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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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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?”
Hosted by open-ended & LabKO

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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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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