10/2026 Sámi Game Design: We Know What We Are Doing. In Worlds We Build Together – game design, art and institutions. Morning keynotes in Aalto university with Head of Curation at Amos Rex Itha O’Neill, and Dialogue Designer at Remedy Entertainment Marija Šumarac. Part of Gaming the Civic, M-Cult’s programme bringing together media art, game design, critical thinking and the gaming industry.
9/2026 Relational Pedagogies in an AI Mediated Academy. In Roundtable: Creating space for Indigenous knowledge in Academia in Beyond the Western Lens: Pathways to Decolonising Higher Education Conference on 24–25 September 2026 at Helsinki University
6/2025 It’s not just the tech: Addressing barriers to Indigenous language technology and AI uptake. Panel discussion in the Internet Governance Forum IGF Norway 2025.
7/2024 Salmon grief in Sámi digital games. Conference presentation in DiGRA 2024 Conference: Playgrounds.
6/2024 Success reimagined: Sámi redefinitions of what it means to win in game development. Wānaka Whare Karioi ā-Whenua 2024 – International Indigenous Digital Games Summit.
5/2024 A Decade of Developing Saami Game Developers: From Local Stories to Global Recognition. Keynote. The Northern Star Symposium.
4/2024 From Intangible to Tangible: Exploring Saami Game Design in Diehtoárran. Keynote. Board Game Studies Colloquium.
4/2024 Sustainability knowledge in Sámi video games. Centre for Non-Anthropocentric Play.
12/2023 “A tale of two paths”: Approaching difference in game research collaboration through gulahalan. Conference talk with Dr. Sabine Harrer. Race in Games and Game Studies Conference.
10/2023 Sámi in Play – exploring Sáminess through video games (workshop) &
Developing Sámi game developers – a decade.(a lecture). Kunsthaus Hamburg, MARKK museum
9/2023 Saamelaislähtöisten pelien tutkimus Helsingin yliopistossa. 30 years anniversary of Saami studies. University of Helsinki.
7/2023 Part of the Fabric of the Universe, and in a Particular Position to Marvel at its Great Beauty. AI: Ancestral Immediacies Technologies of Making the Past Present (Conference). Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin.
Panel Discussion with Sammy Baloji and Marisa Duarte, moderated by Karen Hao.
5/2023 Indigenous futures imagined: Amazon and Arctic discussions. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Public talk with Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Francisco Apurinã, Ksenija Hanacek
9/2022 Saamelaisuus pelissä (Public talk). Rovaniemi Kotiseutupäivät.
8/2022 Let’s Become Story Ready: Decolonizing and Indigenizing European and Migration Studies through Indigenous Storywork. UBC Indigenous Storywork Workshop.
Talking circle leader with Keeta Gladue
8/2022 Gamescom Congress: Sámi in Play – The Possibilities of Collaborative Game Design. A Remote talk.
04/2022 Decolonising the Anthropocene: Indigenous and language-oriented perspectives (panel)
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Stef Spronck, Alvaro Fernandez-Llamazares Onrubia, Outi Kaarina Laiti, Victoria Peemot & Aung Si
10/2021 Panepistemological aspects of research: How Survivance, Indigenous worldview, Sámi intangible cultural heritage and cross-generational nature relationship can define Indigenous digital game design and research processes (talk). Around human, plant and artificial intelligence: Lectures in the framework of the research project ’An Algoliterary Publishing House: making kin with Trees (Brussels, Belgium)
7/2021 ”Outside the Box”: Outside the Racist Nostalgia Box: Rethinking Afrikan tähti’s cultural depictions (Conference presentation: Ropecon 2021)
Sabine Harrer & Outi Kaarina Laiti
7/2021 Games for Change Festival 2021: Developing Indigenous Developers Roundtable
Kauwila Mahi, Outi Kaarina Laiti, Kahentawaks Tiewishaw & Allen Turner
5/2021 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Virtual Conference 2021: Indigenous Methodologies for Game Design and Development (panel)
Elizabeth LaPensée, Outi Kaarina Laiti, Caroline Old Coyote, Maize Longboat & Michelle Brown
5/2021 Aalto University’s Color of Science public lectures: Sámi Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledges, Technology and Governance
Andrea Botero, Outi Kaarina Laiti & May-Britt Öhman
3/2021 Old ways of knowing, new ways of playing—the potential of collaborative game design to empower Indigenous Sámi (presentation). Sámi Allaskuvla.
3/2021 Speculative Materialities, Indigenous Worldings and Decolonial Futures in Computing & Design . the New Materialist Informatics conference (online). Round-Table Discussion with Goda Klumbyté, Ren Loren Britton, Outi Kaarina Laiti, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Femke Snelting & Caroline J. Ward
11/2020 Chi Play Conference: Is trying our best good enough? Representation in games research and development. A panel discussion with Marie Jarrell, Mia Consalvo, and Sabine Harrer.
07/2020 DiGRA 2020 (COVID-19 Cancellation). Surviving Whiteness in Videogames. A Panel Discussion with Sabine Harrer, Mahli-Ann Butt, Florence Chee, Kishonna Gray, Rilla Khaled, Amani Naseem, Cale Passmore and Kayode Shonibare-Lewis.
02/2020 Research on Adult Education Conference (Aikuiskasvatuksen tutkimuspäivät): ”Huolipuhe ikääntyneiden digiloikan hidasteena”. A Conference presentation.
09/2019 PG Connects and Blockchain Gamer Helsinki: Sámi in Play panel. A panel discussion with Herkko Pirskainen, Annakaisa Kultima, Aku Seppälä and Marjaana Auranen
05/2019 HASTAC 2019 (UBC) Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education: Ethnoprogramming: Decolonizing Computation through Indigenous Languages. A Panel Discussion with Nathan Nahina, Kari Kēhau Noe, Daniel Mahi, Jon Corbett, and Mark C. Marino.
11/2018 International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC, Auckland NZ) Te Reo me Ngā Tikanga Māori – Thriving Indigenous languages and cultures: Sámi Pedagogy and Social Aspects of Learning. An oral presentation with Satu-Maarit Frangou.
11/2017 Media Education Conference – Under the Northern Lights: Towards social learning styles using ICTs in Arctic Pedagogies and learning in the North. An oral presentation with Satu-Maarit Frangou.
09/2017 Arctic Pedagogy and Gamification Seminar – Eallin lea speallu – Gamification in Sámi Education. Speaker. Organized by The Sámi Education Institute (SAKK) Arctic Pedagogy Project, Regional State Administrative Agency, The Finnish Society on Media Education, Sámi allaskuvla Norgesuniversitet-project.