Speaking

Jenna Pederson @ Hack the Gap, 2016

If you have an idea for a talk or workshop or would like me to speak at your meetup, conference, hackathon, or company, please get in touch. If you're looking for my bio or headshot photos, grab them from my speaker kit.

Upcoming Speaking Gigs

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Past Speaking Gigs

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Pinecone Webinar - Secure your RAG pipelines with fine grained authorization using SpiceDB
25 September 2025 - Virtual (video)

Agentic AI Conference by Data Science Dojo - Building Agentic AI for Semantic Search & Reranking
18 September 2025 - Virtual (video | workshop)

Pinecone Webinar - Why RAG remains essential for modern AI
14 August 2025 - Virtual (video)

Open Source North - A Conversation with Your Architecture
29 May 2025 - St Paul, MN (video | slides)

AWS re:Invent - Harnessing generative AI to create and understand architecture diagrams
2 December 2024 - Las Vegas, NV (workshop)

That Conference - Generative AI Alone Won't Make You a Software Engineer
1 August 2024 - Wisconsin Dells, WI (slides)

Open Source North - Generative AI Alone Won't Make You a Software Engineer
5 June 2024 - St Paul, MN (slides)

That Conference - Automating CI/CD on AWS with GitHub Actions
26 May 2022 - Round Rock, TX

Learning Live with AWS & HashiCorp Livestream
February-May 2022 - The Internet (playlist)

AWS re:Invent - Build an app to find your next favorite brew
1 December 2021 - Las Vegas, NV and The Internet (video)

AWS re:Invent - AWS on Air 2021 (various)
29 November - 2 December 2021 - Las Vegas, NV and The Internet (live)

JAWS PANKRATION 2021 - Bringing Software Development Practices to Your Infrastructure
20 November 2021 - The Internet (slides)

HashiTalks Canada - Bringing Software Development Practices to Your Infrastructure
18 November 2021 - The Internet (live | slides)

Cloud Engineering Summit - Bringing Software Development Practices to Your Infrastructure
20 October 2021 - The Internet (video | slides)

AWS DevDay - Modern Application Development - Many Infrastructure as Code frameworks, one way to test them all
20 October 2021 - The Internet (video)

Grace Hopper Conference - Open Source Day - Automating CI/CD on AWS with GitHub Actions Workshop
1 October 2021 - The Internet

Twin Cities Startup Week - Building and Scaling Your Community AMA
21 September 2021 - Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN and The Internet (video)

DevOpsDays MSP - Bringing Software Development Practices to Your Infrastructure
21 July 2021 - Minneapolis, MN and The Internet (video | slides)

Modern Applications for Startups - How Credit Genie Launched their MVP with AWS
15 June 2021 - The Internet

AWS Startup Day - Growing Up on AWS: How We’ve Been Able to Scale our Startup and Live Q&A
8 April 2021 - The Internet

Open Source North Speaker Series - Setting yourself up for failure: cultivating a culture where failure is celebrated
18 February 2021 - The Internet

AWS re:Invent - AWS on Air 2020: Industry Live Financial
17 December 2020 - The Internet (video)

AWS re:Invent - AWS on Air 2020: AWS What’s Next ft. Amazon Neptune ML
15 December 2020 - The Internet (video)

AWS re:Invent - AWS on Air 2020: AWS What’s Next ft. AWS Glue Elastic Views
09 December 2020 - The Internet (video)

AWS re:Invent - AWS on Air 2020: Industry Live Healthcare
03 December 2020 - The Internet (video)

AWS re:Invent - AWS on Air 2020: AWS What’s Next ft. AWS Amplify’s new Admin UI
02 December 2020 - The Internet (video)

TechTogether Boston - Building an AWS-powered Web App with AWS Amplify
07 November 2020 - The Internet (the code we wrote)

5 LAKES Front - Does Your Codebase Spark Joy?
13 November 2020 - Milwaukee, WI Cancelled due to COVID-19

Computer Science Association - Building a Web App with AWS Amplify
28 October 2020 - The Internet (the code we wrote)

Computer Science Association - Workshop: Building a Static Website with AWS Amplify
21 October 2020 - The Internet

Computer Science Association - Web Development on AWS
14 October 2020 - The Internet

NDC Oslo - Does Your Codebase Spark Joy?
11 June 2020 - Oslo, Norway Virtual due to COVID-19 (video)

Open Source North - Setting Yourself Up for Failure: Cultivating a Culture Where Failure Is Celebrated
20 May 2020 - Bloomington, MN Cancelled due to COVID-19

MinneAMA: How to Rock Pair Programming
22 April 2020 - The Internet

IoT Hack Day 2019 - Judge
26 October 2019 - Saint Paul, MN

Geekettes @ Twin Cities Startup Week - Inclusion & Diversity in Tech Panel
10 October 2019 - Saint Paul, MN

WIT Twin Cities - Podcast
08 October 2019 - Minneapolis, MN

Hack the Gap - Judge
5-6 October 2019 - Saint Paul, MN

Cream City Code - Shiny objects are cool, but so is building products people use
4-5 October 2019 - Milwaukee, WI

NDC Oslo - Shiny objects are cool, but so is building products people use (video)
19 June 2019 - Oslo, Norway

MPLS Junior Devs: Shiny objects are cool, but so is building products people use
14 May 2019 - Minneapolis, MN

Minnebar - Shiny objects are cool, but so is building products people use (video)
27 April 2019 - Bloomington, MN

Lunch & Learn: Building Your Tech Team
4 April 2019 - Minneapolis, MN

Lunch & Learn: Building Your Tech Team
31 January 2019 - Minneapolis, MN

Lunar Startups Lunch & Learn: Building out your tech team
18 December 2018 - Saint Paul, MN