Dr Finkel presented to the AFR Innovation Summit in Sydney on Tuesday 19 September, with a speech titled “If you don’t look, you don’t see.”

Dr Finkel delivered a speech on 'Science Fiction for Leaders’ to The Cranlana Programme in Melbourne on Wednesday 6 September.

Dr Finkel gave the annual John Monash Oration, titled Power and Progress, for the General Sir John Monash Foundation in Sydney on Monday 28 August 2

On 29 July 2017, Dr Finkel gave the annual La Trobe Lecture in Melbourne as the 2016 Victorian of the Year, with a speech titled 'Visions of Victoria’

On 12 August 2017, Dr Finkel delivered the opening address to theIEEE SectionsCongress in Sydney. The speech was titled 'Better than Brilliant’.

On 24 July 2017, Dr Finkel delivered the opening address to the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Centenary Congress in Melbourne.

On 2 July 2017, Dr Finkel gave the keynote address at the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) 40^th Anniversary Conference,

On 21 June 2017, Dr Finkel gave the keynote address at the National Press Club with a speech titled –National Electricity Market Reform – A blueprint for

On 24May 2017, Dr Finkel gave the keynote address at the Monash University Faculty of Engineering Graduation Ceremony with a speech titled 'The Finkel Fi

On 26 April 2017, Chief Scientist Alan Finkel addressed the 4^th Australian Innovation Business Dinner in Munich as the head of the Australian Inno