Aakhus, M. (2007, August). The experiences of policy professionals in designing deliberation. Presented at the NCA/AFA summer conference on argumentation, Alta, UT.  

Bzdak, M. & Aakhus, M. (2007, September). Corporate social responsibility in communication theory and practice. Presented at the 6th annual colloquium of the European Academy for Business in Society, Barcelona.  

Aakhus, M. (2007, October). Exploring the gap between interaction and institutional orders in Pragmatic Web design. Presented at the 2cd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web, Tilburg, The  Netherlands.  

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. 

Aakhus, M. (2008, November). Designers in practice. Presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA. 

Aakhus, M. & Weger, H. (2008, November). Jackson’s and Jacobs' Construction and Development of Communication Studies as a Design Enterprise. Presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA. 

Aakhus, M. & Ziek, P. (2008, December). Sustainability Communication: A role for IT and IS in Relating Business and Society. Presented at the Inaugural Meeting of AIS SIGPrag, International Conference  on Information Systems, Paris, France. 

Aakhus, M. (2009, August). Transparency work and argumentation design in deliberation about business in society. Paper presented at The 16th NCA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT. 

Aakhus, M. & Greenfeld-Benovitz, M. (2009, October). Global Deliberation? Understanding the potential of the Internet through online argumentation tools. Presented at the annual conference of  Association of Internet Researchers, Milwaukee, WI.