The future of Calm Tech w/ Amber Case
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Join us for a talk and in depth discussion with the groundbreaking technologist, designer and thought leader Amber Case.
Amber will be sharing insights from her years of work on Calm Tech. We'll learn about how the design of technologies and devices impact the mind and how we can create more responsible, calmer technological futures.
Come with your deepest curiosity and questions...
More about our guest speaker:
Amber Case studies the interactions between humans and technology, and how technology affects culture.
Case is an internationally recognized design advocate and speaker, and the author of four books, including Calm Technology and A Kids Book About Technology. She spent two years as a fellow at MIT’s Center for Civic Media and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and was a 2021 Mozilla Fellow.
Named one of Inc. Magazine’s 30 under 30 and Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology, she was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2012 and received the Claude Shannon Innovation Award from Bell Labs. She was the co-founder and CEO of Geoloqi, a location-based software company acquired by Esri.
Case is the founder of The Calm Tech Institute, a foundation that exists to establish new standards for designing harmonious human-tech interactions that improve our lives. She works on design, governance, and AI through her position as a Research Director at the Metagovernance Project.
You can follow her work on Medium: https://medium.com/@caseorganic and on X @caseorganic.
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The future of Calm Tech w/ Amber Case