TALKS + MEDIA

I give talks and facilitate workshops on socio-economic inclusion, digital access and digital literacy, speculative and realistic futures, public sector innovation, Long COVID, and other research.

UPCOMING

Panel: Bridging Research Evidence with Real World: Community, Clinical, and Policy Perspectives

Rehabilitation Science Research Network for COVID Forum (April 2024)

 Panel: Monsters and Poetry and Place - Grappling with Home
Can*Con (April 2024)

SELECTED TaLKS

Workshop: Government Memos from the Near Future

Creative Bureaucracies Festival (Mar 2024)

Trauma-Informed Change Management: Lessons from Service Design
QT Quonference (Nov 2023)

Moderator: The Near Future of the United States
Moderator: Tech Revolution: Dangers and Hopes
Can*Con (Oct 2023)

COVID-19 Network of Clinical Trials Network

Talk: Long COVID, Episodic Disability, and Impacts on Workers and the Labour Force (June 2023)

Canadian Physiotherapy Association Cardiorespiratory Division

Talk: Understanding Long COVID and Episodic Disability to Inform Rehabilitation Approaches (May 2023)

Bridgepointe Active Health Centre

Talk: Understanding Long COVID and Episodic Disability to Inform Rehabilitation Approaches (April 2023)

QueerTech Quareers Virtual Career Fair
Keynote Panel: Navigating Career Challenges with Resilience (March 2023)

CDS: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Long COVID as Neurodivergence (Dec 2022)

Canadian International Council Roundtable: Addressing Inequality in Canada and Around the World

Talk: “Perspectives on Canadian Transitions and the Future of Work” (June 2021)

Humber College Social Hackathon: Access to Higher Education

Keynote: “Imagining an Inclusive, Innovative, and Equitable Economy” (Feb 2020)

Speculative Fiction and the Dys/U/topian Future of Political Economy, University of Ottawa / Carleton

Talk: “Science Fiction and the Policy Imaginary” (Jan 2020)

Ryerson University MA in Public Policy and Administration
Guest Panel on Policy Innovation (Oct 2019)

Can*Con: The Conference on Canadian Content in the Speculative Arts
Panels: Worldbuilding: Government and Politics + An Expansion of Political Discourse (Oct 2019)

BIIE+E Talks: The Myth of Capitalism

In conversation with author Denise Hearn (Jan 2019)

Munk School of Global Affairs Career Week
Panel: Alternative Policy Career Paths (Nov 2018)

Digital Access Day
Talk: “The Quest for Digital Literacy” (June 2018)
 

RightsCon

Talk: “Accessing Government Social Services - Shame, Disrespect, and User Experience” (May 2018)

 

AI and the City, New Cities Foundation Roundtable
Discussion Facilitator: AI + Public Policy (March 2018)

 

AI + Public Policy: Understanding the Shift
Discussion Facilitator: Bias in AI (March 2018)

 

Ontario Digital Inclusion Summit 

Talk: “Defining, Measuring, and Teaching Digital Literacy” (Feb 2018)

 

Code4Canada's Digital Government & Civic Tech course, guest speaker 

Guest Lecture: “Accessing Government Social Services - Shame, Disrespect, and User Experience” (Nov 2017)

 

City of Toronto

Talk: “Behavioural Insights for Public Policy: How to Manipulate People for Good” (March 2017)

 

Behavioural Economics for the Public Sector conference

Panel: Behavioural Economics 101 (March 2016)

 

Immersion in Public Design hosted by the OECD, 27e Region & Mindlab 

Panel: International Policy + Design Labs (June 2015)

 

Mini Conference on Digital Sociology, Eastern Sociology Society

Talk: “Open Government and the 2.0 Model of Engaged Citizenship” (Feb 2015)

University of Ottawa Certificate Program in Public Sector Leadership and Governance
Guest Panel: Public Sector Innovation (Feb 2013)