- 2023
- 2022
- 2019
- 2018
- UVM Feverish World, Vermont— The Next Clear Thing
- 2017Sony, Los Angeles— The Human Body is the Ultimate Virtual Reality Machine
- International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam— Order, Chaos, and Everything
- All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Vermont— Life Patterns & Healing with Jonathan Harris
- 2016
- Shelburne Farms, Vermont— 2 Billion Heartbeats
- 2015Harvard University, Massachusetts— There There
- The Phi Centre, Montreal— Evolving a Project
- New Museum, New York— Evolving a Project
- Sundance New Frontier, Utah— Data Poetics
- 2014Media Arts Lab, Los Angeles— Approaches
- Weber State University, Utah— Inner Landscapes
- TIME Magazine, New York— Ways of Looking
- Sundance Film Festival, Utah— New Frontier
- Sundance Flash Lab, Miama— Approaches
- Art Center College of Design, California— Navigating Stuckness
- Pioneer Works, New York— Introductions
- 2013
- TED, New York— Fiction Salon
- Nordic Choice, Sweden— A Human Perspective
- Transom, Massachusetts— Turning Points
- WebDox, Belgium— Five Stories
- Docville Film Festival, Belgium— Keynote
- 2012
- The New York Times, New York— Turning Points
- EG Conference, California— Introducing Cowbird
- Mekanism, California— Approaches
- EMC, Massachusetts— Looking for Meaning
- OFFF Conference, Barcelona— Turning Points
- The Internet Archive, California— Introducing Cowbird
- UC Berkeley, California— Introducing Cowbird
- Stanford University, California— Introducing Cowbird
- MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts— Different Ways of Looking
- California College of the Arts— Turning Points
- 2011Columbia University, New York— Introducing Cowbird
- Siglufjörður Town Hall, Iceland— Inner Landscapes
- Union Docs, New York— Introducing Cowbird
- Online News Association, Washington, D.C.— Keynote
- Gravity Free Conference, California— Keynote
- Disney, Los Angeles— Hands, Head, Feet, Heart
- Fuse Summit, Chicago— Exploring Inner Landscapes
- Saatchi & Saatchi, New York— Turning Points
- Anderson Ranch, Colorado— Inner Landscapes
- Caldera Arts, Oregon— Turning Points
- School of Visual Arts, New York— Lecture
- Wieden + Kennedy Talk, Oregon— Some Kind of Journey
- 2010
- University of Vermont— The Wonders and Limitations of Data
- 2009World Economic Forum, Jordan— Inspiring Leadership through Documentary
- Pecha Kucha, New York— The Whale Hunt
- Sundance Film Festival, Utah— Experiments in Documentary
- New Media Meeting, Sweden— Modern Mythology / Coping with Chaos
- 2008
- Tokyo Type Directors Club, Japan— Interactive Design Prize Lecture
- R/G/A, New York— Surveillance, Self-Exposure, and Documentary
- Kodak, New York— Collecting Stories
- Thinking Digital, Newcastle, UK— Collecting Stories
- Princeton University, New Jersey— Collecting Stories
- Yale School of Art, New Haven— Collecting Stories
- Apple Store, New York— Collecting Stories
- Grafill, Norway— Collecting Stories
- Gultaggen, Norway— Collecting Stories
- ITP, New York— Collecting Stories
- Deerfield Academy, Massachusetts— The Art of Surveillance
- 2007
- Ford Foundation, New York— Understanding Edges
- Picnic Festival, Amsterdam— Data Documentary
- Field Museum, Chicago— Suggestions for the Encyclopedia of Life
- Converse, Massachusetts— Data Art
- The Gap, New York— Collecting Stories
- Creators Series, Los Angeles— Data Art
- Royal Academy of Art, Netherlands— Data Art
- William De Kooning Academy, Netherlands— Data Art
- National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.— Data Art
- Singapore Design Festival, Singapore— Collecting Stories
- OFFF Conference, New York— Documentary Platforms
- Picnic Conference, Amsterdam— Creative Genius / We Feel Fine
- TTI Vanguard, Barcelona— Humanizing the Web
- 2006OFFF Conference, Barcelona— Introducing We Feel Fine
- Syracuse University, New York— Words, Pictures, and Spying on the Love Lives of Strangers
- Deerfield Academy, Massachusetts— Working with Data
- 2005The Gathering, Massachusetts— Previewing We Feel Fine
- Hofstra University, New York— Words, Pictures, and Spying on the Love Lives of Strangers
- Parsons, The New School, New York— Words, Pictures, and the Love Lives of Strangers
- Princeton University, New Jersey— Words, Pictures, and the Love Lives of Strangers
- Stanford University, California— Words, Pictures, and Spying on the Love Lives of Strangers
- Google, California— Words, Pictures, and Spying on the Love Lives of Strangers
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