Various Talks

I've given over a hundred talks over the years and to be honest I can't remember them all. Every now and then I try to think about what I've spoken at recently and add them to this list.

Academic and Research Institutions

• Co-organiser of the Future Britain Launch on the Constitutional Change programme for the UK, LSE, London, July 18, 2007.
• Guest speaker on identity policy at the Guernsey Training Centre for audience of industry and government officials, May 23, 2007.
• Guest lecturer on identity policy at a British Computer Society event at the University of Sunderland, March 28, 2007.
• Co-presenter at the LSE-hosted 'Social Study of IT' annual conference, on identity policy, March 19, 2007.
• Convenor of multi-stakeholder workshops on identity policy hosted by University of British Columbia and University of Ottawa, organised with the University of Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa, December 2006 and January 2007.
• Guest lecturer at the University of Westminster hosted British Computer Society Event, London, November 8, 2006.
• Panel chair at Scrambling for Safety 8, hosted at University College London, August 14, 2006.
• Forum chair at an LSE event on Internet Governance, London, July 1, 2006.
• Keynote speaker at the University of Toronto public conference on identity policy, June 15, 2006.
• Guest lecturer at London Metropolitan University on identity management, February 27, 2006.
• Speaker at a legal workshop at the University of Florida on Data Devolution, February 4, 2006.
• Speaker at the University of Paris workshop on the Role of ICTs in the Evolution of Security Policies in Europe organised by the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, January 2006.
• Keynote speaker at the University of Edinburgh conference on Privacy and Technology, September 5-7, 2005.
• Course organiser on a short course at Erasmus University's Business school, Rotterdam, May 20-21, 2005.
• Panel speaker at the Science Museum's Dana Centre event on biometric passports, London, October 19, 2004.
• Guest speaker at the Student Voice Conference, in Hvar, Croatia, October 8, 2004.
• Guest seminar speaker at the Information Rights Salon, at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, September 30, 2004.
• Presenter at 4S, hosted by the Ecoles des Mines, Paris, August 27, 2004.
• Panel speaker at the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy workshop on information policy, June 28, 2004.
• Guest lecturer at the University of Ottawa Law Faculty, Common Law Section, March 19, 2004.
• Panel speaker at the International Studies Association Convention in Montreal, March 17, 2004.
• Participant at the Social Science Research Council workshop on the World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, December 14-15, 2003.
• Panel speaker at Oxford University Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy symposium, August 7, 2003.
• Seminar speaker at Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University, April 2, 2003.
• Seminar speaker at the Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, March 4, 2003.
• Speaker and workshop advisor to the 2^nd National UK Student Pugwash Conference, hosted by St John's College, University of Cambridge, 18 January 2003.
• Presenter at Global and organizational discourse about information technology, organised by the International Federation of Information Processing Working Group 8.2, hosted by the IESE Business School, Barcelona, December 12-14, 2002.
• Presenter at Governing Global Electronic Networks Conference hosted by the Central European University and the Open Society Institute, Budapest, November 16, 2002.
• Panel speaker at The Next Challenges: Five Internet Problems for the Public Interest, hosted by the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media, & Society, in cooperation with the Markle Foundation, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, October 2, 2002.
• Lecturer at the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts 23rd Summer Course on Cyberwar, Netwar and the Revolution in Military Affairs - Real Threats and Virtual Myths, Trento, August 12, 2002.
• Seminar speaker at the Internet Law and Policy Seminar Series, at the Center for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University, February 14, 2002.
• Panel Chair at The Human Face of Privacy conference, organised by the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner and the University of Waterloo, hosted by the University of Toronto, November 2, 2001.
• Guest speaker at Privacy Lecture Series, the Department of Information Studies, University of Toronto, February 28, 2001.
• International speaker at Privacy and the Globalization of Cyberspace, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C., October 11, 2000.
• Panel chair, and presenter at International Forum on Surveillance by Design, LSE, September 22, 2000.
• International speaker at ICT2000, the inaugural Learning Information Networking and Knowledge Centre conference at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, July 26, 2000.
• Presenter at Risks in Electronic Commerce, the Royal Institute for International Affairs, London, June 9, 1999.
• Speaker at Cambridge University Public Policy Seminar, organised by four heads of colleges, April 1999.

Government-Related Institutions

• Shared-keynote speech at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission meeting on identity policy, and later panel chair, Washington DC, April 23, 2007.
• Invited speaker to the European Parliament committee on civil liberties (LIBE Committee), on surveillance of financial transactions and movement, Brussels, March 26, 2007.
• Presented to the Public-Private Forum on Identity, or 'Crosby Committee' at HM Treasury, London, March 1, 2007.
• Gave evidence to the House of Lords committee on the European Union, regarding anti-terrorism policy and surveillance, London, February 28, 2007.
• Invited participant at a workshop hosted by the Asia-Europe Foundation on civil liberties and terrorism, Singapore, January 29-30 2007.
• Invited participant at the European Commission Joint Research Centre research meeting on e-government in 2020, Seville, November 13-14, 2006.
• Plenary Panel speaker at the International Conference of Data Privacy Commissioners annual conference, London, November 3, 2006.
• Workshop chair and plenary panel speaker at the UN Internet Governance Forum first summit in Athens, October 31, 2006.
• Invited speaker to a seminar run by the ALDE party at the European Parliament on civil liberties and terrorism, October 19, 2006.
• Invited to address a meeting of the Article 29 Working Party meeting, Brussels, September 26, 2006.
• Invited participant in the semi-annual meeting of the Berlin Group on Data Protection and Telecommunications, Berlin, September 4-5, 2006.
• Invited speaker at the meeting of the Article 29 Working Party sub-group on financial privacy, Brussels, August 23, 2006.
• Guest Speaker at book launch hosted by the Danish Human Rights Institute, Copenhagen, June 23, 2006.
• Speaker at conference on ambient computing organised by the European Commission research agency, Brussels, March 22, 2006.
• Speaker at Workshop on The Future of the Internet, organised by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, March 8, 2006.
• Lecturer at workshop for the Office of Fair Trading on Information Policy, November 11, 2005.
• Witness to Canadian Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism Policy, November 8, 2005.
• Speaker at the 27th International Conference for Data Protection Commissioners, Montreux, September 24, 2005.
• Panel speaker at the Organization for Security and Cooperation Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Human Dimension Meeting on Human Rights and the Fight against Terrorism, July 14-15, 2005.
• Presenter at an ITU workshop on security and cyberspace, Geneva, July 1, 2005. Presentation focussed on the dangers of harmonisation.
• Keynote speaker at the Organization for Security and Cooperation Freedom of the Media conference on Freedom of Expression on the Internet, June 17, 2005. Presented on the contrast between Europe and the U.S. responses to terrorism.
• Speaker at a roundtable chaired by MEP Alexander Alvaro at the European Parliament; event topic: "How does the internet work and how does data retention affect industry and society", May 3, 2005.
• Speaker at the launch of the LSE's Identity Project interim report in the House of Lords, Moses Room, March 21, 2005.
• Panel speaker at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe conference on Human Rights in Warsaw, on a panel organised by the Representative on the Freedom of the Media, October 12, 2004.
• Guest speaker at event hosted by the Danish Parliament on pressing national and international information policy, September 7, 2004.
• Speaker on three different panels at the World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, December 10-12 2003. Panels were organised by CPSR, UNDP, and UNESCO.
• Guest speaker to The State of Accountable Government in a Surveillance Society organised by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, Victoria, September 25-26, 2003.
• Guest speaker to meeting on Privacy and Cybercrime at the Japanese Diet, Tokyo, June 30, 2003.
• Panel speaker to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Freedom of the Media and the Internet conference, Amsterdam 13-14 June, 2003.
• Guest speaker to the OSCE Mediterranean Seminar on New Media and Technologies, Rhodes, November 5, 2002.
• Speaker at the European Commission Privacy and Identity in the Information Society: Emerging technological challenges Workshop, Brussels, October 5, 2001.
• Panel speaker at Managing Your Online Identity workshop at the European Parliament, Brussels, organised by European Parliamentarians Internet Group, June 26, 2001.
• Panel speaker at The Public Voice on Emerging Markets, hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), held in conjunction with the OECD Conference on Emerging Markets, Dubai, January 2001.
• Panel chair of Working Group, and panel presenter at Global Knowledge II Action Summit in Malaysia, organised by UNESCO and the World Bank, March 2000.

Other Institutions

• Guest speaker at the British Computer Society meeting on privacy and identity policy, London, July 11, 2007.
• Panel speaker on business privacy challenges, at the Privacy, Laws and Business annual conference, Cambridge, July 4, 2007.
• Guest participant at the YMCA Youth Theatre group to discuss privacy and surveillance challenges, June 26, 2007.
• Guest speaker on international civil liberties challenges at the American Civil Liberties Union Biennual conference, Seattle, June 14, 2007.
• Organiser of Enterprise Privacy Group industry meeting on 'the Business Case for Privacy', May 30, 2007.
• Panel Chair at Computers Freedom and Privacy conference in Montreal, April 3, 2007.
• Invited speaker ato the Science Museum's Dana Centre public forum on biometrics, March 20, 2007.
• Keynote speaker on anti-terrorism policy at the Italian IT industry annual conference, Milan, February 21, 2007.
• Speaker at industry event, the 'Counter Terrorism' Conference, London, December 5, 2006.
• Speaker at the EEMA ID Policy event, London, November 15, 2006.
• Guest speaker at the Association for Corporate Travel Executives Annual Conference, Barcelona, October 24, 2006.
• Guest speaker on internet governance issues at a forum hosted by Nominet, London, October 9, 2006.
• Guest speaker on international civil liberties issues, Iridicum Remedium conference in Prague, August 3, 2006.
• Guest speaker at the American Civil Liberties Union Board meeting, on anti-terrorism policy developments around the world, New York, June 18, 2007.
• Guest speaker on data retention at industry briefing hosted by the law firm Barlow, Lyde and Gilbert, London, June 6, 2006.
• Chaired panel at the Institute of Race Relations talk on anti-terrorism policy, May 13, 2006.
• Speaker at workshop on visual surveillance, at Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2006 in Washington, DC, May 4, 2006.
• Speaker at I4 meeting on identity management, January 31, 2006.
• Speaker at Emergency Meeting on Data Retention, hosted by Morrison and Foerster, January 26, 2006.
• Twice presented at the Association for Corporate Travel Executives Annual Conference, London, October 24-25, 2005.
• Presented at the 'Global Border Control Technology Summit' on the risks of new identity and border systems, London, July 11-12, 2005.
• Presented twice at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2005 in Seattle, April 14, 2005. One presentation on international policy issues regarding biometric identity documents and another on Europe's policies on terrorism.
• Twice presented to the European Social Forum Communications Rights sessions, London, October 14 and 15, 2004.
• Panel speaker at The Public Voice Conference in Wroclaw, Poland, September 13, 2004.
• Panel speaker on policy laundering at Computers Freedom and Privacy 2004, Berkeley, April 22, 2004.
• Panel chair and speaker on anti-terrorism policies in Africa, the European Union, Japan, and the United Kingdom at Computers Freedom and Privacy 2003, New York, April 3, 2003.
• Speaker at The Global Congress on Community Networking in the Digital Era, Montreal, October 11, 2002.
• Panel speaker at New Information and Communication Technologies: Perspectives from the Research Field, hosted by the Markle Foundation, New York, October 3, 2002.
• Chair of a meeting of Non-Governmental Organisations on Terrorising Rights, organised by Privacy International and the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC), London, September 7, 2002.
• Panel speaker at Observing Surveillance, organised by EPIC, Washington, D.C., June 3, 2002.
• Panel speaker at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2002, San Francisco, April 2002.
• Speaker at Hackers At-Large 2001, University of Twente, August 8, 2001.
• Speaker at the American Civil Liberties Union Biannual Conference, Miami, June 15, 2001.
• Panel speaker at INET 2001: The Internet Global Summit, Stockholm, June 7, 2001.
• Speaker at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2001, hosted by the Association of Computing Machinery and the Harvard Information Infrastructure Program, March 7, 2001.
• Speaker at Outlook for Freedom, a conference for Russian NGOs, Moscow, April 2000.
• Panel speaker at IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference, Mississauga, Canada, December 1998.
• Lecturer to the Jamaican Institute of Bankers, Kingston, Jamaica, August 29, 1998.

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