Speaking Engagements
Last updated December 20th, 2011
David Merrill, co-founder and president of Sifteo, is a sought after speaker in the areas of user interface innovation, the future of play, and entrepreneurship. If you are interested in having Dave speak at your event, please contact press@sifteo.com
June 2012 Keynote at ISTE, Innovative Learning Technologies, in San Diego CA.
Mar 2012 Interactive Panel at SXSW, Designing Tomorrow’s Digital/Physical Interface, in Austin TX.
Jan 11 2012 Games Summit Panel at CES, Games on Emerging Platforms: Games on Tablets, Connected TVs and… Refrigerators?, in Las Vegas NV.
Oct 11 2011 Plenary at the Android Open Conference, in San Francisco, CA.
Oct 10 2011 Panelist at the opening session of the Lean Launchpad class for the Innovation Corps teams, at Stanford University.
Oct 6 2011 Speaker at the opening gala of the Leonardo, in Salt Lake City, UT.
Sept 28 2011 Tech talk at Twilio, in San Francisco, CA.
Sept 22 2011 Special Presentation at the New York Games Conference, Classic games, meet videogames, in New York, NY.
Aug 30 2011 Presentation at the San Jose Tech Museum, Sifteo Cubes: Intelligent Play, in San Jose, CA.
June 11 2011 Speaker at TEDxSantaCruz, Sifteo Cubes, Makers and Learners: My Double Ah-Ha Moment, in Aptos, CA.
May 17 2011 Spoke at InPlay 2011, Sifteo Cubes: Hands-On Digital Play, in Toronto, ON.
Apr 25 2011 Guest-lecturer in C262 Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces, at UC Berkeley.
Dec 8 2010 On a panel with Mike Kuniavsky at Adaptive Path, The Future of User Experience: Smart Things in San Francisco, CA.
Dec 6 2010 Speaking at the Big Ideas Fest 2010 in Half-Moon Bay, CA.
Nov 22 2010 Speaker for the Mind, Technology, and Society (MTS) lecture series in the UC Merced Cognitive Science Department, Merced, CA.
Nov 9 2010 Spoke on a panel discussion with Nathan Moody of Stimulant moderated by Dan Clifford: Very Cool and Truly Unique Interfaces, at AnswerLab in San Francisco, CA.
Oct 19 2010 Keynote at NordiCHI 2010 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Aug 15 2010 Keynote and office hours at the Emerge 2010: One-to-one Laptop Learning Summit in Banff, Alberta Canada.
Aug 2 2010 Teaching Studio 0: Introduction to Interaction, 1-week intensive at California College of the Arts.
Apr 26 2010 Guest-lecturing for CS160: User Interface Design at Berkeley.
Apr 16 2010 Speaking at TEDxMonterey in Monterey, CA.
Apr 13 2010 Speaking at the LEGO Idea Conference in Billund (LEGOLAND, here I come!).
Mar 15 2010 Beyond the Desktop panel at SXSW in Austin, TX.