the public appearances of DAVID BRIN
David Brin, Ph.D.
I am best-known as a "futurist" who comments plausibly and entertainingly about trends in technology and society. Here are listings of my past engagements as speaker, consultant, or media expert. Here too are references and recommendations.
Past Engagements as Featured or Keynote* Speaker
"Should Earth Civilization Broadcast its Presence?" American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2/2015)
"Does life exist in the universe beyond Earth?" American Assoc. Physics Teachers (1/2015)
Meeting and review: Board of Advisors, NASA Innovative & Advanced Concepts group, Cocoa Beach FL (1/2015)
"What stimulates innovative companies?" with Roger Bingham & Erik Viirre, MIT Enterprise Forum (11/2014)
"Medical Breakthroughs on the Horizon," Health IT and Quality Exchange, San Diego (11/2014)
Teradyne Inc. Technical Conference 2014 Keynote (10/2014)
Cornell Tech, NYCity Campus, lecture on creativity for students (10/2014)
"Science Fiction as an Inspiration for NASA," New York Comicon (10/2014)
"Dangerous Impudence of Speculative Fiction," University of Kansas, Lawrence (10/2014)
"Neutralizing Nightmares: How we prevent dark tomorrows... by imagining them," Newman University, Witchita (10/2014)
"The future of organized crime," Institute for the Future, Palo Alto CA (10/2014)
"Strange Things," a radio call-in marathon on Coast-to-Coast (9/2014)
"Games that Teach," Cosmic Con (by Skype) (9/2014)
"Do we live in a multiverse?" with Brian Keating and Andrew Friedman, UCSD (7/2014)
"Will Technology Liberate Us or Enslave Us?" and "Delicious dystopias" FreedomFest, Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas (7/2014)
"Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature" Comicon San Diego (7/2014)
"Humanity as the positive sum of many parts" Human Computation Roadmap Conference, Washington DC (remote) (6/2014)
"Potential catastrophes - in context" Global Catastrophic Risks, Berkeley, CA (remote) (6/2014)
"Big Data: Where Will We Be in 40 Years?" Uptime Institute Symposium, Santa Clara (5/2014)
"Human Diversity Will Explode" Smithsonian Conference THE FUTURE IS HERE! Washington, DC (5/2014)
"The Future of War" Symposium Atlantic Council, Washington, DC (5/2014)
"Surveillance, sousveillance & freedom" The Internet Society, Washington, DC (5/2014)
"Pitfalls and beneficial businesses in the future" the MITRE Corp., Washington, DC (5/2014)
"Business & Cultural Impacts of Cyber Surveillance" 2nd Cyber Surveillance Conference at Santa Clara University (5/2014)
"Indignation: the most destructive addiction!" TEDx UCSD (5/2014)
"Humanity's future in space", Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCSD, San Diego CA (3/2014)
"Which Dystopian Future Is Most Likely To Come To Pass?" Intl. Assoc of Privacy Professionals, Washington DC (3/2014)
"Methods for scenario building re global trends", The Atlantic Council, Washington DC (3/2014)
"Can fiction promote or challenge alternate futures?", Google HQ (2/2014)
"Tomorrow is coming fast!", Silicon Valley Future Society, SAP Labs (2/2014)
"Problems in online communications", Facebook HQ (2/2014)
NASA - NIAC SYMPOSIUM, Palo Alto CA (2/2014)
"Space Technology Innovation: A new system for the Interplanetary Internet", Google HQ (1/2014)
"What Do We Owe Tomorrow?", Personhood Beyond the Human Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT (12/2013)
"What's Next?", re:THINK, TEDx San Diego, Calit2/UCSD (12/2013)
"How will future generations govern themselves?", Otherlands Books, Berlin, Germany (11/2013)
"Digital Agenda for Europe" ICT 2013, Vilnius, Lithuania (11/2013)
Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Lecture at Arizona State University (ASU) (10/2013)
Mensa Foundation's Colloquium 2013 - Frontiers of Science Fiction and Science, Ft. Worth, Tx (7/2013)
Public talk at the Ft. Worth Science Center/Museum (7/2013)
"Science Fiction/Fantasy counterfactual?" American Library Association, Chicago (6/2013)
ISTAS13 - the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society - (skyped talk) on transparency and sousveillance (6/2013)
"Digitizing the Planet": FiRe Future in Review Conference (5/2013)
"Transhumanism and Space Exploration": ISDC National Space Society Conference, La Jolla (5/2013)
Grand Opening, Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, UCSD (5/2013)
San Diego Writers/Editors Guild (4/2013)
ST Global Consortium, AAAS Headquarters, Washington DC. (4/2013)
Eaton Literary SF Conference, Riverside (4/2013)
Remembering Ray Bradbury, Cygnet Theater, San Diego (4/2013)
Tucson Festival of Books, U. of Az (3/2013)
NASA NIAC Spring Symposium, Chicago (3/2013)
Southern California Writer's Conference (1/2013)
Dedication of Ray Bradbury Square, LA (12/2012)
Not-the-end-of-the-world cruise, Caribbean/Yucatan (12/2012)
Keynote, Qualcomm Open Source Summit, (11/2012)
Keynote, Engineers for a Sustainable World (10/2012)
"Merging Science & Art" keynote dedication of UCSD's new Structural Engineering Building (9/2012)
"Images of the Future" Keynote dedication of exhibition at CSU Northridge. (9/2012)
"The Future of Artificial Intelligence" KPCC Crawford Forum, Pasadena (8/2012)
"Curiosity, Mars and Beyond" Planet-Fest, Pasadena (7/2012)
"Broad/Deep/Far: Humanity's Prospects to Evolve?" Singularity University (remote) (7/2012)
"Transforming Human-Computer Interfaces." Microsoft, Seattle (7/2012)
"Harnessing Competition to Solving the Riddle of Survival and Progress" UCSD Entrepreneur Challenge* (6/12)
"How Drones With Affect & Change Us" for Drones at Home conference, UCSD (5/12)
"Nutrient Info-tech, Can Citizens Use it to Live Better" Future in Review conf. Laguna (5/12)
US Air Force Space & Cyberspace Visionary Workshop, ColoSPrings (4/12)
"The Future of Governance" - Berggruen Institute, Palo Alto (3/12)
NASA NIAC new technologies conference, Pasadena (3/12)
"Sipping from a fire hose: the future of human information processing and security" Keynote: Network/Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego (2/12)
"The Politics of Space" CDPIC conference, San Diego (2/12)
"Copyright 2020 & the Future of Online IP" the Internet Society/Georgetown U. (DC 2/12)
DEBATE: Is Privacy Obsolete in the Digital World? Assoc. of American Publishers (DC 2/12)
"The World of 2061: Re-inventing Civilization" TedX Brussells (11/11)
"The Art of Reinventing Ourselves" TedX Intuit, San Diego (11/11)
"Making Gods: Will That Bother Anyone?" Singularity Summit New York (10/11)
"Future of Medicine" Society Of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, Los Angeles (9/11)
Paypal Executive conference: keynote speech (06/11)
Qualcomm's Innovation Network (QUIN) "Venture Fest" consultation (06/11)
"Problem Solving in the New Millennium" Maker Faire, San Mateo (5/11)
Meeting/consultation NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program (05/11)
"Our Destiny in Space and Life in the Cosmos" CSU San Marcos (04/11)
"Engineering Education" Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads, Phoenix (3/11)
"Making Everything in Your Home" IFTF workshop on open fabrication, San Jose (3/11)
National Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads*, Phoenix AZ (03/11)
workshop on the future of open fabrication at Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, CA (03/11)
"The Long Form: Novels & Movies" - Anime-Caonji, San Diego (03/11)
"The Future of Urban Life" San Diego Rotary Club (11/10)
"Interstellar Communications: Technology and Policy" Royal Society conference, Kavli Center (UK) (10/10)
"Originality in the Film District 9" for ART-PWR San Diego (9/10)
TEDx Del Mar - "Does the Galaxy Need Humanity?" (6/10)
Parallel Computing Workshop, keynote, UCSD (5/10)
"Out of the Eye of the Storm" keynote for Casey Research Investment Conference (5/10)
"CTO Challenge on Alternate Energy" & "The Physics of Tomorrow," Future in Review (FiRe) Conference, Palos Verdes, CA (5/10)
Situational Awareness Workshop, keynote, UCSD (5/10)
Larry King Show (with Michio Kaku & Dan Ayckroyd) re "Are aliens a threat?" (4/10)
"Hollywood & Pop Culture: Myths that help us and cliches that don't" IEET Conference Irvine, CA (12/09)
"Government web sites: service, accountability and security." NIC2009 keynote, Denver (11/09)
"Idea-Driven Innovation" Da Vinci Colorado Inventors' Showcase (11/09)
"Perspectives on Education & the Future" Kaplan University (keynote) 10/09
"Accountability, Attribution and Anonymity: Nat/Sec Implications" keynote speaker (unnamed Agency) Arlington VA (9/09)
"Ethics and Science," University of San Diego (USD) (7/09)
"Why Johnny Can't Code - missing skills we'll need tomorrow," USENIX Conf. (6/09)
"Ethics and the Engineering Profession," Commencement, Jacobs School, UCSD (6/09)
Wine n' Writers Author event, San Diego (5/09)
"Solving the Water Crisis," an ArchiTechs Challenge, Future in Review (FiRe) Conf. Coronado (5/09)
Associated Cities-Geodomain Expo "Mixed Reality in Tomorrow's Cities" San Diego (04/09)
"Visualizing new types of threats" (for an unnamed agency) Washington DC (04/09)
Info Tech And Innovation Foundation. "How the US might regain its faith in the future" Washington DC (04/09)
National Insitute on Drug Abuse, "Virtual Reality and other New Addictions" Washington DC (04/09)
Jacobs School of Engineering Graduate Dinner (03/09)
Speculative threats appraisal (presented by remote) CIA (01/09)
San Diego Inventors' Forum: "Innovating in Uncertain Times" (11/08)
MIT Media Lab Annual Sponsors' Summit* (10/08)
IBM Cambridge: "Digital Discourse" (10/08)
IBM company-wide speech "21st Century Collaboration & Problem Solving" (7/08)
Clarion Writers' Conference "Speculative Fiction: Keeping it Realistic and Relevant" (7/08)
"The Transparent Society: Ten Years After" - Computers, Freedom & Privacy (CFP), Yale (by remote hookup) (5/08)
Eaton Conference on Science Fiction as Literature, UC Riverside(5/08)
Future in Review (FiRe) Conference on Technology & Business, Hotel del Coronado (5/08)
Research Affiliates Advisory Panel on Economic & Investment Modeling, Laguna Beach (5/08)
"Yuri's Night and the Future of the Future" - Extropia (Second Life) event (4/08)
"Literary Orange" - morning keynote, Garden Grove Hyatt Regency (4/08)
"MySpace or Your Space? Teens, privacy and freedom of expression." RHFleet Center, San Diego (2/08)
International Symposium on AI, Robotics and Automation in Space, JPL/Los Angeles (2/08 dinner speaker)
Wealth Owners' Conclave Concerning Transparency and Privacy (Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 1/08)
Department of Homeland Security: Stake-holders' Conference (Los Angeles 1/08)
Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 (Salk Institute 11/07)
Dinner at the Library: fundraising Gala speaker, Geisel University Library, UCSD (9/07)
International Science Fiction Summit, Beijing China (8/07)
International Conference on Science Fiction, Chengdu China (8/07)
Guest of Honor at World Science Fiction Convention, Yokohama Japan (8/07)
Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop (7/07)
USD & Fleet Center speech (7/07)
Qualcomm Corporate Speaker Series and consulting (7/07)
Institute for the Future "Technology Horizons"*, La Jolla (6/07)
Future in Review (FiRe) Conference speaker ( 4th year) and "ArchiTech" facilitator (5/07)
San Diego Rotary Club - "Managing Change" 3/07
Uplift Academy "Good Ancestor" workshop on future philanthropy 2/07
Collective Intelligence Networks Summit (Los Angeles) 2/07
Anonymizer.Com Corporate Strategy Meeting*, (Ranch Santa Fe) 10/06
Caltech Alumni Forum (La Jolla) 10/06
Google corporate-wide "Tech-Talk" (Mountain View, CA) 10/06
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (ZGF) corporate meeting, "Architecture and the Future" (10/06)
US Air Force Research Labs, "Alternate Futures" workshop (LA 8/06)
Strong Angel, Homeland Defense Exercise (San Diego 8/06)
International Conference on Complex Systems, "Predictability in a
Nonlinear Future" (Boston 6/06)
Defense Threat Reduction Agency, "Thwarting an Evil Genius" workshop (DC 6/06)
Dinner speech for the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, San Diego Conference, San Diego, California (3/06)
International Association of Privacy Professionals, Las Vegas (10/05)
Enviro Fair, "Our Sustainable Future," Del Mar, CA (9/05)
NASA Conference on Exobiology (dinner speaker), NASA Ames Research Center (8/05)
Sandia National Laboratory, "Preventing Terrorism at Soft Targets" (7/05)
Santa Barbara Writers' Conference, evening speaker honoring Ray Bradbury (6/05)
Marina Del Rey: Hollywood Writers' Salon on "Real Science Fiction in Movies" (6/05)
UC Irvine Conference panel: "Human Rights, Technology & the Humanities" (5/05)
MIT Enterprise Forum Panel: "Enterprise Pitfalls & Opportunities in the Information Age" (La Jolla, CA 4/05)
Service Industry Association, dinner speaker at Hotel Coronado (3/05)
CDM Camp Dresser & McKee Inc., company brainstorm speaker (3/05)
American Astronomical Society: Panel on Using Art for Science Education, (1/05)
Project Inkwell: "Technology Empowering Education" (dinner speaker 11/04)
Accelerating Change 2004: "Horizons of Perception in an Era of Change" (Stanford 11/04)
Danish IT Security Council, Danish Open Source Vendors Association, and Internet Society (Copenhagen 11/04)
40th anniversary of Free Speech Movement (UC Berkeley 10/04)*
Imation Inc. Patent Recognition Banquet (Minneapolis 10/04)*
Swissnex debate on human augmentation (San Francisco 10/04)
Global Solutions Institute -- on future of environmentalism (Seattle 10/04)
Pacific Northwest Digital Government Summit (6/04)
Strategic News Service FiRe (Future in Review) Conference (Coronado 5/04)
Woodrow Wilson Center: Conference on Anonymity, Washington D.C. (5/04)
San Diego Writers and Editors Guild, Odin Award recipient/speaker (4/04)
CONTACT Conference on Cultures of the Imagination (3/04)
California Librarians Association*, Ontario CA, "Keeping Reading Relevant" (11/03)
The Skeptic Society, Caltech, Pasadena CA, "21st Century Fables: Can We Learn to See Well?" (11/03)
DLC and Progressive Policy Institute, speech & consultation about 21st Century politics, Macinac MI (9/03)
National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Conference, Scottsdale AZ, (9/03)
Dinner speaker, IPv6 Conference (6/03)
Jacobs School of Engineering (UCSD), graduation speech (6/03)
Book Expo, Los Angeles (5/03)
FIRe Future in Review Conference, Hotel del Coronado (5/03)
Arizona Book Festival: on adding action to thought and vice versa (4/03)
UCSD Foundation Trustees: on philanthropy in the future (3/03)
MIT Media Lab: on the future of augmented reality (2/03)
Harvard University Law School: seminar on legal ramifications of transparency (2/03)
Los Alamos National Labs: LANSCE Workshop (1/03)
Border Research & Technology Center, San Diego (12/02)
Association of Biotechnology Finance Officers, San Francisco (6/02)
Utopiales: International Conference on the Future, Nantes France (10/02)
Minneapolis ACM Computer Human Interface Conference* (4/02)
BIOCOM San Diego Biotech Industry Breakfast Meeting (3/02)
"Biosensors/Bioterror" SAIC Conference, Del Mar CA (2/02)
Microsoft Speakers' Program "Intelligence: Artificial & Otherwise" (2/02)
"Sensors/Sensing" UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Annual Review* (2/02)
D.C., "The Digital Divide: Japanese & American Perspectives" (12/01)
National Academies of Science, President's Circle* (11/01)
University of Michigan "Accountability Systems" (11/01)
Privacy/Security Symposium, Zurich, Switzerland (11/01)
University of Chicago, "Danger and Individualism" (11/01)
Global Privacy Summit, Plaza Hotel, New York (11/01)
WebDevShare Conference, Indiana University (10/01)
National Reconnaissance Office (8/01)
Defense Information Systems Agency (8/01)
American Library Association Freedom of Speech* (6/01)
Apache Conference on Open Source Software Movement (4/01)
Qualcomm - motivational-innovation speech (4/01)
William Saroyan Literary Conference* (3/01)
Forum of Associations of Grantmakers "Future Philanthropy" (2/01)
Democratic National Convention Privacy Teach-in (8/00)
Library of Congress Speaker Series (6/00)
SAP TechEd 2000* - Las Vegas (6/00)
"Out of the Box" Pentagon-Potomac Institute Brainstorm* (6/00)
Procter & Gamble Innovation 2000 trade show* (6/00)
World Bank International Conf. on Credit Reporting (6/00)
Internet Everywhere Summit, San Francisco 2000
Bar Assoc. Conference on Alternative Dispute Resolution
"1984: Orwell & Our Future" - U.Chicago Law School (11/99)
Association of Information Technology Professionals (11/99)
Institute for the Future: Outlook Project Exchange (10/99)
California First Amendment Coalition* (9/99)
Decision Makers 2000, Frankfurt Germany (5/99)
Economic Crime Summit*, Orlando (5/99)
Privacy Briefing for Congressional Staff (4/99)
Planet-Fest - 1999 (Planetary Society)
Economic Crime Conference* (5/99)
Card-Tech ID Technology Gathering (11/98)
Communication Tech & Society Conference (Cato Institute)
1998 Space Frontier Conference*
Government Communications/Info Officers' Summit '98
TTI/Vanguard '98 Conference: Security & Information
L.A. Junior Chamber of Commerce
LaBatt Corporation Executive Retreat
Defense Department Highlands Group
TED-MED '98
Microsoft Lecture Series
California School Library Association*
Future of Medicine Conference (6/98)
1997 Supercomputing Conference
The Planetary Society
California Institute of Technology
Sandia National Laboratories
Rutgers University School of Information Science
University of Michigan School of Information Science
MENSA Regional Gathering
United Nations Association*
Oregon Psychological Society*
Southern California Academy of Science
American Library Association
Library & Information Technology Association
International Association of Film Commissioners
Society of Science Educators
