・Aoki, N. (2021). In search of the optimal integration of AI technology into the public sector: Studies of public trust in AI-driven public services. Invited webinar presentation at the International Seminar on AI and Digital Government, hosted by the Institute for Future Government and the Department of Public Administration at Yonsei University, 8 February, Republic of Korea.
・Aoki, N. (2020). Upscaling mindsets for a high-performing civil service in the tech-powered new normal. Invited webinar presentation at the 6th Annual Public Policy Conference, The Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 22 September, The Philippines.
・Aoki, N. (2019). Do people trust AI-powered chatbots as much as they do human administrators? An experimental study. Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, 29-30 July, Barcelona, Spain.
・Aoki, N. (2019). Do people trust AI-powered chatbots as much as they do human administrators? An experimental study. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Public Policy, 26-28 June, Montreal, Canada.
・Aoki, N. (2019). An experimental study of the impact of AI on public trust: The case of the long-term care insurance system in Japan. Presented at the International Institute of Administrative Sciences – Lien Conference, 18-21 June, Singapore.
・Aoki, N. (2019). The aspirations to be a leading government: Does a governor’s profile matter? Presented at the Workshop on Public Sector Innovation in the Asia Pacific, 15-16 February, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), Singapore.
・Aoki, N. (2018, July 30). Who would be willing to help somebody else’s municipality? Investigating Japanese public attitudes in the wake of a natural disaster [Invited presentation]. Kyoto University, Japan.
・Aoki, N. (2018). Prefectural leadership in a spatially polarizing Japan. Presented at the Public Management Research Conference, 31 May – 2 June, LKYSPP, Singapore.
・Aoki, N. (2018). Does performance management work differently across different political cultures? Presented at the Public Management Research Conference, 31 May – 2 June, LKYSPP, Singapore.
・Aoki, N. (2017). Political pressure for local leadership in a spatially polarizing Japan. Presented at the Japanese Society for Public Administration, 26-27 May, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
・Aoki, N. (2017). Political pressure for local innovations in Japan: Are prefectural assemblies doing enough? Presented atthePublic Service Innovation Conference, 15-17 November, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway.
・Aoki, N. (2017). Who would be willing to accept disaster debris in their backyard?Investigating the determinants of public attitudes in post-Fukushima Japan. Presented at the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration, 11-15 September, Seoul, South Korea.
・Aoki, N., & Janenova, S. (2017). Can Kazakhstan follow Singapore? Assessment of its civil service reform capacity. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Public Policy, 28-30 June, LKYSPP, Singapore.
・Aoki, N., & Rawat, S. (2017). Performance appraisals: Their patterns of international prevalence. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Public Policy, 28-30 June, LKYSPP, Singapore.
・Aoki, N. (2016). Would you be willing to accept disaster debris in your backyard? Investigating the determinants of public attitudes in post-Fukushima Japan. Public talk delivered 14 April, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
・Aoki, N. (2015). A tsunami-ravaged town becomes progressive to survive and revive. Presented at the Symposium on the Rise of Progressive Cities East and West, 11-12 May, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France.
・Aoki, N. (2015). The rise of mega-adaptive governance for manpower support for municipalities in the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.Presented at the Workshop on Decentralized Disaster Governance in Urbanizing Asia, 5-6 March, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
・Aoki, N. (2015). The rise of progressive municipalities in the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami: Turning crisis into opportunity? Presented at the Dialogic Workshop on Progressive Cities in Asia and Europe, 12-13 February, Singapore-ETH Centre – Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore.
・Aoki, N. (2013). Do regime types matter to the success of managerialism? The case of public education. Presented at the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration, 14-19 October, Tachikawa, Japan.
・Aoki, N. (2013). Defining public administration in Japan and Singapore: An application of Rosenbloom’s three-perspective model. Presented at the Public Management Research Conference, 20-22 June, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
・Aoki, N. (2012). New Public Management and organizational resistance to change: The case of Japanese high schools. Presented at the Korean Association for Policy Studies, 14-15 September, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
・Aoki, N. (2008). A theoretical and empirical treatment of functional decentralization: A cross-country study of organizational setting in public secondary education. Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 6-8 November, Los Angeles, USA.
・Aoki, N. (2008). A theoretical and empirical treatment of functional decentralization: A cross-country study of organizational setting in public secondary education. Presented at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, 22-25 October, Chicago, USA.