Tomorrow night, I’m very happy to attend the first ever ITA Awards ceremony organised by Inclusive Boards as I’ve been nominated for the ‘Tech Evangelist of the year’ award. It’s not exactly a title I’m completely comfortable with as I’m not a corporate evangelist, selling a product. I have however dedicated much of my career… Continue reading ITA Awards Nominee
Post-it note included in OZCHI’19 academic paper
I attended a workshop in Chemnitz by the German academic project Miteinander. At the end of it, I drew on a post-it note what I thought was the overlap and position of the six different internet of things card-based toolkits which had been presented. The image of that post-it has been included in an academic… Continue reading Post-it note included in OZCHI’19 academic paper
Interview included in ‘How to Mozfest’ book
I acted as producer for the 2011 and 2012 edition of the Mozilla Festival. My experience was captured in a paper publication given to this year’s attendees to celebrate 10 years of the festival. When I worked with the Mozilla Foundation, this was the first time the festival was set in London and in the… Continue reading Interview included in ‘How to Mozfest’ book
On BBC Front Row
I was asked to review the Barbican show AI: More Than Human on live radio for BBC Radio 4’s famous Front Row program. It was great fun to be interviewed by Stig Abel and with the address thrill of seeing The Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers (Mark Billingham, Val McDermid and Doug Johnstone) perform live in… Continue reading On BBC Front Row
Making it!?
I organised this one day conference on exploring ideas of success in making communities and makers in 2018. It was hosted at DoES Liverpool and sponsored by Barclay’s Eagle Labs and the European Union’s Regional Development Fund.