“Collections As Data: Digital Collections for Emerging Research Methods” Closing Keynote at Dariah Beyond Europe. Library of Congress. October 4, 2018. https://dbe.hypotheses.org/workshops/library-of-congress/keynotes. With Stewart Varner.

“What We Aren’t the Only Guerrillas Out There?”. Radical Open Access II. Coventry University. Coventry, England. June, 2018. Publication available at https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19825

“Open Data, Data Rescue, and Risk.” Invited Talk at Open Access Week at Columbia University. New York. October 25, 2018.https://library.columbia.edu/services/digital-scholarship/open-access-week-2018.html

“Collections as Data: Cultural Heritage designed for computation?” Invited talk at Columbia University Libraries. New York, New York. March 29, 2018

“Working out of scope: From Evidence to Scholarship” Invited Keynote. Reed College. Portland, OR. March 15, 2018 (http://www.reed.edu/e2s/conference/index.html)

Data Rescue Party. NICAR 2018 (https://www.ire.org/events-and-training/event/3189/3589/) NICAR 2018. Investigative Reporters and Editors Computer Assisted Research Conference. March 11, 2018. Chicago, IL. With Charles Minshew

“Conversation: Cultural heritage data? Computational use, needs, and opportunities.” https://www.ire.org/events-and-training/event/3189/3728/. NICAR 2018. Investigative Reporters and Editors Computer Assisted Research Conference. March 10, 2018. Chicago, IL. With Thomas Padilla

Always Already Computational: Collections as Data. (https://www.cni.org/topics/digital-curation/always-already-computational-collections-as-data) CNI Fall Meeting. December 10, 2017. Washington, DC. With Thomas Padilla and Hannah Frost.

“Collections as Data Workshop.” (https://forum2017.diglib.org/collections-data-workshop/)/Digital) Digital Library Federation Forum. Pittsburgh, PA October 25, 2017. With Thomas Padilla, Elizabeth Russey-Roke, Stewart Varner, Hannah Frost, and Sarah Potvin.

“Gatherings of Pages: Saving Federal Scientific Data.” Invited Lecture at Rare Book School. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia PA. July 25, 2017. (https://rarebookschool.org/all-programs/lectures/allen-federal-data/)

“New Kinds of Collections: New Kinds of Collaborations.” American Libraries Association Annual Meeting. June 24, 2017. Chicago, IL. (https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=257851)

“Save the Data: The Role of Librarians in #datarescue Collaborations” ACRL/SPARC Forum, American Libraries Association. June 24, 2017. Chicago, IL. (https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=265969)

“Data Communities, contexts and institutions” Invited Keynote. csvconf. Portland, OR May 3, 2017. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2gwi0CRYto)

“Monument Lab: Cultural Memory and Artistic Imagination as Open Civic Data” Digital Dialogue Series at Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. University of Maryland. College Park, MD. March 13, 2018. (http://mith.umd.edu/dialogues/dd-spring-2018-laurie-allen/)

“The Data Refuge Project” Coalition for Advanced Scientific Computation (CASC) Spring Meeting. https://casc.site-ym.com/page/S17Agenda. March 27, 2017

“Lead, Follow, or Listen” Digital Library Federation Liberal Arts College Pre-conference. Vancover, British Columbia. October 25, 2015. With Katherine Rowe, Trevor Muñoz, Eric Luhrs, Angie Behringer, Kevin Butterfield, and Bethany Nowviskie.

“The Radical and the Incremental: Expanding the librarian’s tool kit to prepare the undergraduate digital scholar/citizen” Digital Library Federation Forum. Vancouver, British Columbia. October 26-28, 2015. With Barbara Rockenbach and Stewart Varner

“Archives, morphological analysis, & XML encoding: interdisciplinary methods in the creation of a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec manuscripts” Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas. Madrid, Spain. October 5-7, 2015. With Professor Brook Lillehaugen

“Strategic Planning for Digital Scholarship.” Keystone Digital Humanities Conference. University of Pennsylvania. July 24, 2015. With Mike Zarafonetis

“Turning Library Records into Data: A Conversation & Workshop.” Library Company of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA. December 9, 2014. With Delphine Khanna, Doreva Belfiore, Nabil Kashyup, & Nicole Scalessa

“Collaboration Not Chaos.” Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference. Bucknell University. (http://dsconf.blogs.bucknell.edu/schedule/) November 15, 2014. With Mike Zarafonetis

“Catastrophic Success: The Opportunities and Challenges of Digital Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.” Digital Library Federation Forum, Atlanta, Georgia. October 27, 2014. With Jennifer Vinopal, Gina Siesing, Kelcy Shepherd, and Eric Luhrs

“Workshop: Digital Projects from the Ground Up.” Urban History Association October 10, 2014

“Digital Humanities: What Does It Really Mean for Libraries and Cultural Institutions?” Special Libraries Association. Vancouver, June, 2014. With Mitch Fraas and Matt Shoemaker.

Speaker. Digital Humanities for Liberal Arts Colleges Symposium. Smith College. Northampton, MA. June 13, 2013. With Professor Laura McGrane and Jen Rajchel

“Analyzing the MISO Data: Perspectives on Library and Computing Trends”. ARL Library Assessment Conference. Baltimore, MD. October 19, 2010. With MISO Team

“Reshaping Information Services for a Changing Faculty Population: Evidence and Insights from the MISO Survey.” 2009 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. Denver, CO. Nov 5th, 2009. With MISO Team

“PennTags: Building a Social Tagging System in an Academic Library.” ACRL Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD. March 30, 2007. With Mike Winkler

“PennTags: Social Bookmarking in an Academic Environment.” Digital Library Federation Fall Forum. Boston, MA. November 8, 2006. With Mike Winkler

“PennTags: Creating and Using Social Bookmarking in a University Library.” 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. Dallas, TX. October 12, 2006. With Mike Winkler