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SPEAKING AGENTS
Dr. Seymour is a high profile global speaker with an extraordinary ability to create synergies between science, technology, society, and art.
She is currently represented by:
Singularity University, Expert, Biotechnology, Distributed Ledger Technology, Computing, Governance & Faculty Member Portugal (speaker profile video), USA & Portugal, since 2020
A-Speaker, Futurist Keynote Speaker on Ethical Innovation, USA & Denmark, since 2025
She was previously represented by:
Zukunftsinstitut, Professional Speaker (speaker profile video in German), Germany, 2019 – 2023
keynotes & Panels
2025
Wild Ideas For The Next 10 Years, Waves of Change, Biarritz, France, 2025
IEEE Women in Engineering, Toronto, Canada, online, 2025
2024
Unlocking the Power of Data: Data, AI and Innovation for Climate and Biodiversity Solutions, Ethical Assembly, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024
Innovation, Extreme Hangout, Cascais, Portugal, 2024
The Economics Of Data Sovereignty: Democratizing Data, Iot & Data Driven Business Models, Singularity University Executive Academy, San Francisco, USA, 2024
Data Design: Environmental data and the body, Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh, UK, 2024
Digital Fairness, Data for Good, Laura Bassi 4.0 Conference, Vienna, Austria, 2024
2023
Urban Street Food – literally! with René Zimmermann, Vienna Design Week, Austria, 2023
European Leadership Academy, NextGenChangeMakers, Brussels, Belgium, 2023
Futur/io Executive Programme for Regenerative Futures, Lisbon, Portugal, 2023
2021
Digital Humanism: Data, Inclusion, and Body Sensors, Technical University, Vienna, 2021
Data Cooperatives, Coop Summit, online, 2021
Data Cooperatives, Digitale Montagsrunde Wien, online, 2021
2020
Singularity University Virtual CoVid-19 Summit, online, 2020
2019
Architectural Digest Summit on Sustainability, Munich, Germany 2019
Tokenizing the Creator’s Content, Medientage, Munich, Germany 2019
Positive and Mindful Leadership Summit, London, UK 2019
Meet the unexpected Healthcare Disruptors, Cannes Lions, France 2019
Tokenizing the Body, World Web Forum, Blockchain track, Zurich, Switzerland 2019
2018
Tokenizing the Body, Blockchain Party Boat @ Web Summit, Lisboa, Portugal 2018
Tokenizing the Body, Keynote, DMEXCO, Cologne, Germany 2018
Dada Data, Resident, House of Beautiful Business, Lisboa, Portugal 2018
Data & Sports, WT @ ISPO, Munich, Germany 2018
SUPA, Flying Lab Lufthansa, onboard to CES, Las Vegas, USA 2018
Sensor, Japanese Society, New York USA 2018
2017
Artificial Intelligence is the Future of Fashion, SXSW, curated the panel, Austin, USA 2017
2016
Wear, Boston, USA 2016
Creative Tech Week, New York, USA 2016
The Evolution of Smart Textiles, Wearable Technology @ ISPO, Munich, Germany 2016
Keynote at the Opening of Fashion + Technology program, University of Applied Arts, Linz, Austria 2016
2015
Sensors, Computational Fashion Salon, Soho House, curated and moderated the panel, New York, USA 2015
Pioneer Mode, New York, USA 2015
Watch This Space: The Future of Wearables, Internet Week, New York, USA 2015
This Year’s Model: Fashion Design, Technology, and Wearables, Bklyn Designs, New York, USA 2015
Craft and 3D Printing, 3D Print Show, moderated the panel, New York, USA 2015
Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Technology, Lux Research Executive Summit, Boston, USA 2015
What Does An Art and Design Incubator Look Like? SXSW Next Stage, Austin, USA 2015
Finalist, SXSW Accelerator Wearable Technologies, Austin, USA 2015
2014
Computational Fashion Salon: Where Digital Bespoke meets Traditional Craft, Soho House, 2014
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 2014
The Beauty of the Augmented Second Skin, TEDx Transmedia, Geneva, Switzerland 2014
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 & The New School 2014
Computational Fashion: The Next Generation Wearables, by Rising Minds, Soho House, New York, USA 2014
New Paradigms of Interaction for Computational Fashion, d:Tech, Cornell University, New York, USA 2014
Fashion x Technology, organized by Made for Milk Studios, New York, USA 2014
Brandinnovators at Fashion Week, with Meg Burich (Adidas), New York, USA 2014
Computational Fashion, Zero Power Smart Fashion, New York, USA 2014
WEARTECHCON: Art+Design of Wearable Tech Startups - Design of Wearables Series, San Francisco, USA 2014
Keynote, Tech Couture. How Design Tech is Transforming the World of Fashion, Design Night, Autodesk, San Francisco, USA 2014
Keynote, Wearing a Sound Perfume, I am Digital, Wearable Technology Conference, New York, USA 2014
Opening The Skin as Metaphor, Computational Fashion Masterclass, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, hosted at NYU Poly, USA 2014
Second Skin, Golden Seeds Investor Forum, New York, USA 2014
Second Skin, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Nanoelectronics Devices Laboratory (Nanolab), Lausanne, Switzerland 2014
Wearable Technology, Reimagineering Ideation Summit, Disney, Los Angeles, USA 2014
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 2014
The Skin as Metaphor, Leaders in Software and Art, New York, USA 2014
Second Skin, Textile Innovation Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2014
Who Designed Marilyn's Dress? Impact, Craft and Future of Film, with Francis Bitoni et al., NYU Steinhardt,
New York, USA 2014
Intellectual Property in Fashiontech, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center / Computational Fashion, curated and moderated the panel, New York, USA 2014
Decoded Fashion Meetup, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA 2014
Fashion & Technology, Wearable Demo Day, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center / Computational Fashion, curated and moderated the panel, New York, USA 2014
2013
Fashionable Technology, School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland 2013
The Skin as Metaphor, Fiber Science & Apparel Design, College of Human Ecology, Cornell, Ithaca, USA 2013
The Skin as Metaphor, Fashion Innovations, Arnhem Fashion Biennial, The Netherlands 2013
The Body as Metaphor, Smart Fabrics, San Francisco, CA, USA 2013
Solo The Skin as Metaphor, SXSW, Austin, TX, USA 2013
2012
The Skin As Metaphor Computational Textile Interfaces, Material Innovation, Bregenz, Austria 2012
Special Guest at Opening, Technosensual – the Future of Fashion, Vienna, Austria 2012
Functional Aesthetics: Commercial Fashion with Technology, Texworld USA, New York, USA 2012
2011
* Amplification of Energy, Ambience11, Boras, Sweden 2011
Networked Fashion, European Cultural Capital, Tallinn, Estonia 2011
Functional Aesthetics, Future Textiles, Herring, Denmark 2011
Functional Aesthetics, Smart Fabrics, London, UK 2011
2010
Functional Aesthetics, TEDxVienna, Vienna, Austria 2010
Functional Aesthetics, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 2010
Functional Aesthetics, V2 Expert Meeting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2010
2009
Fashionable Technology, Kepler Salon, Linz, Austria 2009
Fashionable Technology, BIG Design Conference, Ljubjana, Slovenia 2009
Fashionable Technology, Coded Cultures, Yokohama, Japan 2009
The Future of Fashion Retail, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria 2009
Fashionable Technology, Wearable Technology – Powered Art and Fashion Design, 5 days-off Festival, Netherland New Media Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2009
Functional Aesthetics: Fashionable Wearables as Aesthetic Interaction Interfaces, Coded Cultures, Vienna, Austria 2009
Fashionable Technology, V2, Test_lab: Fashionable Technology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2009
Fashionable Technology: Aktuelle Beispiele Medialer Interfaces in der Mode, Fashion in Context, Vienna, Austria 2009
2008
Fujifilm ZSpotNow: Fashion & Technology, New York, USA 2008
Fashionable Technology, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria 2008
Fashionable Technology oder Ein Chip zum Anziehen, designforum Vorarlberg, Bregenz, Austria 2008
Fashionable Technology, R/GA, New York, USA 2008
Fashionable Technology, New York University, Skirball New Media Center, New York, USA 2008
The Garment as Interface, Macy’s, New York, USA 2008
2007
Function and Aesthetics in Fashionable Wearables, 6. Deutscher Designtag, Berlin, Germany 2007
*Designing for the extended body – Hearing aids and transitive materials, Ubicomp 2007, Innsbruck, Austria 2007
Fashionable Technology - The Impact of Design on Innovations, Smart Textiles, Washington, DC, USA 2007
2006
The Epidermis as Interface – Dynamic Textile Surfaces, Interface and Society, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway 2006
Collaborations and Innovations in Fashionable Technology, Fleshing Out, V2 & Virtuell Platform, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2006
Lecture: Emotionelle Kleidung – aus der Wunderkiste, Design-Tagung, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 2006
Digitale Technologien und Handwerk , Mittwochsvision, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 2006
2005
The Epidermis as Metaphor, The Essential Balance of Function and Aesthetic Appeal, FO.AM Softwear, Brussels, Belgium 2005
How to Design Intelligent Clothing for Winter Sports, World Winter Forum, Vienna, Austria 2005
Interface Cultures, Mensch und Computer 2005 - Kunst und Wissenschaft - Grenzüberschreitung der Interaktiven Art, Linz, Austria 2005
The Epidermis as Metaphor: The Art of Creating Intelligent Clothing, 3rd International Avantex-Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany 2005
2004
Mobile Communication vs Pervasive Computing: The Role of Handhelds, Mobile HCI 2004, Glasgow, UK 2004
Fashionable Technology, Banff New Media Institute, Outside/Inside: Boundary Crossings A Wearable Design Workshop, Inside/Outside: Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence, Banff, Canada 2004
Fashionable Technology, Netzwerkstoffe, Luzern, Switzerland 2004
Wearable Experience, ISEA 2004, Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland 2004
2003
SlopeStyle, Viper, Basel, Switzerland 2003
ACAR/2 - An Academy for Interactive Crafts, Basel, Switzerland 2003
New Media Education, Questions of Future, RAM3 - Reclaiming Cultural Territory in New Media, Tallinn, Estonia 2003
Poster, SlopeStyle, ISWC2003, White Plains, USA 2003
2002
The Epidermic Interface: New Directions in Wearable Technology and Fashion, Numer02, Paris, France 2002
2001
Fashionable Technology, Interstanding4: end repeat, Tallinn, Estonia 2001
Multi-Channel Project Management, WPM, New York, USA 2001
Pervasive Computing, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, USA 2001
E-Fashion, E-Fashion Symposia, Parsons School for Design, New York, USA 2001
2000
Designing the Mobile Experience, Internet World, New York, USA 2000
1998
Face Settings: Face2Face: Körper, Identität und Gemeinschaft um Cyberspace, Graz, Austria 1998
Neue Medien – neue Möglichkeiten, Zwischen Kritik und Kommerz, medianexus.net, Vienna, Austria 1998