Conferences

It all started when someone else registered me for a conference without asking. Turns out I'm decent at it. Who knew.

From local stages to international conferences in Brussels, Rome, London, Amsterdam and more. I've built a speaking career by saying things worth hearing. I speak to share what I know, push the discipline forward, and bring ideas back home.

Oh! And sometimes, I present other speakers.

Speaking on stage at Interface conference
Conference

Workshop

A talk you do, not just hear

I often mix a talk and a workshop. The talk brings the ideas. The workshop puts them in people's hands right away, on their own problems. People remember what they do much longer than what they hear, so the learning stays long after the event.

  1. Hear it.A short talk to set the ideas and the shared words.
  2. Do it.Teams apply them to a real case, with cards, canvases or EDGY maps.
  3. Keep it.Each team leaves with what it made, and a way to use it again on Monday.
A workshop in progress: people around round tables, working on printed canvases together

A few talks over the years

Speaking portrait
How to Re-invent an Event with EDGY?
Intersection Conference 26 – Montréal
La Partie Prenante : le jeu qui fait exploser les silos (et réinvente la collaboration)
Rendez-vous Numérique 26
StratEDGY: Reframing the Core of Strategic Thinking
Intersection Conference 25 – Brussels
Capitale Numérique: The Story of a Quebec Digital Ecosystem That Refuses to Die (with Carole-Ann Labrie)
Intersection Conference 25 – Brussels
Easy to Use, Hard to Master: How to Navigate EDGY
Intersection Conference 24 – Rome
Building Bridges in Multiple Dimensions
IRM UK – London, 2023
Master Class on Enterprise Design
&EuroIA – Amsterdam, 2023
A Year on the Edge
Intersection Conference 23 – Vienna
Co-Designing Enterprise Coherence
Intersection Conference 22 – Stockholm
Building for Antifragility (collaborator)
Google Relay 2021 – online
A Hands-On Introduction to Design Thinking
ACCRO – Montréal, November 2019
Dear Designers, This One's on You…
Web à Québec · April 9, 2019
Design Sprint Workshops: Understand, then Prototype
Coopérathon Desjardins – 2018 and 2019
The Branding Sprint: Alignment Before Creation
Infopresse – November 2018
Creativity? From the Heart, the Gut, and the Guts
Printemps des réseaux sociaux – April 2015
Website Patterns: Design as a Solution-Oriented Practice
Web à Québec – April 2014
And so many webinars…
2020 - present
Talking to students at a school outreach event

Through organizations like OSEntreprendre, I visit local schools to share my journey and get young minds curious about entrepreneurship. I've also sat on the jury at Université Laval for 10+ years, now teach data visualization there (turns out I know more about charts than I thought), and I still mentor people who ask nicely.