Coraline Ada Ehmke: Conference Talks

Conference Talks

2025 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"Four Reasons Not to Care About Ethics in Open Source"

Guest Lecture
Visiting Artist and Scholar Talk series (VAST)
University of Colorado, Boulder
January 28, 2025
"TMI-WEB: An Open Approach to Computational Social Science"

Presentation
FOSDEM Open Research Devroom
Video available
February 15, 2025
"Four Reasons Not to Care About Ethics in Open Source"

Guest Lecture
Design and Human Experience
DePaul University, Chicago
March 13, 2025

Featured Talks

2024 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"Queer(ing) Design"

Facilitated Conversation
Design Research Society Conference
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachussetts
June 24, 2024
"Joyful Complexity: People, Power, Positionalities"

Paper Track
Design Research Society Conference
Harvard University and MIT, Boston, Massachussetts
June 25, 2024
"Four Reasons Not to Care About Ethics in Open Source"

Madison+Ruby
Madison, WI
August 2, 2024

2023 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"The World Set Free"

RubyConf AU
Melbourne, Australia
February 17, 2023
"The World Set Free"

DevNxt
Christchurch, New Zealand
April 21, 2023
"The Tech We Want"

Panel Discussion
The Next Web
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 16, 2022
"The Open Social Compact"

FOSSY
Portland, Oregon
July 15, 2022

2022 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"The Social Responsibility of Software Engineers"

Microsoft Open Source Meetup
February 15, 2022
"History of Contributor Covenant"

Guest lecture - Introduction to Social Media
University of Colorado, Boulder
March 3, 2022
"Thomas Edison vs Three Teslas in a Trenchcoat"

SPOTCon
May 10, 2022
"Will Behave For Code: How Ethical Software Licensing Can Combat Human Rights Abuses by Corporations"

with Sameeul Haque
RightsCon 2022
June 8, 2022
"The World Set Free"

Los Alamos National Lab
November 14, 2022
"Introducing the Open Social Compact"

Metagovernance Seminar
Video available
November 30, 2022

2021 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source"

FOSS Backstage
February 12, 2021
"Ethics in Open Source"

Colorado Research Center for Democracy and Technology
Video available
February 22, 2021
"The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source"

RubyDay.it
April 7, 2021
"The Rising Storm of Ethics in Open Source"

RailsConf
April 13, 2021
"Beyond Code: Centering People in Open Source"

Open Source Lisbon
Video available
June 18, 2021
"The Social Responsibility of Software Engineers"

Keynote
Cloud Foundry Summit
Video available
July 21, 2021
"Luminary Interview: Coraline Ada Ehmke"

StaffPlus Live
September 14, 2021
"Emerging Trends in Open"

Panel Discussion
Creative Commons Global Summit
Video available
September 20, 2021
"The Future of Open Source: Toward an Ethical Stack"

Panel Discussion
UCLA Institute of Technology Law & Practice
Video available
October 15, 2021
"DWeb Principle of Mutual Respect"

Internet Archive DWeb Meetup
Video available
November 4, 2021
"Anti-Oppression Frameworks in Open Source"

Panel Discussion
Code for Science & Society
Video available
December 10, 2021

2020 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source"

CopyleftConf
Brussels, Belgium
February 3, 2020
"The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source"

Amsterdam Ruby
Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 16, 2020

2019 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"Pride and Prejudice and Programming"

Keynote
PearConf
March 22, 2019
"Programming Empathy: Emotional State Machines"

RailsConf
April 30, 2019
"Programming Empathy: Emotional State Machines"

Chicago Ruby
June 4, 2019
"Programming Empathy: Emotional State Machines"

Self.conference
June 7, 2019
"Pride and Prejudice and Programming"

Cream City Code
October 4, 2019
"Thomas Edison vs Three Teslas in a Trenchcoat"

Chicago Ruby
November 5, 2019
"Thomas Edison vs Three Teslas in a Trenchcoat"

RubyConf
November 18, 2019

2018 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"Metaphors are similes. Similes are like metaphors."

Montreal.rb
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
February 20, 2018
"Aesthetics and the Evolution of Code"

Keynote
ada_C()NF
Stockholm, Sweden
March 17, 2018
"Scaling the Artisan"

RailsConf
Pittsburgh, PA
April 17, 2018
"Metaphors are similes. Similes are like metaphors."

Keynote
Madison+ Ruby: Chicago
Chicago, IL
May 10, 2018
"Aesthetics and the Evolution of Code"

Paris.rb
Paris, France
June 28, 2018
"Metaphors are similes. Similes are like metaphors."

Keynote
self.conference
Detroit, MI
August 17, 2018
"The Broken Promise of Open Source"

Euruko
Vienna, Austria
August 24, 2018
"Alice's Adventures in AI-Land"

Code Daze
Buffalo, NY
September 14, 2018
"The Warrior"

#CauseAScene Conference
London, UK
October 23, 2018
"Are Tech Companies a Threat to Human Rights?"

United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland
November 26, 2018

2017 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"Metaphors are similes. Similes are like metaphors."

Keynote
Ruby Fuza
Capetown, South Africa
February 2, 2017
"Metaphors are similes. Similes are like metaphors."

Portland Ruby Brigade
August 1, 2017
"Alice's Adventures in AI-Land"

Strange Loop
September 28, 2017
"Metaphors are similes. Similes are like metaphors."

Keynote
RubyConf Brazil
São Paulo, Brazil
November 17, 2017

2016 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"An Open Source Survival Guide"

Anyone Can Learn to Code
January 18, 2016
"How Graph Databases Saved My Relationship"

Bath Ruby
Bath, UK
March 11, 2016
"Your First Legacy Codebase"

RailsConf 2016
May 4, 2016
"An Open Source Survival Guide"

self.conference
May 20, 2016
"The Broken Promise of Open Source"

Keynote
Write/Speak/Code
June 15, 2016
"The Broken Promise of Open Source"

Madison Ruby: The Epilogue
July 8, 2016
"My Trans Tech Journey"

Trans*H4CK Virtual Conference
August 28, 2016
"The Broken Promise of Open Source"

Beyond the Code
September 22, 2016

2015 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"Refactoring in Ruby: Finding the Right Job for the Tool"

CodeMash 2015
January 6, 2015
"Keynote"

Write/Speak/Code Chicago
January 11, 2015
"Prefactoring: Getting It (Almost) Right the First Time"

RubyConf Australia 2015
Melbourne, Australia
February 4, 2015
"Living Our Open Source Values"

DBCx Speaker Series
February 12, 2015
"Data-Driven Refactoring"

Geekfest Chicago
February 24, 2015
"Data-Driven Refactoring"

Mountain West Ruby
March 9, 2015
"Living Our Open Source Values"

Write/Speak/Code
March 19, 2015
"Aesthetics and the Evolution of Code"

SelfConference
May 29, 2015
"Aesthetics and the Evolution of Code"

Open Source Bridge
June 23, 2015
"Aesthetics and the Evolution of Code"

Ruby Remote Conf
June 23, 2015
"He Doesn't Work Here Anymore"

AlterConf Chicago
August 8, 2015
"He Doesn't Work Here Anymore"

Madison Ruby
August 20, 2015
"Prefactoring: Getting It (Closer to) Right the First Time"

Geekfest Chicago
October 13, 2015
"Data-Driven Refactoring"

Rails Remote Conf
November 5, 2015

2014 Conferences, Lectures, and Panels

"An Open Source Survival Guide for Women"

Girl Develop It Chicago
February 7, 2014
"Lightweight Business Intelligence with Ruby, Rails, and MongoDB"

Big Ruby
Video available
February 20, 2014
"Artisans and Apprentices"

RailsConf 2014
April 22, 2014
"The Importance of Diversity in Open Source"

Keynote
Great Wide Open
May 2, 2014
"Lighweight Business Intelligence with Ruby"

KCDC
May 15, 2014
"Smash the Monolith: Refactoring Legacy Rails Apps"

KCDC
May 15, 2014
"Diversity in the Open Source Software Community"

Geekfest at Groupon
Video available
July 22, 2014
"An Open Source Survival Guide for Women"

That Conference
August 11, 2014
"Alchemy and the Art of Software Development"

Madison+ Ruby 2014
August 21, 2014
"Surviving and Thriving in Open Source"

Anyone Can Learn to Code
August 27, 2014
"Aesthetics and the Evolution of Code"

Nickel City Ruby
October 2, 2014
"He Doesn't Work Here Anymore"

Keep Ruby Weird
October 24, 2014
"Data-Driven Refactoring in Ruby"

Lambda Lounge
December 5, 2014
"Surviving and Thriving in Open Source"

Anyone Can Learn to Code
December 10, 2014