Tonika Johnson is a photographer, social justice artist and life-long resident of Chicago’s South Side Englewood...
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Friction in Sustainability Transitions: Lessons from Organizations and Institutions
Klaus Weber currently serves faculty director for Sustainability and Social Impact at Kellogg. He is also...
Pulp Friction: Creating Space for Cultural Context, Values, and the Quirkiness of Humanity in AI Engagement
A design executive who has led several multidisciplinary teams and organizations at global companies such as...
The Next Billion Creatives
Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist, a TEDx speaker, and an author of award-winning books, including ‘The Next Billion Users’ with Harvard Press. Her expertise lies in user experience in the global south,...
Defining Social Determinants for Resilient Health
Kurt Ward is a Senior Design Director at Philips Healthcare who is responsible for strategic alliances and collaborations across businesses and partners to stimulate, inspire and explore new value spaces and...
Creating Companies and Products Conducive to Life
Melissa Gregg is a senior principal engineer in user experience driving carbon reduction and green software strategy at Intel. With a Ph.D. in gender and cultural studies, she is a widely cited author, theorist,...
The Future of Audiences & Mixed Reality Performances
ABOUT THE PRESENTER Sarah Ellis is an award-winning producer currently working as Director of Digital Development...
Exiting the Road to Hell: How We Reclaim Agency & Responsibility in Our Fights for Justice
Panthea Lee is a strategist, organizer, designer, and facilitator, and the Executive Director of Reboot. She is passionate about building transformative coalitions between communities, activists, movements, and institutions to tackle structural inequity—and working with artists to realize...
We Have Always Dreamed of (Afro)futures: Notes beyond the Dark Fantastic
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is Associate Professor in Educational Studies at the University of Michigan. She studies how people of color are portrayed, or not portrayed, in children’s and young adult literature, and how those portrayals shape our culture. As children’s and young adult literary empires...
Creating Future Imaginaries through Indigenous AI
Jason Edward Lewis' multidisciplinary research and creative practice has been central to developing Indigenous media art in North America and worldwide, establishing a vital conversation about the interaction between Indigenous culture and computational technology. His contributions comprise...