I am a professional speaker and regularly present at international web, mobile, design, and development conferences. I'm also available to present at your company. I have a theatrical approach to presenting founded on my years of stage experience as a musical theatre actor.

To get an idea about my presentation style, check out my opening keynote at the Frontend 2010 conference in Oslo, Norway.

My current talks are on User Experience with examples based on my ongoing work in developing iPhone applications.

My terms for speaking are flexible based on the type of conference I'm asked to speak at. Contact me directly if you want me to speak at your conference.

(If you are a corporate entity based in the Netherlands, please contact my agent Tessa Sterkenburg at The Next Speaker who represents me there for corporate speaking engagements.)

Past Talks

In 2010, I have the opening keynotes at FOWD New York, Frontend 2010 in Norway, and Over The Air in London. I also presented at FOWD London, WebDirections @media London, and at a number of other events around the world.

In 2009, I gave the opening keynotes at the PHP UK Conference in London and the Kings of Code conference in Amsterdam. I was the invited keynote speaker for the annual conference of the multimedia teachers association in Denmark and gave a talk and taught a full-day iPhone workshop at NoMA Nordic Multimedia Academy later in the year. I also gave a keynote at Visuelt '09 in Oslo, organized by Grafill. Finally, I presented sessions at the FITC Flash conference in Amsterdam and the Flash At The Lake conference in Zurich.

During my career, I've spoken at more conferences than I can remember, including MacWorld, d.construct (twice, '05 and '06), Wizards of OS (Berlin, Germany; joint session with Lawrence Lessig), Flash on the Beach, FITC (Amsterdam/Hollywood/Toronto), FlashForward Boston 2007 (speaker, judge), FlashForum Conference (Cologne, Germany), Adobe MAX (Chicago/Europe), MXDU (Sydney, Australia), Spark Europe, CF Europe, and others.

Feedback

My talks are rather enthusiastically received. Here is some unedited Twitter feedback from my recent talks on User Experience:

PHP UK Keynote (London)

@rowan_m: is watching Aral give an epic rockstar keynote at #phpuk2009

@nrocy: Awesome presentation by @aral at #phpuk2009 - inspirational and thought provoking. (plus he swears in his presentations, while rules)

@swinny: @aral great keynote at #phpuk2009 very entertaining :)

Kings of code keynote (Amsterdam)

RT @Boris: Just enjoyed one of the best presentations on User experience EVER by @aral Amazing combination of fun, inspiration and knowledge

@JulezRulez: That was a great inspirational presentation by @aral at #kingsofcode

@skoop: uhm, peeps at #kingsofcode ... I *told ya*! @aral is one of the most amazing speakers I've ever seen

@narnach: Aral balkan just made us sing a song! #kingsofcode

@skar: Watched and are truely inspired by the presentation of Aral Balkan at #kingsofcode - thanx @aral

@CaliMonk: I believe it will be hard to have the level of quality of @aral's presentation. Notice it's harder to focus on the next talk #kingsofcode

@plangenkamp: RT @gamerhero: RT @Reinier: Thanks @aral, one of the most inspirational talks i've heard in a long time! #kingsofcode

@robertgaal: Sitting with @sandervdv on the staircase, marvelling at @tolmasky's Objective-J keynote. Also: @aral was mind blowingly good. #kingsofcode

@japes: Great opening talk to #kingsofcode by @aral . Lots of take homes

@mdonkersloot: @aral never had a pres. like this! best ever! thnx ! #kingsofcode

@bartzon: Awesome and inspirational talk by @aral. Really loved it. #kingsofcode

@janl: #kingsofcode is starting. This venue is epic. @aral is rocking the crowd. Literally.

@DLMax: @ijansch Have fun ! Try to attend the talk by @aral Balkan. Great speaker and always very motivating.