅 2017
- CharlestonCon: A Decade in Discovery – Updating Assumptions in Information Access and Retrieval
- University of Sydney: Symposium on the Future of Libraries
- ACRL: Yearning and Yielding for Change – Rethinking the ILS/LSP at Its Core
📅 2016
- VALA: Re-aligning Technology Strategy: Questioning Tradition in Today’s Technology Evaluations
- Liberact: Libraries as Enablers – Cultivating Contributors in the Curation Age
- EBSCO: Far East Technology Panels
📅 2012
🖊 Writings
- Is Foreign Language Training the Key to Creating More Coders?
- Schools and Tools: How the ‘Big Easy’ is Gearing up for the Next Decade
- Should Schools Train Teachers Like Designers? One CEO is Convinced
- Lessons From Pittsburgh: Rallying the Local Troops Around Innovation in Education
- Failure as a Currency
- What a Dinner Experiment Taught Me About School