Darren Sim is a Singapore-based international digital & product technology leader, who has been an invited speaker at global conferences, meet-ups and user-groups since 2005.
Having delivered over 50 presentations across the United States, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam, Darren is frequently rated amongst the top 25% of speakers.
Topics that Darren has spoken on includes: Agile/Lean Software Delivery, APIs, DevOps, Digital Strategy, Digital Media, Game Development, Web Development, and Software Security.
A firm believer that knowledge is best when shared, Darren is always excited to share and learn. For speaking engagements, please get in touch.
Note: Darren generally speaks on a pro-bono basis in conferences & meet-ups that does not require additional travel.
Past Presentations
| Topic | Conference / Organisation | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moving towards DevOps Maturity: Alleviating Misconceptions and Deriving the Optimum | 3rd CIO Innovation Forum Singapore | Singapore | 16.03.2022 |
| Evolving your Legacy Stack to Unlock benefits of the Cloud & Beyond | Microservices,Containers And Serverless Day | Auckland, New Zealand | 15.11.2019 |
| Microservices Delivery Patterns – Delivering Innovation and Experimentation at Scale | 121 Test Automation and DevOps Day | Auckland, New Zealand | 17.09.2018 |
| Increasing Software Success and Reducing Waste by Pushing Quality Upstream with TDD and BDD | 121 Test Automation and DevOps Day | Auckland, New Zealand | 17.09.2018 |
| Performing Social Media Sentiment Analysis & Topic Modelling with AWS | Auckland AWS Community Meet-ups | Auckland, New Zealand | 06.09.2018 |
| How Leading Software Companies Delivery Software and Experiments at Scale with Feature Toggles. | IAG New Zealand Guilds Week | Auckland, New Zealand | 03.05.2018 |
| Code Retreat: Conway’s Game of Life | University of Auckland Information Technology Club (ITC) | Auckland, New Zealand | 29.09.2017 |
| Shortening the Customer Feedback Loop with Feature Switching | Test Automation Summit 2017 | Auckland, New Zealand | 26.09.2017 |
| Shortening the Customer Feedback Loop with Feature Switching | MYOB Brownbags Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 14.09.2017 |
| Discovering IOT with Philip Hue and IFTTT | Philips Hue Launch Event | Singapore | 01.02.2014 |
| Integrating with Windows 8 Experiences | Microsoft Build for Windows 8 | Singapore | 01.03.2012 |
| HTML 5, CSS3 and ASP.NET Best Practices by Example | Microsoft Community Technology Update (CTU) | Singapore | 01.01.2012 |
| Social Media Essentials and The new Web | Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore | Singapore | 01.08.2011 |
| Commercial Potential: Does social media have revenue potential? In what context? What are the risks and rewards? Are commercial players welcome? | Asia Publishing Convention 2011 | Bangkok, Thailand | 01.07.2011 |
| Cost efficiencies: Can social media marketing reduce cost? Go where the traffic is, understand networking, research and promote your product without waste. | Asia Publishing Convention 2011 | Bangkok, Thailand | 01.07.2011 |
| Effective Presentations | Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore | Singapore | 27.06.2011 |
| Things every ASP.NET developer should know in this Web2.0 ERA | Microsoft Community Technology Update (CTU) | Singapore | 24.06.2011 |
| Developing Scalable Applications with ASP.NET MVC | TechInsights Conference | Penang, Malaysia | 24.09.2010 |
| Visualizing your ASP.NET app with Razor | TechInsights Conference | Penang, Malaysia | 23.09.2010 |
| The ABC of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more: where is the commercial pay-off? | Asian Publishing Convention 2010 | Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam | 09.07.2010 |
| Developing Service Centric Applications with Windows Workflow 4.0 | TechInsights Conference | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 01.07.2010 |
| Building Service Oriented Applications with WCF 4.0 | TechInsights Conference | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 29.06.2010 |
| Introduction to ASP.NET 4.0, AJAX & Visual Studio 2010 | Temasek Polytechnic | Singapore | 05.02.2010 |
| Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network | TechEd | Columbo, Sri Lanka | 09.02.2010 |
| Next Generation Web Application with ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 | TechEd | Columbo, Sri Lanka | 08.02.2010 |
| Getting Productive with the Microsoft Office Suite | Singapore Management University | Singapore | 22.01.2010 |
| What’s So Smart About Smart Phones? | IDA Silver Infocomm Day | Singapore | 01.12.2009 |
| New Media, New You | Singapore Management University | Singapore | 24.10.2009 |
| Accessing Windows with .Net 4.0 | TechInsights Conference | Penang, Malaysia | 18.09.2009 |
| Membership awareness in Web applications | TechInsights Conference | Penang, Malaysia | 18.09.2009 |
| Introduction to Microsoft Developer Platforms | Singapore Management University | Singapore | 21.08.2009 |
| Building a SMS Ready website | Singapore Management University | Singapore | 28.05.2009 |
| Building Responsive Applications | Singapore Management University | Singapore | 15.04.2009 |
| How to Maximize Your PowerPoint Presentation | Contact Center Association of Singapore | Singapore | 17.03.2009 |
| Building Scalable C# Applications for HR | MINDEF | Singapore | 05.03.2009 |
| Dynamic Master Pages with ASP.NET 3.5 | Singapore | 28.02.2009 | |
| Portal Development with ASP.NET and WSS | Singapore | 14.02.2009 | |
| Developing Interactive Web 2.0 Sites with ASP.NET 3.5 | Singapore | 31.01.2009 | |
| Connecting to the World with Microsoft LIVE! | Singapore | 10.01.2009 | |
| Discovering Microsoft Windows Vista & Making it Work for you | Singapore | 29.11.2008 | |
| Framework Design | SGDotNet Usergroup | Singapore | 22.11.2008 |
| End-To-End Development with the Microsoft .NET Platform | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 20.10.2008 |
| Quick Intro to .NET 3.5 | Singapore | 12.09.2008 | |
| Re-learning user friendly design for print, websites, PDAs or mobile phones | Asia Publishing Convention | Singapore | 14.08.2008 |
| Inviting the World to your Website | Youth.SG Forum | Singapore | 26.07.2008 |
| Video Editing for beginners made easy (Windows Movie Maker) | Bali Ophthalmology Retreat | Bali, Indonesia | 25.04.2008 |
| PowerPoint presentations made easy and guidelines to using Keynotes! | Bali Ophthalmology Retreat | Bali, Indonesia | 24.04.2008 |
| Video Editting with Windows Movie Maker | Microsoft | Singapore | 17.04.2008 |
| Windows Live SDK | SgDotNet Usergroup | Singapore | 06.03.2008 |
| Developing your own E-Microsoft Office with ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft Ajax and OpenXML | TechEd | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 13.09.2007 |
| Developing a Web-Based Chat System with ASP.NET 2.0, Ajax & SQL Server 2005 Express | TechEd | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 12.09.2007 |
| The Next Web’s Here! Where are you? | Singapore Management University | Singapore | 20.08.2007 |
| Code Focus: Silverlight | SGDotNet Usergroup | Singapore | 02.08.2007 |
| Lighting up the web with Silverlight | SGDotNet Usergroup | Singapore | 05.07.2007 |
| Game Development with Microsoft XNA | Institute of Technical Education | Singapore | 01.06.2007 |
| ROUNDTABLE: The importance of Security in Games | International Game Developers’ Association | Singapore | 26.05.2007 |
| XNA Demystified | International Game Developers’ Association | Singapore | 26.05.2007 |
| Expressions Web Lab Session | Singapore Management University | Singapore | 12.05.2007 |
| Game Development in XNA, Vista & XBOX 360 | Ngee Ann Polytechnic | Singapore | 08.05.2007 |
| LOVE Campus Launch: Introduction to XNA | Singapore | 24.04.2007 | |
| The Web Development Eco-system with VSTS, ASP.NET 2.0 & Microsoft Ajax Library | VSLive! | San Francisco, USA | 27.03.2007 |
| MediaCentre DEMO | Microsoft | Singapore | 11.03.2007 |
| Game Development with XNA | MSDN Singapore | Singapore | 03.03.2007 |
| Opening up the New Office File Format with OpenXML | Office Usergroup | Singapore | 13.02.2007 |
| Introduction to Microsoft Ajax Library | Singapore | 09.02.2007 | |
| Meet the Experts Session | Singapore | 31.01.2007 | |
| Microsoft Ajax Library | MSDN Singapore | Singapore | 29.01.2007 |
| Microsoft Expression Tools | DevCon’06 | Singapore | 16.12.2006 |
| Science of Game Development & Leaveraging on XNA | SGDotNet Usergroup | Singapore | 14.12.2006 |
| XNA Game Development | MSDN Singapore | Singapore | 09.12.2006 |
| Creating Rich Web Experience with Microsoft Ajax | Singapore | 08.12.2006 | |
| ST National Newspaper Competition | Singapore Press Holdings | Singapore | 21.11.2006 |
| Web Development with .NET | Singapore | 16.11.2006 | |
| Introduction to Game Development and Microsoft XNA | SGDotNet Usergroup | Singapore | 02.11.2006 |
| Evolving the Web with ASP. NET 2.0 and the Microsoft Ajax Foundation | Temasek Polytechnic | Singapore | 01.11.2006 |
| XNA – An Academia Sharing | Singapore | 30.10.2006 | |
| XNA – An Overview | International Game Developers’ Association | Singapore | 28.10.2006 |
| Introduction to Microsoft XNA | Singapore | 21.10.2006 | |
| Windows Vista, An Introduction | Singapore | 30.06.2006 | |
| Remix06 – Ask the Experts | REMIX | Singapore | 29.06.2006 |
| Developing Windows and Live Gadgets | REMIX | Singapore | 29.06.2006 |
| Atlas Cool Demos | Microsoft | Singapore | 10.06.2006 |
| DPE/MVP Sharing Session | Microsoft | Singapore | 18.05.2006 |
| MSDN Day Singapore – Ask The Experts Session | MSDN Singapore | Singapore | 05.05.2006 |