Besides working as an archivist and filmmaker, I have presented dozens of talks and lectures on a wide range of computer-related subjects at events around the world.  My speaking style is loose, improvisational, and heavily based on the reactions and responses of the audience. I have presented in return for honorariums, travel, charity, or the sense of a job well done, depending.  If you have an interest in spicing up your event with a Jason Scott speech, feel free to contact me.

Here is a list of some of the speeches I’ve given over the years, with links to mp3 or avi files where available. They’re presented in reverse chronological order.

• That Awesome Time I Was Sued for Two Billion Dollars, DEFCON 17, July 30, 2009
• ConfCon Opening Commencement, July 25, 2009
• Kansasfest (Apple II Conference) 20th anniversary Keynote, July 22, 2009
• The Presentation Presentation, NOTACON 6, April 17, 2009
• Super Jason Scott Presentation 64, NOTACON 6, April 16, 2009
• EGAD TUNA: The Story of Sockington, ROFLthing, January 24, 2009
• Time Travel on 8 Bits a Day, Paraflows 2008, September 18, 2008
• Making a Text Adventure Documentary, DEF CON 16, August 10, 2008
• One Last Time: The Hacking/Phreaking History Primer, HOPE 7, July 19, 2008
• Before the LOL, ROFLcon, April 25, 2008 (Rocketboom Remix)
• Now and Then, Here and There: Editing, Notacon 5, April 4, 2008
• I Will Be Your Eyes and Hands: Adventure and Reality, Shmoocon, February 15, 2008
• The Edge of Forever – Making Computer History DEF CON 15, August 4, 2007
• Wikipedia, Brick by Brick, Notacon 4, April 27, 2007
• OLPC Panel, Shmoocon, March 2007 (Jason Scott excerpt)
• Mythapedia, STM (Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers) Innovations Seminar, December 1, 2006
• The Wheel of Computer History, Phreaknic X, October 2006

• Underground Documentaries: The Art of the Interview and the Access (with Julien McArdle) H.O.P.E. Number Six, July 2006
• Retrocomputing (with Sam Nitzberg, Cheshire Catalyst, Sellam Ismail) H.O.P.E. Number Six, July 2006
• Making Tech Documentaries: How and Why, OSCON, July 27, 2006
• The Great Failure of Wikipedia, Notacon 3, April 8, 2006
• Your Moment of Audio Zen: A History of Podcasts Notacon 3, April 7, 2006
• ConCon: A History of Hacker Conferences, Shmoocon 2, January 13, 2005
• BBS Documentary Presentation, PhreakNIC 9.0, October 22, 2005
• Fidonet Presentation and Q&A, ToorCon 7, September 17, 2005
• Why Tech Documentaries are Impossible (And why we have to do them anyway), DEF CON 13, July 31, 2005
• The History of the Coleco Adam, Notacon 2, April, 2005
• BBS: The Documentary: A Preview, DEF CON 12, August, 2004

• Saving Digital History: A Quick and Dirty Guide H2K4, July 11, 2004
• 100 Years of the Computer Art Scene (with RaD Man) Notacon 1, April, 2004
• Apple II Pirate Lore Rubi-Con 5, March 29, 2003
• Keynote: The Future is Now Rubi-Con 5, March 28, 2003
• History of Phreaking 101, PhreakNIC 6.0, November 1, 2002
• Documenting the BBS, Rubi-Con 4, April, 2002
• So You Got Your Lame Ass Sued: A Legal Narrative, DEF CON 9, July, 2001
• TEXTFILES.COM: One Year Later, DEF CON 8, July 29, 2000
• TEXTFILES, G-PHILES, AND LOG FILES: Remembering the 1980s Through ASCII, DEF CON 7, July 10, 1999

“If Jason Scott is on the lineup for a talk, go to it. That man could convince you you’re the opposite sex. He knows how to motivate the audience and really gets you thinking. Do not miss him!”

- Riscphree (Link)