SPEAKER
Over the past decade, Nathan has given keynotes and sat on panels at both domestic and international summits covering a range of topics from oceans to climate change to exponential technologies to culture. A full list is below.
Nathan’s interest has centered on the impacts of technological development on our collective evolutionary trajectory and our shifting relationships with ourselves, each other, and the environment. His talks reveal the mechanisms of these connections and their relation to our cultural fabric and development.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2025
Swiss- and Italy-American Chamber of Commerce // Los Angeles, CA
Turning CO2 into Products: Carbon Utilization for Fuels, Building Materials, & Chemicals
Cleantech Group’s Cleantech Forum // San Diego, CA
Ocean-based Solutions to Decarbonize the Planet
Idemitsu and Hatch Blue // Tokyo, Japan
Advancing Blue Carbon & Ocean CDR Through Global Partnerships
SF Climate Week, PerkinsCoie // San Francisco, CA
Building a Sustainable Economy: Corporates, Founders, Investors and Legal Frameworks
Seatrade Cruise Global & The Ocean Opportunity Lab // Miami, USA
Slashing Emissions Pre-2030: Innovative Solutions Ready for Cruise
Braid Theory // San Pedro, CA
Scape Featured at LA Blue Demo Day
The Carbonauts // California
Scape Featured at Carbon Removal Mocktails
Lightning in a Bottle // California
Chasing Truth in an Exponential AI World
What happens When Climate Systems Collapse?
The Fate of our Oceans in an Unpredictable World
2024
NEXUS Global Summit // Convene, NY
The Next Tech Era: Quantum Computing and AI
Lightning in a Bottle // California
AI, Ethics, and Existential Risk: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?
The intersection of environmental justice and climate tech
2023
NEXUS Global Summit // Convene, NY
The Digital Divide, ChatGPT, and Beyond
NEXUS Europe Summit // Barcelona, Spain
The Intersection of Environmental Justice and Climate Technologies
2022
NEXUS Global Summit // Convene, NY
Least Understood, Catalytic Solutions for the Climate Crisis
2021
NEXUS // Virtual Session
Tech Titans on Building a People-Centered Internet
STGlobal Consortium // Virtual Session
Approaches to Foresight around Science and Technology Policy
AI LA // Los Angeles, USA
Ecology, Biodiversity, and Conservation: Mapping the Land and its Ecosystems using AI
CannaGather // Virtual Session
Building Sustainable Cannabis Companies
Darwin // Virtual Session
Redesigning the Future of Science with Bio Art
2020
Sydney Institute of Marine Science // Sydney, Australia
Trait evolution of the marine microbiome to climate change
University of the Philippines // Visayas, Philippines
Evolutionary epigenetics of the marine microbiome to climate change
NEXUS USA Summit // Washington, D.C. (US Institute of Peace)
Panelist on the "Future of Hemp" session
Sustainatopia // Virtual Summit
The Future of Business in an increasingly Impactful & Sustainable World
Growing the Successful CBD, Cannabis & Hemp Business
StartmeupHK Summit // Hong Kong
Moving from Human-centered Design to Regenerative Design
2019
Unintended Consequences of Technology // Santa Cruz, CA
Being a translator in the era of exponential technology
A Life Economy Podcast // Los Angeles, CA
How Storytelling Affects Climate Policy
Projects for Wildlife Podcast // Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Nathan Walworth finds solutions and partnerships inside the Ocean SOS organization he co-founded
Same Same But Different music festival // California, USA
How human storytelling shapes the fate of natural resources
USC Environmental Student Assembly // Los Angeles, CA
The Environmental Future
American University // Washington, D.C.
Transforming sustainability into regeneration
Lightning in a Bottle // Buena Vista Lake, CA
Frontiers of Creating and Designing Life: Synthetic Biology
2018
Wonderfruit // Pattaya, Thailand
How the human story shapes life's most precious natural resources
NEXUS Futurism Lab // Los Angeles, CA
Creating Culture and World Building Across Immersive Realities: A first-look at potential and consequences
Bioneers // San Rafael, CA
Future Casting: How can we continue to evolve technologically, but remain grounded in the natural world?
Radiant Space // Los Angeles, CA
Re-wilding Humanity: Utilizing our Past to Create our Future
Radiant Space // Los Angeles, CA
How Art and Technology Shape the Human Story
NEXUS Global Summit // United Nations, NY
The Confluence of Exponential Technologies
Gordon Research Conference, Marine Microbes // Tuscany, Italy
Evolutionary Epigenomics and Climate Modeling
Lightning in a Bottle // Bradley, CA
The Future of Space Exploration and Living
Bridgebuilding Movements: Presenters Networking Session
Neuroanthropology and the Environment
Ethics of "Artificial Intelligence"
OceanSOS Summit // Manado City, Indonesia
Evolutionary Decisions at Scale
Blockchain and Decentralization for the Earth
NEXUS Asia Summit // Bali, Indonesia
The State of our Oceans
NEXUS USA Summit // Washington, D.C.
Quantum Computing
2017
Our Ocean Conference 2017 // Malta
Circular Economy
Ethical Fashion
Behavioral Change
Lightning in a Bottle // Bradley, CA
Adaptation to Climate Change
NEXUS Climate Symposium // Los Angeles, CA
Astrobiology
Existential Threats
Climate Change
Culture
2016
Genius Loci // Baja, Mexico
Behavioral Change
Regenerative Culture
Oceans in a High CO2 World Summit // Tasmania, Australia
Evolutionary Epigenomics of the Marine Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium in a High CO2 World
2015
ASLO, Aquatic Sciences Summit // Granada, Spain
Proteomic Underpinnings of Iron and Phosphorus Co-limitation Under Ocean Acidification in Trichodesmium
University of Edinburgh // Edinburgh, Scotland
Evolutionary Molecular Dynamics of Trichodesmium Exposed to Long-term High CO2
2014
ASLO, Ocean Sciences Summit // Hawaii, USA
Pleiotropic Effects of Phosphorus Limitation in Trichodesmium Under Elevated CO2
Gordon Research Conference // New Hampshire, USA
Potential Convergent Evolution in Trichodesmium to Long-term High CO2 Exposure
University of Southern California, School of Journalism // Los Angeles, CA
Science Communication
2012
International Symposium on Microbial Ecology // Copenhagen, Denmark
The Proliferation of Noncoding DNA in the Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium
ASLO Ocean Sciences Summit // Hawaii, USA
The Adaptation of the Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium to Ocean Acidification Conditions.
Dr. Nathan Walworth and CEO of civicfeed, Nick Loui, discuss concepts of ethics surrounding different realms of exponential technologies from gene editing to artificial intelligence.
Chandler Arnold sits down with Futurist Dr. Nathan Walworth to discuss Futurism and more. Listening to this podcast is a must for anyone interested in exponential technologies, tech for good, and interdisciplinary approaches to systematic change.
