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, complete...

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 c...

In this conversation, artist and designer Es Devlin speaks with Suhair Khan about how to thoughtfully engage technology to push the boundaries of imagination across art, culture, and design.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 a...

We continue our planet focused season this week with curator Diana Campbell, who is committed to fostering a transnational art world. Championing socially engaged artistic practices of underrepresented artists and regions has earned her recognition on the annual ArtReviewPower100 list. 🏆Since 2013, Diana has served as the Founding Artistic Director of Dhaka-based Samdani Art Foundation, and Chief Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit. It is the highest daily visited contemporary art exhibition in t...

This week’s open-ended conversation is with the versatile Shloka Nath, head of sustainability and policy at Tata Trusts in Mumbai. Shloka Nath is a thought leader focused on funding climate in India across business and society.At the center of her work as the co-founder and Acting CEO of the India Climate Collaborative, is the question of how climate can be funded in the broader ecosystem in India.In this episode, Shloka speaks about connecting with nature, the wildlife book that inspired her...

This weeks conversation is with architect and teacher Hussam Dakkak. Hussam has been the founder and program director of the AA Jeddah Visiting School since 2015, which critically archives and studies Makkah, a city sacred to all Muslims and home to the holiest site in Islam, the Ka'aba. A historian and archivist, Hussam's work is political and sometimes subversive. He is a partner at Studio Bound, a design collaborative based between London and Saudi, and holds a masters in archite...

This weeks conversation is with Katie Patrick, an environmental engineer and software designer based in San Francisco. Katie works at the intersection of environmental behaviour, gamification, and technology, tackling complex environmental issues by applying data-driven game and behaviour-change techniques.Passionate about the power of gaming to save the planet, Katie is an author and podcast host, How to Save the World: How to make changing the world the greatest game ever played.She has col...

We kick off the new year with a conversation with multimedia artist Shezad Dawood, who works across the disciplines of painting, film, sculpture, performance, virtual reality and digital media. His work asks key questions of narrative, history, and embodiment, fusing artistic narratives with the issues of our time, challenging us to think about the future in new ways.Shezad has had an epic couple of years. Some of his recent projects include co-producing the...

This week’s Open/Ended conversation features Whitney Richardson, a creative visual strategist who uses technology, events and journalism to connect people around the world.Over the last few years, Whitney has produced live events for The New York Times across Europe to address the most pressing stories of our time: climate change, gender, tech, and culture.Whitney speaks about her work on one of the most ambitious live events in The New York Times's 170-year history, a series of 70+ virtual e...

To kick off Season 3, we are excited to welcome Anab Jain - designer, futurist and filmmaker.As co-founder of Superflux, Anab leads a seminal design practice that is responsive to the challenges and opportunities of this era.Anab and her team imagine and build future worlds for the present moment. They confront issues such as climate change and inequality, the emergence of artificial intelligence, and the future of work.And they collaborate in surprising ways, they’re currently working on new...