Web Directions Summit 2018

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Caroline Sinders

The Experimental Future

Caroline Sinders Design Researcher

What is the future of product design using experimental technology from blockchain to voice commands, AI, and IoT?

This talk covers what the future of ethical product design can be? Why and when should we use blockchain, or AI, or IOT? What are design principals we should keep in mind for creating with new technology? Instead of building future worlds imagined in the '60s during the Space Race, what is the future now, and how can we build it?

Caroline Sinders

Caroline Sinders is a machine learning design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been focusing on the intersections of natural language processing, online harassment and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Caroline is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, a design and research agency focusing on the intersections of emerging technology, user research, designing for public good, and solving communication difficult problems. As a design researcher, she's worked with groups like Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation as well as others.

Caroline has held fellowships with the Yerba Buena Centers of the Arts, Eyebeam, the Studio for Creative Inquiry and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been featured at MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Contemporary Art, Slate, Quartz, the Channels Biennale, as well as others. Caroline holds a masters from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Don't miss your chance to see Caroline Sinders and many other inspiring speakers at Web Directions Summit 18.

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Two big tracks, one Product/Design, one Developer focused, plus stellar keynotes and much more.

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