I gave the keynote at the NEURISA Day event (agenda and presentations) in 2011. (My coverage, Oct 2011) Also:

• NEURISA Day 2010 (My coverage, Oct 2010)
• Trends in Making Integrated Information More Accessible (My coverage, Nov 2009)

I spoke at the New York State Geospatial Summit 2011 (My coverage, June 2011) Also:

• New York State Geospatial Summit 2009. (My coverage, May 2009, photo at right) 
• New York State Geospatial Summit 2008. (My coverage, May 2008)
• New York State Geospatial Summit 2007. Wrote Gary Smith of Green Mountain Geographics: "I wanted to take just a minute to thank all of you that made presentations at last week's GeoSpatial Summit. You helped to make it a very special event. Unlike at so many GIS related events, you have collectively caused attendees to stop and think about much more than points, lines and polygons. For that, we all owe you a debt of gratitude. I sincerely appreciate the effort you made to be in Skaneateles." (My coverage, June 2007)
• New York State Geospatial Summit 2006.  Said one attendee: "Probably the best panel I have ever witnessed - well done." (My coverage, June 2006)

I offered the closing keynote at MidAmerica GIS Consortium - MAGIC - 2010 Symposium. (My coverage, my slides (pdf), April 2010)

I presented "Harnessing Geospatial Technology in Liberal Education," the keynote at Geospatial Technologies in the Liberal Arts. I was pleased to be accompanied by my Dad, Arnold. (My coverage, NITLE coverage, Sept. 2009)

I presented a keynote at the MetaCarta Public Sector User Group. (My coverage, May 2007.

I presented the keynote at the Pennsylvania GIS Conference. (My coverage, May 2006)

I presented the keynote at the GeoVue User Conference. (Dec 2006)

I spoke to NICS (National Infrastructure for Community Statistics) a group aiming to make statistics easier to access and use on the Web on Feb 16, 2005 at the Brookings Institution. I covered the commercial side of the geospatial industry. (My coverage, Feb 2005)

I spoke to a group of local (Massachusetts) town GIS managers. Said one in an e-mail, "Excellent presentation yesterday by Adena. We should try to have a few more meeting where a non-biased GIS professional (no consultants) is guest speaker." (Apr 2004)

I was an invited speaker at the 2004 Wisconsin Land Information Association Annual Conference. I provided a lunch time keynote titled "GIS: Too Much Information." The executive services manager, in a thank you letter noted, "You received excellent reviews!" (My coverage, Mar 2004).

I presented the keynote at the Ventura College (California) GIS Day conference in November 2003, at the invitations of GIS Monitor readers. From the thank you note: "I want to tell you again how pleased we were by your keynote speech and attendance at our event. In particular, I received many compliments on your talk from people with a wide variety of GIS knowledge and experience. You did an excellent job of providing us with the tools for discussing web mapping issues." - Paul Van Zuyle, one of the organizers. (My coverage, Nov 2003)

I spoke about GIS at the International Right of Way Association 49th Annual International Education Conference. (My coverage, June 2003)

I presented a keynote at the Laser-Scan's User and Partner Conference in Cambridge, England. From Laser-Scan's thank you note: "Yes, we had an excellent conference, there was definitely a buzz to the whole event and we're getting some good feedback too." (My coverage, July 2003)

I spoke at GIS User Forum in Dubai UAE, from 28 - 30 April, 2002. (My coverage, my travelogue, Apr 2002)

I presented the keynote address at the Illinois GIS Association 2001 Fall Conference.  This is from the "thank you" note:  "It certainly was an outstanding presentation - many of the conference attendees that I talked to felt that it was the best keynote address they had ever heard.  I personally enjoyed your talk because it offered the best of what a keynote address should be:  relevant to the audience's interests, but also challenging enough to provoke new insights." - Larry Gunderson, President, ILGISA.  (Nov 2001)