2006
• Keynote speaker at Beyond 2006, November 2006.
• Featured speaker at the New Context Conference, September 2006.
• Panelist on “The Future of Virtual Worlds” and “Beyond Subscriptions” at the Austin Game Conference, September 2006.
• Presented Second Life at the Aspen Institute FOCAS conference, August 2006.
• Presented “Building Reality” at Nature/MacMillian Publishing Group Tech Talk, July 2006.
• Presented “Imagining Reality” at the TransISTor 06 Conference, July 2006.
• Presented “Education Commons” at the iSummit 06 Conference, June 2006.
• Participant and provocateur at the 2006 Rueschlikon Conference on “Innovative Entrepreneurship” in Zurich, Switzerland, June 2006. This invitation-only forum is hosted by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
• Panelist on the “Profiting from Innovative Online Communities” at E3, May 2006.
• Presented “Digital Institutions” at the Berkman Workshop on Digital Institutions, May 2006.
• Demonstrated Second Life as part of the Games for Health Capital Hill Demos, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, April 2006.
• Presented “Online Worlds as Online Nations”, Game Developers Conference, March 2006.
• Presented Second Life as a High Order Bit, O’Reilly ETech, March 2006.
• Panelist and moderator for “Physical Simulations and Virtual Worlds”, American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, February 2006.
• Keynote speaker at “Microsoft Academic Days: Are Universities Dead?” February 2006.

2005
• Presented “Changing Realities” at the 22nd Chaos Computer Club Conference, December 2005.

• Presented “People Powered” at the Berkman Luncheon Series, November 2005.
• Presented “We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” at the National Academies, November 2005.
• Panelist on the “State of Play Dinner Panel” at State of Play 3, October 2005.
• Presented “One Thing to Tell the World About Games” at Accelerating Change, September 2005.
• Presented “People Powered Places: Some Missing Pieces” at FooCamp, August 2005.
• Presented “People Powered Places” at Microsoft Research Tech Talk, August 2005.
• Presented “Innovation at the Edge” at the Navy R&D Partnership Conference, July 2005.
• Presented “Building Better Places: 5 Missing Pieces” at IBM Tech Talk in Cambridge, MA, July 2005.
• Presented “Brace for Impact” with Dr. James Cook and Dr. Megan Conklin at the Games, Learning, and Society Conference, Madison, WI, June 2005.
• Panelist on “Intellectual Property and Virtual Worlds” at the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Law Conference, April 2005.
• Presented “Case Study: Building Serious Game MMPs using Second Life” at the Serious Game Summit, March 2005.
• Presented “Building Better Place and 5 Bottlenecks” at IBM Austin, February 2005.
• Panelist on “Ownership in Online Worlds” at the Rules and Borders Conference, February 2005.
• Presented “Building Better Places” at the Palo Alto Research Center, January 2005.

2004
• Keynote speaker at “Accelerating Change 2004: Physical Space, Virtual Space and Interface.” November 2004.
• Panelist on “Intellectual Property/Digital Property” at the State of Play 2 Conference, hosted by New York Law School and Yale Law School, October 2004.
• Moderator for “How to Break into the Game Industry” mini-conference, hosted by the Austin Game Initiative, September 2004.
• Speaker at the “Virtual Worlds: Design and Future Directions” workshop, part of MIT’s DCC04 conference. July 2004.
• Participant and speaker at the 2004 Rueschlikon Conference on “Openness, Trust and Sovereignty” in Zurich, Switzerland, June 2004. This invitation-only forum is hosted by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
• Guest speaker on the relationships between intellectual property and digital worlds at Yale Law School and New York Law School, April 2004.
• Moderator for “How to Break into the Game Industry” mini-conference, hosted by the Austin Game Initiative, January 2004.

2003
• Panelist on “Designing for the Future” at the State of Play Conference, hosted by New York Law School and Yale Law School, November 2003.