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Ego Obi (Google), Konstantina Palla (Spotify) & Samantha Niblett (Labour: Women in Tech) moderated by Suhair Khan 

Ego Obi, a senior Google executive who has had almost two decades at the forefront of building technologies and business around the world, and is currently completing a PhD on Ethics & AI. 

Samantha Niblett the Founder of Labour: Women in Tech, a not-for-profit political organisation. 

Konstantina Palla,  a machine learning researcher at Spotify, completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge, on the fairy tales of Machine Learning.

This conversation is part of Technology & Design Lab, in partnership with London Design Festival 2023. The mission is to connect visionary creatives and technologists, to catalyse, seed and build around new ideas. In this series, we are asking the question: “In an age of disruption and innovation: where do we go next?”

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Seetal Solanki (Ma-tt-er), & Chance Coughenour (Google Arts & Culture) moderated by Morgan Meaker 

Digitally preserving and democratising access to cultural heritage, Chance Coughenour coordinates cultural heritage preservation efforts on a global scale at Google Arts & Culture.

Seetal Solanki, Author of "Why Materials Matter" (Prestel, 2018),  is on a mission to transform our mindset around materials. Seetal is also the Founder and Director of Ma-tt-er.

Morgan Meaker, Senior editor at WIRED for European Business & Technology Journalist of the Year (2019, Words by Women Awards), uncovers the stories at the intersection of tech, human rights, and global affairs.

This conversation is part of Technology & Design Lab, in partnership with London Design Festival 2023. The mission is to connect visionary creatives and technologists, to catalyse, seed and build around new ideas. In this series, we are asking the question: “In an age of disruption and innovation: where do we go next?”

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Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford), Rebecca Fiebrink (UAL) & Ben Cullen Williams (Ben Cullen Williams Studio) moderated by Suhair Khan  

Ben Cullen Williams, a London-based artist exploring the dynamic space between technology & nature, through sculptures, installations, and video.

Dr. Rebecca Fiebrink  Professor of Creative Computing at the University of Arts London and creator of the world’s first online class about machine learning for musicians and artists.

Marcus du Sautoy  Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and best-selling author of eight books, including "The Creativity Code: how AI is learning to write, paint and think" (Fourth Estate 2019).

This conversation is part of Technology & Design Lab, in partnership with London Design Festival 2023. The mission is to connect visionary creatives and technologists, to catalyse, seed and build around new ideas. In this series, we are asking the question: “In an age of disruption and innovation: where do we go next?”

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Harry Yeff (Reeps100) in Conversation with Suhair Khan

Harry Yeff, known as Reeps100, is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher, specialising in voice, technology and performance. 

He has visualised the voice for over 10 years, through cymatics, performance, sculpture, and film.

Harry unpacks his practice with generative models in a 1:1 chat with Suhair followed by a performance. 🎤

This conversation is part of Technology & Design Lab, in partnership with London Design Festival 2023. The mission is to connect visionary creatives and technologists, to catalyse, seed and build around new ideas. In this series, we are asking the question: “In an age of disruption and innovation: where do we go next?”

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In this conversation, Sougwen Chung (Scilicet Studio), Freya Murray (Google Arts & Culture), and Suhair Khan (open-ended design) talk about the confluence of machine learning and robotics with artistic practice.

Could we imagine an engineer as an artist, or an artist as an engineer? Can you make real innovations in designing with machine learning without access to research teams at major tech companies? Should algorithms be given names to remind ourselves that they are not “neutral”?

This conversation is part of open-ended design’s Technology & Design Lab in partnership with London Design Festival 2022. The mission is to connect visionary creatives and technologists, to catalyse, seed and build around new ideas. In this series, we are asking the question: “In an age of disruption and innovation: where do we go next?”

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The Technology & Design Lab has been generously supported by Google, The House of KOKO, WeTransfer, Gaia Art Foundation, and Lito.io.

In this conversation, artist and designer Es Devlin speaks with Suhair Khan about how to thoughtfully engage technology to push the boundaries of imagination across art, culture, and design.

This conversation is part of open-ended design’s Technology & Design Lab in partnership with London Design Festival 2022. The mission is to connect visionary creatives and technologists, to catalyse, seed and build around new ideas. In this series, we are asking the question: “In an age of disruption and innovation: where do we go next?”

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The Technology & Design Lab has been generously supported by Google, The House of KOKO, WeTransfer, Gaia Art Foundation, and Lito.io.

In this conversation, Arthur Mamou-Mani (Mamou-Mani Architects), Shajay Bhooshan (Zaha Hadid Architects), Jen Haugan (Nexus Studios), and Suhair Khan (open-ended design) speak about placemaking and designing for the metaverse. Who defines the metaverse? Are we excited or terrified by what comes next? Who owns these spaces?

They discuss building virtual worlds across hybrid realities and raise new questions on the future of creativity and the ethics of technology.

This conversation is part of open-ended design’s Technology & Design Lab in partnership with London Design Festival 2022. The mission is to connect visionary creatives and technologists, to catalyse, seed and build around new ideas. In this series, we are asking the question: “In an age of disruption and innovation: where do we go next?”

For future events, follow open-ended design on Instagram, subscribe to our newsletter, or visit openended.design.

The Technology & Design Lab has been generously supported by Google, The House of KOKO, WeTransfer, Gaia Art Foundation, and Lito.io.

In this conversation, Whitney Richardson (Apple, The New York Times), Greg Robson (Kintanna Ventures), Dara Huang (DH Liberty), and Suhair Khan (open-ended design) speak about how the role of creatives, architects and designers is changing with new markets, new users, and new platforms.

Are we all hypocrites when it comes to designing and building sustainably? Where do nature and technology intersect? How do we make choices for ourselves, our business, and also for our consumers?

This conversation is part of open-ended design’s Technology & Design Lab in partnership with London Design Festival 2022. The mission is to connect visionary creatives and technologists, to catalyse, seed and build around new ideas. In this series, we are asking the question: “In an age of disruption and innovation: where do we go next?”

For future events, follow open-ended design on Instagram, subscribe to our newsletter, or visit openended.design.

The Technology & Design Lab has been generously supported by Google, The House of KOKO, WeTransfer, Gaia Art Foundation, and Lito.io.

In this conversation, Diana Alcausin (WeTransfer), Mariasole Pastori (Diorama), Emily Benn (Editor, Councillor City of London), Dayo Olopade (Amazon Studios, YouTube), and Maxim Zhestkov (zhestkov.studio) speak about ethics, bias, and innovation in art and design across all digital platforms. Hear their collective first-hand experiences working with NFTs, generative AI, and the role of curation in our multi-platform world.

This conversation is part of open-ended design’s Technology & Design Lab in partnership with London Design Festival 2022. The mission is to connect visionary creatives and technologists, to catalyse, seed and build around new ideas. In this series, we are asking the question: “In an age of disruption and innovation: where do we go next?”

For future events, follow open-ended design on Instagram, subscribe to our newsletter, or visit openended.design.

The Technology & Design Lab was been generously supported by Google, The House of KOKO, WeTransfer, Gaia Art Foundation, and Lito.io.

In this conversation, Tom Dixon OBE (Tom Dixon), Karen Kang (TikTok), and Amon Kale (Central Saint Martins, LVMH) consider the role of creatives across digital platforms. They discuss the ways in which creativity is being decentralised, the role of social media in increasing access, and what is meant by an “authentic” brand voice.

This conversation is part of open-ended design’s Technology & Design Lab in partnership with London Design Festival 2022. The mission is to connect visionary creatives and technologists, to catalyse, seed and build around new ideas. In this series, we are asking the question: “In an age of disruption and innovation: where do we go next?”

For future events, follow open-ended design on Instagram, subscribe to our newsletter, or visit openended.design.

The Technology & Design Lab has been generously supported by Google, The House of KOKO, WeTransfer, Gaia Art Foundation, and Lito.io.