Speak

My talks draw on my experiences in web development, from the technologies I work with to the challenges and lessons that come with building things for the web.

I also enjoy writing about these topics, and you can find more of my thoughts and experiences on my blog.

Speaking

• Laracon AU 2026, November 4-6, Brisbane Australia
  High Performance Statamic

• PHPxADL, September 2026
  Thinking in Livewire

• PHPxMEL, September 2025
  Design to Statamic 6 in 40(ish) minutes
  Livewire, Eloquent and extending Statamic 6

• PHPxADL, August 2025
  Design to Statamic in 40 minutes

• Laracon AU 2024, November 7-8, Brisbane Australia
  The Invisible Developer

• Laravel Worldwide Meetup, September 2024
  Building maintainable websites with Statamic

• PHP Adelaide, August 2024
  Statamic: Blueprints, Fields and Fieldsets

• PHP Melbourne, February 2024
  Laravel, Inertia and Statamic

• Laracon AU 2023, November 16-17, Sydney Australia
  Statamic for Laravel Devs

• PHP Melbourne, August 2023
  Statamic: a flexible CMS for all shapes and sizes

• Joomla! Day Australia, 2019
  Session: Improving the Content Author’s Experience With TinyMCE 5
  Workshop: Hands-on Developing Custom Plugins for TinyMCE 5

• ascilite 2008
  Challenging design students to be ethical professionals in a changing landscape of technologies
  co-authored with Dr Denise Wood

• University of South Australia (Lecturer)
  Design for Interactive Multimedia (2007)
  Graphic Design for Interactive Multimedia (2006)
  Accessible Interactive Media (2006)

Published papers

I have also been co-author on three papers during my time at the University of South Australia:

• Wood, D. and Friedel, M. (2009)
  Peer review and quality of improvement of courses through the use of an accessible and adaptable web-enabled instrument
  Australian Journal of Educational Technology

• Friedel, M. and Wood, M. (2008)
  Challenging design students to be ethical professionals in a changing landscape of technologies
  Proceedings of ascilite 2008: Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational technology? Deakin University, Melbourne

• Wood, D. and Friedel, M. (2008)
  Peer review of online learning and teaching: new technologies, new challenges,
  Proceedings of ascilite 2008: Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational technology? Deakin University, Melbourne
  Winner: Outstanding Paper Award at ascilite Melbourne 2008

I also spoke alongside Dr. Denise Wood (virtual) at the 2005 OZeWAI Conference during the Accessibility in Education Forum.

Would you like to hear me speak? I’d love to have a chat - contact me and let’s get talking!