Sabine Seymour

Dr. Sabine Seymour – dubbed Regenerative Punk – focuses on the wisdom of data for a regenerative lifestyle. She is a data economist, body sensorist, and creative scientist focused on biometric and environmental data and conscious artificial intelligence. She is a synthesist with intellectual curiosity and assembles eclectic teams of scientists, artists, technologists, and economists to empower financially, socially, and environmentally just endeavors. She is the co-founder and chairwoman of PONY EARTH The Art of Biodiversity and questions how much is my biometric data worth with MOONDIAL dba SUPA. Dr. Seymour is described as a visionary, holistic thinker, and interdisciplinary rebel which is reflected in her work as an award winning entrepreneur, seasoned board member, renowned keynote speaker, Singularity University faculty member, and as a best-selling author coined the term fashiontech.

Dr. Seymour has been on the forefront of science and technology since the mid-90s when she exhibited at Ars Electronica and was featured as an exemplary for her life’s work at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. She was the inaugural professor of Fashionable Technology at Parsons School of Design in New York, chaired Computational Fashion at Eyebeam funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, and curated successful exhibitions ranging from the Science Museum to Fashion Week and corporate events for VFC. She was awarded the Michael Kalil Fellowship for Smart Design and appeared in documentaries about her work by ORF, NBC, PBS, Forbes, New York Times on TV and online. Dr. Seymour is an extreme sports athlete and built her first wearable – a helmet as a game controller – in 1996.

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Sabine Seymour is able to successfully explain complex concepts to audiences around the world in a somewhat "disruptive" way. She used the nearby beach to explain data. It shows an unusual capacity to adapt and use of resources and the context around her in any situation. She is the perfect combination to motivate and showcase the need for a different mindset. A mindset that will definitely prepare us for the future. 

Diogo Lobo de Carvalho, Director Singularity University Portugal

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Clients include Disney, Autodesk, NASA, Audi, Lufthansa, BMW, Viscom, E.on, Energiewirtschaft.

BOARD MEMBER & ADVISOR. I like to enable visions. I serve as a board member and adviser for technology (data, AI, wearables) driven companies in health, food, fashion (design), and extreme sports. I joined food allergy startup Alerje as Technical Advisor and I served as the vice chairperson for polypoly data cooperative and was a board member at the European Cultural Center.

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CURATOR. I curate art and science. I was the Chair of the Rockefeller Foundation funded Computational Fashion Research Initiative at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York. I guest curated the MAK Fashion Lab at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna with the exhibitions Scientific Skin and Sonic Fabric.

PROFESSOR AND RESEARCHER. I share my research. I was the inaugural professor and director of the Fashionable Technology Lab at Parsons School of Design in New York. I was an inaugural faculty member at Interface Culture at the University of Arts in Linz and re-joined as a guest professor and researcher focusing on new data governance based on an ethical management of data can ensure users to gain both privacy and financial value. I led various research projects including BODYMETAPHOR with co-researcher Miriam Steele at the New School of Social Research, conceived Computational Cellulose at Aalto University.

ENTREPRENEUR. I like setting up new ventures. I founded my first think tank MOONDIAL in 1998 in New York and 2007 in Vienna. MOONDIAL is a think tank and boutique consultancy exploring the intersection of sensors, data, and the body focused on digital health and green tech to achieve a regenerative lifestyle. I co-founded the PONY EARTH Foundation to finance the recovery of agricultural biodiversity worldwide for a resilient food production and to reduce the effects of climate change on our planet and in turn the human body. SUPA® is tokenizing biometric and environmental data to democratize healthcare. What is the impact of climate change on our health? How much is our biometric data worth? SUPA was launched in 2016 at Demo Day at NewInc after winning the WomenWhoTech Challenge in New York in 2015. Forbes produced a video about SUPA Apparel as Data Platform and Mercedes used it in an original movie.

PROFESSIONAL POSITION. I join visionary teams. In April 2020 I joined polypoly and co-founded the polypoly data cooperative to explore data sovereignty and privacy by design. In the very early days of the Internet (as early as 1996) I worked as Client Partner, Mobility Specialist at Razorfish (the original one on Mercer Street in New York), and had various stints from programming Java to leading the creative team for Nike Running at R/GA, Hewlett-Packard, and Open Systems in New York, Vienna, and Zurich.

AUTHOR. I write books. Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Fashion, Design, Science, and Technology (Springer, 2008), Functional Aesthetics (Springer, 2010), and Computational Fashion (2014). I currently work on a new publication with the working title Notes from a Social Datavist™. Forbes invited me to write an opinion piece about Artificial Intelligence and leadership.

MENTOR AND JUROR. I like to provide feedback. In June 2018 I became an expert reviewer for the European Commission. I was also a StartUp mentor at NEWINC incubator, Vienna Economic Agency Creative Industries, and juror at organizations like the German Design Award and Ars Electronica.

AWARDS. People like what I do. I received numerous awards including the Michael Kalil Fellowship for Smart Design in 2000. I was a Tory Burch Foundation Fellow Finalist. And I was featured as an exemplary for my life’s work at the Museum of Applied Arts 150 years anniversary exhibition in Vienna in 2014.

PRESS. I got some street cred. I was called inventor of the future by Cool Hunting and have been featured in Wired, Vogue, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Der Standard and appeared on PBS, NBC, and ORF.

EDUCATION. I got some schooling. I hold a PhD and joint-MSc/MBA in Economics and Social Sciences from Vienna University of Economics and Columbia Business School in New York, and a Master in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.