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INVITED KEYNOTES & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

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2024
Panel Innovation, Extreme Hangout Cascais, Portugal
Data Design: Environmental data and the body, Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh, UK
Digital Fairness, Data for Good, Laura Bassi 4.0 Conference, Vienna, Austria

2023
Urban Street Food – literally! with René Zimmermann, Vienna Design Week, Austria

2021
Digital Humanism: Data, Inclusion, and Body Sensors, Technical University, Vienna
Data Cooperatives, Coop Summit, online
Data Cooperatives, Digitale Montagsrunde Wien, online

2020
Singularity University Virtual CoVid-19 Summit, online

2019
AD Summit, Munich, Germany
Tokenizing the Creator’s Content, Medientage, Munich, Germany
Positive and Mindful Leadership Summit, London, UK
Meet the unexpected Healthcare Disruptors, Cannes Lions, France
Tokenizing the Body, World Web Forum, Blockchain track, Zurich, Switzerland

2018
Tokenizing the Body, Blockchain Party Boat @ Web Summit, Lisboa, Portugal
Tokenizing the Body, Keynote, DMEXCO, Cologne, Germany
Dada Data, Resident, House of Beautiful Business, Lisboa, Portugal
Data & Sports, WT @ ISPO, Munich, Germany
SUPA, Flying Lab Lufthansa, onboard to CES, Las Vegas, USA
Sensor, Japanese Society, New York USA

2017
Artificial Intelligence is the Future of Fashion, SXSW, curated the panel, Austin, USA

2016
Wear, Boston, USA, May
Creative Tech Week, New York, USA, April
The Evolution of Smart Textiles, Wearable Technology @ ISPO, Munich, Germany
Keynote at the Opening of Fashion + Technology program, University of Applied Arts, Linz, Austria

2015
Sensors, Computational Fashion Salon, Soho House, curated and moderated the panel, New York, USA
Pioneer Mode, New York, USA
Watch This Space: The Future of Wearables, Internet Week, New York, USA
This Year’s Model: Fashion Design, Technology, and Wearables, Bklyn Designs, New York, USA
Craft and 3D Printing, 3D Print Show, moderated the panel, New York, USA
Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Technology, Lux Research Executive Summit, Boston, USA
What Does An Art and Design Incubator Look Like? SXSW Next Stage, Austin, USA
Finalist, SXSW Accelerator Wearable Technologies, Austin, USA

2014
Computational Fashion Salon: Where Digital Bespoke meets Traditional Craft, Soho House, curated and moderated the panel, New York, USA
Interconnected, A Global Summit on Wearables & Retail Innovation, organized by Decoded Fashion, New York, USA
Visionary: Inspiration, Incubation & Realization, 16th Annual New York Fashion Conference, organized by Initiatives in Art and Culture, with Sarah Scaturro (The Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art), Joris Debo (Materialise), et al., New York, USA
The Beauty of the Augmented Second Skin, TEDx Transmedia, Geneva, Switzerland
Organizer and The Physical Impact of Wearing Technology, Wearing Technology: cultural and psychological impacts of tech on the body, organized by Eyebeam Art + Technology Center / Computational Fashion and The New School
Computational Fashion: The Next Generation Wearables, organized by Rising Minds, Soho House, New York, USA
New Paradigms of Interaction for Computational Fashion, d:Tech, Cornell University, New York, USA
Fashion x Technology, organized by Made for Milk Studios, New York, USA
Brandinnovators at Fashion Week, with Meg Burich (Adidas), New York, USA
Computational Fashion, Zero Power Smart Fashion, New York, USA
WEARTECHCON: Art+Design of Wearable Tech Startups – Design of Wearables Series, San Francisco, USA
Keynote, Tech Couture. How Design Tech is Transforming the World of Fashion, Design Night, Autodesk, San Francisco, USA
Keynote, Wearing a Sound Perfume, I am Digital, Wearable Technology Conference, New York, USA
Opening The Skin as Metaphor, Computational Fashion Masterclass, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, hosted at NYU Poly, USA
Second Skin, Golden Seeds Investor Forum, New York, USA
Second Skin, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Nanoelectronics Devices Laboratory (Nanolab), Lausanne, Switzerland
Wearable Technology, Reimagineering Ideation Summit, Disney, Los Angeles, USA
Computational Fashion, 3D printing for the Body, Internet Week, moderated the panel with Bradley Rothenberg, Duann Scott (Shapeways), Gabi Asfour, Joris Debro (Materialise), New York, USA
The Skin as Metaphor, Leaders in Software and Art, New York
Second Skin, Textile Innovation Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Who Designed Marilyn’s Dress? Impact, Craft and Future of Film, with Francis Bitoni et al., NYU Steinhardt, New York, USA
Intellectual Property in Fashiontech, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center / Computational Fashion, curated and moderated the panel, New York, USA
Decoded Fashion Meetup, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA
Fashion & Technology, Wearable Demo Day, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center / Computational Fashion, curated and moderated the panel, New York, USA

2013
Fashionable Technology, School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
The Skin as Metaphor, Fiber Science & Apparel Design, College of Human Ecology, Cornell, Ithaca, USA
The Skin as Metaphor, Fashion Innovations, Arnhem Fashion Biennial, The Netherlands
The Body as Metaphor, Smart Fabrics, San Francisco, CA, USA
Solo The Skin as Metaphor, SXSW, Austin, TX, USA

2012
The Skin As Metaphor Computational Textile Interfaces, Material Innovation, Bregenz, Austria
Special Guest at Opening, Technosensual – the Future of Fashion, Vienna, Austria
Functional Aesthetics: Commercial Fashion with Technology, Texworld USA, New York, USA

2011
Amplification of Energy, Ambience11, Boras, Sweden
Networked Fashion, European Cultural Capital, Tallinn, Estonia
Functional Aesthetics, Future Textiles, Herring, Denmark
Functional Aesthetics, Smart Fabrics, London, UK
 
2010
Functional Aesthetics, TEDxVienna, Vienna, Austria
Functional Aesthetics, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Functional Aesthetics, V2 Expert Meeting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 
2009
Fashionable Technology, Kepler Salon, Linz, Austria
Fashionable Technology, BIG Design Conference, Ljubjana, Slovenia
Fashionable Technology, Coded Cultures, Yokohama, Japan
The Future of Fashion Retail, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
Fashionable Technology, Wearable Technology – Powered Art and Fashion Design, 5 days-off Festival and Netherland New Media Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Functional Aesthetics: Fashionable Wearables as Aesthetic Interaction Interfaces, Coded Cultures, Vienna, Austria
Fashionable Technology, V2, Test_lab: Fashionable Technology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Fashionable Technology: Aktuelle Beispiele Medialer Interfaces in der Mode, Fashion in Context, Vienna, Austria
 
2008
Fujifilm ZSpotNow: Fashion & Technology, New York, USA
Fashionable Technology, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
Fashionable Technology oder Ein Chip zum Anziehen, designforum Vorarlberg, Bregenz, Austria
Fashionable Technology, R/GA, New York, USA
Fashionable Technology, New York University, Skirball New Media Center, New York, USA
The Garment as Interface, Macy’s, New York, USA
 
2007
Function and Aesthetics in Fashionable Wearables, 6. Deutscher Designtag, Berlin, Germany
*Designing for the extended body – Hearing aids and transitive materials, Ubicomp 2007, Innsbruck, Austria
Fashionable Technology – The Impact of Design on Innovations, Smart Textiles, Washington, DC, USA
 
2006
Invited lecture: The Epidermis as Interface – Dynamic Textile Surfaces, Interface and Society, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway
Collaborations and Innovations in Fashionable Technology, Fleshing Out, V2 & Virtuell Platform, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lecture: Emotionelle Kleidung – aus der Wunderkiste, Design-Tagung, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Digitale Technologien und Handwerk , Mittwochsvision, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
 
2005
The Epidermis as Metaphor, The Essential Balance of Function and Aesthetic Appeal, FO.AM Softwear, Brussels, Belgium
How to Design Intelligent Clothing for Winter Sports, World Winter Forum, Vienna, Austria
Interface Cultures, Mensch und Computer 2005 – Kunst und Wissenschaft – Grenzüberschreitung der Interaktiven Art, Linz, Austria
The Epidermis as Metaphor: The Art of Creating Intelligent Clothing, 3rd International Avantex-Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany
 
2004
Mobile Communication vs Pervasive Computing: The Role of Handhelds, Mobile HCI 2004, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Fashionable Technology, Banff New Media Institute, Outside/Inside: Boundary Crossings A Wearable Design Workshop, Inside/Outside: Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence, Banff, Canada
Fashionable Technology, Netzwerkstoffe, Luzern, Switzerland
Wearable Experience, ISEA 2004, Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland
 
2003
SlopeStyle, Viper, Basel, Switzerland
ACAR/2 – An Academy for Interactive Crafts, Basel, Switzerland
New Media Education – Questions of Future, RAM3 – Reclaiming Cultural Territory in New Media, Tallinn, Estonia
Poster, SlopeStyle, ISWC2003, White Plains, USA
 
2002
The Epidermic Interface: New Directions in Wearable Technology and Fashion, Numer02, Paris, France
 
2001
Fashionable Technology, Interstanding4: end repeat, Tallinn, Estonia
Multi-Channel Project Management, WPM, New York, USA
Pervasive Computing, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, USA
E-Fashion, E-Fashion Symposia, Parsons School for Design, New York, USA
 
2000
Designing the Mobile Experience, Internet World, New York, USA
 
1998
Face Settings: Face2Face: Körper, Identität und Gemeinschaft um Cyberspace, Graz, Austria
Neue Medien – neue Möglichkeiten, Zwischen Kritik und Kommerz, medianexus.net, Vienna, Austria