· Invited Keynote speaker, “Connecting the Globe with the Communities”, 3rd Global Earth Observation (GEOSS) symposium, Kyoto, Japan, Feb, 2009
· Invited Keynote speaker, “Location Powered Services”, Location 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, USA, Sept., 2008
· Invited Keynote speaker, ‘Empower the Web with the Location”, GIScience 2008, 5th international conference on Geographic Information Science, Sal Lake City, USA, Sept, 2008
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· Invited Keynote speaker, ‘Empowering a 3D Web’, 27th Conference on Surveying and Geomatics’, Tainan, Sept, 2008
· Panel Speaker, “Towards 3D Globe Technologies”, 21st ISPRS Congress, Beijing, China, July, 2008
· Invited Keynote speaker, “Where is the where’, Where 2.0 – An O’Reilly Conference, Burlingame, CA, USA, May, 2008 (video online)
· Panel Speaker, Location Intelligence 2008, Santa Clara, CA, USA, April 2008
· Invited Speaker, 17th International WWW conference 2008, Beijing, China, April, 2008
· Invited Keynote speaker, “Virtual World – extension of your lives”, International Conference on Virtual Geographic Environments, Hong Kong, Jan, 2008
· Invited Speaker, “Towards 3D Virtual Globes”, The Open Geospatial Consortium Symposium, Wuhan, China, Oct, 2007
· Invited Keynote speaker , “Prospects for Consumer-Oriented Online Services in Spatial Information”, Annual CRCSI conference, Sydney, Australia, Sept, 2007
· Invited Keynote speaker, “Local Search and Geospatial Information”, the 9th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June, 2007
· Invited panel speaker, “Empowering People in the Digital Earth Community”, the 5th International Symposium of Digital Earth (ISDE-5), San Francisco, June 2007
· Invited Keynote speaker, “Opportunities and Challenges in Mobile Mapping for Online Services”, the 5th
· International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology (MMT’2007), Padua, Italy, May, 2007
· Invited panel speaker, “Microsoft Local Search: Global Access to Local Knowledge”, Location Intelligence 2007, CA, April, 2007
· Invited Plenary speaker, GeoWeb 2007, Vancouver, Canada, July, 2007 (video online)
· Invited Keynote speaker, “New Horizons in 3D mapping for on-line Services”, ISPRS workshop on High Resolution Earth Imaging for Geospatial Information, Hannover, May 2007
· Invited speaker, ‘Spatial Sensor Web’, the 2nd South African International Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement, Cape Town, South Africa, Feb, 2007
· Invited Keynote Speaker, “New Horizon in Mapping and Geomatics Services”, NAIT’s GIS Earth Day, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Oct 2006
· Invited Keynote speaker, “New Horizon for Online Mapping”, AGI 2006, Annual conference of Association of Geographic Information, London, UK, Sept 2006
· Invited Talk, “Opportunities for geospatial Information technology’, Geomatics Industry Association of Canada (GIAC), Ottawa, Canada, June, 2006
· Panel Speaker, “Microsoft Virtual Earth”, Geomatics Leader Forum, GeoTec 2006, Ottawa, June 2006
· Panel Speaker, “Virtual Earth for Enterprise Computing”, Location Intelligence 2006, April 2006
· Invited Panel speaker, “GlobeView – 3D Digital Earth”, the 19th Annual GeoTec Event Conference in Vancouver, Canada, Feb, 2005
· Invited Expert Talk, “Geospatial Technology for the Next Century”, to Canadian House of Commons and Prime Minster at Parliament Hill, Nov. 2004
