See my Slideshare profile for other conference presentations not listed below.

Upcoming Talks

• Keynote speaker, Undertanding the role of AI in Software Development Productivity, International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), 2025.
• Keynote speaker, TBA, XXVIII Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE), 2025.

Selected Presentations

• Keynote speaker, The Past, Present and Future of Developer Productivity Theories and Metrics, IDPCON, 2024.
• Keynote speaker, The Past, Present, and Future of Developer Productivity Research, DPE Summit, 2024.
• Invited speaker and award recipient, MSR Foundational Contribution Award, 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2024.
• Keynote speaker, Questioning the questions we ask about the impact of AI on software engineering, 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2024.
• Keynote speaker, From Automating Software Engineering to Empowering Developers, Copenhagen Symposium on Human-Centered Software Engineering AI, 2023
• Invited distinguished speaker, From Automating Software Engineering to Empowering Developers, University of Zurich Department of Informatics Colloquium, 2023
• Invited panelist, Impact of Foundation Models on Developer Productivity, FM+SE VISION 2030, 2023
• Invited fellow lecture, How AI is Disrupting Developer Productivity: It’s More Complicated Than We May Think, Collegium Helveticum, 2023
• Invited distinguished speaker, From Automating Software Development to Empowering Software Developers, Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Distinguished Speaker Series, 2023
• Invited panelist, How to Invest in Your Developer Experience, Pluralsight Developer Success Summit, 2022. Link
• Keynote speaker, From Automating Software Engineering to Empowering Software Developers, 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2022
• Keynote speaker, Software Bots as Superheroes in the SPACE of Developer Productivity, 4th International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE), at the 44th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2022. Link
• Invited speaker, What does ‘productivity’ actually mean for developers?, It Will Never Work in Theory: Live! Workshop, 2022. Link
• Keynote speaker, The Who, What, How of Software Engineering Research, ACM WomEncourage, Celebration of Women in Computing, Virtual, Europe and Beyond, 2021
• Keynote speaker, The Who, What, How of Software Engineering Research, Lero: The Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, Annual Summit, 2021
• Keynote speaker, After the Pandemic: Rethinking Developer Productivity (There’s more to it than you think), Joint 15th International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP) and 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE), co-located with ICSE, 2021. Slides
• Keynote speaker, The Who, What, How of Saner Software Engineering Research, 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2021
• Keynote speaker, The Who, What, How of Software Engineering Research, Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) Fall Meeting, 2020
• Keynote speaker, Publish or Perish: Questioning the Impact of Our Research on the Software Developer, 10th Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSoft), 2019
• Keynote speaker, Publish or Perish: Questioning the impact of our research on the software developer, 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2019. Video Slides
• Keynote speaker, The Elusive Nature of Software Documentation and Why Understanding How Knowledge Flows Matters, 33rd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2017. Slides
• Keynote speaker, Disrupting Developer Productivity One Bot at a Time, CASCON, 2016. Slides
• Keynote speaker, To Bot or Not: How Bots Can Support Collaboration in Software Development, 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE), 2016 Video Blogpost
• Keynote speaker, Selecting Research Methods for Studying a Participatory Culture in Software Development?, 19th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), 2015 Invited speaker, Lies, Damned Lies and Software Analytics: Why Big Data Needs Thick Data, ISR Distinguished Speaker Series, 2016. Video Slides
• Keynote speaker, The (R)evolution of Social Media and Software Engineering, Workshop on Social Software Engineering, 22nd International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2014 Video of a similar talk Slides
• Keynote speaker, Visualization for Software Analytics, 2nd Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), 2014 Slides
• Keynote speaker, Visualization for Software Analytics: A retrospective and a roadmap for future work, Canvas 2014, Canadian Visual Analytics School, 2014
• Keynote speaker, Studying Social Media in Software Development, Dagstuhl Seminar on Software Analytics, 2014
• Keynote speaker, Crowdsourcing Documentation in Software Engineering, CSI-SE at 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2014
• Keynote speaker, Addressing Cognitive and Social Challenges in Designing and Using Ontologies in the Biomedical Domain, 5th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE), 2012
• Plenary presentation, An Interactive Visualization Environment for Exploring Java Programs, authored by Margaret-Anne Storey, Jeff Michaud and Casey Best which won the Most Influential Paper from IWPC 2001 Award. The award was presented at ICPC 2011.
• Keynote speaker, Beyond the Lone Reverse Engineer: Insourcing, Outsourcing and Crowdsourcing, IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2009
• Plenary speaker, Remixing Visualization to support Collaboration in Software Maintenance, IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Frontiers, 2008
• Keynote speaker, Source Code Comments: Graffiti or Information, Psychology of Programmers Interest Group Conference, 2008
• Keynote speaker, Navigating Documents using Ontologies, Taxonomies and Folksonomies, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, 2007
• Keynote speaker, Improving Flow in Software Development through Graphical Representations, IEEE Visual Languages/Human Centric Computing Conference and IEEE Graph Transformations Conference, 2005
• Keynote speaker, Theories, Methods, and Tools in Program Comprehension: Past, Present, and Future, IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2005
• Keynote speaker, IBM CASCON Conference, 2005
• Invited panel member, ICSE Panel on Perspectives on Software Engineering, 2002
• Plenary speaker, Educational Technology Conference Series, 2000

Selected Invited Talks

• Invited speaker, Starting a Successful Career as a Female Researcher, University of Zurich, 2023
• Invited speaker, Embarking On a Journey to Conduct Disruptive Research in Software Engineering: Who, What, How, 3rd International Software Engineering Summer School, 2023
• Invited speaker, The Space of Developer Productivity, Zonos, 2022
• Invited speaker, What does ‘productivity’ actually mean for developers?, It Will Never Work in Theory: Live! Workshop, 2022
• Invited speaker, Productivity in Software Development, Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, 2019
• Invited speaker, The Impact of Continuous Integration on Developer Satisfaction and Productivity, Microsoft Continuous Deployment Workshop, 2018
• Invited speaker, The Elusive Nature of Software Documentation and Why Understanding How Knowledge Flows Matters, Intel, 2018
• Invited speaker, Methodology Matters: Mapping Software Engineering Research Through a Sociotechnical Lens, Lund University, Sweden, 2018
• Invited speaker, How Bots Disrupt Software Development, Facebook Software Engineering Workshop, 2017
• Invited speaker, The Social Programmer’s Toolbox, Software Engineering Mix, Microsoft, 2015
• Invited Speaker, Interactive Views for Navigating Ontologies and Data at the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, Vancouver Bioinformatics User Group, 2008
• Eclipse podcast, Eclipse in Education, 2007
• National Center for Biomedical Ontology Seminar, Ontology Visualization as a Service, 2010
• Distinguished speaker at Queens University, 2006; Invited Speaker at MIT, 2002; University of Limerick, Ireland, 2006 ; and Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2010
• Invited Speaker at Mitsubishi Research Labs, 2002 ; GE Labs, 2003; IBM Research Watson Labs, 2003, 2005, 2008; Microsoft Research, Redmond, 2005; CHOOSE Swiss Forum, 2005; Lero Software Engineering Institute, Ireland, 2007