Terence Eden. He has a beard and is smiling.
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Speaking Engagements


I regularly present at industry events and am often called on to be the keynote speaker. If you're interested in having me speak at your next technology event, please get in contact.

Here is a selection of conference talks I've given:

FOSDEM 2025

Lessons learned Open Sourcing the UK's Covid Tracing App

EMF 2024

Lessons learned Open Sourcing the UK's Covid Tracing App

State of Open 2023

CyberUK 2022

Tap Into Twitter 2021

The new Twitter Conversation API is here. This is a quick tour of how it works and how you can create interesting and exotic visualisations of threaded discussions.

Institute for Government 2020

Data Bites #10: Getting things done with data in government

Digital Transformation in Urgent and Emergency Care 2019

Terence Eden, Senior Technology Adviser, Dept, of Health and Social Care, and Matt Stibbs, Product Lead, NHS Digital, on the importance of Open Standards in Urgent and Emergency Care at #DUEC2019

Offentligt Digitaliseringsfællesskab 2019

Make things open - it makes things better oplæg til OS2 og KITA temadag

Web Performance London 2019

All the cool kids use SVG. Vector graphics are small, fast, and can do all sorts of amazing things. This talk will explain what SVGs are, how to use them, techniques to make them as small and fast as possible, and some nifty tricks you can use.

ThingMonk 2016

Science After Brexit 2016

Terence Eden discusses what Brexit means for data and privacy in the UK using Casablanca as an analogy.

DevTalks Romania 2016

The future of software development: predictions for 2020

Oxford Famelab 2015

I was a regional finalist at Oxford Famelab. Here I present a short history of the ENIGMA machine.

Digital Henley 2015

Terence Eden talks at the first Digital Henley event on 13th May 2015 regarding Apps, Businesses and the world of Mobile in relation to business necessity.

TEDx 2015

I was one of two UK employees throughout Telefónica's worldwide business chosen to present at a TEDx event. I opened the conference talking about my experience of teaching kids to code using MIT's Scratch programming language.

BCS SPA 2014

BCS Software Practice Advancement Conference – lead a workshop discussing blogging in a professional capacity.

Learning and Technologies Conference 2014

"What we need," says your boss, "is an app!" A hush falls over the room. An app? How do you tell her that an app isn't necessarily the universal panacea she thinks? How do you ensure that the learning experience you deliver is useful? How do you make sure it's on budget and on time? What technologies will you need for creation, and how will different device types alter the learner experience? How do you test your assumptions?

OpenTech 2013

OpenTech – London. Presentation on the ethics of crowd-sourcing political funding.

Open Mobile Alliance Dublin 2013

Open Mobile Alliance – Dublin. Presentation on the standardisation of QR codes.

25th Privacy Laws Annual Conference - Cambridge University

25th Privacy Laws Annual Conference - Cambridge University. Presentation on legal and privacy issues surrounding mobile applications.

Over The Air 2012

OverTheAir 2012 - Session on QR Codes.

London Web Standards 2011

Keynote speaker at LWS giving an overview of the history of the modern browser.

Derby Museum 2011

As part of Wikimedia UK's GLAM project.

Accenture 2010

The Future Of Android ... And How To Stop It

All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Digital Economy Act 2010

Invited to address the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Digital Economy Act.