Speaking

Speaking — security, AI, and the spaces between

Talks, panels, and podcasts. Security, AI, privacy, and the gap between how software gets built and how it should be secured. Always with an opinion.

Upcoming

  • Marketing card for the Gaza Sky Geeks webinar 'The AI-First Professional: Tools and Strategies for Marketers, PMs and Everyone'. Part 3 of 3 in the AI and the Future of Work series, July 2026. The card shows an illustrated bearded man in a patterned cardigan working at a desktop computer surrounded by floating UI panels labelled AI Writer, Content Editor, Product Roadmap, PM Autopilot, and Data Insights, against a navy and beige background with a glowing network pattern.

    The AI-First Professional: Tools and Strategies for Marketers, PMs and Everyone

    upcoming

    GSG Community Program: AI and the Future of Work (Part 3 of 3)

    Online webinar (Gaza Sky Geeks) · July 2026

    Final session of the GSG series. 51% of AI-skill jobs are now outside pure software, in marketing, HR, finance and operations. A working stack of tools for around $60 a month that lets a single Palestinian professional ship the output of a two- or three-person agency, plus a 90-day plan to get from AI-aware to AI-first.

  • Marketing card for the Gaza Sky Geeks webinar 'The Developer's Guide to the AI Revolution'. Part 2 of 3 in the AI and the Future of Work series, June 2026. The card shows an illustrated bearded developer at a desktop, surrounded by floating UI panels labelled Vibecoder IDE, Security Auditor, Vulnerability Scan, and Developer Skills Matrix, plus a small Code-Gen Bot mascot, against a navy background with a glowing network pattern.

    The Developer's Guide to the AI Revolution

    upcoming

    GSG Community Program: AI and the Future of Work (Part 2 of 3)

    Online webinar (Gaza Sky Geeks) · June 2026

    Second of three GSG sessions. 41% of code shipping in 2025 is AI-generated, 45% of it fails security tests, and most of the resulting bugs look identical because the model recurs the same mistakes across a codebase. A working developer's view of vibecoding, the Army of Juniors problem, slopsquatting, and the four skills that keep an engineer irreplaceable when anyone can prompt a function.

  • Marketing card for the Gaza Sky Geeks webinar 'The Big Picture: Threats, Disruption and Opportunity'. Part 1 of 3 in the AI and the Future of Work series, May 2026. The card shows an illustrated bearded man at a desktop holding his chin thoughtfully, surrounded by floating UI panels labelled Threats/Disruption (with a red downward arrow over a Job Displacement chart) and Opportunity (with a green upward arrow over a Salary Premium chart and an Equaliser tag), plus a small Code-Gen Bot mascot, against a navy background with a glowing network pattern.

    The Big Picture: Threats, Disruption and Opportunity

    upcoming

    GSG Community Program: AI and the Future of Work (Part 1 of 3)

    Online webinar (Gaza Sky Geeks) · May 2026

    First of three sessions for Gaza Sky Geeks. The unvarnished version of the AI labour-market story for Palestinian graduates and early-career developers: an estimated 92 million jobs displaced by 2030, entry-level tech postings down 67% in the US and 46% in the UK, and a 56% salary premium waiting for the people who treat AI as an equaliser rather than a threat.

Past talks

  • Eventbrite banner for the Business Declares webinar 'Accessing talent from Palestine through mentoring, internships or hiring. Stories from the front line', held online on Tuesday 31 March 2026, 10:00–11:00 BST. The banner shows the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem behind partner logos for Business Leaders for Peace, Gaza Sky Geeks, MENA Alliances, ToU, Banfield Forge, and Business Declares.

    Accessing Talent from Palestine: Stories from the Front Line

    March 2026

    Business Declares Webinar ↗

    Online (Zoom)

    Panel webinar hosted by Business Declares, with Business Leaders for Peace, Gaza Sky Geeks and MENA Alliances. I spoke about hiring Palestinian developers at ThinkingOfU and the practical lessons learned, alongside Alan El-Kadhi (GSG London), Abeer AbuGhaith (MENA Alliances), and a Palestinian engineer who had been hired through the route. The session walked UK companies through how to actually do this: mentoring, internships, and full-time roles.

  • Title slide for the DevSecCon London 2017 talk 'Shift Happens...' by Colin Domoney. The slide carries the DevSecCon London 19-20 Oct 2017 logo at the top, the talk title and speaker name on a blue gradient background, and a line illustration of Tower Bridge inside a hexagon on the right, with a 'Join the conversation #DevSecCon' tag bottom right.

    Shift Happens

    October 2017

    DevSecCon London 2017 ↗

    London, UK

    Why security has been the slowest function to shift left. The cultural and tooling reasons it stayed stuck at the end of the development lifecycle, the bad reputation it earned with developers (late reports, high false positives, findings nobody could act on), and the practical changes (faster scans, useful results, developer-friendly reporting) that get security testing back into the development conversation.