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George has enjoyed sharing her work and ideas in places like Berkeley, Venice, Munich, London, Sydney, Wellington, Austin, New York City, Taipei and Washington DC. She gave the keynote at Smithsonian 2.0, opened OCLC's FutureCast conference, opened the NZ National Digital Forum (and closing it eight years later in 2015), and wishes she'd been much more vigorous with record keeping of every single appearance.

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Coming Up

• dConstruct Keynote
  2022.09.09
  Brighton, UK
• Europeana 2022: How to write a 100-year plan Workshop facilitator
  2022.09.28-29
  Den Haag, BE

Past

You can see past presentations on Slideshare.

2022

• Museums without Walls: How to write a 100-year plan Workshop facilitator
  2022.08.15-17
  Kingston, CA
• MozFest Virtual Presenter/Facilitator
  2022.03.07-10
  Online
• The Information Architecture Conference Keynote
  2022.04.19-23
  New Orleans, US Online

2021

• Sharing is Caring Presenter
  2021.03.22-23
  Online
• Creative Commons Summit Presenter
  2021.09.20 - Decolonising Collections
  2021.09.24 - Revitalizing the Flickr Commons Program: Very Long Term Thinking about Keeping Digital Cultural Heritage Safe
  Online
• A 17 year old software company and what it means to look ahead at Europeana 2021 Keynote
  2021.11.10-12
  Online
  • Watch on Europeana website
• NZ National Digital Forum (AGM) Guest presenter
  2021.11.16
  Online
• Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and Europeana Foundation Presenter
  2021.12.02
  Online

2020

• None because pandemic.

2019

• M+ Artist in Residence
  2019.03.03 - 2019.03.18
  Hong Kong
• M+ Hackathon Facilitator
  2019.03.16 - 2019.03.17
  Hong Kong
• Do Not Touch? 3D in Museums Speaker
  2019.06.03
  Cambridge, UK
  • Slides
• Structures and Voices: Storytelling in Post-Digital Times Speaker, Panellist
  2019.06.13 - 2019.06.15
  Gdańsk, PL
• MozFest Arts & Culture Exhibitor, Facilitator
  2019.10.26-27
  London, UK
• Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London Guest Lecture
  2019.11.27
  London, UK

2018

• London College of Communication, University Arts London Visiting Lecturer
  2018.11.22
  London, UK
• The Oslo School of Architecture and Design Visiting Lecturer
  2018.09.25 - 2018.09.28
  Oslo, NO
• Royal College of Art Visiting Lecturer
  2018.06.20
  London, UK
• A Vision for European Cultural Heritage 2025
  Museum in a Box: A Case Study Presenter
  2018.05.28-29
  Varna, Bulgaria
  • Slides
• Europeana Tech Keynote
  2018.05.16
  Rotterdam, NL
  • Slides / Watch on YouTube
• The Oslo School of Architecture and Design Visiting Lecturer
  2018.04.04 - 2018.04.06
  Oslo, NO
• Ladies That UX Presenter
  2018.02.27
  London, UK
• The India Office Records & Digital Scholarship: Workshop at the British Library Presenter
  2018.01.26
  London, UK

2017

• Semantic Web in Bibliotheken (SWIB) Keynote
  2017.12.05
  Hamburg, DE
  • Slides / Watch on YouTube
• Communicating the Museum Openstage presenter
  2017.11.07
  Los Angeles, US
• 5th annual Tomography for Scientific Advancement (ToScA) Keynote
  2017.09.08
  Portsmouth, UK
• SxSW EDU
  Brain in a Box: Smithsonian Partnership Pilot Presenter
  2017.03.07
  Austin, US
• Talking about Museum in a Box at Generating Narratives Through Virtual Transcription Presenter
  2017.01.31
  Hackney Wick, UK

2016

• Erfgoed, virtueel en augmented
  "3D Museums: fun, tactile learning; greater access" Speaker
  2016.11.29
  Brussels, BE
  • Slides
• IoT London Meetup Speaker
  2016.09.20
  London, UK
• Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2016
  3D in Museums; Museums in 3D Speaker
  2016.07.15
  London, UK
• Libraries & Tech for Good Speaker
  2016.07.11
  London, UK
  • Slides
• Design Research Society 2016
  Futurescaping the Museum Panellist
  2016.06.29
  Brighton, UK
• Ladies That UX
  We Spring Forward Presenter
  2016.03.22
  Brighton, UK
  • Slides
• UCL Institute of Archaeology
  History of Archaeology Network Seminar Presenter
  2016.02.09
  London, UK
• Museum Tech 2016: A Digital Festival for Museums
  "3D Museums" Presenter
  2016.01.21
  Manchester, UK
  • Slides / Write-up

2015

• UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
  "Design and R&D in Digital Humanities" Lecture
  2015.11.25
  London, UK
• Lancaster Arts Additive Manufacturing Workshop Case Study Presenter
  2015.11.16
  Lancaster, UK
• British Library Labs Symposium
  "The Ups and Downs of Open" Panel Moderator
  2015.11.02
  London, UK
• National Digital Forum Closing Plenary
  2015.10.12-14
  Wellington, NZ
  • Assumption, Attention, Articulation (V2) Slides / Watch on YouTube
• Museums & The Web Asia Closing Plenary
  2015.10.5-8
  Melbourne, AU
  • Assumption, Attention, Articulation (V1) Slides
• Association of Independent Museums National Conference Attendee
  2015.06.18-20
  Bristol, UK
• The Story Speaker
  2015.02.20
  London, UK
  • The Conflicted Observer Slides / Write-up
• Europeana Tech Closing Plenary
  2015.02.12-13
  Paris, France
  • Slides / Write-up

2014

• Museums Beyond the Web Opening Keynote
  2014.11.07
  Museums Computer Group
  London, UK
  
  • Slides / Write-up
• Information Access Seminar Visiting Lecturer
  2014.09.19
  UC Berkeley School of Information
  Berkeley, USA
• Digital Preservation Presenter, Panellist
  2014.07.23
  Library of Congress National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)
  Washington, DC, USA
  
  • Watch on YouTube

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Nice Things People Have Said

• Really engrossed in George's presentation - the free thinking is so refreshing - great - thank you George #mwa2015 ∞
• You could tell in the post keynote conversation as we queued for coffee at morning tea that in talking about The Flickr Commons, George respectfully disrupted the ways some in the audience made meaning of their day jobs. ∞
• She encouraged the audience to be proactive and think about individuals and their digital traces rather than objects that can be neatly categorized and placed in boxes. ∞
• Brilliant talk from George Oates @goodformand #ukmw14. Making me even more excited about the rest of the day. ∞
• ...just watch/read the gift of George Oates that just keeps on giving... ∞

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