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.

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Speaking

Topics I have spoken about stretch from my experiences building large-scale fire art installations to desiging for privacy in Class II medical devices, and everything else inbetween.

Ethics in AI Module

Making Decisions on Purpose

In this conversation, Maritza Johnson and I chat 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

Site 3 Fire Arts’ Guide to Lighting Your World on Fire

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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IAPP: International Association of Privacy Professionals 2019

Improving Engineering Outcomes with Scalable Privacy Knowledge

Together with Good Research, we go over our insights in creating a privacy story for a class II medical device at Rangle.io.

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TNW: Couch Conference 2020

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

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 products.

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Have You Been Crying? Podcast 2020

Suddenly, polyamory

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