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Twenty-odd years of conference talks — most are variations on a handful of themes, a few get a full write-up.

Featured Talks

How to Find the Product Complete Closing keynote, #mtpcon San Francisco. 2018 The Shape of Things Complete Webstock, New Zealand. 2016 An Animating Spark Complete Webstock, New Zealand. 2013 Everything the Network Touches In progress dConstruct, Brighton. 2010 Native to a Web of Data In progress Future of Web Apps, London. 2006 Greater than the Sum of Its Parts In progress Future of Web Apps, San Francisco. 2006

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Title slide for How to Find the Product
54 min

How to Find the Product

Mind the Product, San Francisco

Title slide for The Shape of Things
38 min

The Shape of Things

Webstock, New Zealand

Solid Conference video collection preview
55 min

Interacting with a World of Connected Objects

Solid Conference, San Francisco

Webstock opening title card
56 min

An Animating Spark

Webstock, New Zealand

Product Club title slide for Conversational Connected Objects
26 min

Conversational Connected Objects

Microsoft Research

Title slide for An Animating Spark
72 min

An Animating Spark: Mundane Computing and the Web of Data

Web Directions South

Mind the Product 2012 opening ident
44 min

An Animating Spark: Mundane Computing and the Web of Data

Mind the Product

Title slide for Everything the Network Touches
45 min

Everything the Network Touches

Webstock, New Zealand

Tom Coates reading A New Sincerity in San Francisco
14 min

A New Sincerity

Writers With Drinks, San Francisco

Open Hack New York City 2009 title artwork
50 min

Bringing Your Location Onto the Web

Open Hack, New York

Instrumenting Your Life title slide
49 min

Instrumenting Your Life

Webstock, New Zealand

Webstock 2008 event branding
54 min

Designing for a Web of Data

Webstock, New Zealand

Tom Coates speaking at the Fire Eagle Developer Evening
18 min

Tom Coates on Fire Eagle

Fire Eagle Developer Evening

Tom Coates discussing Fire Eagle at its launch
6 min

Fire Eagle Launch Interview

Mashable

Opening diagram from the Del.icio.us Pecha Kucha
10 min

Del.icio.us Pecha Kucha

BarCampLondon2

Designing for a Web of Data title slide
3 min excerpt

Tom Coates at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin

Web 2.0 Expo, Berlin

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Audio recordings, podcasts and radio appearances

Tom Coates on Conversational Devices

O’Reilly Bots Podcast, 2017 · 52 minutes

AudioListen on O’Reilly

A technologist’s house finds its voice on Twitter

KALW Crosscurrents, 2014 · 7 minutes

AudioListen on KALW

Designing for a Web of Data

dConstruct, 2007 · 52 minutes

AudioListen

Tom Coates interviewed by Brian Oberkirch

Web 2.0 and social media interview, c. 2006 · 51 minutes

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Reinventing Radio

ETech, 2005 · 41 minutes

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BBC Radio 5 Live blogging segment

BBC Radio 5 Live, 2003 · 11 minutes

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All Talks & Conferences

Talks, workshops and conference appearances, 1996–2018

2018

How to Find the ProductMind the Product San Francisco

2016

The Shape of ThingsWebstock 2016

2015

Interacting with a World of Connected ObjectsSolid North America
Interacting with a World of Connected ObjectsUX London 2015
The Blank Canvas: How to Find Product IdeasWorkshop with Matt Biddulph at Interaction15
Microsoft Social Computing Symposium

2013

An Animating Spark: Mundane Computing and the Web of DataWebstock 2013

2012

An Animating Spark: Mundane Computing and the Web of DataWeb Directions South 2012
An Animating Spark: Mundane Computing and the Web of DataMind the Product 2012
An Animating Spark: Mundane Computing and the Web of DataUX Week 2012

2011

News Foo Camp 2011
Hot Topics PanelWeb Directions @media 2011
Open Place PanelWhere 2.0 2011
Everything the Network TouchesAn Event Apart Seattle 2011
Everything the Network TouchesWebstock 2011
TummelVision 47 with Tom Coates

2010

City Operating SystemOpen Web Foo 2010
Urban Lenses LabPICNIC'10
Everything the Network TouchesdConstruct 2010
Geo-Loco
Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010
Microsoft Social Computing Symposium

2009

Govhack
Open Hack NYC
London Open Hack Day 2009
Social Web Foo Camp 2009
Instrumenting Your LifeWebstock 2009

2008

Microsoft Social Computing Symposium 2009
Ride the Fire Eagle: Open Location for AllWhere 2.0 2008
Designing for a Web of DataWeb 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008
Polite, Pertinent and… Pretty: Designing for the New Wave of Personal InformaticsWith Matt Jones at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008
Ride the Fire Eagle: Open Location for AllETech 2008
Designing for a Web of DataWebstock 2008

2007

Native to a Web of DataWeb 2.0 Expo Berlin 2007
An Insight to Fire EagleFuture of Web Apps Expo 2007
Designing for a Web of DatadConstruct 2007
Hack Day London 2007
Web of Data PanelIA Summit 2007

2006

Greater Than the Sum of Its PartsFuture of Web Apps San Francisco 2006
Dirty SemanticsO’Reilly Foo Camp 2006
Native to a Web of Data: Designing a Part of the Aggregate WebXTech 2006
Changing Media: Social MediaPanel at the Guardian Changing Media Summit 2006
Native to a Web of Data: Designing a Part of the Aggregate WebETech 2006
Native to a Web of Data: Designing a Part of the Aggregate WebThe Future of Web Apps Summit 2006

2005

O’Reilly Foo Camp 2005
Programme Information Pages: Identifiers, Addressability and Programming on DemandWith Gavin Bell and Matt Biddulph at ETech 2005
Reinventing Radio: Enriching Broadcast with Social SoftwareWith Matt Biddulph, Matt Webb and Paul Hammond at ETech 2005

2003

Distributed CommunitiesEUvolt 2003
UpMyStreet Conversations: Mapping Cyber to SpaceETech 2003

1996

My Hero… Identification and Catharsis in Aristotle and FreudAmerican Philological Association
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