I speak and moderate discussions at conferences from SXSW to Sweden, Seoul, Singapore and beyond. Get in touch with me or my agents at Leading Authorities International if you'd like me to speak at your conference, event, company, or class.
TOPIC AREAS
Privacy, big data, algorithms, and personal data: “Taking Personalization Personally,” exploring the human impacts of data as it is collected, interpreted, and used for decision making and personalization in our lives. Advocating for consumer protection and human agency.
Big Tech, Antitrust, Platform Politics, and the Tech Backlash: “Towards a Constructive Technology Criticism,” on the evolution of criticism in tech coverage, emerging global policies and governance models to regulate technology.
Artificial Intelligence: “The AI Story So Far,” on the dominant apocalyptic narratives we focus on about AI, and why we need more grounded, practical stories to understand our human-machine relationships with AI. Algorithmic decision making, ethics of AI.
5G: Global adoption trends, on-the-ground user experience realities.
Wearables and the Quantified Self: What consumers do with data, and what we can learn about making data accessible and manageable for users.
Moderating and Interviewing: Leading discussions for conference panels, fireside chats, and book talks. Passionate about facilitating insightful conversations on a wide range of technology and society subjects.
SELECTED TALKS
A People’s History of Tech Includes You, The Conference, Malmö [video]
Brave Storytelling, Seed&Spark Innovator’s Day, Sundance [video]
Primed for Play, NextM, Stockholm
Global Art Forum: I Am Not A Robot, Singapore
Starting the Internet All Over Again, SXSW, Austin [audio] [video]
Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity? MIT, Cambridge [video CSPAN Book TV]
"The AI Story So Far," re:publica, Berlin
"Taking Personalization Personally," Strata + Hadoop World, Singapore [video]
"Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism," Tow Center for Digital Journalism, New York [video]
"Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism," New Practices in Journalism at Sciences Po, Paris [video]
"Liquid Data: The Power of Seductive Metaphors" CADA Human Entities Lecture Series/Architecture Triennale, Lisbon [audio]
"Covering Technology," Journalism + Silicon Valley, Tow Center, New York [video]
"Dada Data and the Internet of Paternalistic Things," FutureEverything, Singapore [video]
"Databite: On Embodied Data Metaphors," Data & Society, New York [video]
Data is the New "_____", DIS Whet Talks at New Museum, New York [video]
"Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World," Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Cambridge [video]
"Legible Data in Crash Course in Digital Literacy," The Conference, Malmö [video]
"Living with Data: Stories that Make Data More Personal," Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Cambridge [video]
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Data," Festival of Ideas, Berkman Center, Cambridge [video]
"Paying with Data: How Free Services Are Not Free," South by Southwest, Austin [audio]
PODCASTS AND RADIO
The Metaverse and Human Experiences with Sara M. Watson on The Tech Humanist podcast [audio]
AI-Curious podcast [video] [audio]
The Future of Agency on FUTUREPROOF podcast [audio]
Tech Nostalgia on The Twelve Inquiries podcast [audio]
Tackling Technology’s Trust Problem on Forrester’s What It Means podcast [audio]
Assessing the Risks of Emerging Technologies on Forrester’s What It Means podcast [audio]
The real value of privacy, Google's first brick-and-mortar store, and kids shopping online, eMarketer's Behind the Numbers podcast [audio]
The Weekly Listen: The power of social networks, Twitter leans into audio, and news use on social media, eMarketer’s Behind the Numbers podcast [audio]
What Insider Intelligence Analysts Expect in 2021: A federal privacy law and new antitrust rules, eMarketer’s Behind the Numbers podcast [audio]
The Weekly Listen: FTC wants to break up Facebook, Big Tech's data probe, and Discovery+, eMarketer’s Behind the Numbers podcast [audio]
The Weekly Listen: Actually Regulating Social, Snapchat Spotlight and Spotify Stories, eMarketer’s Behind the Numbers podcast [audio]
"Who Owns Your Data?" Futureproof Yourself, The Compass, BBC World Service [audio]
Fjord Fika Podcast with Sara M. Watson and Andy Polaine [audio]
"Technology Criticism," Night White Skies Podcast [audio]
The Year in Technology, WBUR Radio Boston [audio]
Scratching the Surface Podcast [audio]
"There is No 'Off the Record,'" Note to Self and Flash Forward Podcast collaboration [audio]
"The Cyber," WBUR's Radio Open Source [audio]
"Digital Alter Egos," Radio Berkman Podcast [audio]
"Doppelgänger," BBC 4's Digital Human Podcast [audio]
"The Threats and Tradeoffs of Big Data," Radio Berkman Podcast [audio]
"This Is How Much the Internet Knows About You," WNYC's Note to Self Podcast [audio]