The Third Wave speakers will address future-facing topics such as the designer's role in a data-driven world, how empathy should be re-evaluated to include diverse voices in the design process, the future of food, transportation, and more. Each presentation will lead attendees on a journey toward a better future, where designers have a responsibility to emphasize the notions of inclusion, sustainability, and cooperation within their work as we transition into a world more mindful of our own impact on the planet and the people who live here.

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  Paola Antonelli

  Senior Curator, The Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Architecture & Design

  Presentation: Broken Nature

  The XXII Triennale di Milano, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, highlighted the concept of restorative design, plotting its role in surveying our species’ bonds with the complex systems in the world,and in designing reparations when necessary, through objects, concepts, and new systems. Antonelli will take stock of the experience, casting the exhibition against the turbulent geopolitical background of the past year, describing which among its ambitions were met, and which were not.

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  Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator at The Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Architecture & Design, as well as MoMA’s founding Director of Research & Development. She has curated numerous shows, lectured worldwide, and has served on several international architecture and design juries. She has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Harvard Graduate School of Design; and the MFA programs of the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her most recent project, the XXII Triennale di Milano, entitled Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival is on view until September 1, 2019.

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  Max Almy

  Dean of the School of Digital Media, SCAD

  Presentation: VR for Good: the Transformative Potential of Immersive Reality

  Immersive Reality has been called an empathy machine. Studies show that it takes our brains only 20 seconds to accept and believe a virtual experience. If our brains can’t tell the difference between what is real and what is synthetic reality, we’ve left the screen and entered an untethered world.
  
  Artists and designers are just beginning to explore the transformative power of immersive reality. There’s a rising spirit among students, artists, designers and technologists to harness this power to enable social connections, collaboration, co - creation, and more conscious living. They’re women, they’re diverse and inclusive; they’re creating wild art and working in hospice.They’re changing peoples’ lives and seeking a better world. They believe in VR for good, VR for impact, and ARVR for peace.

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  Max Almy is Dean of the School of Digital Media at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). At SCAD, Almy works with award-winning faculty and talented students in state-of-the-art facilities. SCAD hosts a steady stream of industry leaders and innovative projects created in collaboration with Google, BMW, YouTube, and Porsche, to name a few. Under her leadership students at the School of Digital Media develop projects using the latest advances in VR, AR, MR and UX. Dean Almy is also a principal at the design agency Magika, where she is an Emmy Award winning Creative Director, Broadcast Designer, Art Director and Branding Designer for Television, Digital Media, Internet, and location based entertainment projects

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  Allan Chochinov

  Chair of the MFA in Products of Design, School of Visual Arts & Partner, Core77

  Presentation: What is next for design?

  Opening remarks by Core77 Partner Allan Chochinov will encourage attendees to consider the changes in contemporary design's purview, paradigm, and purpose.

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  Allan Chochinov is the Founding Chair of the MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and a partner of Core77, the design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts since 1995. Allan lectures widely at professional conferences, and has been a speaker and guest critic at schools including MIT, Yale School of Management, Columbia School of Business, RMIT, IIT, and Carnegie Mellon. He has moderated and led workshops and symposia at the Aspen Design Conference, the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, and is a frequent guest critic and competition juror. Prior to SVA and Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical, surgical, and diagnostic fields (projects include work for Johnson & Johnson, Oral-B, FedEx, and Herman Miller). He has been named on numerous design and utility patents and has received awards from The Art Directors Club, The One Club, I.D. Magazine, and Communication Arts.

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  Leigh Christie

  Founder, MistyWest

  Presentation: Applying UN Sustainable Development Goals to Design Practices

  As the UN states, “The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.” Whether you have heard of these development goals or not, they exist as a long-term approach for countries, industries, and individuals to address global challenges. The Sustainable Development Goals are ways of thinking about how to create a more inclusive, equitable, prosperous and sustainable future—but where do you begin with such a long-term agenda? In this panel, UN representatives and designers actively engaged in implementing these goals into their practices will illuminate what the SDGs are, how their work incorporates humane, sustainable ideals, and what all designers can gain from understanding the UN’s plan for action.

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  Leigh Christie is an entrepreneur, an engineer and a community builder based in San Francisco. Carrying a Bachelor’s in Engineering Physics from UBC and a Master’s in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT, he finds himself inventing things in his sleep and jotting down his ideas on paper when he awakes. Some of his achievements include a 100% electric 8-legged walking machine that you can "drive" called the Mondo Spider, in addition to co-founding MistyWest with Josh Usher. When Leigh isn’t inventing new technologies he loves throwing dinner parties, meditating, snowboarding, and analyzing Tesla Motors.

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  Susanne DesRoches

  Deputy Director, Infrastructure + Energy, NYC Mayor's Office of Recovery & Resiliency and Office of Sustainability

  Presentation: From Industry to Government: Designing Climate Solutions

  Designers are trained in creative problem solving, and empathizing with multiple stakeholders when evaluating a situation. This makes them uniquely positioned to tackle large-scale policy issues and work on challenges at scales far beyond those currently experienced in most creative practices. Learn how one industrial designer evolved from exhibition design to leading New York City's infrastructure and energy policy.

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  Susanne DesRoches is responsible for the City’s energy policy and regulatory affairs at the local, state and federal levels. She directs the City’s efforts to transition to 100% clean electricity by 2040 as well as to adapt regional infrastructure systems to climate change. Susanne leads the NYC Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which works to identify climate risks and coordinate adaptation strategies, and oversees the development of the NYC Climate Resiliency Design Guidelines. She is a chapter author for the fourth National Climate Assessment. Susanne was previously the Chief of Resilience and Sustainability for the Engineering Department at the Port Authority of NY & NJ. In that role she was the engineering department’s technical lead for resiliency efforts, climate change initiatives, post-Sandy recovery, and sustainable design. She holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University. Susanne is on the faculty of Columbia University’s Earth Institute and School of Professional Studies.

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  Meagan Durlak

  Design Director, IDEO.org

  Presentation: Applying UN Sustainable Development Goals to Design Practices

  As the UN states, “The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.” Whether you have heard of these development goals or not, they exist as a long-term approach for countries, industries, and individuals to address global challenges. The Sustainable Development Goals are ways of thinking about how to create a more inclusive, equitable, prosperous and sustainable future—but where do you begin with such a long-term agenda? In this panel, UN representatives and designers actively engaged in implementing these goals into their practices will illuminate what the SDGs are, how their work incorporates humane, sustainable ideals, and what all designers can gain from understanding the UN’s plan for action.

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  As a Design Director, Meagan makes to think. She uses her craft throughout the process as a way to endlessly create experiences and to give back to those she is working with or for. Trained as a communications designer, Meagan veered from the traditional path to explore her creative sensibilities in a range of unique settings, including an innovation center, a museum, and the Canadian government. Prior to IDEO.org, Meagan led multi-disciplinary teams at design shops like Doblin and Veryday. She holds a master’s degree in Transdisciplinary Design from Parsons The New School for Design and a bachelor’s degree from Concordia University.

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  Jerome Harris

  Design Director, Housing Works

  Presentation: Against, But in the Spirit of, Modernism

  Champions of the Modernism movement, dating back to the beginning of the 20th century, aimed to reject notions of arbitrary, dated aesthetic traditions in favor of a philosophy that responded to the technologies of the times and usher in what might become the new. Our world is now saturated with the old “new”, which is devoid of the movement’s original radical philosophy. This leaves us in a dangerously subtle hegemonic crisis of one-dimensional design thinking, making Modernism now the exact cage from which it once wished to be freed—it has been stripped of its criticality, ability to unite countries at war, as well as its problematic history. Modernism is now an empty shell of a style that promotes capital gain. Taking in the entire context of our contemporary lifestyles, a new radical and inclusive design philosophy needs to be implemented on a mass scale in an effort to bring about the new “new”, in the spirit of Modernism’s original objectives. Jerome Harris will present how to take back the original meaning of Modernism to reinvigorate it with modern day design ideals.

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  Jerome Harris is a graphic designer originally from New Haven, Connecticut, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and a BA from Temple University. Harris is the Design Director of Housing Works, a non-profit organization fighting the dual crises of HIV/AIDS and homelessness in New York City. He has also curated a touring exhibition, entitled As, Not For, which celebrates African-American graphic designers active in the 20th Century. Harris DJs under the moniker DJ Glen Coco, and maintains an ongoing choreographic practice that he shares on Instagram at @32counts.

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  Brian Ho

  Design Lead for Generative Urban Design, Sidewalk Labs

  Presentation: Applying UN Sustainable Development Goals to Design Practices

  As the UN states, “The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.” Whether you have heard of these development goals or not, they exist as a long-term approach for countries, industries, and individuals to address global challenges. The Sustainable Development Goals are ways of thinking about how to create a more inclusive, equitable, prosperous and sustainable future—but where do you begin with such a long-term agenda? In this panel, UN representatives and designers actively engaged in implementing these goals into their practices will illuminate what the SDGs are, how their work incorporates humane, sustainable ideals, and what all designers can gain from understanding the UN’s plan for action.

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  Brian Ho is the design lead for Generative Urban Design at Sidewalk Labs. An interdisciplinary designer with a background in architecture, Brian focuses on making both the built environment and urban technology better for people.
  
  Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Brian graduated from the Master in Design Engineering program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He has helped develop an AR interface for understanding building performance at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, improved accessibility with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, and designed buildings and land use plans in NYC and New Orleans. Brian received a B.A. in Architecture from Yale University, and is a LEED AP BD+C professional.

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  Rebecca Hui

  Founder, Roots Studio

  Presentation: Utilizing Emerging Technologies to Enact Change

  This session will showcase the work of three companies based at New Lab who are using AI and machine learning to enable their products and applications. Rebecca Hui (Roots Studio), Meghan Maupin (Atolla) and Suma Reddy (Farmshelf), are all designers and founders whose companies are creating solutions in the realms of urban farming, digital licensing of indigenous artists and customized skincare.

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  Rebecca Hui is a designer, social entrepreneur, and urban planner who has had over 8 years of experience working in rural developing regions. She is the founder of Roots Studio, which seeks to support the heritage of last generation artists through digitization and design licensing into the fashion and retail markets. She is a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree and Echoing Green Fellow, and has been featured in MIT Technology Review, PBS, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. She is also a consultant to the World Bank and UNESCO on culture heritage restoration for post-war areas. Before Roots Studio, she consulted for the Government of India on developing a mapping decision-making tool for water and infrastructure planning across 44,000 urbanizing villages. Rebecca started her journey as a Fulbright Scholar and National Geographic Explorer who mapped human-wildlife conflict amidst rapid urbanization. She holds a Masters in City Planning from MIT and dual degrees in business administration and urban design from UC Berkeley.

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  Liz Jackson

  Founder, The Disabled List

  Presentation: Future is Code for Eugenics

  Utopian ideals of a pain free future have become dystopian nightmares for disabled people. Today, we are being asked 'What future do you want?'' without considering 'Who will be included in your future?' Liz Jackson will discuss how current design briefs that seek to fix disabled people are creating a dangerous precedent for disabled futures. And she will advocate to involve disabled people in conversations around the future, so that we can design space for disabled people in our future.

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  Liz Jackson is the founder of The Disabled List, a design organization that engages in disability as a creative practice. She is also the co-founder of Thisten, a live speech to text app that makes conferences and live events more accessible. In 2018, Jackson created The WITH Fellowship, which partners disabled creatives with top design studios and creative spaces for three-month fellowships. You can learn more about Liz through her personal website, The Girl with the Purple Cane.

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  Marijke Jorritsma

  Senior User Experience Designer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  Presentation: Design & Data & Design

  Data is more accessible today than ever before. Yet, as an industry, Design doesn't have a standard method or process for utilizing it. We know that data can be used to satisfy the ongoing needs and goals of users today, but how can the designers of tomorrow use data as a medium? In this panel, Marijke Jorritsma (Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Dean Malmgren (IDEO) will have a conversation moderated by Joe Meersman (Resideo), discussing how designers can best use data to create the next generation of user experiences.

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  Marijke is a Senior User Experience Designer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. On-lab her projects include designing augmented reality tools for spacecraft engineering and Mars exploration, and designing processes and software to support spacecraft operations for the Europa Clipper mission; a spacecraft set to arrive at the Jovian moon in 2025. Off-lab Marijke is a creative technologist who explores ways to use emerging technologies and science to build non-traditional electronic instruments and software.

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  Archie Lee Coates IV

  Co-Founder and Partner, PLAYLAB, INC.

  Presentation: Not the Only One

  A talk that explores the “Third Wave” by examining the positive effects of group mentality and teamwork seen in culture throughout history, specifically by looking through Archie’s lens of PLAYLAB, INC., an extremely multidisciplinary creative studio in New York. “Not the Only One” is in reference to the John Lennon and Yoko Ono pivotal work: “Imagine.”

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  Archie Lee Coates IV is a co-founder and partner at PLAYLAB, INC., a New York based creative studio that uses art, architecture, and graphic design to initiate ideas around themes that interest them. Past projects include 30' inflatable flowers for Midtown Manhattan, a re-brand of America for SFMOMA and a compilation of all the times Joaquin Phoenix has walked in his films, titled Walking Phoenix. In 2011, he co-founded the quarterly publication CLOG, and in 2010 he co-founded + POOL, an initiative to build the world’s first water-filtering floating pool in New York with Family New York. Archie is also a thesis faculty at School of Visual Arts’ Design for Social Innovation program, where he teaches how to bring ideas to life.

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  John Maeda

  Global Head of Computational Design + Inclusion, Automattic

  Presentation: How to Speak Machine

  Every company knows that they have to compete on experience, but the recent US CX Index™ results for US companies have proven that this is easier said than done. The problem is that winning this battle requires understanding the nature of algorithms and computational thinking — something that Silicon Valley leaders naturally excel at. In this talk, John Maeda will present a new framework that lets anyone quickly become a computational thinker so that they can make the most of this new paradigm that has created both vast opportunities and great risks for companies and their customers.

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  John Maeda is an executive spearheading a new convergence across the design and technology industries. He joined Automattic in 2016 as Global Head of Computational Design + Inclusion and currently serves on the Board of Directors for both Sonos and Wieden+Kennedy. Previously, John served as Design Partner at KPCB, a world-leading venture capital firm, was a member of the Technical Advisory Board for Google’s Advanced Technology + Projects Group and advised eBay Inc. CEO John Donahoe on the advancement of eBay Inc.’s design culture at scale. Maeda draws on his diverse background as an MIT- trained engineer, award-winning designer, and executive leader to help businesses and creatives push boundaries in their markets and fields.

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  Dean Malmgren

  Executive Portfolio Director, IDEO Chicago

  Presentation: Design & Data & Design

  Data is more accessible today than ever before. Yet, as an industry, Design doesn't have a standard method or process for utilizing it. We know that data can be used to satisfy the ongoing needs and goals of users today, but how can the designers of tomorrow use data as a medium? In this panel, Marijke Jorritsma (Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Dean Malmgren (IDEO) will have a conversation moderated by Joe Meersman (Resideo), discussing how designers can best use data to create the next generation of user experiences.

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  As an Executive Portfolio Director at IDEO Chicago, Dean Malmgren helps IDEO and its clients identify meaningful opportunities to use data as a design medium and push the boundaries of data science in service of humans. This involves everything from understanding the needs of people and data asset design to product differentiation and algorithm design. Dean joined IDEO through the acquisition of Datascope, a data science consulting firm he co-founded in 2009. At Datascope, Dean and his colleagues pioneered the practice of human-centered data science, allowing them to deliver meaningful solutions for clients ranging from P&G and Oracle to local non-profits and start-ups like IssueLab.

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  Meghan Maupin

  Co-Founder & CEO, Atolla

  Presentation: Utilizing Emerging Technologies to Enact Change

  This session will showcase the work of three companies based at New Lab who are using AI and machine learning to enable their products and applications. Rebecca Hui (Roots Studio), Meghan Maupin (Atolla) and Suma Reddy (Farmshelf), are all designers and founders whose companies are creating solutions in the realms of urban farming, digital licensing of indigenous artists and customized skincare.

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  Atolla is a skincare company that leverages machine learning to deliver customized products using an individual's skin data. Maupin’s talk will explore the challenges of making this technology accessible to consumers, and Atolla’s design development over time.

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  Joe Meersman

  Director of Design Strategy, IBM

  Presentation: Design & Data & Design

  Data is more accessible today than ever before. Yet, as an industry, Design doesn't have a standard method or process for utilizing it. We know that data can be used to satisfy the ongoing needs and goals of users today, but how can the designers of tomorrow use data as a medium? In this panel, Marijke Jorritsma (Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Dean Malmgren (IDEO) will have a conversation moderated by Joe Meersman (Resideo), discussing how designers can best use data to create the next generation of user experiences.

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  Joe Meersman has researched and designed a variety of experiences throughout his career. His work has ranged from Bluetooth headsets and office furniture to first-responder centers and artificial intelligence. Joe has led teams of designers in the delivery of cognitive-enabled applications and services across IBM’s Cloud and Watson portfolio. He currently serves as the design strategy director for IBM’s Hybrid Cloud organization.

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  Sandra Moerch

  Chief Content Director, SAP Next-Gen

  Presentation: Applying UN Sustainable Development Goals to Design Practices

  As the UN states, “The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.” Whether you have heard of these development goals or not, they exist as a long-term approach for countries, industries, and individuals to address global challenges. The Sustainable Development Goals are ways of thinking about how to create a more inclusive, equitable, prosperous and sustainable future—but where do you begin with such a long-term agenda? In this panel, UN representatives and designers actively engaged in implementing these goals into their practices will illuminate what the SDGs are, how their work incorporates humane, sustainable ideals, and what all designers can gain from understanding the UN’s plan for action.

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  Sandra Moerch is the Chief Content Director at SAP Next-Gen – A Purpose Driven Innovation Community based on SAP's commitment to the UN Global Goals, a department of which she was a founding team member. In her daily work she is also the Site Manager of the purpose driven 12K SQF innovation space: SAP Leonardo Center in New York City, which is a stage for purpose driven innovation. Sandra has always been an entrepreneur and feminist at heart, co-founding numerous tech and retail startups, before she entered the corporate scene with SAP, as well as being an advocate for women's rights. Today, Sandra evangelizes these values as Co-Founder of The Feminist Portfolio, being member at of the Stanford WiDS (Women in Data Science) Committee, as well as being a UN Women Ambassador, in the capacity of sitting on the UN Women Silicon Valley Board, driving programs linked to SAP to bring balance to the force of gender equality in Tech.

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  François Nguyen

  Creative Director, frog

  Presentation: The Cost of Comfort

  So much of our design careers revolve around designing more convenient, friction-free experiences, but could this effort actually be making our lives worse? Human-centered design often forgets that humans need challenges, pressure and stress to grow and thrive in this world. Gravity constantly puts a strain our body and keeps muscles and bones strong. Puzzles and mental challenges keep our minds sharp. Our digestive systems require a regular diet of resistive fiber to maintain good health. In this talk Francois Nguyen discusses the value of stress and the diminishing returns of focusing only on eliminating “pain points’ from an experience.

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  François is a Creative Director at frog’s New York studio. His career began over a decade ago at Pentagram where he worked with clients such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Dell. He then joined ammunition where he was the lead designer for the original “Beats Studio ” headphones for Dr. Dre. Currently as one of frog’s creative leads, François is responsible for overseeing the vision of projects and managing the team. His work continually strives to be emotionally and intellectually engaging through balancing the use of materials, form, finish, poetry and metaphor.

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  Suma Reddy

  Co-Founder & COO, Farmshelf

  Presentation: Utilizing Emerging Technologies to Enact Change

  This session will showcase the work of three companies based at New Lab who are using AI and machine learning to enable their products and applications. Rebecca Hui (Roots Studio), Meghan Maupin (Atolla) and Suma Reddy (Farmshelf), are all designers and founders whose companies are creating solutions in the realms of urban farming, digital licensing of indigenous artists and customized skincare.

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  Suma Reddy has been an impact-driven entrepreneur for over a decade. She is Co-Founder and COO of Farmshelf, a smart, indoor farming company whose mission is to feed and empower people through revolutionary food systems. The company builds bookcase sized hydroponic units that enable people to grow food wherever they live, work, and eat. Before Farmshelf, Suma co-founded Spectrum BioEnergy, an organic waste-to-energy company and served as founding managing partner at Akula Energy Ventures, an early-stage renewable energy fund. No stranger to startups, Suma joined the management team at SKS Microfinance pre-venture-capital funding and saw its rise to IPO and acquisition. Prior, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali. In her free time, Suma is Co-Director of the Asian Pride Project, an LGBTQ arts and advocacy non-profit. Suma is a graduate of The Wharton School (MBA), Flatiron School (iOS development), General Assembly (UX Design) and University of Rochester (BA Economics/Religion).

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  Yasaman Sheri

  Designer & Director

  Presentation: Code Switch

  Objects have always been part of systems that are larger than what our senses can immediately perceive and our minds comprehend. Networks of sensors, ecologies of waste, advancements in biotechnology, laws and policies, rising awareness of global warming, are a few topics that affect our daily lifestyles and in turn the way we design for our objects and systems. Still, the training, tools and opportunities for designers are lacking to exercise working in such spaces in depth and at a multitude of scales. What new skills and tools might we need to evolve in order to design in the complex and networked systems of today?

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  Yasaman Sheri is a Designer and Director working with interfaces for sensing. Sheri’s research focuses on interaction of humans, machines and living things, exploring sensing beyond vision, machine perception, networked systems and augmentation of body, objects and ecologies. She has the led Core Interaction Design for the first consumer level Augmented Reality Operating System Head-Mounted Display: Microsoft Hololens and Hololens2 Windows Holographic focusing on intuitive gestural interfaces. She works closely with various companies and organizations including Toyota, Google(X), Ginkgo Bioworks, NASA Ames Research Center and others as facilitator to explore sensing and perception in Design. She is also an educator, teaching Graduate Industrial Design at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Biodesign and Sensory Design at Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design (CIID) and is frequent critic at Columbia GSAPP, Art Center College, NYU, Cooper Union, ZHdK, and Stanford University.

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  Teri Yarbrow

  President and Creative Director, Magika & Professor of Immersive Reality and Digital Arts, SCAD

  Presentation: VR for Good: the Transformative Potential of Immersive Reality

  Immersive Reality has been called an empathy machine. Studies show that it takes our brains only 20 seconds to accept and believe a virtual experience. If our brains can’t tell the difference between what is real and what is synthetic reality, we’ve left the screen and entered an untethered world.
  
  Artists and designers are just beginning to explore the transformative power of immersive reality. There’s a rising spirit among students, artists, designers and technologists to harness this power to enable social connections, collaboration, co - creation, and more conscious living. They’re women, they’re diverse and inclusive; they’re creating wild art and working in hospice.They’re changing peoples’ lives and seeking a better world. They believe in VR for good, VR for impact, and ARVR for peace.

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  Teri Yarbrow is an EMMY, BDA, ProMax and Ars Electronica award winning creative known for pushing the boundaries of art and technology. As president of digital design company Magika, she has worked with leading entertainment companies on projects ranging from commercials to location-based themed entertainment projects. Yarbrow is the creator of immersive multi-media installations and digital mixed media fine art. Yarbrow's works with Max Almy have been featured in major museums and festivals worldwide including: MOMA, NY; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the New Museum and more. Yarbrow is a Professor in the new Immersive Reality program at the Savannah College of Art and Design and an AR-VR-MR Evangelist. She researched and assisted in the development and launch of the Immersive Reality B.F.A. program at SCAD. As a believer in VR for Good, she is creating a program bringing VR to patients at Hospice Savannah.

More speakers to be announced