2025
  • "Thriving in the Age of Change: Careers for the Next Generation", GUST Engineering and Applied Innovation Centre (GEAR). Feb 4th, 2024. 
2024
  • "Responsible AI and You". Tech & AI LIVE New York. Nov 20, 2024. 
  • "Get Smarter on Mobile Technology to Safeguard Your Business". Us Small Business Administration Cyber Summit 2023. Oct 16, 2023. Washington DC.
2023
  • "Your Responsibilities: Science for the Future". Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Nov 2023. 
  • "How to Strengthen Cyber Resilience: Rubrik + Microsoft & Generative AI". Microsoft Ignite. Nov 15, 2023. Seattle, Washington.
2022
  • "Global Scientific Research as a Tool to Unlock Talent and Expand the Geographical Confines of Knowledge Creation". World Science Forum. Dec  7, 2022. Cape Town, South Africa.
  • "The State of the Microsoft Cloud". Keynote Speech, Elevate, Genetec Consultant Summit. Sept 30, 2022. Cancun, Mexico.
  • "Community, Culture, Collaboration" (with Dr Nishal Mohan). Digital Empowerment and Inclusion Working Group, FCC Communications Equity and Diversity Council. April 18, 2022.
  • "Learning from the COVID-19 Global Pandemic".  The 1st Computer Applications & Technological Solutions (CATS) conference. March 12-14, 2022. Kuwait.
  • "MBO Voices, A D&I Conversation Series". Microsoft. February 23, 2022.
2021 2020
  • "Black Inventors and Innovators at Work". Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. November 18, 2020.
  • "Systemic Barriers in Technology: Striving for Equity and Access". National Science Policy Symposium. November 14, 2020.
  • "Riding the Silver Tsunami". Cambia Grove. October 27, 2020. 
  • "How can we crowd-source scientists to improve public information?". National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Forum on Postsecondary Response to COVID-19. April 16th, 2020.
  • "Tips for supporting a team that's working from home!". Upnotch Webinar. April 9th, 2020.
  • "The Real-Time Business Impact of Coronavirus". Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Automation Network. March 18, 2020. 
2019
  • "Are there ethical limits to what science can achieve or should pursue?". World Science Forum. Budapest, Hungary. November 21, 2019. 
  • "Science Engagement: Redefining the Uneasy Relations with Politics and Policy? Some Transatlantic Dimensions". World Science Forum. Budapest, Hungary. November 22, 2019. 
  • "Citizen science for updating 'science' in the SDG era". G7 Young Scientist Meeting. Tsukuba, Japan. October 11, 2019.
  • "Using Data and Computing for the Greater Good". Global Young Academy Annual General Meeting. Leopoldina, Halle, Germany. May 2, 2019.
  • “Harnessing ALL Available Talent to Invent a Better World: Perspective from the AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors”. National Academy of Inventors. Houston, Texas. April 10-11, 2019.
  • "Current & Future Uses Of Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning To Provide Powerful Predictive Analytics To A Wide Variety Of Life Sciences Business Operations". Intelligent Automation for Life Sciences. Boston, MA. April 8-9, 2019.
  • "How to effectively collaborate with your IT Departments to Develop Secure IA Data Security Strategies". Intelligent Automation for Life Sciences. Boston, MA. April 8-9, 2019.
  • "The Invisible Impact of Technology in Today's World". American Association for the Advancement of Science. April 4, 2019.
  • "Innovating In A Bureaucracy". Keynote Speaker. DOES (Department of Employment Services) Innovation Lab Launch. Washington DC. February 27, 2019 
  • "Technology for Humanity". Keynote Speaker. PyCaribbean 2019. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Feb 16-17, 2019.
2018
  • "Creating Chandler's IT Strategic Plan". City of Chandler, Arizona, USA. October 18, 2018.
  • "The Power of .....". Keynote Speaker. VANquish Collisions Hackathon. Vancouver, Canada. Sept 7, 2018. 
  • "Inventing With Purpose, Intention, and Function". AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadorship Talk. Washington DC. July, 24, 2018.
  • "Healthcare Innovation". University of Washington Bioengineering 50/20 Anniversary Signature Event, May 22, 2018.
  • "Female Entrepreneurs and the Presidential Innovation Fellows". Riveter. Seattle, Washington. May 17, 2018.
  • "Building and Activating Technical Communities". Co-presenting with Lilibeth Gangas. Women Who Code's CONNECT Conference. San Francisco, California. April 28th, 2018.
  • "Becoming A Nation Of Innovation". Keynote Speaker, The 11th Faculty of Science and Technology Conference. April 25-27, 2018. Kingston, Jamaica.
  • "The Internet of Baseball: Using Technology To Innovate The Business and Game". Oakland Athletics. Oakland, California. April 12th, 2018. 
  • "Using Data For Better Health". Under The Burough. Cambia Grove. Seattle, Washington. February 28th, 2018. 
  • "The Case For More Information Technology". Pacific Science Center. Seattle, Washington. February 20th, 2018.
2017
  • "The Journey Along The Intelligent Automation Continuum". Intelligent Automation 2017. New Orleans, Louisiana. Dec 8th, 2017.
  • "Running Mixed Workloads on Kubernetes at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation". KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017. Austin, Texas. Dec 7th, 2017.
  • "Smashing Silos: Unlocking Data to Open Collaboration in Healthcare and Research". Life Science Washington 2017. Seattle, WA. May 23, 2017.
  • "The Power of Open". AlterConf Seattle. May 6th, 2017.
  • ​"Better Mission Performance through Analytics and the IOT". CES Government. Jan 8th, 2017.
2016 2015 2014 2013 2012
  • "Challenges of an underrepresented Data Mining Researcher". Invited Panel. Broadening Participation in Data Mining - BPDM 2012, Anaheim, California. April 2012.
  • "Realizing the Potential of Trust Management". Invited Talk. Trust Management Symposium: Industry meets Academia, Hasso Plattner Institut, Berlin, Germany. March 2012.
2011
  • "The Exceptional Nature of Healthcare Security and Privacy". Invited Talk. TRUST (Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology) Security Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, February 2011.
  • "Improving Access Control in Healthcare". Invited Talk. National University, San Diego, California, February 2011.
2010
  • "Patient-Centric Privacy". The 6th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, IEEE, 2010.
  • "New Access Models for Healthcare". Keynote Speech, ACM Symposium on Access Control Methods and Technologies, June 2010.
  • "Privacy and Security Factors Affecting PHRs/Consumer Health". Consumer Driven Healthcare Conference - Bridging the Gap between Healthcare Providers & Partners, and Academia. A SoCal HIMSS Academic Alliance Committee Program. Feb 2010.
  • "Using Social Media to Build an Online Community: Learning By Doing". To appear in the proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO) 2010. September 12-15, 2010. Cape Town, South Africa.
2009
  • "Enabling Privacy As a Fundamental Construct for Social Networks". 2009 AoT (Academy of Technology) Security and Privacy Symposium. June, 2009. Slides
  • "Leveraging Online Data To Deliver Better Decision Support For Personalized Chronic Disease Management". American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2009 Spring Congress. Orlando, Florida. May 29, 2009.Slides
  • "Optimizing The Delivery Of Social Services". American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2009 Spring Congress. Orlando, Florida. May 28, 2009. Slides
  • "Towards Privacy-Aware OpenSocial Aplications". Google Talk. May 2009. Slides Video (presented by Kun Liu)
  • "Privacy-As-A-Service: Models, Algorithms, and Results on the Facebook Platform". Web 2.0 Security and Privacy 2009, held in conjunction with the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Oakland, California. May 2009. Slides (presented by Michael Maximilien)
  • "Turning Web X.0 Data Into Competitive Advantage". The First Caribbean Conference on Information and Communications Technology (CCICT 2009). Kingston, Jamaica. March 2009. Slides
2008
  • "Privacy Controls for Electronic Health Records Systems". The Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Spring Congress. Phoenix, Arizona. May 2008. Slides
  • "De-identification of Clinical Data". TEPR (Towards the Electronic Patient Record) 2008 - The Strategic and Practical Health IT Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL. May 17-21, 2008. Slides
  • "Information Engineering: Highlights and Thoughts of the Future". Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), ICT Centre. Canberra, Australia. February 18-22, 2008.
2007
  • "Security Usability Principles for Vulnerability Analysis and Risk Assessment". The 23rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. Miami Beach, Florida. December 2007. My Slides
  • "Primary Care Informatics Working Group Workshop: Lessons learned, Challenges and Successes". American Medical Informatics Assocation (AMIA) Annual Congress, November 2007. Chicago, Illinois. Panel Members: Stephen Morgan, William Davis, Tyrone Grandison, David Little, Maryanne Peifer, David Bates. My Slides
  • "Applications of Industrial Privacy Research in the Healthcare Sector". Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Oct 2007.
  • "The Impact of Industry Constraints on Model-Driven Data Disclosure Controls". First International Workshop on Model-Based Trustworthy Health Information Systems 2007. Nashville, Tennessee. Sept 2007. Slides
  • "Moving the Privacy Agenda Forward". Natonal Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop on Data Confidentiality, Arlington Virginia. Sept 2007. Slides
  • "Privacy in eHealth: Leveraging Hippocratic Database Technology". Information Security Institute - Queensland University of Technology, Guest Seminars on eHealth. August 2007. Slides
  • "Information Security in an E-Health World: Policies and Technologies". The 12th World Congress on Medical Informatics (Medinfo), August 2007. Panel members: Ted Cooper, John M Davis, Bernd Blobel, Tyrone Grandison. Slides
  • "Protecting Privacy while Sharing Medical Data between Regional Healthcare Entities". The 12th World Congress on Medical Informatics (Medinfo), August 2007. Slides
  • "Formalizing Trust-based Decision Making in Electronic Commerce Transactions". 1st International Workshop on Combining Context with Trust, Security, and Privacy. Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. July 2007. My slides.
  • "Hippocratic Database Technology - Lessons Learned and Emerging Opportunities". KeyNote Talk. 21st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSEC). July 2007. Redondo Beach, California.
  • "Security and Privacy in Service Oriented Architectures". Panel. 21st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSEC). July 2007. Redondo Beach, California. Panel members: Michael Goodrich, Michael Franz, Tyrone Grandison, Sharad Mehrotra, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Hakan Hacigümüs (Moderator). My Slides
  • "End-to-End Data De-identification (EDDI): Capitalizing on an Emerging Market", IBM Academy of Technology Security and Privacy Symposium. June 2007. Yorktown, New York. With: Kun Liu and Tamar Domany.
  • "Electronic Healthcare - Addressing the Information Security and Privacy Issues". American Medical Informatics Assocation (AMIA) Spring Congress, May 2007. Orlando, Florida. Panel Members: John Davis, Ted Cooper, Bernd Blobel, Tyrone Grandison, Bill Cody (Moderator). My Slides
2006 2005
  • "Enabling the 21st Century Healthcare IT Revolution", IBM Security and Privacy Technology Symposium, IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York. Sept 2005.
  • "Data Disclosure Technology for the Grid", The Fourteenth Global Grid Forum, Healthcare Security and Privacy, Chicago, IL, USA. June 2005.
2004
  • "Hippocratic Database Technology", IBM Security and Privacy Technology Symposium, IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York. Sept 2004.
2003
  • "Software Demonstration of the use of Hippocratic Database Technology in Supporting a Healthcare Provider", DIMACS Working Group on Privacy and Confidentiality of Health Data, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey. Dec 2003.
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