Dr. Patrick Meier is available for select speaking engagements. He has given talks at the White House, Council on Foreign Relations, US Institute of Peace (USIP), World Affairs Council, United Nations, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, National Geographic, multiple TEDx’s, and major technology, industry & policy events including the Skoll World Forum, Mobile World Congress, Club de Madrid, PopTech and TTI/Vanguard. Contact: Speaking@iRevolution.net.
TEDxTraverseCity — 5/2013
Speaker: Taking the Pulse of the Planet
Social Web for Disaster Management (WWW ) — 5/2013
Co-Organizer: Next Generation Humanitarian Tech
Sage Bionetwork Congress 2013 — 4/2013
Speaker: The Rise of Digital Humanitarianism
Int’l Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) — 4/2013
Speaker: Data Protection for Crowdsourced Crisis Info
Qatar Computing Research Institute — 4/2013
Speaker: Next Generation Humanitarian Tech
Georgetown University (Doha) — 3/2013
Speaker: Next Generation Humanitarian Tech
Radical Medial Forum 2013 — 3/2013
Speaker: Pulse of the Planet?
Georgetown University (DC) — 3/2013
Speaker: The State of Crisis Mapping & Humanitarian Tech
SXSW 2013 — 3/2013*
Speaker: New Technologies for Conflict Prevention
George Washington University (GWU) — 3/2013
Speaker: Real-Time Analytics for Big (Crisis) Data
New York University (NYU) — 3/2013
Speaker: Next Generation Humanitarian Networks
SMARMIE 2013 — 2/2013
Speaker: Next Generation Humanitarian Technology
Mobile World Congress (MWC 2013) — 2/2013
Speaker: Towards SMS Code of Conduct for Disaster Response
Dimensions of Resilience (Rockefeller/PopTech) — 1/2013
Speaker: How to Create Resilience Through Big Data
2012
Monitoring Crises in the Digital Age (Harvard) — 12/2012
Speaker: Digital Humanitarian Response
Social Media & Conflict Prevention (CFR) — 12/2012
Speaker: Next-Generation Humanitarian Technology
Open DataJam (White House) — 12/2012
Speaker: Crisis Computing
Preventing Violent Conflict (USIP)— 10/2012*
Speaker & Moderator: The Use of New Tech for Prevention
International Achievement Summit 2012 — 10/2012
Speaker: From Crisis Mapping to Humanitarian Technology
Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts (NAE/USIP)— 10/2012
Speaker: Big Data Analytics for Conflict Monitoring
CrisisMappers 2012 — 10/2012
Speaker: Challenges and Opportunities in Crisis Mapping
TEDxSendai — 10/2012
Speaker: Next-Generation Humanitarian Technology
UN Conference on Humanitarian Action 2012 — 09/2012
Speaker: Next-Generation Humanitarian Technology
PICNIC 2012 — 09/2012*
Speaker: Crowdsourcing & Big Data Verification
Turing Festival 2012 — 08/2012
Speaker: Citizen Science for Humanitarian Response
UN/ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Conference — 07/2012
Speaker: Next-Generation Humanitarian Technology
MIT Innovation Lab on Big Data — 07/2012
Speaker: Big Data and Self-Organization
ICTs in Areas of Limited Statehood — 07/2012
Speaker: Crowdsourcing Crisis Mapping
Frontiers for Development (USAID) — 06/2012
Speaker: The Rise of Digital Volunteers
Explorers Symposium 2012 (National Geographic) — 05/2012
Speaker: Changing the World, One Map at a Time
The Future of Liberal Internationalism (Princeton) — 05/2012*
Speaker: Networked Governance
Revolution: People, Politics & Change (NYU) — 04/2012
Speaker: Crisis Mapping and Political Change
Where 2.0 — 04/2012
Speaker: Micro-Tasking Satellite Imagery Analysis
Skoll World Forum 2012 — 03/2012
Speaker: Innovation in Flux
SXSW 2012 — 03/2012
Speaker: Beyond Cyber Optimism and Skepticism
Crisis in the Horn of Africa (NDU) — 03/2012
Speaker: Humanitarian technology in the Horn
How To Curate and Verify Online Info — 03/2012
Speaker: Tips and tricks from Information Forensics
Truthiness in Digital Media (Harvard) — 03/2012
Participant
Data-Based Conflicts (UBC) — 03/2012
Speaker: Introduction to Crisis Mapping
Mobile World Congress 2012 — 02/2012
Speaker: Leveraging Mobile Technologies for Crisis Mapping
Digital Disease Detection (Harvard) — 02/2012
Keynote: Lessons Learned from Crisis Mapping
Tech@State — 02/2012
Speaker: Time-Critical Crowdsourcing for Crisis Mapping
2011
International Conference of Crisis Mappers — 11/2011
Keynote: Mainstreaming Crisis Mapping
Club de Madrid 2011 — 11/2011
Speaker: Role of Technology in Democratic Change
CrowdConf 2011 — 11/2011
Speaker: Micro-Tasking for Crisis Response
World Affairs Council — 11/2011
Speaker: Role of Technology in Poverty Alleviation 10/2011
PopTech 2011 — 10/2011
Participant
Net Impact 2011 — 10/2011
Speaker: Next Generation of Mobile Innovations in Emergencies
IPI World Congress 2011 — 09/2011
Speaker: Role of New Media in Crisis Management
Qatar Foundation — 09/2011
Speaker: Operational Crisis Mapping
ICT4D: The Power of Information — 09/2011
Speaker: Using Crowdsourcing and Crisis Mapping for Human Rights
LSE: Every Casualty Counts — 09/2011
Speaker: Using Crowdsourcing to Estimate Casualty Counts in Conflict
The Same Wavelength — 09/2011
Speaker: Crowdsourcing Social Media for Good
ICRC Global Communications Forum — 09/2011
Keynote: Changing the World, One Map at a Time
TEDxKC: If and Only IF — 08/2011
Speaker: Changing the World, One Map at a Time
MORE 25: Modeling Disaster Risk — 07/2011
Speaker: Using Crowdsourced Data to Model Risk
TTI/Vanguard: Real Time — 07/2011
Speaker: Time Critical Crowdsourcing for Crisis Mapping
Crowdsourced Mapping for Emergency Response — 07/2011
Participant
Mapping as a Peacebuilding Tool — 06/2011
Speaker: A Brief History of Crisis Mapping
LinuxConf — 06/2011
Speaker: Crisis Mapping in Action
TEDx Silicon Valley — 05/2011
Speaker: Changing the World, One Map at a Time
Berkeley Human Rights Conference — 04/2011
Speaker: Disaster Response 2.0
Where 2.0 2011 — 04/2011
Speaker: Disaster Response 2.0
Re:Campaign 2011 — 04/2011
Speaker: Changing the World, One Map at a Time
Re:Publica 2011 — 04/2011
Speaker: Changing the World, One Map at a Time
Skoll World Forum 2011 — 03/2011
Speaker: Changing the World, One Map at a Time
Golden Tag 2011 — 03/2011
Speaker: Changing the World, One Map at a Time
Share Conference 2011 — 03/2011
Speaker: Changing the World, One Map at a Time
Amnesty International Annual Meeting — 03/2011
Speaker: Bearing Witness in the Era of New Media
Humanitarian Action Summit 2011 — 03/2011
Speaker: The New Generation of Humanitarian Practitioners
2010
Foo News Camp — 12/2010
Participant
Personal Democracy Forum Chile 2010 — 11/2010
Speaker: Crisis Mapping in Action
Early Warning for Protection — 11/2010
Speaker: Role of Technology in Prevention of Mass Atrocities
PopTech 2010 — 10/2010
Speaker: Crowdsourcing and Crisis Mapping in Haiti
Validating Geo-Information for Crisis Management — 10/2010
Keynote: Crowdsourcing and Crisis Mapping for Crisis Response
International Conference of Crisis Mappers — 10/2010
Keynote: The State of Crisis Mapping
Google Crisis Response Conference — 10/2010
Speaker: Ushahidi and CrisisMappers Network
Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit — 09/2010
Speaker: Lessons Learned from Haiti Disaster Response
Red Cross Emergency Social Data Summit — 08/2010
Speaker: Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing and Crowdfeeding
Emergency Management Conference Australia — 06/2010
Keynote: Crowdsourcing Crisis Response
Personal Democracy Forum 2010 — 06/2010
Speaker: Crisis Mapping in Action
Gov 2.0 Expo 2010 — 05/2010
Speaker: Technology for disaster response
HIVOS: New Media for Human Rights — 04/2010
Speaker: Technology for social change
Clinton Global Initiative University — 04/2010
Participant
Twitter Chirp Conference — 04/2010
Speaker: Technology for Social Change
UN Global Pulse Conference — 04/2010
Speaker: Lessons Learned in Conflict Early Warning
Where 2.0 2010 — 03/2010
Speaker: Crisis Mapping Haiti
2009
Innovation in International Humanitarian Action — 11/2009
Speaker: Utilizing New Technologies for Humanitarian Action
International Conference of Crisis Mappers — 10/2009
Keynote: An Introduction to Crisis Mapping
A Better World by Design 2009 — 10/2009
Participant
Human Rights, Technology and New Media Berkeley — 05/2009
Participant
ICT for Development (ICT4D 2009) — 04/2009
Speaker: Impact of New Technology on Democratic Tendencies
Humanitarian Action Summit 2009 — 03/2009
Speaker: Crisis Mapping for Applied Technology
Improving Humanitarian Information in Crises — 03/2009
Participant
New Challenges in Human Rights Communication — 02/2009
Speaker: Trends in Information Technology and Human Rights
International Studies Association (ISA) 2009 — 02/2009
Speaker: Impact of ICTs on Anti-Government Protests
LIFT 2009 — 02/2009
Participant
2008
International News in a New Media World — 12/2008
Speaker: The Rising Role of Citizen Journalism
Mobile Active 2008 — 11/2008
Speaker: Using Mobile Technology for Digital Activism
Digital Media in Repressive Regimes — 11/2008
Speaker: Digital Activism and Networked Protests
Social Web: Towards Networked Political Protests — 11/2008
Speaker: Networked ICTs and Protests
Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict — 09/2008
Keynote: The Future of Conflict Early Warning
American Political Science Association (APSA) 2008 — 10/2008
Speaker: Impact of ICTs on Authoritarian Rule and Civil Resistance
Global Voices Summit — 06/2008
Participant
Community-Centered Conflict Prevention — 05/2008
Speaker: Tactical Conflict Early Warning and Response
Politics 2.0 — 04/2008
Participant
International Studies Association (ISA) 2008 — 03/2008
Speaker: New ICTs, Civil Resistance and Conflict Early Warning
2004-2007
OCHA Symposium on Humanitarian Information — 10/2007
Participant
American Political Science Association (APSA) 2007 — 10/2007
Speaker: Conflict Processes as Complex Systems
Digital Earth Conference — 06/2007
Participant
International Studies Association (ISA) 2007 — 03/2007
Speaker: Complexity Science for Conflict Early Response
Earth Systems Science — 11/2006
Speaker: Early Warning of Environmental Change & Conflict
American Political Science Association (APSA) 2006 — 09/2006
Speaker: Natural Disasters, Casualties and Power Laws
Conflict, Health and Human Security — 06/2006
Speaker: Early Warning for Conflict and Health
Expert Meeting on Early Warning — 04/2006
Speaker: Best Practices in Conflict Early Warning
International Studies Association (ISA) 2006 — 04/2006
Speaker: Environmental Influences of Environmental Conflict
Climate Science for Decision Making — 11/2005
Speaker: Mainstreaming Conflict & Environmental Early Warning
Climate Change and Human Security — 06/2005
Speaker: Environmental Influences of Environmental Conflict
Natural Resources Related Conflict Management — 09/2005
Speaker: Resource Conflicts and Early Warning
Conflict Early Warning in the OSCE — 11/2004
Speaker: Early Warning in the Economic Domain
Conflict Early Warning Systems — 08/2004
Speaker: Conflict Early Warning in the Horn of Africa
Understanding Environment, Conflict & Cooperation — 01/2004
Speaker: Conflict Early Warning & Environmental Security
