*Conference Director / Speaker "Agriculture powered by SuperComputing" - IX Multicore World. Wellington, NZ. Feb20

*Project Lead - "Whakarongo ki te whenua" (Listen to the Land) - June19

*Speaker - AgriTech and Security. Rotorua, NZ - April19

*NZ's Technology Independence - NBR. July18

*Invited Speaker - Open Research: Rethinking Scientific Collaboration - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Waterloo, Canada. March18

*Speaker - 2nd What On Earth colloquium. Wellington, NZ. March18

*Speaker - 5th Computing for SKA. Auckland, NZ. Feb18

*Session Co-Chair - SKA: The Ultimate BigData Project - SC17. Denver, USA

* Keynote - 10th LatinAmerican HPC Conference. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sept17

*Co-Chair IoT-HPC ISC17. Frankfurt, Germany

*Invited Speaker - MVD FinTechForum, Montevideo, Uruguay. June17

*Is your IT project a Black Swan? ITx16. Wellington, NZ

*Towards an Open Software Stack for Exascale Computing. SC15. Austin, USA.

*Speaker, SKA in Seoul, Korea, Nov15