Talks

I give two or three talks a year on systems in transition: trust, access, decentralization, and community resilience. I am not a circuit speaker, but relish meaningful moments to engage with ideas in motion. These are some of my past highlights.

Reimagine Trust

In this conversation with Re-Imagine Europa, I talk about how trust is changing in our lives and communities, and how we might re-imagine the ways we show up for one another in a fast-shifting world. We also touch on the role of new technologies—not as the answer, but as tools that can help us create more human, trustworthy systems.

Squinting toward the future with Lloyd's

In 2023, I spoke to leaders at the venerable British institution about how to look forward productively within the confines of a 250-year old banking behemoth.

Fundación Innovación Bankinter

At the Future Trends Forum in Madrid, I spoke about how technology, inequality, and climate change are reshaping our economies and societies—and why we need to rethink trust, value, and risk in this era of disruption. I shared how networked, self-organizing systems and new forms of distributed trust can open up more resilient, human-centered ways of working and living..

We're only as strong as we are connected

A leadership forum in the UK in March 2020 with Wavelength. An opportune moment to talk about strength through connection.

Squinting into our future – Europe

In 2019, I spoke to 80 EU and UK leaders on what lay ahead.

A short history of trust

In 2018 I spoke to 800 members of Colombia's industrial and startup community on the relationship between trust and data.

Cities and Resilience

A 2016 talk for the Rockefeller Foundation and Urban Institute.

Sharing Value Created – OuiShare Fest

In my 2015 OuiShare Fest keynote, I spoke about how building trust in collaborative ecosystems is central to the next stage of the collaborative economy. I shared why emerging platforms—like blockchain—could help us create more agile and trusted peer-to-peer services, opening the door to new ways of sharing value and working together.

Think Global

In 2015, I spoke to Think Global about the power of cooperative innovation.

TED: The future of business is the "mesh"

In my 2011 TED Talk, I shared why I believed the future of business was built on sharing—what I called “the Mesh”—and how rethinking ownership could open up more sustainable, connected, and creative ways of living and working. I also spoke about the opportunities and challenges this shift was beginning to create for companies, communities, and everyday life (something that's proven out in even more profound ways than I saw back then).