Speaking

Past Engagements

  • The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society (2014)
  • NextEcon (Austin, 2014)
  • National Council on Science and the Environment – annual conference (Washington, DC, 2010, 2011)
  • TEDxAustin (2010)
  • International Society of Logistics (Dallas, 2010)
  • Symposium on Community Social and Economic Change in the New Economy (Ball State University, Muncie, 2011)
  • SXSW Interactive (Austin,  2008, 2009, 2010)
  • Innotech (Austin, 2008)

Speaking Topics

David is able to speak to four areas relating to local resilient community design and development:

  • What is driving the emergence of local resilient communities?
  • What does the emerging new global business environment imply for local resilient community design (i.e. – wanted: self-organizing local resilient communities)?
  • What are the uses of the new social computing technologies for community engagement and crowdsourcing of community design and self-organizing coordination?
  • What are proposed uses of open community dialogue for catalyzing self-organizing resilient community formation?