2022
Royal Institution of Great Britain Lecture Series
Swiss Robotics Day Keynote
AWS Swiss Cloud Day Keynote
2021
Swiss Innovation Forum Keynote
2020
Digitilize in Stockholm
2019
USI, 2019
The Big Challenge Science Festival
CLSA Investor Forum Hong Kong
CLSA Investor Forum Japan
2018
Nyquist Lecture, Yale University
2017
Kelly Distinguished Lecture on Robots and Jobs, Georgia Tech
Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation plenary
2016
Keynote Speaker, T-Edge Beyond The Impossible Conference
Keynote Speaker, Seoul Future Conference
Glass Memorial Lecture Series, University of Toronto
Presenter, TED
Plenary Speaker, Indian Control Conference
2015
LAUNCH Speaker, University of Illinois
Keynote Speaker, Swiss Energy Climate Summit
Invited Speaker, USI
Keynote Speaker, GOTO Amsterdam
Invited Speaker, European Trend Day, GDI
Keynote Speaker, MSR Devices and Network Summit
Presenter, DLD Conference
2014
Presenter, Zurich.Minds
University California Santa Barbara “Engineering the Future” Lectureship
Crocco Colloquium, Princeton University
Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots
Keynote Speaker, Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
2013
Keynote Speaker, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Invited Speaker, Rome Maker Faire – The European Edition
Invited Speaker, RoboCup International Symposium
Invited Speaker, Robotics Science and Systems
Keynote Speaker, Engineering Science Education Conference, University of Toronto
Presenter, TED Global
2012
Presenter, Zurich.Minds
Keynote Speaker, Society for Design and Process Science
Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
2011
Invited Speaker, The Art of Robots, Swissnex, San Francisco
Invited Speaker, The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, UC Berkeley’s Center for New Media
2010
Invited Speaker, 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
Plenary Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
University of Dallas Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Lecture Series
2009
Invited Speaker, IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems
Plenary Speaker, NIST Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems
Invited Speaker, International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR)
Keynote Speaker, Philips Conference on Applications of Control Technology
Presenter, DLD Conference
2008
Distinguished Lecture Series, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Faculty of Engineering, Yale University
Tetelman Lecture, Yale University
2007
Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination
Plenary Speaker, Northeast Control Workshop
2006
Plenary Speaker, Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry
Presenter, ideaCity
Feature Speaker, Engineering Science Education Conference, University of Toronto
2005
Kate Gleason College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series, Rochester Institute of Technology
2004
Invited Speaker, the Engineering Academy of Japan International Symposium
Plenary Speaker, Robot Motion Control Conference
Air Force Rome Laboratories Information Institute’s Frontiers in Information Sciences Distinguished Lecture Series
2003
Invited Speaker, Spoletoscienza, Spoleto Festival
Plenary Speaker, American Control Conference
Keynote Speaker, University of Toronto Engineering Science Annual Dinner
2002
Special Topic Invited Speaker, Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems Conference
Plenary Speaker, SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications
Sigma Series Public Lecture and Colloquium, NASA Langley Research Center
Invited Speaker, National Science Foundation Research Highlight Series