Speaking Engagements 

• "Blockchain Keynote: Future of Procurement", July 26-7, 2018, Procurement Leaders Ovation Summit, Boston MA
• "Blockchain Implications for Financial Analysis", July 24, 2018, CFA Institute Financial Analysts Seminar (FAS) 2018, Chicago IL
• "Blockchain Futures", June 7, 2018, Zheshang 2018 Summit, Hangzhou China
• "Emerging Technology Policy", May 16-18, 2018, Governance of Emerging Technologies & Science (GETS): Law, Policy and Ethics, Tempe AZ
• "Blockchain Keynote: Future of Blockchain and Trustful Societies", May 2, 2018, The Future of the Internet of Value, Toronto CA
• "Blockchain and Cybersecurity", April 30, 2018, Interop ITX 2018, Las Vegas NV
• "Ethical Machine Consciousness: A Social Theory of Dignity per Hegel and Simondon", April 27, 2018, NYC Posthuman Research Group, NYU, New York NY
• "Macroeconomic Impact of Blockchain Technology", April 25, 2018, High Tech Family Office Meetings: The World of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, New York NY
• Blockchain: Future of Finance", April 20, 2018, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA
• Future of Blockchain", April 12, 2018, NYIT Blockchain Conference, New York NY
• "Blockchain Accounting and Finance", April 9, 2018, Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton CA
• "Blockchain Keynote: Future of Blockchain", April 2, 2018, Talent Land, Guadalajara MX
• "Blockchain Economics", March 14, 2018, ASU Blockchain Supply Chain Lab, Tempe AZ
• "Future of Blockchain", March 10, 2018, Worlds Fair Nano, San Francisco CA
• "Blockchain, Higher Education, and Research Institutes", March 2, 2018, SUNY University of Buffalo, Buffalo NY
• "Blockchain Strategic Overview for Business Managers", February 21, 2018, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago IL
• "Game Changing Technologies", February 6, 2018, Accelerating Digital Transformation in Asia, Singapore
• "The Future of Artificial Intelligence", January 8, 2018, Scientech Luncheon, Indianapolis IN
• "Long-term Visions of the Future", December 2-3, 2017, Foresight Fellows Weekend, San Francisco CA
• "Blockchain and the Future of Work and Society", November 29, 2017, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON Canada
• "Philosophy of Time and Philosophy of Physics in Quantum Gravity", November 17, 2017, Purdue Philosophy Graduate Students Conference, West Lafayette IN
• "Philosophy of Time: The Composable Reality of Blockchains and Deep Learning", November 9-12, 2017, Society for Literature, Science and The Arts (SLSA) 2017, Tempe AZ
• "Blockchain Payment Channels, Integrated Ledgers, Net-cleared Economy", Nov 11, 2017, World Future Society, Scottsdale AZ
• "Future of AI: Blockchain and Deep Learning", Nov 9, 2017, World Future Society, Scottsdale AZ, Talk Abstract
• "Blockchain Economics: Payment Channels", October 28-29, 2017, Texas Bitcoin Conference, Austin TX
• "Blockchain Educators Panel", October 10, 2017, FinTank, Blockchain Summit 2017, Chicago IL
• "The Future of AI: Deep Learning and Digital Ledgers", October 7, 2017, Association of Chinese-American Scientists and Engineers (ACSE), Chicago IL
• "Workshop: Bitcoin and Blockchain Explained", September 18, 2017, 38th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2017, Newark NJ
• "Blockchain Economic Theory", September 14, 2017, Brooklyn Futurists, New York NY
• "Guide to Blockchain Investing: ICOs, Token Sales, and Smart Contracts", August 24, 2017, FinTank, Chicago IL
• "Deep Learning Explained", August 12, 2017, Boulder Futurists, Boulder CO
• "State of Blockchain 2017: Smartnetworks and the Blockchain Economy", June 8, 2017, Blockchain technology for cybersecurity and social impact, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
• "Blockchain briefing: Digital Identity Solutions", May 2, 2017, United Nations, Washington DC
• "Philosophy of Deep Learning: Deep Qualia, Statistics, and Blockchain", March 30, 2017, American Statistical Association, Pfizer, New York NY, Talk Abstract
• "Technological Unemployment: Transition to the Automation Economy", January 23, 2017, Data & Society, New York NY
• "Blockchain Smartnetworks: Bitcoin and Blockchain Explained", December 9, 2016, Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
• "Philosophy of Technology", November 15, 2016, NYU Philosophy, New York NY
• "Decentralized crypto-finance: Blockchains, automatic markets, and algorithmic trust", November 3-4, 2016, Intersections of Finance and Society, City University London UK
• "Philosophical Principles of Creativity", November 3-5, 2016, Society for Literature, Science and The Arts (SLSA) 2016, Atlanta GA
• "Philosophy of Social Robotics: Abundance Economics", November 1-3, 2016, Sociorobotics, 8th International Conference on Social Robotics, Kansas City KS
• "Posthuman and Transhuman Bodies in Religion and Spirituality", October 27-29, 2016, Ways of Knowing, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge MA
• "Decentralized Finance: Blockchains, Prediction, and Valuation", October 13, 2016, The Economist - Finance Disrupted, New York NY, Talk Abstract
• "Blockchain Singularities", September 12-15, 2016, Singularity University Global Summit, Amsterdam NL
• "Blockchain Singularities: Blockchain 101: the Automation Economy and the Future of Money", August 27-29, 2016, Singularity University Global Summit, San Francisco CA
• "How science can create an awesome future", August 17-22, 2016, FQXi International Conference: Quantum Mechanics and the Observer, Banff Canada
• "Bio-cryptoeconomy: Smart Contract Blockchain-based Bio-Nano Repair DACs", July 20, 2016, 11th Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology, Terasem Island Conference Center, Second Life
• "Derrida and the Protentive Temporality of the Future to Come", July 11-29, 2016, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Umbria IT
• "Blocktime: Temporality of Machines and Physics-Biology", July 5-8, 2016, Smart Contracts, Blockchain, and Rules, Rule ML 2016, Stony Brook NY
• "Crypto Cloudminds and Blockchain Technology", June 23-26, 2016, e-life 2016, Plastira Lake, GR
• "A Hegelian Theory of Complexity and Algorithmic Reality", May 24-26, 2016, Fourth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy, and Ethics, Tempe AZ
• "A Hegelian Theory of Complexity and Algorithmic Reality", May 24, 2016, World Future Society, Scottsdale AZ
• "A Neuroethics of Emergence through BCIs (Brain Computer Interfaces) and Cloudminds", May 20-12, 2016, Ethics and the Brain Conference, Center for Cognition and Neuroethics, Flint MI
• "FutureNow: Theory of Posthuman Temporality", April 22-23, 2016, Posthuman Futures, NYU, New York NY
• "Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and DNA Nanotechnology", April 8-10, 2016, Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics Conference, Miami FL
• "Blockchain Cloudminds: Human-Machine Pooled-Mind DACs", April 1-3, 2016, CONTACT, Mountain View CA
• "Crypto-Philosophy: Ethical Implications of Blockchain Technology", March 30, 2016, Technology & Ethics, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, New Haven CT
• "Bergson’s Qualitative and its link to Free Will and Subjectivation", December 11, 2015, 'Spatiality & Temporality' Conference, Warsaw Poland
• "The World in 2025, 2035, and 2045", November 19-20, 2015, The 2015 World Technology Summit and Awards, New York NY
• "Rethinking the “Objects” of Biopolitics through Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology", November 12-15, 2015, Society for Literature, Science and The Arts (SLSA) 2015, Houston TX
• "The Age of Cryptocurrencies", LAST Festival, October 17-18, 2015, Stanford CA
• "Blockchain Financial Networks", US Treasury, October 2, 2015, Washington DC
• "Blockchain Payment Systems", Chicago Payments Symposium, September 24-25, 2015, Chicago IL
• "Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Explained: Cryptocitizen Smartnetwork Trust", LASER Leonardo Interdisciplinary Cultural Events, July 13, 2015, University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA
• "Blockchain Prediction Markets Simulation" NASA Ames Singularity University, July 7, 2015, Mountain View CA
• "Cryptocitizen: Smart Contracts, Pluralistic Morality, and Blockchain Society", May 26-28, 2015, Third Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy, and Ethics, Scottsdale AZ
• "Blockchain Consensus Protocols", May 6, 2015, Arizona Bitcoin Meetup, Tempe AZ
• "Connected World: Quantified Self Biocitizen, Wearable Computing, Internet-of-Things Home, and Smart Cities", May 5, 2015, Digital Health Initiative - Advisor Sprint Review, Oulu Finland
• "Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Explained: Not just Cryptocurrencies, Economics, and Markets; Applications in Art, Health, and Literacy", LASER Leonardo Interdisciplinary Cultural Events, April 8, 2015, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley CA
• "Philosophy of Big Data: Expanding the Human-Data Relation with Big Data Science Services", Mar 31-Apr 2, 2015, IEEE BigDataService 2015, Redwood City CA
• "Blockchain Thinking: The Brain as a DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)", March 27-29, 2015, Texas Bitcoin Conference, Austin TX
• "Blockchain Thinkers and Smart Contracts to take over the World?", March 20–21, 2015, The Work of Cognition and Neuroethics in Science Fiction, Center for Cognition and Neuroethics, Flint MI
• "Nanomedicine and Cognitive Enhancement", March 6-8, 2015, Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics Conference, Los Angeles CA
• "How Blockchain Technology is Shaping the Future of Personal Identity", December 18, 2014, World Future Society, Phoenix AZ
• "Decentralized Money: Bitcoin 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0", December 5-6, 2014, Crypto Money Expo, Virtual Conference
• "Personal Identity: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry", October 23, 2014, OPTIM, Origins Project, ASU Tempe AZ
• "Bitcoin Protocols 1.0 and 2.0 Explained", October 11, 2014, Solid State Depot - The Boulder Hackerspace, Boulder CO
• "Blockchain: the Information Technology of the Future", October 1, 2014, Arizona Bitcoin Meetup, Tempe AZ
• "BRAINY – Multi-modal Brain Training App for Google Glass: Cognitive Enhancement, Wearable Computing, and the Internet-of-Things extend Personal Data Analytics", September 5, 2014, Workshop on Personal Data Analytics in the Internet of Things, 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Hangzhou China PDF
• "Sensor Ubiquity: Automotive-Quantified Self Integrated Sensor Applications", September 4, 2014, Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) Advanced Safety Seminar, Ann Arbor MI, Article: Top 5 Killer Apps: QS-Automotive Sensors
• "Live Prediction Markets Simulation" NASA Ames Singularity University, July 14, 2014, Mountain View CA
• "An Ethics of Perception in Cognitive Nanorobots", May 27-29, 2014, Second Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy, and Ethics, Scottsdale AZ
• "Les personnes futures comme biocitoyens", March 15, 2014, Numérique: vers une "post-humanité"?, Paris France
• "Ideology of Quantified Self", February 7, 2014, LIPADE, Université Paris Descartes, Paris France
• "Philosophy of Big Data: Big Data, the Individual, and Society" She's Geeky, January 24, 2014, Microsoft, Mountain View CA
• "DIYneuroscience: Cognitive Enhancement Techniques" She's Geeky, January 24, 2014, Microsoft, Mountain View CA
• "Science and Society: How can big-picture science thinking help society and vice-versa?" Prepared for panel participation at FQXi International Conference on Physics of Information, January 9, 2014, Vieques Puerto Rico
• "Big Data and the Quantified Self", October 28, 2013, National Consumer Research Center, Helsinki Finland
Blog Coverage
• "Future of Life Sciences" 10th Horizons in Molecular Biology, September 9, 2013, Max Planck Institute for Speaking Engagementsphysical Chemistry, Göttingen Germany
• "Natural Aesthetics: Digital Art and Philosophy in the Era of Technologized Speaking Engagementsmimicry" LASER Leonardo Interdisciplinary Cultural Events, August 7, 2013, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley CA
• "Fireside Chat with Melanie Swan" Coding Dojo, July 15, 2013, Mountain View CA
• "Prediction Markets Trading Simulation" NASA Ames Singularity University, June 25, 2013, Mountain View CA
• "Natural Aesthetics: Digital Art and Philosophy in the Era of Technologized Speaking Engagementsmimicry" LASER Leonardo Interdisciplinary Cultural Events, June 6, 2013, Stanford University, Stanford CA
• "Next-generation Personal Genomic Studies: Extending Social Intelligence Genomics to Cognitive Performance Genomics in Quantified Creativity and Thinking Fast and Slow" AAAI 2013 Spring Symposia: Data Driven Wellness: From Self-Tracking to Behavior Change, March 25-27, 2013, Palo Alto CA
• "Digital Art and Philosophy" University of the Commons Winter Semester Class, February 12 - March 12, 2013, San Francisco CA course slides
• "Digital Art and Philosophy" She's Geeky, January 24, 2013, Mountain View CA
• "Personalized Medicine and You!" Health Technology Forum, September 27, 2012, San Francisco CA
• "Prediction Markets Trading Simulation" NASA Ames Singularity University, July 20, 2012, Mountain View CA
• "Speaking Engagementstechnicity 2.0: Computation-enabled Philosophical Advance in the Epistemology of Human Speaking Engagementslogy and the Ontology of Speaking Engagementsidentity" Symposium on Computational Philosophy, AISB/IACAP World Congress (in Honor of Alan Turing, 1912-1954), July 2-6, 2012, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Paper accepted, not presented
• "New Deleuzian Realities: the Deterritorialized Design of Science, Economics, and Philosophy" 5th International Deleuze Studies Conference 2012, June 25-27, 2012, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
• "Extending Subjectivity with the Climacian Framework: A Comprehensive Fragment and Postscript of a Conceptual Application of Kierkegaard and the Quest for Subjective Truth" 2012 Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, June 7-9, 2012, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
• "Health Futures: Participatory Medicine and Crowdsourced Research" Media X, May 16, 2012, Stanford University, Stanford CA
• "Human Body 2.0: Redesign, Democracy, And Next-Generation Intelligence" CONTACT Cultures of the Imagination, March 29, 2012, Mountain View CA
• "DIYgenomics citizen science health research studies: personal wellness and preventive medicine through collective intelligence" AAAI Symposium: Self-tracking and Collective Intelligence for Personal Wellness, March 26-28, 2012, Stanford CA
• "Workshop: Building a Culture of Empathy" 1st Annual South Bay Womyn's Conference, March 17, 2012, San Jose CA
• "Stock Market Basics Trading Simulation" Expanding Your Horizons Math and Science Conference, March 17, 2012, San Jose CA
• "The Black Swan: Prologue, Chapters 1 and 2" Black Swan Discussion Group, February 12, Burlingame CA
• "Participative Healthcare" Advancing the Tohoku Region: An Emerging System of Support for Human Life & Health in Japan’s Post-Disaster Region, February 2, 2012, Tokyo Japan
• "Workshop: Building a Culture of Empathy" She's Geeky, January 27-29, 2012, Mountain View CA
• "Overview of participant-driven medicine: health social networks, personalized genomics, and integrated health data streams" Opening talk, Interpharma Patient-Driven Health Care and Medicine conference, November 10, 2011, Lausanne Switzerland
• "Translational reverse-aging research: latest advances" LVMH Recherche Scientific Symposium, October 27, 2011, London UK
• "Inconsistency Robustness and the Singularity" Inconsistency Robustness, August 18, 2011, Stanford CA
• "Open-source preventive medicine: citizen science genomics" OSCON, July 28, 2011, Portland OR
• "Genomic self-hacking: citizen science and the realization of personalized medicine" Quantified Self, NASA AMES, July 19, 2011, Mountain View CA
• "Prediction Markets Trading Simulation" NASA Ames Singularity University, July 19, 2011, Mountain View CA
• "DIYgenomics: An Open Platform for Democratizing the Genome" LASER Leonardo Interdisciplinary Cultural Events, March 7, 2011, San Francisco CA
• "Reality: analog, digital, or information compression continuum?" FQXi Foundational Questions Institute meeting, March 5, 2011, Atherton CA
• "Patient-organized genomic research studies" Scripps Future of Genomic Medicine IV Conference, March 3-4, 2011, San Diego CA
• "The application of genome-wide association studies of aging in a patient-driven clinical trial" Bay Area Aging Meeting, December 4, 2010, Stanford CA
• "DNA Testing: Living Longer Via Personal Genomics" Personalized Life Extension Conference, October 9-10, 2010, Burlingame CA
• "The application of genome-wide association studies of aging in a patient-driven clinical trial" Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Personal Genomes 3rd Annual Meeting, September 10-12, 2010, Cold Spring Harbor NY
• "Multigentic Analysis of Consumer Genomes for Health Risk Prediction" Computational Systems Speaking Engagementsinformatics 2010, August 16-18, 2010, Stanford CA
• "Economia 3.0 e Mercados de Previsão" Crie Futuros , August 16, 2010, São Paulo Brazil, DOM Network Interview
• "Future of Life and the Universe" Foundational Questions Institute strategy meeting, August 1, 2010, Atherton CA
• "Prediction Markets Trading Simulation" NASA Ames Singularity University, July 29, 2010, Mountain View CA
• "DIYgenomics: an open platform for citizen science" OSCON, July 21, 2010, Portland, OR, interview, video
• "Crisis Telediagnosis mobile app" Stanford University Clear 4G WiMAX Developers Symposium, June 15, 2010, Palo Alto CA (Android mobile app; Application description)
• "DIYgenomics Citizen Science" Harvard University 2010 Humanity+ Summit, June 12-13, 2010, Cambridge MA
• "Review of cancer risk prediction in direct-to-consumer genomic services" (poster) Stanford University Canary Foundation Early Detection Symposium, May 25-27, 2010, Stanford CA
• "Citizen Genome Privacy and Sharing" Stanford University Media X Identity and Privacy in Unified Communication Environments, May 14, 2010, Stanford CA
• "Democratizing the Genome" UC Santa Cruz BIL 2010, May 1, 2010, Santa Cruz CA
• "Hacking a Speaking Engagementsinformatics Android App" UC Berkeley Bay Area Speaking Engagementsinformatics Forum, April 10, 2010, Berkeley CA, photo
• "Personal Genome Revolution" NASA Ames CONTACT 2010, March 26-28, 2010, Mountain View CA
• "DIY Genomics" Hacker Dojo Silicon Valley Transhumanist Meetup Group, March 27, 2010, Mountain View CA
• "Revolutionizing human mental performance with artificial intelligence" Georgetown University Washington Evolutionary Society, February 28, 2010, Washington DC
• "DIYgenomics - Personal Genome Research" NY Quantified Self Meetup, February 17, 2010, New York NY
• "Personal Genome Citizen Science" She's Geeky, January 29-31, 2010, Mountain View CA
• "Futures Frameworks Simulation" NASA Ames Singularity University, November 9, 2009, Mountain View CA (press: CNET, Popular Science)
• "New Banks and Currencies" Create Futures IberoAmérica, Enthusiasmo Cultural, Brazil, October 14, 2009, São Paulo Brazil, video
• "Direct-to-Consumer Genomics Offerings: What you need to know" NCHPEG 12th Annual Meeting, September 23, 2009, Bethesda MD
• "Review of Multigenic Condition Risk Assessment in Direct-to-Consumer Genomics Offerings" Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Personal Genomes 2nd Annual Meeting, September 14, 2009, Cold Spring Harbor NY
• "Review of Multigenic Condition Risk Assessment in Direct-to-Consumer Genomics Offerings" SENS4 Aging Conference, September 3-7, 2009, Cambridge UK
• "Futures Frameworks Simulation" NASA Ames Singularity University, August 5, 2009, Mountain View CA
• "Future of Life Sciences" NASA Ames CONTACT 2009, April 3, 2009, Mountain View CA
• "Ultimate Possibilities for Life and Technology" FQXi, March 8, 2009, Grand Cayman
• "Future of Technology" Technology and Society Committee, November 11, 2008, Mountain View CA
• "Speaking Engagementsengineering: Making Life From Scratch" National Institutes of Health, September 25, 2008, Bethesda MD
• "Clean Technology Initiatives" Women in Technology International, October 15, 2008, Santa Clara CA
• "Democratic Capital" Social Capital Markets, October 13, 2008, San Francisco CA
• "Virtual Worlds Data Visualization" NCSL International, August 6, 2008, Second Life
• "Visualizing Real Data in a Virtual World" Linden Labs, July 2, 2008, Second Life
• "Speaking Engagementslogy Futures" Santa Clara University Speaking Engagementslogy, May 22, 2008, Santa Clara CA
• Moderator, Founders Panel, Women 2.0 Conference, May 10, 2008, Stanford CA
• "Virtual Worlds" Deloitte Technology Expo, May 9-10, 2008, San Francisco CA
• "Virtual Worlds Data Visualization" CONTACT, April 5, 2008, Mountain View CA
• "Virtual Worlds as an Interaction Platform" United Kingdom Civil Service Live, April 3, 2008, Second Life
• "Enterprise Virtual Worlds" Virtual Worlds 2008, April 3, 2008, New York NY
• "Data Visualization in Second Life" Life 2.0, March 17, 2008, Second Life
• "Futurist Workshop" and "Virtual Worlds Data Visualization" SciBarCamp, March 15, 2008, Toronto Canada
• "Future Blogger" MemeBox, March 1, 2008, New York NY
• "Future of Technology" Santa Clara University, January 28, 2008, Santa Clara CA
• "Virtual World Valuation" Deloitte, November 28, 2007, New York NY
• "Virtual Worlds" Foresight Institute Vision Weekend, November 3, 2007, Sunnyvale CA
• "Future of Technology" She's Geeky, October 23, 2006, Mountain View CA
• "Imagining the Internet" Elon University, the Pew Internet Project
• "Get Deeply Geeky" BlogHer, July 2006, San Jose CA
• NIH Speaking Engagementsmedical Computing Group, Bethesda, MD
       "The Nexus of Speaking Engagementslogy and Computing" May 2007
       Futurist review of "The Black Swan" by Nassim Taleb, June 2007
       Futurist review of "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil, February 2006
       Futurist review of "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins, April 2006
       Futurist review of "How Doctors Think" by Jerome Groopman, September 2007
       Futurist review of "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, March 2006
       Futurist review of "Collapse" by Jared Diamond, June 2006
• Accelerating Change 2005, Stanford CA
• Accelerating Change 2004, Stanford CA
• Accelerating Change 2003, Stanford CA

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