Lectures and Interviews

As you’ll see in the list below, I do big-picture keynote talks for a wide variety of public and privater sector organisations. I also chair events; and people seem to like the way I do question-and-answer interviews with speakers and panels.

There’s an interview with me on Smart City Radio (on the subject of Creativity and the City) here:
smartcityradio.com/thackara_interview

For a idea of the kind of story I might tell a business group, see the slides of Pure Play Or Pure Pain? New Business Concepts For Interactive Products And Services (a talk I did for Telecom Italia managers at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea): 
interaction-ivrea.it/pdf/thackara.pdf.

The more you can brief me in advance, the better. I like to know: what sorts of people will be in the audience, and how many will come; what their expectations of the event are; and what you would like them to take away.

Selected keynote lectures
1990-2005

CITIES, REGIONS, GOVERNMENTS

PROFESSIONS, PUBLIC SECTOR

CULTURE, ARTS, NGOs

BUSINESS, INDUSTRY

DOORS OF PERCEPTION

CITIES, REGIONS, GOVERNMENTS 

• Edge Effects: A New Focus For Innovation
  European Commission (The Beaulieu Lecture) Brussels
• New Business Models For Design
  Design Policy Task Force, Hong Kong
• The Post-Spectacular City
  New Design Cities, Montreal 
• How  To Be A Hub
  Cumulus Congress, St Petersburg
• Quality Time
  European High Speed Train Network, Breda
• Learning Cities And How To Design Them
  Scottish Enterprise, Glasgow
• The Post-Spectacular City
  Creativity And The City, Amsterdam
• File Sharing As Learning
  Infodrome (Cabinet Office) Den Haag
• Smart Cities
  Design Alliance, Guggenheim Bilbao
• Service Design And Local Knowledge
  Spark!  - Tallinn, Narva-Joessu, Valdambra, Forssa
• Edge Cities
  Millennium City Design, Athens
• Cultural Engineering
  Design And The Culture Industries, Amsterdam
• Cities As Software
  Formes Des Metropoles, Paris
• City Design As Software Design
  Business City Design, Osaka
  

PROFESSIONS, RESEARCH, PUBLIC SECTOR

• Thermodynamics Of Collaboration
  European Conference On Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Helsinki
• Design And Local Knowledge
  The Design Council Strategy Review, London
• Vision For Convivio
  Tales Of The Disappearing Computer, Santorini, Greece
• The Law Of Locality
  Netherlands Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam
• The Killer App Is Green
  Nordic Interactive Congress (NIC2001), Copenhagen
• Pure Play Or Pure Pain?
  Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy
• Designing Interactive Systems
  DIS2000 Conference Co-Chair, New York
• Napster As Knowledge
  “OroOro”, University Of Professional Education, Amsterdam
• Design Strategies For The Internet
  Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea
• New Geographies Of Learning
  University Of Professional Education, Amsterdam
• The Design Challenge Of Pervasive Computing
  CHI2000, Den Haag
• Connected Communities
  Advance For Design, Santa Fe
• Lost In Space: A Traveller’s Tale
  Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
• Customisation And Connectivity
  European Design Summit, Paris
• Can We Count On Connectivity?
  Aspen Design Conference
• Design As An Instrument Of Innovation
  European Design Industry Summit, Amsterdam
• Innovation Futures
  Grand Palais Seminar, Paris
  

BUSINESS, INDUSTRY

• Belief In Design,
  Cap Gemini, London
• New Business Models For Interactive Telecommunications
  Telecom Italia / Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea
• The Design Challenge Of Connectivity
  Confederation Of Indian Industry, Bangalore
• In The Bubble: Innovation And Design
  Chamber Of Commerce, Frankfurt
• Nine Surprising New Roles For FM
  Int’l Facilities Management Conf, London:
• New Challenges For Industrial Design
  Olivetti (100th Anniversary) Ivrea
• Knowledge Management - The New Alchemy
  Cable + Wireless, Geneva
• Design And Innovation Strategy
  IBM European Design Mentor Seminar, Brussels
• Design As Instrument Of Innovation
  Asahi Shimbun, Turning Point Seminar, Tokyo
  

• Design Management Of Luxury Brands
  Comite Colbert Seminar, Paris
• The Devil’s New Machine? The Internet And Connectivity
  Xerox, Geneva
• Hybrid Aviation Spaces
  Japan Airlines Main Board, Tokyo
  

CULTURE, ARTS, NGOs

• From New To Now
  Transmediale, Berlin
• Always On -  And After?
  Time In Design | Eternally Yours, Eindhoven
• “Immoderator”
  International Browserday, Paradiso, Amsterdam
• Location And Locative Media
  “iMage”, Architecture And Media, Florence
• The World As Spread-Sheet
  Fabrica, Venice
• Workspheres
  Museum Of Modern Art, New York
• Immateriality In Architecture
  T-Zone, London and Glasgow (with AA)
• The Habit Of Pleasure: Consumption And Creativity
  Edge Of The Millennium, Cooper Union, New York
• Image And Object
  Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Ecology Of The Artificial Environment
  ICSID Congress, Milan Triennale, Milan
• Design After Modernism
  Axis Gallery, Tokyo
  

DOORS OF PERCEPTION CONFERENCES
(as symposiarch)