Mitra Ardron's Blog

Mitra is a confident public speaker, and has presented papers, or sat on panels at many conferences, with audiences as large as 2000.

Some of the presentations - and in some cases the presentation materials - are listed below:

• Mini Bar Camp, Bangalore India July 2010: Natural Innovation - some technologies we are working on Handouts
• Deshpande Foundation, Hubli India July 2010: Talk to Deshpande Fellows on Social Entrepreneurship - focus on scaling, and breaking rules. Part 1: Natural Innovation (handouts) Part 2: Social Entrepreneurship (slides)
• Hub San Francisco June 2010: Speaker in debate on urban agriculture, how and whether it makes sense
• Greener Minds, San Francisco June 2010: Co-led panel on developing technologies and products in emerging markets
• Future of Money, San Francisco, April 2010: Speaker on the bridging the finance gap for developing country technologies
• Hub Berkeley Feb 2010: Speaker on panel on developing country technologies
• Greenfest Brisbane June 2009: Turning your green idea into a sustainable success Powerpoint
• Pitchclub Brisbane April 2009: (competitive pitching for Zeo - winner)
• Screenworks: Web Futures Seminar - December 2004: New Directions - blogs, rss and social networks, Powerpoint
• ACE (Adult Community Education) IT Trainers intensive, September 2004: IT training requirements in today's world Powerpoint; PDF of Slides; Links
• ACE (Adult Community Education) IT Trainers day, July 2004: IT training requirements in today's world Powerpoint; RTF
• Information Technologies in Rural Areas, December 2003: Byron Knowledge Management Project (published paper)
• Adult Learning Australia, November 2003: Byron Knowledge Management Project (peer reviewed paper)
• Adult Community Education NSW, August 2003: Byron Knowledge Management Project (handout)
• CCNR June 2002: Open Source Content Management Systems for Community Networks.
• Frontiers in Distributed Information Systems (FDIS) June 99: Community Software - history, current state and challenges (cache)
• Avatars Oct 97 : Several panels on Living Worlds and other topics
• Australian Internet World Aug 97: Tutorial on Living Worlds
• Frontiers in Distributed Information Systems June 97: Multi User Interaction in VRML 2.0
• Siggraph Aug 97: Presented the case for VRML in debate with Java3D, SGI, Microsoft before an audience of about 2000
• VRML Feb 97: Panels chair for the conference & Chaired panel on Living Worlds
• Toronto Internet World Jan 97: Panelist on multi-user VRML.
• World Makers Jan 97: Panelist on "Tour of Babel - language divergence"; Big Persistent Worlds;  Multi-user
• Earth To Avatars Oct 96: Avatar Standards Track panelist, presenting Living Worlds
• SigGraph Aug 96: BOF Panelist on VRML binary format, and future of VRML and multi-user
• Web Interactive July 96: Tutorial on VRML2.0 and several panels including Authoring
• ISOC - INET 96: VRML2.0/Moving Worlds: Adding Behaviors and Multiuser to VRML
• Virtual Humans June 96: Avatars on the Net
• Uniforum 96: VRML2.0, and multiuser 3D Worlds.
• VRML 95: Moving Worlds - adding behaviors to VRML
• San Diego Behaviors Symposium 95: Presented papers on adding behaviors to VRML, and led sub-group on merging different event driven proposals
• Verge meeting 95: Presented Worlds Chat
• VR World 95: Presented Worlds Inc multi user worlds
• WWW2 94 - Chicago: Presented URL's, URN's, URC's and resolution mechanisms
• Gopher 94: Presented AOL Gateway, led session on Quality control
• Gopher 93: Presented problems with Gopher+, and led session on moving to Mime types
• International Communications Association, New Orleans 88: Why the Association for Progressive Communications is different.