Co-Chair, AoIR 2024 Flashpoint Symposium
Speaker, G22 Dialogue 2023, Ethics of Disruptive Technologies, 18 November 2023
Keynote, India HCI 2022, Thick HCI: Anthropology in the midst of Technocracy, 11 November 2022
Invited Speaker, Women in the Platform Economy, Ola Mobility Research Institute, New Delhi, March 8 2022
Keynote, Digital Expressions of the Self, A SPARC and the UKIERI Symposium, September 9, 2021., The Deep Like - Contextualising Digital Infrastructures of Teen Social Media -
Building Inclusive, Ethical, and Accessible AI for Healthcare-Women in AI Ethics- HCI Across Borders 30 March 2021
An Anthropologist among Human-Computer Interactionists- Research Round Table-Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad, S N School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad 22 March 2021
Keynote, Data Power Conference, The Power of Data Science Ontogeny: Thick Data on the Indian IT Skill Tutoring Microcosm, University of Bremen, Germany, September 12-13, 2019
Invited Speaker, Decolonising the gig economy: Un-Gigging the Uber-wallahs of India, University of Sheffield, UK, 16 September 2019
Invited Speaker, Data Sciences and IT skill tutoring in India- A context Ethnography, Google, Mountain View, June 25 2019
Invited Speaker, Thick HCI: Thoughts on the Intersections of HCI and the Social Sciences, March 23, 2018, Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Gandhi Nagar, Ahmedabad
Invited Panel Participant, Digital Politics in Millenial India, An International Symposium, 15-17 march 2018, Indraparasta Institute Of Information Technology, IIIT, Delhi
Speaker, TEDx Dharavi, 11 March 2018 , Mahim Nature Park, Mumbai
Invited Talk, Skilling India: Anthropology of IT Tutoring in times of Work Automation, IIIT Delhi, October 26, 2017
Invited Talk, The Surplus Self at the Digital Margins: Case Studies of Digital Life from Urban India, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, May 19, 2017
Invited Panel Chair, Is the Nexus of Technology, Governance and Development Possible under the SDG Framework?, ICEGOV, New Delhi, 8 March, 2017
Panel Chair, Re-Imagining HCI In The 21st Century, Grace Hopper Conference India, Bangalore, 8 December 2016
Workshop Chair, Ethnographic Praxis: Theory and Praxis, India HCI, Mumbai, December 7 2016
Track Chair, Ethnography/Emerging Consumers, Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, EPIC, Minneapolis, MN, 29-1 September 2016
Invited Speaker, Why We Post, A Global Anthropological Research Project on the Uses and Consequences of Social Media, University College London, 29-1 March, 2016
Invited Speaker, Digital Imaginaries, Digital South Asia, International Conference on Media, Culture and Politics in South Asia, Centre of South Asian Studies, Ann Arbor, MI, October 2-3, 2015
Plenary Speaker, Learning to Bridge the Digital Gap: Social Networking and the Youth Sub-Stratum in Urban India, International Communication Management Conference (ICMC), MICA, Ahmadabad, February 19-21, 2015
Invited Speaker, Closing the Digital Divide panel, Facebook Internet.org Summit, October 8-9, 2014 New Delhi
Invited Speaker, Research Paths In and Outside of the Academy, IAMCR 2014, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, JULY 15-19, HYDERABAD
Godrej Innovation Labs, Key Note Speaker, India Immersion Program, January 2014, Applying Design Thinking in Indian Context
Keynote Speaker, TECHEASE, Fifth national Workshop in Innovation Design and User Experience, Indian Institute of Information Technology [IIIT], Hyderabad October 2013http://www.techease.in/2013/speakers
Invited Speaker, Media Opportunities in the Asian Century, INFORMA AUSTRALIA, 19 November 2013, Sydney
Public Talk, The Internet in an Urban Slum: Entertainment or Development? The Centre for Communication and Development Studies (CCDS), Pune October 25 2013
July 2013, Facebook Dilettante and the Creation of Romance: Urban Sub-stratum and Facebook, Workshop titled Hyderabad to Cyberabad: Changing Cultures, Communities & Urbanscapes, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
June 2013, An Ethnographic Approach to Big Data, Open Data Camp 2013, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
October 2012 ‘Mental Karta Hai: User-generated content in the times of Facebook’, Godrej culture labs, Mumbai, 5 October 2012
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Rangaswamy, N (2012), Panel Curator, Renewing Our Discipline, EPIC, The Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, Savannah, October 14-17, 2012 http://epiconference.com/2012/news/livestream
February 2011 ‘Resourceful networks: Notes from a Mobile Networking platform in India’, February 2011, Celling South Asia: The Mobile Phone's Impact on a Region http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbpqeedkhxg
WORKSHOPS AND PANELS
Rangaswamy, N and Nair, S (2012), ‘The marginal rich users in urban Indian slums’, The 2012 ACM conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work, February 11-15, Seattle, Washington
Rangaswamy N (2011), ‘Ethnography: A Workshop’, http://techease.in/2011/programme, February 2011
Rangaswamy, N. (2011), ‘The ‘Short Message Service’ Authors: Authoring Social Media in India’, Panel on The Social Dimensions of Emerging Platforms, Emerging Platforms and Policies track, Digital Media Learning Conference, March 3-5 2011 Long Beach, CA
Rangaswamy, N & Sterling, R (2010), ‘Constructing informed consent in ICTD research’, Proceedings of ICTD 2010, 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and development, December 2010 London
Rangaswamy N, Chowdhury I R & Jiwani, S (2010) ‘Micro-blogging and Mobile Chattering in India’, Workshop on Micro blogging: What and How Can We Learn From It?, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 11 April 2010, Atlanta
Rangaswamy N and Nair Sumitra (2010) ‘The PC- aided enterprise and re-cycling ICT: an ICT for D story?, ICTs and Development : an international workshop for Theory, Practice, Policy, IIT Delhi , 11-12 March 2010 NCR
Rangaswamy N, Nair, S, (2009), ‘The mobile phone store ecology in a Mumbai slum community: Hybrid networks for enterprise’, Mobile phones and the Developing world AioR09 Association of Internet Researchers, 7 October 2009, Milwaukee
Rangaswamy, N & Toyama, K (2009), ‘Computing for sustainable socio-economic development’, Panel on Internationalization, Design and Global Development, HCII International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 19-24 July San Diego
Rangaswamy, N (2007), ‘Paying for ICTs: Allocating for a changing communication repertoire in middle-class Indian homes’, Panel on Living and Livelihoods at HOIT 2007: Home/Community-oriented ICT for the next billion, IIT Madras, October 2007, Chennai, India.