Aakhus, M. (March, 2004). Understanding the Socio-Technical Gap: A case of GDSS Facilitation. Presented at the 2cd international conference on Action in Language, Organizations, and Information Systems,  Linköping University, Linköping Sweden. 

Makoul G, Aakhus M, Altman M, & Flores MQ. (2004, April). “Difficult Conversations” online forum: Helping students reflect on communication challenges during clerkships. Poster presented at the 27th  Annual Meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine, Chicago, IL. 

Aakhus, M. & Tom, M. (2004, July). Disputes within Disputes: Examining the expression of doubt, disagreement, and opposition in a meeting of public officials. Paper presented at the International Association of Language and Social Psychology, State College, PA.  

Aakhus, M. (2005, June). Conversations for Reflection: Designing Support for Reflection-on-Professional Action. Presented at the 10th International Working Conference on the Language Action  Perspective on Communication Modelling, Kiruna, Sweden. 

Aakhus, M., Voon, W., & Liu, Y. (2005, October). Explicating tacit experiences in organizations: Evidence from online interns’ discourse. Presented at the Second International Conference on Knowledge Management of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Charlotte, NC. 

Aakhus, M. (2005, November). Communication Design: Understanding the Unintended and Unanticipated  Shaping of Decisions, Disputes, and Learning through Communication. Presented at the  Compendium Institute Workshop, Washington, DC. 

Aakhus, M. & Vasileyeva, A. (2006, June). Making, challenging, and defending a proposal: The emergence and evolution of disagreement space in a multi-party deliberation. Presented at the 6th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam. 

Weger, H., Aakhus, M., & Polcar, L. (2007, August). An exploratory study of responses to fallacies in public debates: Audience perceptions of reasonableness and effectiveness. Paper presented at the  NCA/AFA summer conference on argumentation, Alta, UT. 

Aakhus, M. & Anderson, D. (2007, November). Communication work. Presented at the Organizational Communication Preconference on “The Meaning(s) of Work Across Time, Cultures, & Systems: Exploring Work's Meaning(fulness) for Organizational Communication Research and Practice” at the  National Communication Association annual convention, Chicago. 

Aakhus, M. & Grushina, Y. (2008, May). Realizing organizational agency through innovations in organizational accountability. Presented at the International Communication Association’s  Preconference:  What is an organization? Materiality, agency, and discourse, Montreal, Quebec.