2018 Speaker Series

Jared Spool, January 2018
If you’re ready to talk to your teams about what you really need, help management interpret the data, and create analytical experiments that provide design insights, don’t miss this talk.

Corey Pressman, February 2018
This talk presents a way for us - the makers and thinkers of the science fiction present - to organize our activities so as to include healthy portions of the arts & humanities, experimentation, and daydreaming.

Elizabeth Bacon, March 2018
What is the fundamental responsibility we have to humanize tech so we all flourish and better software is made?

Mike Monteiro, April 2018
We were supposed to build a better world. Design and technology was supposed to point the way towards utopia. Instead, we designed a nightmare. Find out why this was our fault and what you can do to help fix it.

Nancy Frishberg, May 2018
This talk presents a way for us to organize our activities so as to include healthy portions of the arts & humanities, experimentation, and daydreaming.

Lynn Boyden, June 2018
Decisions must account for different factors for multiple stakeholders with differing priorities. How do we meet the challenge that are qualitative in nature?

Tapabrata Ghosh, July 2018
Ethical dilemmas arise from the economic consequences of extended deployment of AI systems. We will learn how to use open source software and decentralized education to proliferate AI tech for all.

Join us for the CHI-Bowl to enjoy indoor sports and hang out. Dig out your bowling shirt, bowl a few games, or socialize with your friends and colleagues.

Leah Noble Davidson | Dr. Juliette Levy | Corey Pressman | Tawny Schlieski , September 2018
This panel will explore ethics in development, design, application, business use, and usability of mixed reality tech. Gain insight from leaders in the tech space, and to apply this new tech in functional ways for your business.

Cennydd Bowles, October 2018
Participate in a deeper ethical dialogue about emerging technology, and interaction design’s role. This session is informed by many months of research.

Elena Moon, November 2018
Learn how personal finances play a huge role in silencing us and how financial freedom can lead to finding courage, agency and voice at work.