Humane Tech London Meetup #6

Join us for the last Humane Tech London event of 2019. Another night of entertaining talks and lively discussions about how we make technology work better for us.

Talks range from ethical considerations and the digital attention crisis to building humane tech products and individual digital wellbeing.

Our speakers, passionate about the direction technology is headed, are...

Sarah Drinkwater
Director, Tech & Society at Omidyar Network
As a director on the beneficial technology team, Sarah works help technologists prevent, mitigate, and correct societal downsides of technology—and maximize positive impact.
Prior to Omidyar Network, Sarah was head of Campus London, Google's first physical startup hub offering innovative education programs, a work and event space, and access to a vibrant startup community. Campus London was a pilot that has since scaled to six locations around the world, including Seoul and Sao Paulo. At Google, Sarah also built and led a global Google Maps community team.

Sarah previously worked in community and content roles for early-stage startups in Europe. She also advised brands such as Nokia on their social strategy and was a journalist for newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian.

Sarah received her MA in Renaissance to Enlightenment from University College London. She earned her BA in English literature from the University of Reading.

Paul Marsden
Chartered Psychologist, University of the Arts, London
Dr Paul Marsden is a chartered psychologist researching the impact of digital technology on psychological wellbeing. He lectures in psychology at UAL and works as a consultant psychologist to WPP Digital and consumer brands on ‘positive innovation’ that is designed to foster and facilitate wellness and wellbeing. He curates digitalwellbeing.org, a knowledge-base of scientific evidence on the influence of tech on wellbeing.

Jane Murray
Founder, CEO at Peacebeam
Founder of Peacebeam Jane is a former lawyer who has spent her career specializing in venture capital and ran a fund for a couple of decades. Jane oversaw investments in start-up/early stage companies in a broad cross sector of industry. With first hand experience of the world of cut-throat competition, individualism and isolationism and having seen the impacts of those paradigms amplified by technology she founded Peacebeam in 2016. Peacebeam is a digital publisher working at the intersection of technology, wisdom and interconnection. Jane is passionate about reimagining the role of the entrepreneur and the company and creating a new economic story by experimenting with value and capital with start-up, Peacebeam and has recently authored The Path of the Entrepreneur, Understanding Your Shadow, for the London School of Economics accelerator LSE Generate. With digital wellbeing becoming a buzzword, she sees that in order to ensure that technology is humane, there needs to be an evolution from the pursuit of wellbeing to the pursuit of worldbeing.

Format...
18:30 – Doors open
19:00 – Intros and welcomes
19:15 – Talk #1
19:35 – Talk #2
19:55 – Talk #3
20:15 – Discussions

With support from Futurice, The Wholesome Technology Company and the Humane Tech Community.

Come join us.

We can't wait to meet you!
Fraser