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. 

Laureij, L. & Aakhus, M. (2009, November). Contracting as collaborative design: Developing a constitutive view of supply chain interaction. Presented at the Annual Convention of the National  Communication Association, Chicago, IL.  

Aakhus, M. & Ziek, P. (2009, November). The role of instruments for communicating corporate social responsibility. Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. 

Aakhus, M. (2009, November). Considering communication design and communication constraints in reconsidering ‘place’ in organizational communication research. Panel participant at the Annual  Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago IL.  

Aakhus, M. (2010). Argumentation Design in Policy Practice. Presented at the 7th International Conference of  the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam