Holly Cummins
Appearances by year
- QCon
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2026 | QCon London 2026 | QCon | keynote | The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity as IBM | |
| Apr 7, 2025 | QCon London 2025 | QCon | speaker | Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun as IBM Developer satisfaction, developer joy, and business results are strongly correlated. Developer productivity frameworks like SPACE recognize this, with…Show lessDeveloper satisfaction, developer joy, and business results are strongly correlated. Developer productivity frameworks like SPACE recognize this, with Satisfaction being a key metric. And yet - our jobs are frustrating, filled with mindless work, and free of joy. How do we fix that? | |
| Apr 7, 2025 | QCon London 2025 | QCon | speaker | The Efficiency Paradox and How to Save Yourself and the World as IBM Inefficiency is ruining our planet and our lives. Efficiency is ruining our happiness, and weirdly, it’s also ruining our efficiency. Heeeeelppp!? What’s a…Show lessInefficiency is ruining our planet and our lives. Efficiency is ruining our happiness, and weirdly, it’s also ruining our efficiency. Heeeeelppp!? What’s a techie to do? | |
| Apr 8, 2024 | QCon London 2024 | QCon | speaker | Zero Waste, Radical Magic, and Italian Graft – Quarkus Efficiency Secrets as IBM What makes a platform efficient? Is it how quickly code executes, or is it how quickly developers can use it to solve problems? Quarkus makes both people and…Show lessWhat makes a platform efficient? Is it how quickly code executes, or is it how quickly developers can use it to solve problems? Quarkus makes both people and hardware more efficient. That’s cool, but how does it work? | |
| Mar 27, 2023 | QCon London 2023 | QCon | panelist | Panel: What’s next? Net-Zero Commitments? as IBM Sustainability has been deemed the greatest challenge of all time for many generations, yet, we have reached any substantial progress to defeat it. This is true…Show lessSustainability has been deemed the greatest challenge of all time for many generations, yet, we have reached any substantial progress to defeat it. This is true across many industries, including the software sector. | |
| Mar 27, 2023 | QCon London 2023 | QCon | speaker | Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them as IBM Wait, zombies? Really? Zombies are servers which aren’t doing useful work. They’re everywhere, costing money, eating electricity, and belching carbon. And…Show lessWait, zombies? Really? Zombies are servers which aren’t doing useful work. They’re everywhere, costing money, eating electricity, and belching carbon. And they’re useless! So how do we get rid of them? | |
| Apr 4, 2022 | QCon London 2022 | QCon | speaker | Getting the Most Out of Microservices as RedHat | |
| Mar 2, 2020 | QCon London 2020 | QCon | speaker | Cloud Native is About Culture, not Containers as RedHat | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suhail Patel | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Stefania Chaplin | 4 | 1 | 2025 |
| Luca Mezzalira | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Sam Newman | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Sara Bergman | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alasdair Allan | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Hannah Foxwell | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Karthik Ramgopal | 3 | — | 2026 |
| John O'Hara | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Andrzej Grzesik | 3 | — | 2024 |
| Sarah (Chun-Wei) Hsu | 2 | 1 | 2025 |
| Anderson Parra | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Birgitta Böckeler | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Clara Matos | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jim Gough | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.