Unintended Consequences, Tech Ethics and Human-Centered Design
TheBridge has partnered with All Tech is Human on a discussion about how to get designers and technologists to better consider unintended consequences and ethics when developing products & services. The conversation will be with Sheryl Cababa, VP of Strategy at Substantial, and Raina Kumra, Partner at The Fund LA and CEO of Juggernaut, moderated by David Ryan Polgar, founder of All Tech Is Human. Join and ask your questions, register here.
Friday, June 12, at 10am PT/1pm ET
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SHERYL CABABA
Sheryl Cababa is a multi-disciplinary VP with more than two decades of experience. She grew her craft as Executive Creative Director at Artefact and prior to that, was a designer at Frog and Adaptive Path. At Substantial, she works with all sorts of interesting people and companies, conducting design strategy and research. She believes the practice of design needs to be more outcomes-focused, and designers and technologists need to take greater responsibility for their work by considering unintended consequences. She pushes for design to be more transparent, meaningful, and ethical.
Sheryl is an international speaker and workshop facilitator. She has plenty of experience running design strategy workshops and leading projects. In the end, she’s all not just orienting around a human-centered approach to design, but also investigating the understanding of systems and outcomes to improve people's lives.
When she’s not in the office, she can be found at the University of Washington helping educate the next generation of Human-Centered Design and Engineering students or attending a board meeting for Design in Public.
RAINA KUMRA
Raina Kumra is a partner at The Fund LA, an early stage venture firm, CEO of Juggernaut, a brand movement agency an organizational change bureau. As a tech ethics advocate she just launched this course to help makers, investors and consumers to get up to speed on data ethics.
She is a Member of the Ad Council’s Issue Advisory Board and a mentor at Tech Stars LA. In the past she has led strategy and investments for the Technology Ethics portfolio at Omidyar Network and co-founded Mavin, an app engagement platform. She served in The Obama Administration as Co-Director of Innovation at the BBG, and with the U.S. Department of State. Prior to that, Raina led Digital at Wieden+Kennedy New York and spent over a decade in advertising at BBH and R/GA. Raina holds degrees from Boston University, NYU’s ITP and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
ALL TECH IS HUMAN
All Tech Is Human is an accelerator for tech consideration and hub for the Responsible Tech movement. By promoting knowledge-sharing & collaboration among a broad range of stakeholders, we aim to lessen the gap between how quickly we develop and deploy emerging technology and how slowly we consider its use, misuse, and unintended consequences. By leveraging the collective intelligence of the community, we can build a more thoughtful tech future. Sign-up for the All Tech Is Human newsletter.
THEBRIDGE
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