2002
Boris de Ruyter, Natural Interaction: Bringing Voice Control into Consumer Electronics, SIGCHI.NL Summer Conference on Human-Computer Interactie 2002, Ede June 19 2002, The Netherlands.
Boris de Ruyter, Technologische ontwikkelingen: Ambient Intelligence, CO-ICT dagen, Hogeschool INHOLLAND, Diemen, 28 November 2002
2003
Panel: Visions of the future, Mathias Schneider-Hufschmidt (Siemens), Harri Kiljander (Nokia), Boris de Ruyter, (Philips Research), Marco Combetto (Microsoft Research), Matthias Hilpert (Orange) & Bruno von Niman (Ericsson), Mobile HCI 2003, September 8-11, 2003, Udine, Italy.
Panel: Research Challenges, Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado, USA), Markus Klann (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany), Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA), Fabio Paternó, (C.N.R., Pisa, Italy), Alexander Repenning (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA), Alistair Sutcliffe (UMIST, UK), Boris de Ruyter (Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Volker Wulf (University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany), Symposium on End-User-development, October 6 & 7, 2003, Bonn, Germany.
Ambient Intelligence Research in HomeLab, Boris de Ruyter, TNO Symposium on "Ontwikkelingen ICT infrastructuren voor overheden", June 5th, 2003, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Ambient Intelligence Research: technology trends & research, Boris de Ruyter, Eröffnungsveranstaltung des Forschungsschwerpuktes "Ambient Intelligence", October 16th, 2003, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
2004
Ambient Intelligence Research, Boris de Ruyter, Sensor Networks Seminar (EE 392S), February 17th, 2004, University of Stanford, United States.
Ambient Intelligence: Technology at your service!, Boris de Ruyter, Interface Innovations, April 26th, 2004, Vienna, Austria.
Ambient Intelligence from a Consumer Electronics perspective, Boris de Ruyter, Special area Ambient Intelligence, CHI2004, April 28th, 2004, Vienna, Austria.
Ambient Intelligence: visualising the future, Boris de Ruyter & Emile Aarts, AVI 2004 - ADVANCED VISUAL INTERFACES, May 25-28, 2004, Gallipoli, Italy. [closing keynote]
Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing, Boris de Ruyter, USEWARE 2004, June 22-23, 2004, Darmstadt, Germany. [closing keynote]
Ambient Intelligence: engineering the user experience, Boris de Ruyter, e/Home 2004, September 1 - 3, 2004, Berlin, Germany.
Awareness Systems, Boris de Ruyter, Protected or Dependent? Living in a Digital Environmen, November 24, 2004, Munchen, Germany.
2005
Panel: The Usability Crisis in High-Tech Home Products: An Opportunity for Intelligent User Interfaces?, Charles Rich (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories), David Keyson (Technical University of Delft), Yogendra Jain (Personica), Boris de Ruyter (Philips Research), International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, San Diego, January 9 - 12, 2005.
Living in Ambient Homes, Boris de Ruyter, Salzburger Mediantag 05, Oktober 25, 2005, Salzburg, Vienna.
Ambient Intelligence: the vision, Boris de Ruyter, Semana de la ciencia y de la tecnologia, November 7-8, 2005, Bilbao, Spain. [opening keynote]
Panel: Design for all consumer products and services, Boris de Ruyter, First International Congress on Domotics, Robotics and Remote Assistance for All , Madrid, November 10 to 12, 2005. (watch movie)
Nomadic Media, Boris de Ruyter, Mobile Interaction Seminar, November 23, 2005, Helsinki, Finland. [opening presentation]
2006
Intelligent environments, Boris de Ruyter, Smart living, February 28, 2006, Groningen, The Netherlands. [invited speaker]
User Experience research in CareLab, Boris de Ruyter, ICT kenniscongres, April, 10, 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [invited speaker]
Ambient Intelligence, Boris de Ruyter, Domotics and Ambient Intelligence: the added value for careproviders, October 10, 2006, Gits, Belgium. [invited speaker]
Persuasive technologies, November 15, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. [invited speaker]
2007
Promise of AmI for the home, Boris de Ruyter, The future of Ambient Intelligence, February 22, 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [invited speaker]
Social Interactions in Ambienbt Intelligent environments, Boris de Ruyter, Produtos Inovadores no Dominio da Habitacao, May 8, 2007, Aveiro, Portugal. [invited speaker]
Ambient Intelligence: Looking back and thinking ahead, Boris de Ruyter, Experience the world of Ambient Intelligence, June 13, 2007, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. [closing keynote]
2008
Developing Sustainable Lifestyles with Ambient Media, , Boris de Ruyter, NEM Summit 2008: Towards Future Media Internet, , October 13-15, 2008, Saint-Malo, France. [closing keynote]
2009
Persuasive Technologies, Boris de Ruyter, Kenniskamer Human Enhancement, November 10, 2009, Den Haag, The Netherlands. [invited speaker]
2010
User Experience Research, , Boris de Ruyter, Human Interaction Design, Annual conference SIGCHI.be, November 23, 2010, Brussels, Belgium. [closing keynote]
2011
Shift Happens, Nationaal Psychologen Congres 2011, April 21, 2011, Tilburg, The Netherlands. [invited speaker]
UDay IX, Intelligent Wohnen, May 20, 2011, Dornbirn, Austria. [opening keynote]
From Technology Development towards Social Innovation, Boris de Ruyter, Symposium Beyond the disappearing computer: designing systems and user experiences to empower people, September 16, 2011, TU/e, [invited speaker]
2013
From Technology development towards Social Innovation, MediaX 2013 conference, Stanford University, US. [invited speaker]
2014
Luminous Relationships: Light for Health & Wellbeing, MediaX seminar, Stanford University, US. [invited speaker]
2015
Human Enhancement Technologies: Amplifying or Reducing Inequality, EUROPEAN FORUM ALPBACH 2015. [invited speaker]
2017
The impact of technology on human enhancement, Brave New World, Leiden, NL. [invited speaker]