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​If you would like me to speak at your event or your workshop, please contact me at melbak@gmail.com . Recent talks include:
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​Invited Speaker, “How Driverless Cars and Arti􀁿cial Intelligence Will Save Our Cities,” Abundance 360 Summit, Los Angeles, California, October, 2019.
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​Faculty Speaker, Singularity University, “Exponential Cities, AIand the New Urban Data Fog,” Singularity University PrivateEvent, Mountain View, CA, October, 2019
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​Keynote Speaker, “Why Autonomous Vehicles Will Cause the Car Industry to Grow and Prosper,” Shift Automotive 2019, Berlin, Germany, September 2019
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​Keynote Speaker, “Smart Cities: From Place to Platform,” Jacksonville Innovation Summit, Jacksonville, Florida, October, 2018
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​Faculty Speaker, Singularity University, “Driverless Cars and Smart Cities,” SU Executive Program, Mountain View, CA, June, 2018.
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Panelist, Politico Live , “New Age of Innovation” Online Panel,Washington D.C., April, 2018
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​Faculty Speaker, Singularity University, “Driverless: why thevehicle will be the next platform battle,” SU ExecutiveProgram, Mountain View, CA, January, 2018.
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​Closing keynote, International Trademark Association (INTA),“3D Printing: The Next 25 Years—Why There Won’t Be aNapster Moment for Most Companies,” INTA Conference, NewYork City, March, 2015.
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​Course instructor, Cornell University Alumni Summer School,“3D Printing: The Promise and Peril of a Machine That CanMake (Almost) Anything,” Cornell campus, Ithaca, NY, July,2014
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​Invited speaker, NIST, “Introduction to 3D Printing,” NIST Monthly Innovation Series, Gaithersburg, MD, March, 2014
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​Invited speaker, Taking Shape: Additive ManufacturingSummit, hosted by Bemidji State University, “Ten Principles of3D printing: the promise and peril of a machine that can make(almost) anything,” Minneapolis, MN, November, 2013.
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​Invited speaker, 3D Printing and Intellectual PropertyConference, Center for Law in the Information Society ofLeiden University (the Netherlands), “When Complexity GetsCheap,” November, 2013.
Invited keynote speaker, INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry Annual Conference, “3D printing and the new manufacturing,” Denver, CO, October, 2013.
 
  
Invited speaker for a panel sponsored by the New York State Assembly, “3-D Printing: Economic Development, Regulatory and other Public Policy Issues,” New York, New York, September 2013.
 

Invited speaker at an AAAS Luncheon, “3D-Printing: The Good, the Bad, and the Science,” Washington, DC, September 2013.
 

Invited speaker, “The Ten Principles of 3D Printing,” Inside 3D Printing Conference, San Jose, California, September 2013.
 

Invited speaker, “3D Printing: a new industrial revolution?” Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, July 2013.


Invited speaker, Forum on Additive Manufacturing, Beijing, China, June 2013.
 
 
Invited keynote speaker, Cornell Engineering Alumni Association. “Zero: How 3D printing shrinks key cost barriers to nearly nothing,” Summer, 2013, Washington, DC.
 

Invited speaker, U.S. Council on Competitiveness Regional meeting, “The next industrial revolution? Maybe,” Spring, 2013, Oak Ridge Tennessee.
 

TedX 2012 at the University of Vermont. 3D printing and Ultra- large Systems of Manufacturing.
 
 
Invited guest lecturer, Cornell University, “3D Printing and the product development process, Fall 2012.
 
 
Invited keynote speaker at the university technologies track at the Discovery 12 conference in Toronto, Canada’s largest innovation showcase and conference, June, 2012.
 

Moderator and keynote speaker at the session, “Rapid prototyping – how increasing the productivity of your company decreases the time to market, “ Discovery 12 Conference, Toronto, June, 2012.
 

Invited breakout session leader and Steering Committee member, International Commercialization Forum 2012, hosted by Ontario Centres of Excellence in Toronto, Canada, March, 2012.


Invited plenary speaker, “University technology commercialization: what lies ahead.” ICAP Patent Brokerage Summit on Patent Monetization, San Francisco, November 16 & and 17, 2011.
 

Speaker, “Open Source Hardware Legal Frameworks” at the Open Hardware Summit annual meeting, New York, NY, September 2011.
 
 
 Invited guest lecturer, “The long tail effect of 3D printers on product design and marketing,” Cornell CATALYST summer engineering camp, August, 2011.
 

Invited panelist, “3D printing comes to the nation’s capital,” Public Knowledge Organization, April, 2011.
 
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 Invited speaker on IP Marketing webinar series, “Internal Metrics and Benchmarking: New Era Measurement of TTO Performance and Impact,” March, 2011.
 
 
Invited speaker, “From Idea to IPO” course at the New York Academy of Sciences, December, 2010
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