Speaking & Workshops

I’m available for talks, workshops, and panels and have experience working with groups from C-Suite executive teams to community members. I have a special interest in and experience with the topics below and how they intersect, and I can also develop private talks and workshops on how these topics interest your industry and work for your company or organization. Please feel free to get in touch!

Topics

  • Responsible AI and generative AI

  • Decentralized Web and Web 3

  • Sustainability and regenerative design

  • Entertainment, media, and content trends and emerging technology

  • Responsible innovation

  • Applied strategic foresight and futures thinking

 

DWeb Camp: Pollination: A Collective DWeb Speculative Storyweaving & Community Futures: Designing DWeb Futures Together

Soho House: Future of Content workshop

Elisava Responsible AI Masters Program: Futures of AI in Education talk

San Francisco Design Week: "Risky Business: Climate Change, Design, and Avoiding Unforeseen Consequences" Talk for Climate Designers SF

Service Design Network Next Gen Conference: Everyday Futures: Build Your Personal & Professional Practice in Futures & Foresight

UX in ATX: Design Frontiers: Imagining AI Futures: A Design Futures Approach

DWeb Camp: Building Utopia: Designing DWeb Futures in Community workshop

New_Public Community Conversations: Imaginative Futures workshop

Gray Swan Guild: Future of Content panel

Talks & Workshops

 

Awards

Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards, Impact Winner for Kaleidoscope, 2023

Core 77 Design Awards, Runner Up for Kaleidoscope, 2023

UNDPPA x Design Futures Initiative, Runner Up for Futuring Peace Speculative Design Competition, 2020

 

Press

“This simple icon makes it easy to spot AI-generated content.” Fast Company, June 1, 2023. Part of the creative team for three design concepts to address trust and anxiety around AI-generated content.

“4 ways you can help essential workers.” Washington Post’s The Lily, March 31, 2023. Interviewed as part of a COVID relief volunteer project.

“Chinese student volunteers help U.S. PPE shortage.” CGTN America, April 21, 2020. Interviewed as part of a COVID relief volunteer project.

Save the Track Bike podcast. June 20, 2018. Spoke about my time starting and leading a fixed-gear bike racing team dedicated to greater access, diversity, and inclusion within the sport.