Professor Marcus Foth

Invited Talks

Marcus is an ACM Distinguished Speaker. You can book one of his presentations for your next event through the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program. The ACM will cover the cost of transportation to travel to your event.

For keynote and other invited speaking engagements, you can also discuss your needs with Outside Opinion and request a quote.

Marcus has given invited talks at leading research institutions, including Aalto, Aarhus, Harvard, KAIST, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, MIT, Tsinghua University, University of Oxford. The following list comprises keynote speeches, invited talks, and panel discussions.

Upcoming Talks

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Previous Talks

  1. Foth, M. (2023, Nov 14). DataCare for Digital Twins: Participatory Data Analytics and the Social Licence to Operate Smart Cities. Invited talk at Rural Computing Research Consortium, Quello Center, Michigan State University, USA. (www >)
  2. Foth, M. (2023, Nov 9). Technology is the least of our concerns: Three provocations in response to the climate emergency. Invited talk at the Design Lab, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney. (www >)
  3. Foth, M. (2023, Oct 28). More-than-Human Futures: Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City. Invited talk at the International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability (GEOSUS 2023), Beijing Normal University, China. (www >)
  4. Foth, M. (2023, Aug 23). The Future of Transport. Invited panel member at the Robotics Australia Group webinar. (www >) (rsvp >) (watch >)
  5. Foth, M. (2023, Jul 2). Technology is the least of our concerns:
Three provocations in response to the climate emergency. Invited talk at the UX Lab / CarIxD Open Day, College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. (www >)
  6. Foth, M. (2023, Jun 1). More-than-Human Futures: Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City. Invited talk at the College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. (www >) (eprints >)
  7. Foth, M. (2023, May 11). DataCare for Digital Twins: Participatory Data Analytics and the Social Licence to Operate Smart Cities. Invited talk at the College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. (www >) (eprints >)
  8. Foth, M. (2023, Mar 24). DataCare for Digital Twins: Participatory Data Analytics and the Social Licence to Operate Smart Cities. Invited talk at Victoria University held in conjunction with the Data Informed Design (DiD23) conference, Melbourne, VIC. (www >)
  9. Foth, M., & Kelly, N. (2023, Mar 9). The Climate Emergency and Tuvalu’s Escape to the Metaverse: Challenging the Complicity of Design in Technological Solutionism. Invited talk at the Citizenship Lab, Duke Kunshan University, China. (www >) (watch >)
  10. Osman, K., & Foth, M. (2023, Mar 1). Advancing Digital Inclusion in Low Income Australian Families. Invited talk for The Smith Family, Melbourne, VIC. (www >)
  11. Sheikh, H., Foth, M., & Mitchell, P. (2022, Nov 5-6). Imaginaries of Biodiversity Conservation: Limitations and Opportunities Smart Urban Governance for More-than-Human Future(s). Invited talk at the 5th Anthrozoology Symposium – Non-human Animals in Open Societies, Iași, Romania. (www >)
  12. Turner, J., Seevinck, J., Foth, M., Armstrong, K., McKinnon, H., Vickery, N., Kelly, N., Tyurina, A., Gonsalves, K., & Low, A. (2022, Oct 28). Kinning with the unseen more-than-human: Re-sensing Barrambin’s disappeared waterways and creeks for community connection to place. Invited talk at the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) conference 2022, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA. (www >) (eprints talk >) (eprints paper >) (watch >)
  13. Foth, M. (2022, Oct 27) Social Living Labs:
Valuing Local Knowledge, Enhancing Community Engagement. Invited talk at the Living Lab Plenary Session, Smart Casey Innovation Festival 2022, City of Casey, VIC. (www >)
  14. Foth, M. (2022, Oct 26). Technology is the least of our concerns:
Three provocations in response to the climate emergency. Invited talk to the Martin Trust Centre for MIT Entrepreneurship Executive MBA delegation visiting QUT, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  15. Foth, M. (2022, Oct 3). An expanded climate innovation agenda for cities: Tapping into the fourth industrial revolution to hack the climate emergency. Invited panel member at the Daring Cities global forum, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), Bonn, Germany. (www >)
  16. Foth, M. (2022, Sep 29). Non-human Personas: Including Nature in the Participatory Design of Smart Cities. Invited talk at the College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. (www >) (eprints >)
  17. Foth, M., Matthews, B., Kellock J.-A., van Barneveld, P., & Johansen, S. (2022, Aug 26). Voices of advocacy: The design industry association landscape in Australia. Panel discussion co-hosted by the Participatory Design Conference (PDC) Place Australia 2022 and the ACM SIGCHI Brisbane chapter, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  18. Marshall, A., Richards, C., Langton, K., & Foth, M. (2022, Jul 19-22). Deconstructing digital agriculture and techno-optimism in Australia. Invited talk at the XV World Congress of Rural Sociology, Cairns, QLD. (www >) (eprints >)
  19. Marshall, A., Turner, K., Richards, C., Foth, M., & Dezuanni, M. (2022, Jul 13). Critical factors of digital AgTech adoption on Australian Farms. Invited keynote at the 400M Agrifood Innovation Forum, Toowoomba, QLD. (www >) (eprints >)
  20. Foth, M. (2022, Jul 12). Re-imagining Environmental Law as Ecological Law – A Design Research Perspective. Invited speaker at the opening plenary of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium Program, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  21. Mitchell, P., Rittenbruch, M., & Foth, M. (2022, Jun 23). From smart cities to digital town squares: DataCare as a model for community-led urban analysis. Invited presentation at the DMRC Research Seminar: The Digital Town Square, Brisbane, QLD. (www >) (watch >)
  22. McQueenie, J., & Foth, M. (2022, Apr 5). Intermediation as Design Practice: Joining the Dots between Community, Culture and Commerce. Invited presentation at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
  23. Sheikh, H., Foth, M., & Mitchell, P. (2022, Mar 18). Multispecies Urban Politics with Bees, Birds, and Trees. Invited talk at the symposium “Speaking about the humans: Animal perspectives on the multispecies world,” University of Amsterdam, NL. (www >)
  24. Tomitsch, M., Fredericks, J., Vo, D., Frawley, J., & Foth, M. (2022, Feb 13). Non-human Personas: Including Nature in the Participatory Design of Smart Cities. IxD&A Journal Issue N. 50 – Meet the Authors. (www >) (watch >) (eprints >)
  25. Nikolaeva, K., Guaralda, M., Foth, M., & Rittenbruch, M. (2021, Dec 2). A new perspective on the design of pedestrian bridges – inspired by Baudelaire’s flâneur. Invited talk at the State of Australasian Cities (SOAC) conference 2021, Melbourne, VIC. (www >)
  26. Foth, M. (2021, Nov 29). Exploratory Papers. Invited speaker at the Exploratory Papers workshop for the Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2022, School of Informatics/Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK. (www >)
  27. Foth, M., Caldwell, G. A., & Gonsalves, K. (2021, Nov 26). The Right to the Digital City Revisited: From Street-level Activism to Amplifying Planetary Voices. Invited talk at the R U Safe? master class on technology, community design and social impact, SafeCity, Mumbai, India. (www >) (watch >)
  28. Foth, M. (2021, Oct 28). The Force of the JEDI – From Smart to Just, Equitable, Diverse & Inclusive Cities. Invited talk at the Conscious Cities Festival 2021, Centre for Conscious Design. (www >) (watch >)
  29. Foth, M. (2021, Oct 22). UX Design with Government and Industry: Overcoming Institutional Constraints. Invited master class, UX Indonesia. (www >)
  30. Dezuanni, M., Foth, M., Kennedy, J., Marshall, A., McCosker, A., Mitchell, P., Notley, T., & Osman, K. (2021, Sep 14). Digital inclusion for low income families in Australia: Policy and community responses to learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Invited talk at the Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference (DIPRC), Liverpool, UK. (www >)
  31. Foth, M. (2021, Sep 8). Digital Evolution. Invited panel member at the IAQ Infrastructure Assembly, Infrastructure Association of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  32. Foth, M. (2021, Jul 29). The future of regenerative cities. Invited talk at the Regen Brisbane / Meeanjin launch event, Brisbane, QLD. (www >) (watch >)
  33. Mitchell, P., Mann, M., & Foth, M. (2021, Jul 26-30). Speculative smart cities: The platforming of cities during a pandemic era. Invited talk at the session ‘From platforms in cities to the platforming of cities,’ Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACSS), National University of Singapore. (www >)
  34. Caprioli, C., Bottero, M., De Angelis, E., Foth, M., Mitchell, P., Rittenbruch, M., Santangelo, M., & Yigitcanlar, T. (2021, Jul 11-14). Multicriteria evaluation and agent-based model for simulating housing mobility propensity of residents. Invited talk at the 31st European Conference on Operational Research, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece. (www >)
  35. Foth, M. (2021, Jun 30). The Role of Data in Digital Placemaking and Publics. Invited panel chair at the Digital Publics Symposium, Media Architecture Biennale 2021, Amsterdam, NL. (www >)
  36. Foth, M. (2021, Jun 27). Governance Challenges in Smart Cities: Connecting People, Place and Technology. Invited panel member, Global Governance of Smart Cities, Facial Recognition and the Internet, 18th Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC), RMIT, Melbourne, VIC. (www >)
  37. Bedford, L., Mann, M., Walters, R., & Foth, M. (2021, May 19-21). Regulating digital technology and ‘green growth’: ‘Sustainable’ extractivism, e-waste, planned obsolescence and the right to repair. Invited talk at TILTing Perspectives 2021: Regulating in Times of Crisis, Tilburg University, NL. (www >)
  38. Bedford, L., Mann, M., Foth, M., & Walters, R. (2021, Mar 15). A post-capitalocentric critique of digital technology and environmental harm: new directions at the intersection of digital and green criminology. Invited talk at the ‘Thinking with Climate Change’ lecture series, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC. (www >) (watch >)
  39. Foth, M. (2021, Mar 9-11). More-than-Human Futures: Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City. Invited keynote speaker at the 8th International Conference on Computing and Informatics 2021 (ICOCI 2021), Malaysia. (www >) (watch >)
  40. Foth, M., Guaralda, M., & Law, L. (2021, Feb 19). Flee-changers and E-changers Flocking to Lifestyle Regions: New Opportunities for Economic Development in Regional Australia? Invited presentation at the research symposium “Leaving the city for the beach and bush: Counter-urban trends to regional Australia,” University of Sydney and James Cook University. (www >)
  41. Foth, M. (2021, Jan 13-15). Empowering communities in Australia with data to make our cities and regions better. Invited panel member at the City by City Festival, Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC). (www >) (watch >)
  42. Foth, M. (2020, Dec 3). Urban Futures: Designing the Digitalised City – In Conversation with Mark Burry AO. Invited panel member at the Smart Cities Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC. (www >)
  43. Foth, M. & Powell, W. (2020, Dec 2). China’s Blockchain Services Network and Future Global Trade – A Smart Trade Hub perspective. Invited presentation at the Future Food Systems CRC Research Showcase 2020, Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  44. Liaros, S., & Foth, M. (2020, Nov 20). City Commoning for a New Economy: A More-than-Human Perspective on Collaboration and Urban Governance. Invited presentation at the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) Conference, Newcastle, NSW. (www >)
  45. Foth, M. (2020, Nov 18). How can Australia reinvigorate the digital economy in a post-COVID world? Invited panel member at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra, ACT. (www >)
  46. Foth, M. (2020, Nov 6). DataCare: Participatory Urban Analytics for Better Decision Making in Smart Cities. Invited presentation at the Alta Scuola Politecnica, Politecnico di Milano & Politecnico di Torino, Italy. (www >) (watch >)
  47. Foth, M. (2020, Oct 24). BeefLedger: Data Geographies of Blockchain-enabled Cross-Border Trade. Invited presentation at the International Research Symposium on Geographies of Healthy China 2030: Blockchain and Sustainability, Beijing Normal University, China. (www >)
  48. Foth, M. & Powell, W. (2020, Oct 13). BeefLedger: The New Australian Standard for Blockchain in Beef Exports. Invited presentation as part of the Food Agility CRC research seminar series, Sydney, NSW. (www >) (watch >)
  49. Foth, M. & Caldwell, G. (2020, Oct 1). More-than-Human Media Architecture. Invited panel members at the Media Architecture Biennale (MAB) Live Cast: Futures Implied – How Media Architecture shapes our cities, Amsterdam, NL. (www >) (watch >)
  50. Foth, M. (2020, Sep 8). Smart Cities beyond Fad and Hype: Connecting People, Place and Technology. Invited talk at the Smart Cities Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC. (www >) (watch >)
  51. Foth, M. (2020, Sep 3-4). More-than-Human Futures: Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City. Invited keynote speaker at the 8th International Conference Arte-Polis, Architecture Design Program, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. (www >) (watch >)
  52. Foth, M. (2020, Aug 11-14). Designing for public interests. Invited panel member at the Design Research Society (DRS) conference, Brisbane, QLD. (www >) (watch >)
  53. Foth, M. (2020, Jun 11). ACM SIGCHI Southeast Asia Summer School Singapore 2019 – An Encore Performance in 60min. Invited speaker at the ACM SIGCHI Chapter Mini Workshop Series 2020. (www >)
  54. Foth, M. (2020, Jun 3). Title, Abstract, Language, Grammar. Invited speaker at the Road2CHI 2021 Writing Webinar Series, myHCI-UX, Malaysia. (www >)
  55. Foth, M. (2019, Nov 25-27). Human-Computer & Human-Food Interactions: Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology for Food and Agriculture. Invited keynote speaker and senior mentor at the ACM SIGCHI Southeast Asia Summer School 2019, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore. (www >) (rsvp >)
  56. Foth, M. (2019, Nov 21). Media, Technology and Communications. Invited panel member at the first symposium of the Peace and Stability Dialogue Series: Exploring our Relationship with Land, University of Queensland, Brisbane. (www >) (rsvp >)
  57. Foth, M. (2019, Nov 14). Civic Cultural Futures. Invited panel member at the Australian Academy of the Humanities 50th Symposium – Humanising the Future, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  58. Foth, M. (2019, Nov 4-7). Design and Participation in the Context of Smart Cities. Invited masterclass presentation at the Knowledge Cities World Summit (KCWS 2019), Florianópolis, Brazil. (www >)
  59. Foth, M., Mitchell, P., Fredericks, J. (2019, Nov 1). Civic data and new models of social value. Invited talk at the Smart Cities Week 2019, Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  60. Foth, M. (2019, Oct 18). Smart Cities beyond Fad and Hype: Transport & Design Research towards Slow Cities. Invited keynote at the CarIxD International Forum 2019, College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. (www >)
  61. Foth, M. (2019, Oct 17). The Human-Centred Design of Smart Cities: From Residents and Consumers to Participants and Co-Creators. Invited talk at the College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. (www >)
  62. Foth, M. (2019, Oct 9). Future Past Present – exploring how the past is informing the future of spaces and technology in our cities. Invited presentation at Brisbane Open House, Brisbane, QLD. (www >) (rsvp >)
  63. Foth, M. (2019, Oct 7). Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City: Beyond the Human-Centred Design Paradigm. Invited talk at the joint meetup of the Google Developer Group Perth & the WA ACM SIGCHI Chapter, Perth, WA. (www >)
  64. Foth, M. (2019, Oct 6). Brilliant Cities of More-than-Human Futures. Invited talk at the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) Conference, Perth, WA. (www >)
  65. Foth, M. & Caldwell, G. (2019, Oct 1). Smart Cities of More-Than-Human Futures. Invited seminar at the QUT Design Lab, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  66. Foth, M. (2019, Sep 25). Building a Wellbeing Economy. Invited panel member at Katherine Trebeck’s Brisbane book launch – The Economics of Arrival, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  67. Foth, M. (2019, Sep 10). Smart Cities of More-Than-Human Futures. Invited talk at the Alternative Futures Research Network, University of Newcastle, NSW. (www >) (watch >)
  68. Foth, M. (2019, Aug 13). The Future of Cities Night: Dystopia vs Utopia. Invited panel member at the Royal Queensland Show (Ekka), Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  69. Foth, M. (2019, Jul 15). Trust, Taxation, & Threats – A Reflective Overture. Invited keynote at the Supply Chain on Blockchain Conference 2019, Brisbane, QLD. (www >) (watch >)
  70. Foth, M. (2019, Jul 9). Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City. Invited talk at the Asia Pacific Cities Summit (APCS) and Mayors’ Forum, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  71. Foth, M. (2019, Jul 5). Innovation, Disruption, and Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Academic Entrepreneurs. Invited panel member at the annual conference of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS), Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  72. Foth, M. (2019, Jun 19). Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City – Service Design for the Post-anthropocentric City. Invited talk at the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. (www >) (watch >)
  73. Mann, M., Foth, M., & Mitchell, P. (2019, Mar 27-29). Ethical algorithms by design. Invited talk at the Ethics of Data Science conference, The University of Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  74. Foth, M. (2019, Mar 5). The Future of Smart Cities. Invited panel member at the King & Wood Mallesons The Future Project series, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  75. Foth, M. (2019, Jan 24). The Promise of Blockchain Technology for Food & Agriculture. Invited talk at the College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. (www >)
  76. Foth, M. (2018, Dec 31). For the Love of Wombats. Invited talk at the Woodford Folk Festival, QLD. (www >)
  77. Foth, M. (2018, Dec 4). Cohabitation in the City: Welcoming Animals to the Human Zoo. Invited talk at the ACI & AXD – Animal Computer Interaction Workshop: Designing for Animal Interaction, OZCHI 2018, Melbourne, VIC. (www >)
  78. Foth, M. (2018, Nov 19-20). Supplying our Future Cities with Food, Energy, Water and Effective Strategy. Invited panel member at the Urban Motion congress, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  79. Foth, M. (2018, Nov 14). Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City. Invited talk at the Urban Media Art Symposium, Media Architecture Biennale 2018, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. (www >)
  80. Foth, M. (2018, Nov 14). Digital Placemaking – Shaping Public Landscapes. Invited panel chair at the Digital Publics Symposium, Media Architecture Biennale 2018, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. (www >)
  81. Foth, M. (2018, Nov 12). Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City. Invited talk at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. (www >)
  82. Foth, M. (2018, Oct 29). Future Cities CRC. Invited talk at City as Lab – The Smart Cities Research Forum, Smart Cities Week, Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  83. Foth, M., & Heitlinger, S. (2018, Oct 19-21). Towards More-Than-Human Cities. Invited talk at the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) Conference, Melbourne, VIC. (www >)
  84. Foth, M. (2018, Oct 18). The Legal and Regulatory Challenge. Invited roundtable discussion chair at the 2nd Annual KPMG / Public Sector Network Smart Cities Series, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  85. Foth, M. (2018, Oct 13). How will blockchain affect the future of business and your organisation? Invited speaker at the Industry Leadership Day on Leveraging the Shared Data Economy, QUT EX, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  86. Foth, M. (2018, Sep 19-21). Smart Cities beyond Fad and Hype: Connecting People, Place and Technology. Invited keynote talk at the Planning Institute of Australia Queensland State Conference, Gladstone, QLD. (www >)
  87. Foth, M. (2018, Sep 17-18). The Rise of the Lifestyle Town: An Opportunity for Regional Australia? Invited talk at the Australian Regional Development Conference, Tweed Heads, NSW. (www >)
  88. Foth, M., Light, A., Heitlinger, S., & Rodriguez, A. (2018, Aug 31). Methods to Study Gaps: The Ethics of the Invisible. Invited talk at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual conference, Sydney, NSW. (eprints >)
  89. Foth, M. (2018, Aug 28-30). Smart Cities beyond Fad and Hype: Connecting People, Place and Technology. Invited keynote talk at the 5th International Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr 2018), Selangor, Malaysia. (www >)
  90. Foth, M. (2018, Aug 27). Connected Urbanism & Cohabitation in the Smart City: Towards More-Than-Human Futures. Invited talk at the Universiti Teknologi Mara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (www >)
  91. Foth, M., & Powell, W. (2018, Aug 8). Blockchain and distributed ledger technology: Opportunities and implications for managers. Invited course facilitators at QUT EX, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  92. Foth, M. (2018, Aug 3). Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City. Invited talk at the Centenary Symposium: Cathedral Thinking – Designing for the next Century, University of Sydney, NSW. (www >) (watch >) (panel discussion >)
  93. Foth, M. (2018, Aug 2). Buses, Trains and Wired Brains. Invited panel member at the Real World Futures conversation, QUT, Brisbane, QLD. (www >) (watch >)
  94. Foth, M. (2018, Jul 22). Blockchain Will Save Us? Invited panel member at Colloquia Sundays, Brisbane, QLD. (www >) (watch >)
  95. Foth, M. (2018, Jul 16). Putting consumers in the data driver’s seat. Invited panel member at the query:data Consumer Data Conference of the Consumer Policy Research Centre (CPRC), Melbourne, VIC. (www >)
  96. Bilandzic, A., Foth, M., & Hearn, G. (2018, May 3-4). Open Innovation for Crowdsourced Product Development: The Case Study of Quirky.com. Invited talk at the 20th International Conference on Research, Innovation and Commercialisation (ICRIC 2018), Rome, Italy. [Best Presentation Award] (eprints >)
  97. Foth, M. (2018, Feb 8). Co-Creation in the Smart City: Collaboration Frameworks for Participatory Citymaking. Invited guest lecture in Information Technology, Society, and Public Policy (UAP 5564), Virginia Tech, USA.
  98. Foth, M. (2018, Jan 19). Smart Cities beyond Fad and Hype: Connecting People, Place and Technology. Invited talk at the University of Turku, Finland. (www >)
  99. Foth, M., & Powell, W. (2017, Dec 4). The Promise of Blockchain for Food & Agriculture. Invited talk at the QUT Blockchain Research Seminar Series, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD. (www >) (watch >)
  100. Foth, M. (2017, Nov 30). Ecocide or Existence: Designers in Arms. Invited panellist at OZCHI 2017, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  101. Foth, M. & Tomitsch, M. (2017, Nov 21-22). Citizens breaking out of filter bubbles: Urban screens as civic media. Invited talk at the Visualisation Matters Symposium, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  102. Foth, M., & Dixon, B. (2017, Nov 15). Smart Cities beyond Fad and Hype: Connecting People, Place and Technology. Invited course facilitators at QUT EX, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  103. Mitchell, P., & Foth, M. (2017, Nov 6). Algorithmic futures and the future city. Invited talk at Future Affects: A Collaboratory on Art, Affect and Automation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  104. Foth, M. (2017, Oct 31). Co-Creation in the Smart City: Collaboration Frameworks for Participatory Citymaking. Invited webinar for the Australian Computer Society (ACS), Queensland. (www >) (watch >)
  105. Foth, M. (2017, Oct 27-28). Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City. Invited talk at the Green Institute Conference, Canberra, ACT. (www >) (eprints >)
  106. Foth, M. (2017, Oct 16-17). Collaborative City: Providing Citizens with the Tools to Actively Shape Their Communities. Invited facilitator at the CityIgnite conference, Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  107. Foth, M. (2017, Oct 10). The Future of Cities between Utopia and Dystopia. Invited talk for the Envisage Workshop at the State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  108. Foth, M. (2017, Sep 28-29). Beyond Fads and Hype: Smart Cities Connecting People, Place, and Technology. Invited keynote talk at Urbanity’17, Brisbane, QLD. (www >) (watch >)
  109. Hughes, H., Foth, M., Dezuanni, M., & Mallan, K. (2017, Sep 18-21). Social Living Labs for Informed Learning: An Innovative Approach to Information Literacy for the Changing Workplace. Invited talk at the 5th European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), Saint-Malo, France. (eprints >)
  110. Foth, M. (2017, Sep 14). Digital Urban: Citizen Experiences in the Smart City. Invited keynote talk at the Digital Leadership Exchange jointly organised by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation, Malaysian Public Administration Training Institute, and Malaysian Administration and Modernisation Planning Unit, Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (www >) (watch >)
  111. Foth, M. (2017, Sep 6). Making Smart Cities a Reality. Invited panellist at the KPMG / Public Sector Network Smart Cities Series, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  112. Foth, M. (2017, Sep 1-3). The Next Urban Paradigm: Cohabitation in the Smart City. Invited talk at the New Economy Conference, Brisbane, QLD. (www >) (watch >)
  113. Foth, M. (2017, Aug 9). Are Smart Cities for Everyone? Invited panellist in the Queenslanders in Conversation series, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD. (watch >) (listen >)
  114. Foth, M. (2017, May 30). We should create cities for slowing down. Invited talk at the Queensland Community Engagement Summit, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  115. Foth, M. (2017, May 5). Smart Cities, Inclusion, and Sustainability: Towards the Post-Anthropocentric City. Invited talk at the Research Symposium “Rebooting Smart Cities for Social Justice and Digital Inclusion,” University of Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  116. Foth, M. (2017, Apr 11). Smart Cities, Urban Informatics, and Sustainability: Challenges & Opportunities. Invited talk at the M-ITI Seminar Series
, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal. (www >) (watch >)
  117. Foth, M. (2017, Mar 30). Smart Cities from Cradle to Grave: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Ways of Life. Invited keynote presentation at the Living+ Forum, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. (www >) (watch >)
  118. Foth, M. (2016, Nov 28). Can smart cities provide more sustainable ways of life? Invited talk at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne. (www >)
  119. Foth, M. (2016, Sep 14). Human-Computer & Human-Food Interactions: Beyond Nutritional Data and Educational Information. Invited talk at the Center for Digital Technology & Management (CDTM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) and Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. (www >)
  120. Foth, M. (2016, Aug 26). A People First Approach to Smart Cities: Media Architecture, Placemaking, and Citizen Action. Invited talk at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. (www >)
  121. Foth, M. (2016, Aug 10). Why we should design smart cities for getting lost? Invited talk at Aarhus University, Denmark. (www >)
  122. Foth, M. (2016, Aug 1). Why we should design smart cities for getting lost? Invited talk at Aalborg University, Denmark. (www >)
  123. Foth, M. (2016, Jul 13). Why we should design smart cities for getting lost? Invited talk at the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme 2016, University of Oxford, UK. (www >)
  124. Foth, M. (2016, Apr 13). Participatory Visualisation and Assessment of Risks: A Crowdsourcing Approach. Invited talk at Locate16, Melbourne, VIC. (www >)
  125. Foth, M. (2015, Oct 23). Urban Informatics Beyond Data: Media Architecture, Placemaking, and Citizen Action. Invited keynote talk at the Understanding the City with Urban Informatics workshop, held in conjunction with the 24th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), Melbourne, VIC. (eprints >)
  126. Foth, M. (2015, Oct 15). Digital Cities. Invited panellist at the Brisbane Development Association (BDA) seminar, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  127. Foth, M. (2015, Oct 11). Housing for a Better Future. Invited panellist at Brisbane Open House, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  128. Foth, M. (2015, Oct 2). Youth Entrepreneurship with Open Data: Providing New Career Pathways for Young People. Invited keynote talk at the Open Cities | Open Data symposium, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  129. Foth, M. (2015, Oct 1). Urban Informatics: Towards Collaborative and Participatory Citymaking. Invited presentation at the Smart Future Cities conference, Newcastle, NSW. (www >)
  130. Foth, M. (2015, Sep 25). Urban Informatics. Invited speaker at the 2015 Future Shapers Forum, Institute for Future Environments, QUT, Brisbane, QLD. (watch >)
  131. Foth, M. (2015, Sep 5). Brisbane 2050: Imagining Our Future City. Invited panellist at the Brisbane Writers Festival, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  132. Foth, M. (2015, Jul 31). Housing Futures: My Home is My (Castle) City. Invited panellist at the Architecture Media: Design Speaks series, Melbourne, VIC. (www >)
  133. Foth, M. (2015, Jul 8). On Miscellaneousness, Impact, and World Domination: A Yarn from the SDP 2004 to Now. Invited presentation at the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme 2015, University of Oxford, UK. (www >)
  134. Foth, M. (2015, Jun 5). Urban Informatics:
 Towards Collaborative and Participatory Citymaking. Invited presentation at the ✗Communicate Symposium, Vivid Ideas Festival, 
Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  135. Foth, M. (2015, Apr 24). Designing Healthy Cities: The Role of the Citizen, the Role of the Family Doctor. Invited presentation at the Future of General Practice (#fgp15) conference, Melbourne, VIC. (www >)
  136. Foth, M. (2014, Dec 3). The Future of Design. Invited panellist at OZCHI 2014, Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  137. Dezuanni, M., Foth, M., Mallan, K., Hughes, H., & Allan, C. (2014, Nov 10-11). Fostering digital participation in regional and rural Australia. Invited presentation at the Symposium on Broadband Enabled Communities and Regional Economic Development, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD. (eprints >)
  138. Foth, M. (2014, Jul 11). Smart Cities: A key to urban liveability or yet another tech fad? Invited keynote presentation at the 7th Making Cities Liveable Conference, Kingscliff, NSW. (www >)
  139. Foth, M. (2014, Jun 12). People, Place & Technology – Exploring the Future of Society and the Urban Experience in the Digital Age. Invited presentation to the Brisbane Development Association, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  140. Foth, M. (2014, Mar 20). From Smart City to Smart Citizens. Invited keynote presentation at the Henry Halloran Trust Urban Research Festival, University of Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  141. Foth, M. (2014, Feb 3). From Smart City to Smart Citizens. Invited presentation at the Faculty of Engineering, New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (www >)
  142. Foth, M. (2014, Jan 20). From Smart City to Smart Citizens. Invited keynote presentation at the workshop “Do It Yourself networking – An interdisciplinary approach,” Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany. (www >)
  143. Foth, M. (2013, Oct 31). Advocacy & Advantage. Invited panel member at the Open Access and Research Conference, QUT, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  144. Foth, M. (2013, Oct 29). From Smart City to Smart Citizens. Invited panel member at the Digital City Networks panel discussion, Planning Institute of Australia, Brisbane Square Library, QLD. (www >)
  145. Foth, M. (2013, May 3-5). Uncommons: Social Capital & Social Practices. Invited panel moderator at MediaCity 4, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. (watch >)
  146. Foth, M. (2013, Feb 10). Libraries turn Starbucks? On Co-Working Spaces, Collaborative Learning, Community Engagement, and Coffee. Invited keynote presentation at the New Librarians’ Symposium (NLS6), Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  147. Foth, M. (2012, Sep 21). The Library beyond (just) the Book: Collaboration and Co-working Spaces for New Technology and New Technological Practices. Invited keynote presentation at the NSW.net Technology in Libraries Seminar, State Library of NSW, Sydney. (www >) (watch >)
  148. Foth, M., Forlano, L., & Bilandzic, M. (2012, Jul 13). The City is My Office: Urban Design of Collaboration and Co-working Spaces. Invited presentation at the OII SDP Alumni Conference, Oxford, UK. (www >)
  149. Wajcman, J., Dutton, W. H., & Foth, M. (2012, Jul 12). Ten Years in the Life of the Internet. Keynote Panel at the OII SDP Alumni Conference, Oxford, UK. (www >) (watch >)
  150. Foth, M. (2012, Jul 2). From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen: Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement. Invited presentation to the Lyceum Club, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  151. Foth, M. (2011, Sep 21-23). Urban Informatics Research and Insights for Libraries, Cultural Industries and Innovation Systems. Invited presentation at the iCS-OII 2011 Symposium, A Decade in Internet Time, University of Oxford, UK. (www >)
  152. Foth, M. (2011, Aug 1-5). Urban Informatics for Citizen Engagement. Invited presentation at the International Conference for the Integration of Science and Technology into Society (ICISTS), KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea. (www >)
  153. Foth, M. (2010, Sep 26). Urban Informatics. Invited presentation at the Lift@Hungary Workshop, Pécs, Hungary. (www >) (watch >)
  154. Foth, M. (2010, Sep 24-25). Urban Systems, Ubiquitous Computing and Cultural Life. Invited presentation at the After the Cultural City Conference: New Positions for Culture in Urban Development, Pécs, Hungary. (www >)
  155. Foth, M. (2010, Jul 26-30). Human-City Interaction: HCI Technology in the U-City. Invited presentation at the International Conference for the Integration of Science and Technology into Society (ICISTS), KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea. (www >)
  156. Foth, M., & Choi, J. H.-j. (2010, Jun 9). The Urban Informatics Research Lab: Research Collaborations with Industry Partners. Invited presentation at tieto.com, Helsinki, Finland. (watch >)
  157. Foth, M. (2010, Feb 10). Urban Informatics in Creative Industries. Trois amuse-geules. Invited talk given at the Making Connections: Innovations in Research event, QUT, Brisbane, QLD. (watch >)
  158. Foth, M. (2009, Dec 1). Urban Futures: A Performance Based Approach to Residential Design. Invited presentation at the Interacting with Information Technologies Workshop of the ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure, CSIRO ICT Centre, Hobart, TAS. (www >)
  159. Foth, M., Starkey, D., & Hearn, G. (2008, Dec 4-5). Urban Futures: A Performance Based Approach to Residential Design. Invited presentation at the Workshop on Embodied Interaction in Mobile, Physical and Virtual Environments, HCSNet Summerfest 2008, University of New South Wales, Sydney. (www >)
  160. Podkalicka, A., Green, J., & Foth, M. (2007, Sep 6-7). Diversity, Youth, YouTube: Deriving Audience Strategies for Public Service Broadcasting. Invited presentation at the Transforming Audiences Conference, University of Westminster, London, UK. (www >)
  161. Foth, M., & Choi, J. H. (2007, Sep 5-6). Exploring the Local Impact of Web 2.0 Paradigms on the Communicative Ecology of Urban Residents. Invited presentation at the Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 Conference, York, UK. (www >)
  162. Bilandzic, M., & Foth, M. (2007, Sep 5-6). Transferring Web 2.0 Paradigms to a Mobile System for Social Navigation in Public Inner-City Places. Invited presentation at the Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 Conference, York, UK. (www >)
  163. Bilandzic, M., & Foth, M. (2007, Sep 3-5). CityFlocks: A Mobile System for Social Navigation in Urban Public Places. Invited presentation at the Locative Media Summer Conference, University of Siegen, Germany. (www >)
  164. Foth, M. (2007, Aug 15). Urban Informatics: The Internet, Locative Media and Mobile Technology for Urbanites. Invited talk at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK. (watch >)
  165. Hearn, G., & Foth, M. (2007, Jun 6-10). Communicative Ecologies. Panel organisers and chairs at the 8th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association (MEA), Mexico City. (www >)
  166. Foth, M. (2007, May 24-28). Neighbours versus Friends Who Live Nearby: Communication Technology in Urban Neighbourhoods. Panel organiser and chair at the 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), San Francisco, CA. (www >)
  167. Foth, M. (2006, Dec 1). Using Wireless Technology and Locative Media to Digitally Augment a Society of Friendships. Invited presentation at the Wireless Cultures & Technologies Workshop of the ARC Cultural Research Network, University of Sydney. (www >)
  168. Foth, M. (2006, Nov 14-15). Using Drupal to Promote the Health of LGBT Queenslanders. Invited presentation at the Making Links Conference, Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  169. Foth, M. (2006, Sep 27-30). Challenges and Opportunities of Internet Technologies to Support Social Networks of Urban Residents. Panel organiser and chair at the Association of Internet Researchers conference (AoIR IR 7.0), Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  170. Montgomery, A. L., & Foth, M. (2006, Jun 19-23). Finding a Voice through New Media and Digital Storytelling: The Fanchong Cherbourg Connection. Panel presentation at the 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Dresden, Germany. (www >)
  171. Foth, M. (2005, Nov 14-15). Open source tools for community interaction. Invited presentation at the Making Links Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  172. Foth, M. (2005, Oct 12). Networked Individualism of Urban Residents: Discovering the Communicative Ecology in Inner-City Apartment Complexes. Invited presentation at the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) Innovation Forum, QUT, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  173. Foth, M. (2004, Nov 8-9). Design for online community interaction. Invited presentation at the Making Links Community Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW. (www >)
  174. Foth, M. (2004, Oct 13). People, Place, Technology. Invited presentation at the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) Innovation Forum, QUT, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  175. Foth, M. (2004, Aug 17). The Melbourne Media Map. Invited presentation at La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC.
  176. Foth, M. (2004, Aug 1-4). Towards a design methodology for online community networks to grow sustainable neighbourhoods. Paper presented at the Doctoral Consortium of the ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference, Cambridge, MA. (www >)
  177. Foth, M. (2004, Jul 14-31). Designing for place-based personalised networking to animate urban neighbourhoods. Invited presentation at the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme, Oxford University, UK. (www >)
  178. Foth, M. (2004, Jul 5). The Malmö Media Map. Invited presentation at Malmö University, Sweden.
  179. Foth, M. (2004, Jun 11). Designing for place-based personalised networking to animate urban neighbourhoods. Invited presentation at the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) Communities & Place workshop, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  180. Foth, M. (2004, May 17). Web Tools and Online Community Design. Invited presentation at the AFAO/NAPWA HIV Educators Conference, Sydney, NSW.
  181. Foth, M. (2004, Jan 29). The Sydney News Media Map. Invited presentation at University of Technology, Sydney, NSW.
  182. Foth, M. (2003, Nov 26-28). Towards a design methodology for online communication networks to grow sustainable communities of place. Paper presented at the Doctoral Colloquium of OZCHI 2003, Brisbane, QLD. (www >)
  183. Foth, M. (2003, Sep 19). Building Youth Communities through an Internet Radio Network. Invited presentation at the CIRAC Postgraduate Conference 2003: Research Outputs in the Creative Industries – Challenging Traditions, QUT, Brisbane, QLD.
  184. Foth, M. (2003, Aug 4). Connectivity does not ensure community: On social capital, networks and communities of place. Invited presentation at the Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, QUT, Brisbane, QLD.
  185. Foth, M., & Bumann, G. (1999, Sep 30 – Oct 1). What we need to know about our users: a new monitoring method. Invited presentation at the Siemens AG International Web Conference, Keystone, Colorado, USA.