If you’re interested in Ilyena discussing animal technology topics, please get in touch. Ilyena is frequently invited to give keynotes, industry talks, lessons at schools, conferences and invited to speak at events. She also does regular interviews with the media for print, TV and radio.

UPCOMING

Keynote: Human-Robot Interaction Conference
March 16-19th ’26

Invited Talk: University of Copenhagen, visiting Kasper Hornbæk
April 6-9th ’26

Keynote: International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) regional conference
April 21st ’26

KEYNOTES

• Ada Lovelace Symposium, Glasgow, UK, April 16th 2025.
• Computational Intelligence Applied to Animal Behaviour Analysis. Mexico. June 28th 2024. Virtual.
• The Cognition, Behavior & Evolution Network. October 2022. Leiden, Netherlands.
• Vocal Interaction with Human Animals and Robots Conference. October 2021. Virtual.
• SPLV: Scottish summer school on programming languages and verification. August 2021. Virtual.

INVITED TALKS, PANELS, AWARD TALKS AND WORKSHOP

• Invited Talk: Sight Advice Charity, November 13th ’25
• Invited Talk: Glasgow School of Art, Highlands and Island Campus, October 15th ’25
• Invited Talk: The Animal Internet. For the Hmm, raising money for DOA Animal Shelter in NL, September 24th ’25
• Award Talk: How Do We Build the Animal Internet? British Science Festival Award Talk.
  Liverpool, UK, September 11th ’25
• Invited Talk: Busan Content Market, South Korea, Busan, May ’25.
• Invited Talk: University of Glasgow, Course Care and Enrichment of Captive Animals, College of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary & Life Science, Glasgow, UK, March 26th ’25
• Invited Talk: University of St Andrews, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, St Andrews, UK, February 14th ’25
• Invited Talk: TedXManchester: How do we build the Animal Internet? Manchester, UK, March 1st ’25
• Invited Talk: Glasgow Women in Computer Science, Glasgow, UK, March 19th ’25
  Invited Lecture: Northeastern University, Animal-Computer Interaction Course, School of Computer Science, January 28th ’25
• Invited Talk, University of Vienna on Animal-Computer Interaction, Virtual, December 10th ’24
• Invited Talk, Zoo Research Day at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, November 20th ’24
• Invited Talk, Avian SIG Glasgow Vet School, Glasgow, UK, October 16th ’24
• Invited Talk, International Canine Cognition Seminar at Arizona State University, Virtual October 23rd ’24
• Invite talk, EAZA Welfare Webanair [Recording], Virtual, July 10th ’24
• Invited Talk, Dogs Trust, Virtual, May 30th ’24
• Invited talk, Zoo Research, Conservation, and Biodiversity, Hodenhagen, Germany
  April 4-6th ’24
• Invited panel, 10th International Animal-Computer Interaction Conference, Future of ACI. December 2023. North Carolina, UK.
• Invited talk, University of California San Diego for Federico Rossanos Lab. November 2022. Virtual.
• Invited talk, The University of Central Lancashire for the Computer Science department. November 2022. UK.
• Invited talk, Interspecies Internet [Recording]. July 2022. Virtual.
• Invited talk, British Society of Edinburgh, July 2022. Virtual
• Lecture at Animal-Centred Summer School on Designing Animal Internet Systems. July 2021. Virtual
• Invited talk, Animal Computer Interaction Panel. Bristol University for their HCI Department. February 2021. Virtual.
• Invited talk, UXPA 2020. Talk on Animal-Computer Interaction for the series: Seeing HCI through a different lense. October 2020. Virtual.
• Invited talk, UXPA. Talk on designing for non-verbal users in relation to gathering requirements for dog users. February 2016. UK.
• Workshop, Animal Participation, Consent & Empowerment within Technology Systems. Finnish Seminar for Human Animal Studies. Organised with Heli Väätäjä. April 2019. Helsinki, FI.
• Workshop, Designing for Animals: Defining “Participation” in Animal-Computer Interaction – Annual Animal Computer Interaction Conference. Organised with Charlotte Robinson and Patricia Pons. December 2018. Atlanta, USA.
• Workshop, Designing Technology for Dog to Dog Interaction – SIDeR Conference. Organised with Andres Lucero. May 2018. Helsinki, FI.
• Workshop, Designing Technology for Dogs: A Workshop to Empower your Pooch – University of Boulder, Colorado. Organised with Ben Shapiro. April 2017. Colorado, USA.
• Workshop, ACI at Measuring Behaviour.  Organised with Anton Nijholt, Patricia Pons and Adrian David Cheok. May 2016. Dublin, Ireland. [PDF] 
• Workshop, ACI@BHCI. Animal Computer Interaction @ British Human Computer Interaction. Organised with Charlotte Robinson, Clara Mancini, Ben Kirman and Shaun Lawson. July 2015. Lincon, UK.