My name is Kris Howard and I’m an American-Australian living in Sydney, Australia. Most of my career was spent working in technical teams at companies like Channel 9, Canva, and AWS. My husband is the Snook, and we enjoy travelling the world and eating good food. I’m also a knitter and sewist, and I enjoy making things.
I’ve presented at more than 100 tech meetups, conferences, and events around the world. You can see some of my talks online below.
Since July 2024, I’ve been trying on early retirement. Not looking for any jobs right now!
“ChatGPT Did Not Write This Talk,” Tech Leader Chats, November 2024
Keynote, AWS Innovate APJ AI/ML, Feb 2024
“Build Without Limits,” AWS Summit Sydney 2024
“Interviewing & Hiring Like a Boss”, YOW Perth 2023
“Interviewing Like a Boss”, NDC Melbourne, June 2022
Machine Learning for Software Developers (…and Knitters), NDC Melbourne 2021
“Taking Control of Your Tech Career,” Build Stuff, May 2021
AWS Voice of the Community – Kris Howard – AWS Solutions Architect Manager, June 2020
Meet Kris, SA Manager at AWS Australia & New Zealand, February 2020
AWS Certification Quiz Show, Season 2 Episode 1, February 2020
AWS Girls Tech Day – Sydney, December 2019
“Knitted Disruption,” Build Stuff LT, November 2019
“Serverless in Production,” AWS Community Day Melbourne, August 2019
“Building Applications That Last,” Voxxed Days Singapore, June 2018
“State of the Nation: Women in IT ANZ,” AWS Summit Sydney, April 2018
“Better Tech Talks,” Women Who Code Singapore, March 2018
“The Campsite Rule – Leaving the Tech Industry Better than We Found It,” DDD Perth, September 2017
“My Website is Old Enough to Vote,” The Web Meetup, June 2017
“Knit One, Compute One,” Zendesk “Software Art Thou” series, March 2017
“My Website is Old Enough to Vote,” WordCamp Sydney, September 2016
