Strategies for Enabling UX to Play a More Strategic Role: What Will Work Where You Work?,
21 March 2009 (in Memphis, Tennessee): Richard, with Craig Peters, led this Business, Strategy, and Management working session at the 2009 Information Architecture Summit
25th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium, 29-30 May 2008 (at the University of Maryland): Richard appeared on the keynote panel with Ken Perlin, Founding Director of NYU's Media Research Lab, and Clare-Marie Karat, Researcher at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center
MX San Francisco, 21 April 2008 (in San Francisco): Richard spoke at Adaptive Path's "Managing Experience through Creative Leadership" conference on the topic of critical management and executive "Interactions and Relationships"
interactions magazine comes alive, 9 April 2008 (in Florence, Italy): Richard, with Co-Editor-in-Chief Jon Kolko, led a session during CHI 2008 on interactions magazine -- past, present, and future
Education Needs and Desires of User Experience Management, 2 April 2008 (in Rome, Italy): 
Richard appeared on a panel entitled, "Expectations from Industry" at the HCIEd 2008 conference
User Experience Managers and Executives Speak, 13 February - 26 March 2008 (in Silicon Valley): Richard offered this unique and glowingly-evaluated course featuring weekly guest managers 
and executives
interactions magazine, January+February 2008 (in your mailbox and on the web): The first issue of interactions magazine for which Jon Kolko and Richard are responsible has been published
Changing the Role User Experience Plays in Your Business, 5 November 2007 (in Chicago): Richard led/taught this workshop/tutorial during the Designing for User eXperience 2007 conference
uiGarden, 9 October 2007 (in Chinese): Richard wrote an article entitled, 
"Moving User Experience into a Position of Corporate Influence: Whose Advice Really Works?" for this bilingual online magazine for Chinese and western user experience design practitioners
Moving User Experience into a Position of Greater Corporate Influence, 8 September 2007 (in New York City): Richard ran a special, short notice (and fun) version of this workshop in downtown Manhattan
interactions magazine, June 2007 (in New York City): Richard has been named Incoming Co-Editor-in-Chief of interactions magazine (with Jon Kolko)
Whose Advice Really Works?, 1 May 2007 (in San Jose, CA): Richard led an interactive session during CHI 2007 entitled "Moving User Experience into a Position of Corporate Influence: Whose Advice Really Works?" -- a 
session which featured several people in strategic management positions addressing what has worked for them in their workplaces
Lifetime Service Award, 29 April 2007 (in San Jose, CA): Richard received SIGCHI's Lifetime Service Award during CHI 2007 for extensively facilitating and spreading the development of the field via his leadership contributions to BayCHI and to other SIGCHI chapters around the world
Moving User Experience into a Position of Corporate Influence, January-June 2007 (in various companies, including Samsung, PayPal, Adaptive Path, and Cisco): Sample title of sessions Richard has led to facilitate exploration and formulation of strategies regarding moving user experience into a position of greater corporate influence
Managing User Experience Groups, 11 October - 15 November 2006 (in Silicon Valley): Richard taught the second offering of this well-received 6-session course with Lillian Svec via University of California Extension in Silicon Valley
User Experience Leadership Seminar, August 2006 (at Google): Richard-led seminar which explored what can impact the success of a multi-disciplinary user experience group and what can be done to increase its impact and effectiveness
CHI-SI Interview, June 2006 (in South India): SIGCHI's first chapter in India, which Richard helped establish, has published an interview of Richard on its website
DCamp, 12-13 May 2006 (in Palo Alto, CA): Richard led a session during this design and user experience "unconference" focused on where user experience should be positioned within corporate organizational structures
Managing User Experience Groups, 25 January - 15 March 2006 (in Silicon Valley): Richard taught this one-of-a-kind 6-session course -- extended to 7 sessions -- with Lillian Svec via University of California Extension in Silicon Valley
