Exploring the ethics of product development

** We'll be using Video Facilitator for this session, which will allow us to self organise into breakout groups. You will need to join using Chrome Web Browser. If you've not used it before, you may want to jump on a couple of minutes early to check your setup. You can find out more at https://www.videofacilitator.com/help.html

Thanks to LAST Anywhere for donating the Video Facilitator account for this session - Check out their website to find out more about their Lean, Agile and Systems Thinking online presentations and workshops https://www.lastconference.com/anywhere/

Join us for our first fully-online event: an interactive session exploring ethics surrounding the development of some products and services. There are strictly limited places available, so please make sure to keep your RSVP is up-to-date if you can no longer attend.

"Am I in an episode of Black Mirror? "

Are you ethics-curious? Laura Summers is. She will tell you she's not a moral philosophy expert but she saw a need to help teams elicit and compare their moral intuitions. What are our guardrails around data privacy? How much diversity is 'enough'? Is it possible to normalise ethics conversations so that they can become part of the daily product work?

To encourage and facilitate those conversations, Laura has developed Ethics Litmus Tests - a deck of cards with provocations and prompts to get our ethics juices flowing: https://www.ethical-litmus.site/

This will be an interactive session with lots of conversations, breakout rooms and practice scenarios for us to explore! Online link will be made available closer to the event.

Laura Summers is a multi-disciplinary designer researching technology ethics and building tools to promote fair machine learning. She recently founded Debias AI (debias.ai) and is the human behind Ethics Litmus Tests (ethical-litmus.site), fairXiv (fairxiv.org), the Melbourne Fair ML reading group (groups.io/g/fair-ml). Laura is passionate about feminism, digital rights and designing for privacy. She speaks, writes and runs workshops at the intersection of design and technology.

Huge thanks to our sponsors StarRez, Affix, and Everest Engineering for supporting us during these times.