speaking & thinking

I have been honoured with multiple opportunities to speak and write about topics that are near and dear to my heart.

If you’d like me to speak at your event or office about one of the following topics, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Speaking

Topics I have spoken about stretch across my experiences building fire art, living as relationship anarchist, and desiging for privacy medical devices.

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University of San Diego - Ethics in AI 2021: AAI 531 Module 2

Making Decisions on Purpose; Video conversation

In this conversation, I chat with Dr. Maritza Johnson M.S., Ph.D., about value-centred design and why it's so important to make decisions in alignment with your values.

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TEDx Markham Public Library 2015

S3FA’s Guide to Lighting Your World on Fire; TED X talk

In this talk, I go over three guidelines and a few lessons I’ve learned along the way about how to set your life on fire, unleashing your own passion for discovery and design.

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Las Vegas IAPP 2019: International Association of Privacy Professionals

Improving Engineering Outcomes with Scalable Privacy Knowledge; Live presentation & panel

At this event, our team shared insights from our experience designing privacy features for an Android app that controls an insulin pump.

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TNW Amsterdam: Couch Conference 2020

Dev-Ine Ops: The Dev and Design Operations you were looking for; Remote live presentation

With my partner in technology Omer Wazir, we dive into our principles for creating operations that enable blended design & technilogy scrum teams to succeed when building meaningful experiences.

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Have You Been Crying? Podcast 2020 

Suddenly, polyamory; Podcast interview

In this podcast interview, I share with Harjot and Maxinne my experience living a personal life that deviates from commonly accepted social norms. 

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What She Said! Podcast 2017

Interactive Fire Art With Trish Lamanna; Radio and Podcast Interview

In this podcast interview, Kris Abel and I talk about the experiences of building interactive fire art.

Thinking

Read through my exhaustive thinking on a variety of topics and research within my industry experiences.

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Medium: UX Community Publication

Dev-Ine Ops: The Development and Design Operations you were looking for

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Research and White paper

The how, why and insights from Visual Design Testing

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Medium article

The Pressure is Good For You 💎💎
Untold Stories from the Design System

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Medium article

Innovation is boring.
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