Speaking

Talks & conferences

I speak at conferences and community events, usually about something I've been building or trying to figure out.

Your API has a new user: what our API logs taught us about AI agents
Latest talk
API Conference Lagos2026Lagos, Nigeria

Your API has a new user: what our API logs taught us about AI agents

What API logs reveal once the code calling your product is increasingly generated or operated by AI agents, and what that means for the way you design and document an API.

APIsAI agentsDeveloper experience
LLM-optimized docs: how to make your project more AI findable
Open Source Festival (OSCAFest)2025Lagos, Nigeria

LLM-optimized docs: how to make your project more AI findable

How documentation is changing now that developers increasingly discover and use software through AI tools, and what it takes to be included in the answers those tools generate.

Technical writingAIDeveloper experience
Building through developer communities
DevFest Ogbomoso2024Ogbomoso, Nigeria

Building through developer communities

Lessons from open source, community work, and helping developers grow through contribution.

Open sourceCommunity
The role of AI in technical writing: enhancing human craft, not replacing it
Open Source Festival (OSCAFest)2023Lagos, Nigeria

The role of AI in technical writing: enhancing human craft, not replacing it

Where AI genuinely helps in a technical writing workflow, where it gets in the way, and why the human craft still matters.

Technical writingAI
Growing your career through technical writing
DevFest Akure2022Akure, Nigeria

Growing your career through technical writing

How writing about what you learn and build can create opportunities, sharpen your technical thinking, and help other developers.

Technical writingCareer

On stage

Joel Olawanle speaking at Open Source Festival 2023
Joel Olawanle on stage facing a full auditorium at DevFest Ogbomoso
Joel Olawanle presenting at API Conference Lagos
Joel Olawanle speaking at Open Source Festival 2025
Audience at DevFest Ogbomoso
Joel Olawanle on stage at API Conference Lagos
Joel Olawanle at DevFest Ogbomoso

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