Presenters
Our lineup of this years speakers and workshop facilitators
🎤 Keynote Speakers
🎤 Jake Dunagan
Director, Governance Futures Lab, Institute for the Future
🎤 Ari Melenciano
Founder of Afrotectopia / Creative Technologist, NYU
🎤 Nelly Ben Hayoun
Ph.D Designer of Experiences, Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios ltd.
Presenters Activating
Futures For All
Leigh Cook
Associate VP, Strategy and Innovation, North Highland
Eric Boye
Senior Manager, Digital Partnerships and Capabilities, The Coca-Cola Company
Sandjar Kozubaev
Director, Futures & Experience Strategy, Sparks Grove, Division of North Highland
Presenters Activating
Civic Futures
Chloé Roubert
Anthropology Lead, Sonder Collective
Melanie Wendland
Designer, Co-Founder, Sonder Collective
Tracy Pilar Johnson
Senior Program Officer, User Experience & Innovation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Nonso Jideofor
Co-founder & Co-director, Agency
Anca Matioc
Co-founder & Co-director, Agency
Ash Eliza Smith
Artist-Researcher, Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts, Center for Emerging Media Arts
Director, Futures & Experience Strategy, Action Foresight
Director at QRIFS (Qazaq Research Institute for Futures Studies)
Kathy Peach
Head of Centre of Collective Intelligence, Nesta
Presenters Activating
Global Futures
Rosamund Picton
Co-Founder and Semiotician, Axis Mundi
Kourosh Newman-Zand
Co-Founder and Semiotician, Axis Mundi
Louise Jolly
Copywriter and Semiotician
Hira Zuberi
Design Associate, Playground - Center for Transdisciplinary, Design & Innovation at Habib University
Avinash Kumar
Co-founder and Partner, Quicksand
Siddharth Khajuria
Senior Producer (Incubator & Level G), Barbican
Gregory Loui
Researcher, Indigenous Futures Lab
Finn Strivens
Designer and Researcher, Royal College of Art and Imperial College
Renee Albrecht-Mallinger
Design Researcher & Strategist, IA Collaborative
Siyuan Ma
Interaction Designer, Ford Motor Company
Peter Stoyko
Chief Social Scientist & Information Designer, Elanica
Presenters Activating
Inclusive Futures
Tim Fielder
Graphic Novelist and Filmmaker, Dieslfunk Studios
Jess Mons
Director of Business Intelligence, dscout
Lindsey Brinkworth
Research Analyst, dscout
Sarah Elsie Baker
Senior Lecturer (Master of Design) and Research Coordinator, Media Design School, Auckland
Woodrow W. Winchester, III
Director, Engineering Management, UMass Amherst
Giuliana Mazzetta
Strategic Designer, Cosmati
Ignacio Tovar
Head of Department, Industrial Design School at TEC Campus
Noteh Krauss
Principal, ADG (Aesthetic Dimension Group)
Presenters Activating
Corporate Futures
Tino Klähne
Head of Strategic Design, Lufthansa Innovation Hub
Michael Lee Kenney
Design Strategist, IBM
Gabriella Campagna
AI Team Lead, Designer, IBM Cognitive Systems
Dan Fukushima
Director, Futurist, Toffler Associates
Justine De Ridder
Strategy and Innovation Designer, NonZeroSumLab
Liudmila Sharafutdinova
Strategy and Innovation Designer, NonZeroSumLab
