Aakhus, M. (2010, November). Governing Interactivity & Virtual Research Environments. Presented at the  Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Francisco. 

Aakhus, M. (2010, November). Are social media changing the nature of collaboration? Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Francisco.  

Aakhus, M. & Laureij, L. (2011, May). Dialogue Representation in Communication Design Practice. Presented at International Association for Dialogue Analysis, Montreal CA.  

Aakhus, M. (2011, May). Communication as an object of design: Articulating a practical theory of communication design in policy practice. Presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, Boston MA. 

Aakhus, M. (2011, May). Managing as designing: The uses of meetings by policy professionals to design communication in complex policy processes. Presented at the annual conference of the  International Communication Association, Boston MA.  

Aakhus, M. & Bzdak, M. (2011, November). Revisiting “shared value” in developing markets: What is the role of philanthropy? Presented at the annual colloquium of the Academy for Business in Society, Fontainebleau, France.  

Laureij, L. & Aakhus, M. (2012, February). Communication Norms in Organizational Theory and Research: The case of Contracting for Supply Chain Management. Presented at the International Communication Association conference, Communicating in a World of Norms: Information and  Communication in Contemporary Globalization, Lille, France.  

Anderson, D. & Aakhus, M. (2012, July). The work of association management as communication design practice: An investigation of managing-as-designing. Presented at the European Group on  Organization annual conference, Helsinki Finland.  

Aakhus, M., Muresan, S., Wacholder, N. (2013). Integrating natural language processing and pragmatic argumentation theories for argumentation support. Presented at OSSA 10 Virtues of Argument, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada.  

Aakhus, M. & Bzdak, M. (2013).  Communication Design Logics for Dialogue and Stakeholder Engagement:  The Shared Value Model and its Alternatives. Presented at the International Communication  Association Preconference: Governance through communication: Stakeholder engagement,  dialogue, and corporate social responsibility. Edinburgh, UK.