Speaking

I started speaking at conferences and user groups in 2012. Over the years I’ve attended a number of awesome events, met some really cool people, and awkwardly messed with PowerPoint in front of several large crowds.

If you’re looking to quickly evaluate my speaking skills, watch Why I Was Wrong About TypeScript, which I presented at GOTO Copenhagen, and which was JavaScript Weekly’s most popular video of 2019.

2026

One Board: A New Way to Build with Blues
Blues Webinar

2025

Solar-Powered IoT: Designing Solar into Your Connected Product
Blues Webinar
Write Better IoT Firmware Using AI
Blues Webinar
AI-Ready IoT: Wiring MCP Servers into Your Blues Development Toolchain
Blues Webinar
Vibe Code a Cloud Dashboard with AI, Blues Notecard, and Notehub APIs
Blues Webinar
Smart Vision, Smarter Industry: Anomaly Detection with Edge Impulse and Blues
Blues Webinar

2024

Simplifying Scalable IoT with Blynk and Blues
Blues Webinar
Revolutionize Industrial Control by Deploying Anomaly Detection Models in PLCs
Blues Webinar
Unlocking LoRa with Blues and The Things Industries
Blues Webinar
Unlocking the IoT with TinyML and LoRaWAN
Sensors Converge
Starnote: The Final Frontier - Building with Satellite IoT using Blues and Skylo
Blues Webinar

2023

Build a Smarter City with (Swappable) Cellular, Wi-Fi, and LoRa
Hackster Impact Summit
Introducing the Next Generation of Blues Notecards
Blues Webinar
Optimized MLOps with Edge Impulse, Blues, and Zephyr
Blues Webinar
Arduino to RTOS—A Pilgrim's Progress
Embedded Open Source Summit

2022

Edge AI Connectivity Made Simple
Edge Impulse Imagine
Building Custom GPS Trackers From Scratch
THAT Conference

2021

Building a Custom Component Library—Fast
JSNation

2020

Why Paid UI Components Aren’t Evil
React Summit
What Web Developers Can Learn From Native Mobile Developers
International JavaScript Conference
How Native Mobile Development Changed the Way I Write Web Apps
Certified Fresh Events
UI Components-Open Source vs. Paid with TJ VanToll
React Round Up

2019

Ten Awesome Things You Can Build With NativeScript
DevReach
Getting Started With Serverless
ProgressNEXT
Is Augmented Reality the Future?
ConFoo

2018

Why I Was Wrong About TypeScript
GOTO Copenhagen
One Project. One Language. Three Apps.
DevReach
One Project. One Language. Three Apps.
jsMobileConf
Cross-Platform Augmented Reality
ProgressNEXT
Why I Was Wrong About TypeScript
Seattle JS
Building Augmented Reality Apps With JavaScript
Google Developers Group Chicago

2017

Mobile Development Inside-Out with NativeScript and Kinvey (w/Jen Looper)
DevReach
Why I Was Wrong About TypeScript
DevReach
NativeScript UI—Beyond the Basics
NativeScript Developer Day
Building Performant Native Apps with NativeScript
Fluent Conference
Building EmotiNg (w/Jen Looper & Tara Manicsic)
ng-conf
TJ VanToll—Building Mobile Apps with NativeScript
React Native Radio
Learn NativeScript—the Quickest Way to Build Cross-Platform Native Apps
DevNexus

2016

What’s New with NativeScript
NativeScript Developer Day
Episode #5: Developing Mobile Apps with Telerik NativeScript
The Polyglot Developer
Sharing Code Between Web and Native Apps
ng-conf
NativeScript (Part 2)
Adventures in Angular
Episode 121 | TJ VanToll - Community Engagement
Developer on Fire
Episode 57: Is NativeScript the holy grail for mobile development?
Angular Air
Cordova Plugin Roundup
PhoneGap Day US
NativeScript (Part 1)
Adventures in Angular
A Lap Around NativeScript
JS Remote Conf

2015

Google’s Angular 2 Release Pushes JavaScript Beyond the Browser
WIRED
Episode 186: NativeScript with TJ VanToll and Burke Holland
JavaScript Jabber
Episode 4: NativeScript with TJ VanToll
React Native Radio
NativeScript Inside the Black Box
Eat Sleep Code (The Official Telerik Podcast)
A Lap Around NativeScript
TelerikNEXT
Web Components—What's the Catch?
Fluent Conference
Introducing NativeScript
DevNexus

2014

Building Cross-Platform Apps with the Telerik Platform
M3 Conf
The State of Hybrid Tooling
PhoneGap Day US
HTML5 Form Validation: Why no one uses it, and how you can!
jQuery Chicago
Hybrid Development for Mobile Apps
InfoQ
Episode 116: jQuery UI vs Kendo UI with Burke Holland and TJ VanToll
JavaScript Jabber
The State of Hybrid
QCon NY
Navigating Hybrid Mobile Apps
Hallway Conversations
Validating Forms With HTML5
Atlanta HTML5 User Group
jQuery UI Widgets vs. HTML5
DevNexus
Making the Case for jQuery in a Browser Utopia
jQuery San Diego

2013

Constraint Validation: Native Client Side Validation for Web Forms
HTML5 Developer Conference
jQuery UI Widgets vs. HTML5
DevReach
jQuery UI Widgets vs. HTML5
jQuery Portland
Submitting Bugs the Right Way
jQuery TO

2012

Front End Web Efficiency—The Top Ten
Lansing Java Users Group
JavaScript for the Java Developer
Lansing Java Users Group