Speaking
Long-term thinking, design, institutional continuity, and creativity for the deep future.
Alexander Rose speaks about long-term thinking, the design of institutions and artifacts built to last millennia, and the intersection of design, technology and culture. He speaks globally to audiences from the TED stage to NASA, from financial institutions to art festivals — tailoring talks on design, history, and futures thinking to inspire your next event. Read his latest writing or see more about his background and experience here.
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Past Speaking Engagements
- Burnal Equinox 2026
Cryptomeria Man Base, March 2026 - DLD Conference
Munich, Germany, January, 2026 - Ingite Marquee
San Francisco, CA, November 8th, 2022 - IMF Innovation Lab
Virtual, Nov 5th, 2020 - Automattic, Grand Meetup Keynote
Orlando, Sep 15th, 2019 - NASA Langley, Colloquium and Sigma Lectures
Washington DC, Nov 6th, 2018 - Sonar+D
Barcelona Spain, June 13-16, 2018 - Google I/O conference Ignite Talk
Mountain View, CA, May 19, 2016 - OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Memory Across Generations workshop, Paris, France, September 12-14, 2012 - Singularity University NASA Ames
Mountain View CA, July 12th, 2011 - Transmediale
Berlin, Feb 2-7, 2010 - CalTech University
Pasadena CA, October 2009
- Baillie Gifford Private Investor Forum
Keynote in Scotland, September 2021 - TEDx Bermuda
Bermuda, Oct 5th, 2019 - Freakonomics Live, recorded in San Francisco
CA on May 16th 2019 - Dare Mighty Things
Chicago, Oct 29th, 2018 - The Battery
San Francisco, May 10th, 2018 - A+D Forum at SF MoMa FOG
San Francisco, CA, Jan 14, 2016 - Art Center College of Design
Pasadena CA, March 2012 - SETI Institute
May 18th, noon-1pm, 2011 - Royal Observatory at Greenwich, Speed of Time Conference
(Keynote) January 2007 - Art Center College of Design
Pasadena CA, October 2009 - The Commonwealth Club
San Francisco CA, April 2009 - TED conference
Monterey CA, February 22, 2001
- Long Now
Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations, April , 2021 - Smithsonian, 3D Digitization Conference Keynote
Washington DC, Oct 2nd, 2019 - The Interval, Siberia: A Journey to the Mammoth Steppe,
San Francisco CA, Jan 22nd, 2019 - Google, Talks at Google
San Francisco CA, Aug 1st, 2018 - PARC Forum
Palo Alto, CA, June 30, 2016 - US Naval Observatory
Washington DC, March 14, 2013 - The Art + Environment Conference
Reno, NV, Sep 29th, 2011 - Keynote for Dolby Labs
San Francisco, February, 2011 - NASA JPL
Pasadena CA, October, 2009 - Avant-Garde
BAMPHA, UC Berkeley, January, 2007 - Doors of Perception Conference
Amsterdam, November 11, 2000