Conference Speaker

I do speak at a variety of conferences on many topics, mostly related to EFF issues, but also futurism. Some of the topics you might want me for include:

• Free Speech, PATRIOT Act
• Privacy, Surveillance, and threats from the future
• Singularity topics: Nanotechnology, AI, Patternism
• Robot cars and their impact on society
• Spam
• Internet governance, domain names
• How to organize operating systems
• Instant Messaging, Presence and Voice over IP
• CALEA, Universal Service Fund, e911 and Network Neutrality
• Copyright and the creative economy
• The automation of good and evil
• History of the internet, USENET and dot-coms

People invite me, aside from my authoritative knowledge on a number of these topics thanks to my roles in both business and non-profit worlds, because of my history with comedy. I usually get the audience laughing unless it's one of the scary talks. Sometimes even then.

What it takes to get me to come speak depends on a number of factors. Sometimes I will speak with no speaking fee if the conference is in some location I would like to travel to and the conference also offers air travel for my significant other.

Send me an E-mail to tell me what you're looking for.