 | Invited Speaker and Technology Pioneer Award Nominee, World Economic Forum, Dalian, China, 2015 |
 | Featured Speaker and Winner of Galactic Grant Challenge, International Space Station (ISS) R&D Conference (in collaboration with NASA,) 2015 |
 | Invited Speaker, XPRIZE Visioneering Conference, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, 2015 |
 | Invited Thought Leader, Ebola Innovation Summit: 21st Century Tools to tackle Ebola and Improve Health, Hosted by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation in partnership with the Skoll Global Threats Fund and USAID, San Francisco, 2015 |
 | Featured Marquis Keynote Speaker, The Inaugural World Nano Summit, presented by The World Nano Foundation, Sandwich UK, 2015 |
 | Featured Speaker, Six Ways to Alter the Future of Well-Being -“Mobile Diagnostics Devices that Save Lives” Panel, World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, New York, 2014 |
 | Featured Speaker, Scientific American SuperSession on Biotechnology and Life Science Development, Scientific American Worldview- A Global Biotechnology Perspective, BIO International Convention, San Diego, 2014 |
 | Featured Keynote Speaker, “Harnessing Nanobiophysics,” eMerge Americas, Miami, 2014 |
 | Invited Keynote Speaker on “Building a New Unified Physics Theory on Life, Information, and Consciousness”, Foundational Questions Institute 4th International Conference on the Physics of Information, Vieques, Puerto Rico, 2014 Invited by MIT Physics Professor Max Tegmark |
 | Keynote Speaker, “Building a Working Tricorder,” Livingston Securities LLC Annual Nanotechnology Conference, New York City, 2013 |
 | Keynote Banquet Speaker, Pratham Boston Gala, Boston, 2013 |
 | Keynote Speaker, “Breaking the Wall of the Centralised Healthcare Infrastructure Paradigm. Where Physics and Life Meet at the Nanoscale,” Falling Walls International Conference on Future Breakthroughs in Science and Society, Berlin, Germany, 2013 |
 | Guest Keynote Speaker, “The Power of Personalized Medicine: Harnessing Nanotechnology to Deliver the Next Generation of Healthcare Infrastructure,” European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Forum, Berlin, Germany, 2013 |
 | Invited Speaker, “The Big Impact of Tiny Sensors: How sensing technology will radically change everything from medicine to environmental science,” Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Conference, 2013 |
 | Invited Keynote Speaker, Nanomanufacturing Summit & 12th Annual NanoBusiness Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2013 |
 | Invited Chief Guest of Honor, Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research, Scientific American, The New York Public Library, 2013 |
 | Invited Keynote Speaker, “Harnessing Nanomechanics to Read the Code of Life: Probing the Interaction of Matter, Energy, and Life in the Nanoscale,” NASA Ames Research Center, San Francisco, 2013 |
 | Invited Speaker USAID, Washington DC, 2013 |
 | Featured Annual Keynote Speaker, “Harnessing DNA Nanomachines to Personalize and Mobilize Medicine,” A*STAR: Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Singapore, 2012 |
 | Invited Keynote Speaker, “Holistic Innovation for Promoting World Harmony,” Hong Kong Pei Hua Fohttps://sites.harvard.edu/goel/files/2022/06/hol.jpgundation, 2012 |
 | Invited Keynote Speaker and Honored Chief Guest, “New Paradigms in Personalized Medicine and Low Cost Medical Diagnostics in the Developing World,” 30th AAPI Annual Conference, Long Beach, 2012 |
 | Opening Plenary Address, Pacific Health Summit, Game Changers: Affordability and Technologies for Health, ‘What Technologies are changing the Game for Health? Whose Game are they changing?’ London, 2012 |
| Invited Keynote Speaker, Opening Ceremony, “Quantum Leaps at the Convergence of Traditional Disciplines,” Tällberg Forum: How on Earth Can We Live Together? Sweden, 2012 |
| Featured Keynote Speaker, “Harnessing Nanotechnology to Revolutionize Global Industry,” 2nd Technological Innovation Conference and Expo in Mexico City, 2012 |
| Featured Invited Speaker, Inspirational talk for 1,000 under privileged children and Afghan refugees ,‘The Power of Science, Technology, and Education,’ Bangalore, 2012 |
 | Invited Speaker, National Academy of Engineering, Committee on Manufacturing, Design, and Engineering, Washington, D.C., Invited by Charles M. Vest, MIT Fmr President, 2012 |
 | Invited Speaker, DAI and World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2012 |
 | Plenary Address, STS Forum: Science, Technology, and Society, Kyoto, Japan, 2011 |
 | Invited Speaker, “Harnessing Nanotechnology for Personalized Medicine and Point of Care Companion Diagnostics,” BioMethods Boston Conference, 2011 |
 | Invited Speaker, “Harnessing Nanotechnology to Produce Next Generation Biofuels,” Clean Technology Conference and Expo, 2011 |
 | Joint Keynote Addresses with Prime Minister Tony Blair, Novartis Forum For Excellence, ‘How Emerging Science and Technologies can be Harnessed to Address the Most Pressing Global Challenges,’ Spain, 2011 |
 | Featured Keynote Speaker, Ted INDIA, 2010 |
 | Featured Keynote Speaker, “The Power of Personalized Medicine,” TEDxAmsterdam, 2010 |
| Featured Invited Speaker, TEDMED, “How Will Nanotechnology Be Used In the Body?” 2010 |
 | Invited by PCAST (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) to advise on the President’s Strategy for American Innovation, 2010 |
 | Featured Keynote Speaker, The World Health Medical Technology Conference, Boston University, 2010 |
 | Invited Speaker, The 40th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, “Quantum Frontiers of Nano-Bio-Physics,” Snowbird, Utah, 2010 |
 | Invited Speaker, PanIIT 2009 Global Conference,” Thriving in Chaos,” Schaumburg, IL., 2009 |
| Invited Chair, Sixth Annual Science and Technology in Society Forum, Session on Science and Technology Diplomacy and International Collaboration, Kyoto, Japan, 2009 |
 | Featured Joint Keynote Address with Dean Kamen on Innovation for Social Good, L.I.V.E. World Summit, Social Good Summit, NY, 2009 |
 | Invited Keynote Address, Annual Leonardo DaVinci Symposium on Engineering and Physical Biology, Harvard University, 2009 |
 | Invited Conference Speaker, Harvard Kennedy School 15th Annual International Development Conference, Panel of Technological Innovations in Development: Trends in Using Technology to Improve Service Delivery, 2009 |
 | Keynote Luncheon Address, “Nanotechnology and Regulation Issues” Food and Drug Law Institute, 2nd Annual Conference on Nanotechnology Law, Regulation and Policy, Washington DC, 2009 |
 | Invited Keynote Speaker: “Harnessing nanotechnology to accelerate the growth engine of India” at Bio-Partnering Gujarat, Gujarat Global Investor Summit 2009, Vibrant Gujarat Summit, Science City, 2009 |
| Invited Speaker, “Innovation Partnerships for Health Care Delivery in India and China,” US-China-India Innovation Partnerships Conference, Boston, 2008 |
 | Invited Speaker, DARPA Conference, Quantum Effects in Biological Environments, Arlington, VA, 2008 |
 | Testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcomittee on Science, Technology, and Innovation Hearing on the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Invited by Senator John Kerry, 2008 |
| Conference Keynote, Round Table on Entrepreneurial Leadership, Leadership and Innovation Conference, NY, 2008 |
| Featured Guest Speaker, Senator John Kerry Roundtable Discussion on Nanotechnology and Biotechnology, Boston, MA, 2008 |
 | Invited Speaker, “Innovating in America Today,” NPR On Point Program, Hosted by Tom Ashbrook, 2007 |
| Guest of Honor & Inaugural Keynote Speaker, “Some Frontiers of NanoBiophysics,” 6th International Conference on Frontiers in Research, Kolkatta, India, 2006 |
| Invited Guest of the Hon. Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Vision for Improving Health Care in India, Himachal Pradesh, India, 2006 |
 | Invited Speaker, “Nano-Enabled Platform for Pathogen Detection,” NSTI Nanotechnology Conference, Boston, MA, 2006 |
 | Invited Speaker, Plenary Session, “Meet the Future NanoBio Billionaires,” Knowledge Millenium Summit (ASSOCHAM), New Delhi, India, 2006 |
 | Invited Speaker, “Advancing Beneficial Nanotechnology: Focusing on the Cutting Edge.” 13thForesight Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology, San Francisco, CA, 2005 |
 | Invited Panel Speaker, Bob Metcalfe and the TR35 Panel, Technology Review’s Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT, Boston, MA, 2005 |
 | Invited Keynote Speaker, “The Cosmology and Cosmogony of Life: Contemporary Issues,” Origin of Life Conference, Rome, Italy, Invited by Dr. T.D. Singh, 2004 |
| Invited Keynote Speaker, “Nanoscale Technologies to Detect Trace Amounts of Biowarfare Agents,” Innovative Nanotechnologies II, Atlantic Nano-Forum, Alexandria, VA, 2004 |
 | Invited Speaker, Extraordinary Innovators Review, World Technology Summit, San Francisco, CA, 2004 |
| Invited Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Single-Molecule Technologies, Ascona, Switzerland, 2003 |
| Invited Speaker, Future Technology Panel, World Technology Summit, London, UK. Chaired by Dr. Phil Campbell, Editor-in-chief of Nature, 2002 |
 | Invited Keynote Speaker,Molecular Engines that Replicate DNA, IBC First Meeting on Nanobiotechnology, San Diego, CA, 2002 |
 | Invited Speaker, “The Information Content of Single Molecule Experiments,” 12th Annual Conversation, sponsored by Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, Albany, NY, June 2001 |
| Invited Speaker, “Unifying Themes in Enzymatic Polymerization of DNA,” joint keynote with Prof. Tom Ellenberger, 12th Annual Conversation, sponsored by Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, Albany, NY, June 2001 |
| Invited Keynote Speaker, “Some Future Prospects for Interfacing Physics and Bio-Nanotechnology,”Nanotechnology Gathering on Openness in the Realms of “Stuff” and Bits, San Jose, CA, 1999 |
