Invited Speaker, Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC), "Wi-Fi Precise Indoor Positioning in Support of Emergency Services", Highland Village, Texas, USA, April 10th, 2025.
Keynote Speaker, IPIN'25: "The Golden Age of Indoor Positioning", Hong Kong, China, October 2025.
Keynote Speaker, ACM HotMobile'24: "Revolutionizing Indoor Location", San Diego, USA, Feb 2024
Invited Panelist: Marconi Society's "Decade of Digital Inclusion" Symposium. The panel, titled "An Internet Built for Personal Safety and Security: Who is Responsible and How Do We Do It?," November 2nd 2022.
Keynote speaker, "Smart Things Know Where They Are", 15th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), Guangzhou, China, October 8th-12th 2018.
Invited Speaker, 11th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2017). “Making the Internet of Things Great Again”, April 7th 2017.
Keynote speaker, “Enabling the Internet of Things”, MobiCASE Conference; Cambridge, England; Nov 30th – Dec 1st, 2016
Test of Time Award, “The Active Badge Location System”, ACM MobiSys’16, June 29th, 2016, Singapore
Keynote speaker, “The Web of Things”, Intelligent Environments Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 13-14 July 2015.
Keynote speaker, “The Physical Web”, IoTSys Workshop at ACM MobiSys, May, 2015, Florence, Italy
Keynote speaker, “Pervasive Computing is the New Black”, IEEE CCNC 2014, Las Vegas, January 11th, 2014
Keynote speaker, “The Golden Age of Pervasive Computing”, IEEE PerCom 2013, San Diego, March 19th, 2013
Keynote speaker, “Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing: Past, Present and Future”, IEEE NDT 2012, April 24th 2012.
Invited plenary speaker IEEE Globcom 2010, “Smart Phones: A Revolution in Mobile Computing”, Miami, Florida, December 8th, 2010.
Invited speaker, DAC Workshop, Mobile & Cloud Computing, “Always-on Considerations for Mobile Systems”, June 14th, 2010
Invited speaker, HPCA, Workshop on Mobile Computing, “Smart Phones – Future Devices, Usages and Applications”, Bangalore, Jan 10th 2010
Invited panelist, MobiSys 2009 "HotPlanet" Workshop, Krakow, Poland
Invited panelist/speaker: "Dynamic Composable Computing", IEEE 125th Media Event Panel, March 10th 2009, New York, NY, USA
Keynote speaker, "Life, the Universe, and The Future of Mobile Computing", ACM Mobisys 2008, June 19th 2008, Colorado, USA
Invited speaker, "Carry Small Live Large", TTI Vanguard "Being Everywhere" Conference, Toronto Canada April 29-30, 2008
Keynote speaker, "The Cell Phone and the Future of Mobile Computing", 25th Annual IEEE International Performance Computing and Communication Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, Arizona, April 10th, 2006
Invited speaker, State of the Art Session: "System Challenges for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing", ICSE'05, St. Louis, MO, May 18th 2005
Lillian Gilbreth Lectureship, National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Washington DC, Oct 12th, 2003. "Personal Servers – Pushing the Limits of Personal Computing”
Panel moderator - Intel Developers Forum Fall 2003 “WiFi: Opportunities and Challenges”, 18th Sept 2003, San Jose
Invited speaker - Intel Developers Forum Fall 2003 - R&D Perspective - International Press Conference, 15th Sept 2003, San Jose
Keynote speaker, IEEE PerCom, “New Horizons for Mobile Computing”, March 24th, 2003, Dallas Texas.
Invited speaker at National Academy of Engineering (NAE), 2002 Japan/America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 26th October 2002, Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan
Keynote speaker, "Ten Lessons Learned about Ubiquitous Computing", Dagstugl Ubiquitous Computing Conference, 2001
Invited speaker, "The Personal Server - a new approach to Ubiquitous Computing", Pervasive Computing 2001, NIST, Washington DC
Invited panelist, Mobicom 2000, Cmon'sense, moderator Deborah Estrin, Boston, August 9th 2000
Invited panelist - Business Week e.biz live conference, San Jose, July 24th, 2000 keynote closing session, with moderator Scott Shuster and Eric Brewer (Chief Scientist Inktomi).
Invited speaker, "There is an Electronic Tag in your Future!", at Cryptography Symposium: Life in an Era of Cryptographic Abundance, Xerox PARC June 20th 2000.
Invited speaker - 'Mobile Computing', Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop, April 2000.
Invited TV interview C-NET/CNBC "Beyond the PC", TV interview Richard Hart Hosting, Sat 1pm, April 8th 2000.
Invited speaker, UIST'99, "The Design and Use of Electronic Tagging for HCI", November 1999
Lock-note speaker, "Ubiquitous Computing", Wireless'93 Conference, San Jose
Invited panelist, "Nomadic Information Appliances", following Globecom'92. Orlando, December 10th, 1992. Workshop on "Networking of Personal Communications Appliances".
Invited panelist; "Active Badge Panel" Chaired by Ken Pier, Proceedings, Conference on Organizational Computing Systems, November 5-8, Atlanta, Georgia,