
Since I was a child I always loved to tell stories, to entertain people, to share my knowledge, and to act and perform.
But it took a pretty long time until I realized that presenting at conferences or meetups is or can be – at least for me and in the way I do it – nothing else than story-telling and acting in a professional work-setting.
Since I did my first public talk at DOAG 2018 I’ve spoken at several usergroup meetups and conferences – and I have always enjoyed it!
The Stage is my Shelter

Yes, I got a bit of stage fright like most speakers do. I’m nervous when I start and I worry before a talk that things might go wrong. But I’m a different person when I give a talk, when I stand in front of an audience. That relieves me of a lot of insecurity I sometimes have in groups. The stage is my shelter. I like being there. I like playing my role.
The funny thing with nervousness is, that it has the same body response as being excited. Since I learned that, I embrace this feeling of excitement, which feels a lot like nervousness, but still so very different.
Upcoming Talks
🇬🇧 Workshop: How To Make Team Meetings Not Suck – ATD Open Air, May 17th – 19th
🇬🇧 Testing in the Imperial Database – TestBash World, June 22nd – 23rd
🇬🇧 Trouble in the Old Republic (Keynote) – Agile Testing Days, Nov 21st – 24th
Talks I’ve done
2022
🇬🇧 Workshop: How To Make Team Meetings Not Suck
- Agile Testing Days Open Air, May 17th – 19th
🇩🇪 Datenbank-Security – Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Hacker (Keynote) ▶️
Apex Connect 2022, May the 4th
🇩🇪 Software-Testing und -Qualität in der Imperialen Datenbank™ 📖▶️
- Apex Connect 2022, May 3rd – 4th
2021
🇬🇧 Testing in the Imperial Database 📖▶️
- Agile Testing Days, November 15th-18th
- SAST Q4 Digital Testing conference, Nov 30th
🇬🇧 Testing with utPLSQL – Live-Coding in an unknown codebase ▶️
- Oracle AskTom Office Hours, Nov 26th
🇬🇧 Why oh why don’t we test our code (more)? Guest Speaker ▶️
- Feuertips #28, Oct 21st
🇬🇧 Why To Aim For Testable PL/SQL – And How To Do It ▶️
- Apex Connect Online, May 4th, 16:00 CET
- ODTUG KScope Virtual, June 24th, 12:40 CET
2020
🇩🇪 Continuous Improvement der Todesstern-Datenbank
Frankfurter IT-Tage, December 10th, 13:00 CET
🇦🇺 But that worked yesterday! Testing with utPLSQL
AUSOUG Virtual Connect, November 10th, 5:30am CET
🇩🇪 Stabil unterwegs – Automatisierte Tests in der Oracle Datenbank (2-Tage Workshop)
DOAG Expertenseminar (Online)
🇬🇧 It works, but it hasn’t been tested – Panel Discussion
Oracle Groundbreakers EMEA Tour (Online)
🇬🇧 But that worked yesterday! Testing with utPLSQL
Oracle Groundbreakers EMEA Tour (Online)
🇬🇧 Continuous Improvement of the Death Star Database ▶️
AccentoDev (Online)
🇬🇧 “We ain’t Got No Time!” – Pragmatic testing with utPLSQL
Apex Connect 2020 (Online), Oracle Groundbreakers Yatra (Online)
🇩🇪 Test-Driven PL/SQL: Ein pragmatischer Einstieg mit utPLSQL ▶️
DOAG Webinar
🇩🇪 “Wir haben doch keine Zeit!” – Pragmatisch testen mit utPLSQL
APEX-Meetup Frankfurt (Online)
2019
🇩🇪 “Wir haben doch keine Zeit!” – Pragmatisch testen mit utPLSQL
DOAG Konferenz + Ausstellung
🇩🇪 Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Hacker – PL/SQL Security
DOAG Konferenz + Ausstellung
🇩🇪 “Aber das hat gestern noch funktioniert!” – Testing mit utPLSQL
Apex Connect, DOAG Regio Karlsruhe, APEX-Meetup Stuttgart, APEX-Meetup NRW, APEX-Meetup Dresden
🇬🇧 Improving Tech with Compassionate Coding (Lightning Talk)
Apex Connect
2018
🇩🇪 “Aber das hat gestern noch funktioniert!” – Testing mit utPLSQL
DOAG Konferenz + Ausstellung