This page is an archive of my past speaking engagements. For more information, please visit the [main speaking page](/en/speaking/).
A few of my talks are available in video at the bottom of this page, if you want to watch them.
Past engagements, from most recent to oldest:
*2009: I’ve taken a bit of a break from speaking and attending conferences after way too much travel in 2007-2008*
– 02.2009 LIFT09, Geneva (workshop co-host: Where will you work tomorrow? — video)
– 10.2008 Head Conference, Internet (online): Going Solo: My Story and What I Learned (speaker)
– 10.2008 Web2.0Expo, Berlin, DE: Gender Issues in Web 2.0 Careers (panelist)
– 10.2008 SHiFT, Lisbon, PT: Online Culture: what parents, teenagers and teachers need to know (speaker)
– 04.2008 Club44, La Chaux-de-Fonds (speaker)
– 03.2008 [SXSW Interactive](http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/), Austin, TX, USA (core conversation co-host: [Opening the Web to Linguistic Realities](http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/544)
– 03.2008 [SXSW Interactive](http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/), Austin, TX, USA (panel moderator: [Lost in Translation? Top Website Internationalization Lessons](http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/349))
– 03.2008 [BlogTalk](http://2008.blogtalk.net/), Cork, Ireland (panel moderator)
– 03.2008 WebCamp SNP, Cork, Ireland (speaker: [The Case for SPSNs from a User Perspective](http://www.viddler.com/explore/steph/videos/35/))
– 02.2008 [LIFT08 Conference](http://liftconference.com), Geneva (open stage speaker: [Going Solo: Being a Freelancer in a Connected World](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/02/07/lift08-my-going-solo-open-stage-speech/))
– 11.2007 Schweizerische Verband für interne Kommunikation, Zürich (speaker: [Blogging in Internal Communications](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/11/26/blogging-in-internal-communications/))
– 11.2007 ParisWeb, Paris, France (speaker: [Multilinguisme web et problématiques associées](http://2007.paris-web.fr/Presentations-des-intervenants#nov_16-multi-linguisme))
– 11.2007 BlogOpen, Novi Sad, Serbia (speaker: [Being a Blogging Consultant](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/11/12/being-a-blogging-consultant/))
– 11.2007 Web2Open (Web 2.0 Expo), Berlin, Germany (speaker: Waiting For The Babel Fish)
– 09.2007 [MScom Alumni *Jour Fixe*](http://www.mscomalumni.ch/news/events_full.html?events_id=47), Zürich (speaker: [How Blogging Brings Dialogue to Corporate Communications](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/09/24/how-blogging-brings-dialogue-to-corporate-communications/))
– 07.2007 Google Tech Talks, Mountain View, CA, USA (speaker: [Waiting For The Babel Fish](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/07/10/talk-languages-on-the-internet-at-google-tomorrow/))
– 06.2007 Reboot, Copenhagen, DK (speaker: While We Wait For The Babel Fish)
– 03.2007 Blogcamp, Zürich (speaker: Multilingual Blogging)
– 02.2007 Cyberaddictions, Geneva (panel)
– 12.2006 LeWeb3, Paris, France (panel)
– 12.2006 Global Web Manager Network Group (UN), Geneva (speaker)
– 12.2006 Rézonance: L’Age de Peer, Geneva (panel)
– 11.2006 Association Suisse pour la Communication Interne, Lausanne (speaker)
– 11.2006 Stamm Genilem Web 2.0, Lausanne (speaker)
– 02.2006 Nuit du Journal Intime (panel)
– 11.2005 Société des Informaticiens de Suisse Romande (panel)
### Teenagers and Digital Spaces (Talks in schools, to teenagers, [parents](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2005/09/28/blogs-pour-parents-notes-de-conference/), or teachers, unless specified)
– 02.2005 International School of Lausanne (ISL), Le Mont
– 09.2005 Collège du Martinet, Rolle
– 10.2005 Collège de Pailly
– 10.2005 Collège de Moudon
– 11.2005 Association CIAO, Lausanne (partner for “Internet” theme: http://www.ciao.ch/f/internet/infos/)
– 12.2005 Haute Ecole Pédagogique (HEP), Lausanne (training for IT teachers)
– 01.2006 Ecole Vinet, Lausanne
– 05.2006 Ecole d’Etudes Sociales et Pédagogiques (EESP), Lausanne (lecture for social workers)
– 05.2006 Société Suisse pour la Santé des Adolescents, Berne (talk at yearly assembly)
– 06.2006 [Colloque sur le développement psychosexuel des adolescents à l’ère d’internet, Cartigny](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/10/01/teenagers-and-skyblog-cartigny-powerpoint-presentation/) (international medical research workshop)
– 08.2006 Collège de Vallorbe
– 10.2006 Haute Ecole Pédagogique (HEP), Lausanne (talks for IT teachers)
– 11.2006 Unité Multidisciplinaire de Santé des Adolescents (UMSA) (talk and panel for medical/social audience)
– 11.2006 Ecole Parents Prilly
– 02.2007 Collège de Moudon
– 03.2007 Collège Thurmann, Porrentruy
– 03.2007 [Université Populaire Porrentruy](http://www.lqj.ch/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3661&Itemid=196)
– 03.2007 Collège des Trois-Sapins, Echallens
– 05.2007 Ecole Vinet, Lausanne
– 05.2007 Association CIAO, Lausanne (yearly assembly keynote)
– 02.2008 Collège Grenier, Pontarlier (France)
– 02.2008 Ecole Protestante d’Altitude, St-Cergue
– 06.2008 International School of Lausanne (ISL), Le Mont
### Videos
From oldest to newest:
– [Challenges in Multilingual Blogging](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2096847420084039011) (BlogCamp Zürich, Switzerland — 09.2007 — video credit [Greg Vernon](http://cascades2alps.blogspot.com/))
– [Waiting For The Babel Fish](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5004419583730327409) (Google Tech Talk, Mountain View, CA, USA — 07.2007)
– Discussion excerpt: [Webmaster of the Future (Webmaster 2.0)](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2421266089139465575) (BarCamp Lausanne, 09.2007 — **in French** — video credit [Sandrine Szabo](http://blog.profession-web.ch/))
– [Multilinguisme et problématiques associées](http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x4lntr) (ParisWeb, Paris, France — 11.2007)
– Two short excerpts of [Being a Blogging Consultant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP06bq9JVCk) ([second excerpt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck74uoql3og)) (BlogOpen, Novi Sad, Serbia — 11.2007 — video credit [Darko Buldioski](http://komunikacii.net/))
– [Going Solo: Being a Freelancer in a Connected World](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8270350768335569204) (5 minute [Open Stage speech](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/02/07/lift08-my-going-solo-open-stage-speech/), [LIFT08](http://liftconference.com), Geneva, 02.2008)
– [The Case for SPSNs from a User Perspective](http://www.viddler.com/explore/steph/videos/35/) (WebCamp SNP, Cork, Ireland — 03.2008)
– pretty bad video of the [panel I moderated at BlogTalk](http://www.viddler.com/explore/steph/videos/42/) (BlogTalk, Cork, Ireland — 03.2008)
– video recording of the panel I co-hosted at LIFT09 on coworking (LIFT09, Geneva — 02.2009)
There are more videos of my interviews for TV on my [press appearances page](http://climbtothestars.org/about/presse), and radio audio (mostly in French, though). More recordings exist but have not been edited or compiled for online viewing yet.
In addition to my speaking engagements elsewhere, I have organised and hosted the [Going Solo conference](http://going-solo.net/) which took place on May 16th in Lausanne (Switzerland) and SoloCamp, [September 12th in Leeds (UK)](http://going-solo.pbworks.com/SoloCamp+Leeds).