Speaking Engagements
2025
“Smart Maps, Smarter Planet: The GeoAI Revolution,” with Cindy Mitchell, West Vancouver School District, Virtual
Panel Discussion: “Digital Service Delivery in Federal, Provincial, and Municipal Government,” Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Virtual
Podcast Discussion, Deadbeat Philosophy with Dave Baumeister, Virtual
"Geospatial Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Data and Expertise into Actionable GC Insights,” with Eric Loubier, 2025 Digital Government Leaders Summit, Ottawa, ON.
2024
Panel Discussion: "Future of the Geospatial Ecosystem,” Seventh High-level Forum on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management, United Nations Statistical Division, Mexico City.
2022
“Supporting Biodiversity with Geospatial Data and Innovation,” with Steve Dunning and Gail Anderson, United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP 15), Montreal, QC.
Conference & Workshop Presentations
2023
“Favoriser le développement durable au moyen de données géospatiales et de l'innovation,” 90e Congrès de Association francophone pour le savoir, Montréal, QC.
2019
“Using Transnational Private Standards as Non‐Tariff Barriers: Industry Lobbying and Forestry Standards in Australia, Canada and the UK,” International Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, ON.
“Transnational Private Standards to Avert Government Regulation: Comparing EU and US Laundry Pod Regulation,” International Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, ON.
2018
“A Tale of Two Lobbies: Laundry Pod Regulation in the US and EU,” Northeastern Political Association Annual Conference, Montreal, QC.
“Self-Regulation and Scientific Uncertainty: EU and US Laundry Pod Regulation,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
2017
"Bypassing Students’ Hostility to Discussing Justice: Creating Distance by Using Simulations and Upscaling the Unit of Analysis," American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2016
“Forestry Standards as Firm Political Strategies,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
"Standards as Strategies: How Firms Adopt Transnational Private Standards for Leverage in Regulatory Policymaking,” 24th World Congress of Political Science, International Political Science Association, Poznań, Poland,
"Standards as Strategies: How Firms Adopt Transnational Private Standards for Leverage in Regulatory Policymaking,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
“Private Forestry Standards and Procurement Policies,” International Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.
“The Influence of Transnational Corporate Private Regimes on Domestic Policies,” International Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
2015
“Adopting Transnational Standards, Preempting Stringent Regulations,” Duck Family Graduate Workshop on Environmental Politics and Governance, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2014
“The Diffusion of Feed-In Tariff Policies,” International Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.
2013
“Upscaling Elinor Ostrom's Design Principles Illustrated by Long-Enduring Common-Pool Resource Institutions: Quantitative Analysis Using International Regimes Database,” International Studies Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.
2012
“From Climate Change to Conflict? Human vs. State Security Concerns in the Arctic,” International Studies Association-Western Division, Pasadena, CA.
2010
“The Arctic Environment as a Common-Pool Resource,” Continents Under Climate Change Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.