- Smart Grids: Enable Stronger, Smarter and More Secure Electric Power and Energy Infrastructure, Meeting of the Minds, , September 23, 2011
- The Intersection of Smart Grids and Buildings, keynote address at the Engineered Systems High-Performance Building Conference, , September 14, 2011
- Smart Grid Cities, 2010 Tufts Energy Conference, Medford, Massachusetts, April 17, 2010
- Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security: Toward Smarter and More Secure Power and Energy Infrastructures, Canada-U.S. Workshop on Smart Grid Technologies, Vancouver, BC, March 25, 2010
- Smart Grid: Toward stronger, smarter, and more secure energy infrastructure, Presentation at the Minnesota Senate Energy, Utilities, Technology & Communications Committee, February 16, 2010
- The Smart Grid Landscape: What’s on the Horizon?, keynote address at the workshop "Putting Minnesota on the Map: Building a Smart Grid Coalition in Minnesota" co-sponsored by the Minnesota Office of Energy Security, IREE, and the Institute on The Environment, University of Minnesota, November 18, 2009
- Globalization, Energy, and Growth: Exploring and understanding implications of “The World is Flat” for science- and technology-intensive organizations and what that means for individuals, organizations, innovation, R&D, and opportunities for growth, Signature Series Summit, October 27, 2009
- Toward Resilient, Smart and Self-healing Interdependent Infrastructures, keynote address at the TCLEE 2009, the 7th Lifeline Earthquake Engineering in a Multi-Hazard Environment International Conference, Oakland, CA, June 30, 2009
- Making the Electric Power Grid Smarter, Stronger, Greener, and More Secure, webinar delivered to over 500 registered individuals and organizations, June 23, 2009
- Smart Grid: Opportunities and Challenges – Toward a Stronger and Smarter Grid, keynote at the Smart Grid workshop sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories at the MIT Energy Conference 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 6, 2009
- Our Nation’s Energy Infrastructure: Toward Stronger and Smarter Grid, invited presentation at the Citizen's Energy Summit, Willmar, Minnesota, February 24, 2009
- Transforming Public Policy: Toward Smart Self-healing Critical National Infrastructures,”, Hubert Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, October 27, 2008
- Technology Leadership: Exploring and understanding implications of “The World is Flat” for science and technology-intensive organizations with a focus on China and India, Rochester Signature Series, Minnesota, October 21, 2008
- Resilience and Self-healing Challenges: Present/Possible Futures, 3rd International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS'08), Frascati, invited by the PM's office, Rome, Italy, October 13, 2008
- Challenges in Reliability, Security, Efficiency, and Resilience of Energy Infrastructure: Toward Smart Selfhealing Electric Power Grid, IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, July 20, 2008
- Self-healing Power Delivery Infrastructure, presentation at the Inaugural Meeting of the US House of Representatives' R&D Caucus, congressional briefing on "Solving America's Electric Problems: The Benefits of Research and Development", , October 29, 2003
- Future of the Grid, presentation at the Enterprise Information Security (EIS) Program and Infrastructure Security Initiative, EPRI Grid Reliability & Power Markets Council, , September 30, 2003
- Management of Precursors to Catastrophe: Identifying & MeasuringPrecursors, Roundtable on Management of Precursors to Catastrophe National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C., February 21, 2002
- Toward a Secure and Smart Self-Healing Grid, EPRI Research Advisory Committee, , January 27, 1998