Talks/Workshops

I regularly speak at events and conferences or give workshops. Below you can find my posts about my talks. They are usually about my main topic of interest: Open Data. I put most of my slides on SpeakerDeck.

HSR Fachvortrag: Wie das Open Data Portal der Stadt Zürich seine Daten erntet

As a HSR allumnus I was proud to be invited to talk at the “HSR Fachvortrag” series about my new employer and how we harvest data for the Open Data Portal of Zurich.

Open Data Beer: Open Data and search engines

I could present my contribution to CKAN for the Google Dataset Search at the Open Data Beer event at Liip on the 2 April 2019.

Digital Real Estate Summit 2018: Open Data in der Immobilienbranche

Ich war eingeladen am Digital Real Estate Summit 2018 über “Open Data in der Immobilienbranche zu sprechen”. Der Talk war ein kurzer Abriss zum Thema Open Data und v.a. ein Workshop-Teil für die…

Open Education Day 2017: HTML/CSS Workshop

The /ch/open association hosted the Open Education Day 2017 at the FHNW in Brugg/Windisch.

2nd Dark Night in Zurich: Open Data Workshop

Together with Zentrum Karl der Grosse, the Chaos Computer Club Zurich (CCCZH) and the Digitale Gessellschaft Schweiz organized the 2nd Dark Night in Zurich.

Jugend hackt Schweiz: Github & Git

I was co-organizing “Jugend hackt” in Switzerland this year. If you want more information about the event, read the excellent blog post about it, watch the video of the final presentations or read…

CKANCon 2016: How We Combined CKAN with WordPress

This year the CKANCon was in Madrid, prior to the International Open Data Conference. It was a one day, rather tech-focused, conference. As CKAN is the framework I’m using almost on a daily basis…

Hacks/Hackers: Open Data Portals + Civic Hacking

I was invited by the Hacks/Hackers meetup to give a talk about my passion “open data”, so I decided to mashup my previous talks and talk about my work (building open data portals) and my private…

opendata.swiss - What is it and how does it work?

At this years OpenData.ch conference in Lausanne I could present the current state of the Swiss federal open data portal opendata.swiss and give some technical insights on how we built certain…

Civic Hacking @ ImNeuland

At the “Informatiktage 2016” there were several events and I spoke at the ImNeuland conference about civic hacking. My talk was mainly about why I consider myself to be a civic hacker, why my…

Open Data MashUp @ Impact Hub

Last week I had the opportunity to talk at the Impact Hub in Zurich about Open Data. This event was part of a group of events in different locations of Impact Hub, called MashUp.

Learn to code if you want to. I’m happy to help.

Even though I’m not an education expert, and I don’t really have a professional background in didactics, I have some experience when I comes to teach people how to code, especially if they never…

Workshop about Open Data Technologies

At todays Opendata.ch Conference 2014 I had the opportunity to talk about technologies around the topic of open data. I gave a quick overview over different approaches that are being used including C…

Q&A Wall at the OKFestival in Berlin

Some time ago the OKFestival asked for session proposals for this years conference in Berlin. I was at the conference last year in Geneva and enjoyed very much. It’s just a nice atmosphere to talk…