Presentations
Below are titles and venues for a selection of my presentations in the last 15 years or so. For most of these, I can dig up slides; for a few, there may be video. These are all topics that I feel comfortable speaking about.
I have also given uncountably many internal presentations about a range of topics including those described in my areas of interest, mostly at Hewlett-Packard, e.g. in executive briefings to customers and partners, as well as at internal talks, staff meetings, and conferences. Because of the often proprietary nature of the content, my ability to share materials is limited by what was publicly disclosed, but I can engage about the underlying topics and technologies.
Finally, I have presented many of my publications, and even for the ones that appeared more than 30 years ago, I am reasonably familiar with the subject matter and would be happy to discuss them.
Select presentations
What we look for: Pitching in Silicon Valley. Stanford University, July 2020.
Investing in Innovation. Hiakai Executive Leadership Programme. Piha, New Zealand, March 2020.
Long-Term Infrastructure Planning (and a bit of technology). Infrastructure 2020: Looking Ahead Symposium. New Zealand Infrastructure Commission Te Waihanga, Auckland, New Zealand, February 2020.
State of the Art in AI. Plug and Play Technologies Supply Chain Partners Meeting. Cupertino, CA, October 2019.
Silicon Valley Culture and Success Factors. Plug and Play Bootcamp for International Startups, Sunnyvale, CA, April 2019.
AI for Startups. Plug and Play AI Workshop, Sunnyvale, CA, April 2019.
Simple Pitch Advice. Plug and Play Bootcamp for International Startups, Sunnyvale, CA, December 2018.
Innovation and Growing a Tech Business: Why Silicon Valley continues to be special, and what we look for in startups. Global Women (New Zealand) Leadership Programme. San Francisco, CA, November 2018.
What we look for: Silicon Valley Culture and Success Factors. Plug and Play Bootcamp for International Startups, Sunnyvale, CA, October 2018.
Briefing for startup founders. Plug and Play Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA, August 2018.
Silicon Valley opportunities and pitfalls: What we look for in early startups. Seoul Startup Hub, Seoul, Korea, April 2018.
Innovation and Reality: Silicon Valley and Enterprise Success Factors. Plug and Play Technologies Supply Chain Partners Meeting. Sunnyvale, CA, January 2018.
Briefing on how Silicon Valley appraises startups. Cyber Security Accelerator, Cheltenham, UK, January 2018.
Briefing for startup founders. Plug and Play Bootcamp for International Startups, Sunnyvale, CA, July 2017.
Keynote speech (Presidential Guest Speaker): The Role of Technology in Healthcare. International Society for Hip Arthroscopy Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 2016.
Interview by Phil Lavelle: The Machine, by Hewlett Packard Labs; reinventing computing to propel the world further, faster. HPE Discover, Las Vegas, June 2016
Bring light to your darkest data with infinite memory from Hewlett Packard Labs HPE Discover, London, December 2015
HP Labs on Big Data and Distributed Mesh Computing. HPE Discover, Barcelona, December 2014
Enhancing Patient Engagement in the Inpatient Care Setting. David Vawdrey, Patricia Dykes, Ryan Greysen, Ann O'Brien, Jaap Suermondt. AMIA Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 2014
HP Labs analytics research for when Big Data becomes truly big and truly fast. HPE Discover, Las Vegas, June 2014
Invited Presentation (Allred Distinguished Lecture in Artificial Intelligence): Inevitability or Rat Race? Implications of Moore’s Law from the Perspective of a Silicon Valley Data Scientist. Washington State University, Pullman, WA, October 2013.
Towards Situational Awareness in Healthcare. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, October 2012.
Keynote speech: Delivering Value through Innovation: Solutions Research at HP Labs. Parasparam 2012: The biggest technology event of HP in India. Mahadevapura, Bengaluru, India, October 2012.
Towards Situational Awareness. Australian Center for Health Innovation, Melbourne, Australia, August 2012.
Exploring New Avenues for Patient Safety. Kaiser Permanente, Garfield Center, Oakland, CA, July 2012.
A Real-time Patient Dashboard Enhances Patient Safety and Promotes Quality Improvement. AMIA Annual Symposium, Washington DC, October 2011.
Invited talk, "Safety and Efficiency: Trying hard is not enough." World Health Summit, Berlin, October 2010.
Keynote speech, SVForum Future of Health Innovation Conference, Palo Alto, CA, October 2010
Health IT: Big Expectations, Big Challenges, Symposium on Healthcare IT Opportunities and Challenges, Palo Alto, CA, June 2010.
Keynote speech, SVForum The Analytics Revolution Conference, Mountain View, CA, April 2010
Invited Panelist, World Health Summit, Berlin, October 2009
Invited talk, “The next wave: Everything as a service”, XXIX Convencion Nacional Annual CANIETI, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, August 2008
Other features
Featured in articles in Computerworld Australia, CNBC, The Register, Bloomberg Business Week, the New York Times, and others
US Citizen; Most fluent in English and Dutch (yeah I retain it pretty well for someone who left as a teenager); somewhat functional in French, German, and increasingly in Spanish; get by in a pinch in lots of other languages