Philip Zimmermann

Speaker Services

I'm available for speaking engagements to talk about a wide range of topics relating to my work. Some of the more popular topics include technical, political, historical, social, and public policy aspects of cryptography, privacy, authentication, surveillance technology, biometrics, intellectual property and digital rights management. Secure VoIP telephony seems to be a hot topic these days. I also have a never ending supply of entertaining war stories from the history of the crypto revolution and the legal travails of PGP.

Speaker Fees

Perhaps you have invited other speakers to your conference that speak for free, but who are often paid spokespersons for their employers. I am self-employed and do not speak for a company, and make part of my living as a speaker. If all I had to do is step out of my office into the next room to give a talk, then step right back into my office, I probably would not charge money to speak. But of course it's never that simple; I usually have to fly somewhere and take time away from other paying work. That's part of the reason why I'm usually compensated to speak, the other reason being that I'm a good speaker.

Other Information

If you need some biographical information and photos for inclusion in your event materials, see my background and photos pages. And speaking of event materials, please spell it as Zimmermann. :-)

Most of my talks do not include slide presentations or notes.

You can view a sample lecture I presented in February 2000 at North Carolina State University, if you have the RealNetworks RealPlayer installed on your computer. Just click here to start the streaming video. It runs about 85 minutes.

I can be reached by email or phone by clicking here.