INVITED KEYNOTES & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

* denotes peer reviewed    

Wild Ideas For The Next 10 Years, Waves of Change, Biarritz, France, 2025
IEEE Women in Engineering, Toronto, Canada, online     2025

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

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

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

Singularity University Virtual CoVid-19 Summit, online    2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* 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

Functional Aesthetics, TEDxVienna, Vienna, Austria    2010
Functional Aesthetics, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria    2010
Functional Aesthetics, V2 Expert Meeting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands    2010

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

The Epidermic Interface: New Directions in Wearable Technology and Fashion, Numer02, Paris, France     2002

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

Designing the Mobile Experience, Internet World, New York, USA    2000

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

CHAIR / ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER / JURY

Jury Member, BestOFF, Exhibition, Linz, Austria     2019
Chair, Computational Fashion, Eyebeam Art+Technology Center, New York    2012 - 2016
Advisory Board, SXSW 2015 Accelerator, Austin, USA     2014-2015
Mentor, Interconnected, Global Summit, Wearables & Retail Innovation, Decoded Fashion, New York, USA     2014
Steering Committee, ZeroPower Smart Fashion, Event and Exhibition September 2014, New York, USA     2013-2014
Mentor, SXSW Decoded Fashion, Austin, USA    2014
Judge, Stichfest, UPenn, Philadelphia, USA    2014
Design Exhibition Juror, ISWC2012, International Symposium of Wearable Computing, Newcastle, UK    2012
Chair of Smart Textiles Committee, Ambience’11, Boras, Sweden    2010-11
Design Co-Chair, ISWC2009, Linz, Austria    2009
Jury Member, Prix Ars Electronica 2009, Linz, Austria    2009
Committee Member, Workshop on Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information Display at Pervasive2008 conference, Sydney, Australia     2008
Mentor for Multimedia, Departure, Expertenpool, Vienna, Austria     2007 - 2010
Jury member, YDMI Award, German Design Conference, Berlin, Germany     2007
Jugend Innovativ, Jury member for Design, Austria Wirtschaftsservice, Vienna, Austria     2007
International Programming Committee Member, ISEA, Helsinki, Finland & Tallinn, Estonia     2004
Steering Committee, Wearable Technology, NYNMA (New York New Media Association), New York     2002 – 2003

CURATORIAL WORK

Sense Color, PONY EARTH Regenerative Lifestyle Salon Series with MyCoocoon, Portugal     2024
The Taste of Biodiversity, PONY EARTH Regenerative Lifestyle Salon Series with Soho House, Portugal    2023
Co-Curator, Moderator, Initiator, Computational Fashion Salon: Where Digital Bespoke meets Traditional Craft, Presenters: Meredith Finkelstein Chang (PAOM), Jamal Motlagh (Acustom Apparel), Lauren Slowik (Shapeways), Soho House New York, USA    2014
Curator, Alex Murray-Leslie, Chicks on Speed, presentation at NewInc, New York, USA    2014
Guest Curator as Exemplary honored for life’s work, Fashion & Technology, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria    June 2014 – October 2014
Guest Curator, MAK Fashion Lab #02, Scientific Skin feat. Bare Conductive in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska (Textile as Skin), Curation of Video Collages: Artistic Explorations and Scientific Concepts, Curation of Skin as Textiles feat. Carol Christian Poell, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria,     October 2013 – February 2014
Curator, Fashion + Technology at NY Fashion Week Opening Ceremony BTW, commissioned by Cool Hunting, sponsored by Motorola/Google, New York, USA    September 2013
Guest Curator, MAK Fashion Lab #01, Sonic Fabric feat. BLESS N°45 Soundperfume engineered by Popkalab, Curation of Video Collages: Sonic Textiles, Sonic Body, Sonic Interaction, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria June 2013 – October 2013
Co-Curator (with Gabi Asfour) and Organizer, The Future of Orchestral Garments, Parsons The New School for Design + Mannes College The New School for Music, (in collaboration with The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra), New York, USA    May 2013
Curator, Networked Lives, corporate exhibition, VF Corporation, commissioned pieces by YESYESNO, Popkalab, Patricia Adler, etc. USA    2012
Guest Curator, Networked Fashion, European Cultural Capital, invited Daan Rosegarde, Trikotron, Tallinn, Estonia    2011
Curator, Organizer, Moderator, Fashionable Technology Event Series #02: Materials Explorations, symposium hosted at Parsons The New School for Design, School of Fashion, Intelligent Materials Workshops by Elisabeth Senneville hosted at School of Art, Media, Technology, Speakers: Matt Johnson, Bare Conductive, London, Elisabeth de Seineville, fashion designer & professor at ENSAD, Gayil Nalls, artist & researcher, olfactory, Alice Min Soo Chun, Parsons the New School, School of Constructed Environments, Assistant Professor, Design+Material Culture, New York    2011
Curator, Organizer, Moderator, Fashionable Technology Event Series #01: Functional Aesthetics, symposium, workshop, and book launch hosted at Parsons The New School for Design, School of Art, Media, Technology, symposium lectures by Stacey Burr (Adidas), Joe Savreeda, etc., exhibition and reception hosted at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York     2010
Curatorial Advisor, Human Nature, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria     2009
Curatorial Advisor, Ying Gao - Five Ways to Tell a Story about Fashion, Plug.in, Basel, Switzerland     2009
Curator and Concept, Fashionable Technology, Exhibition and Book Launch, curated exhibitors included: Kate Hartman, Mahir Yavuz + Ebru Kurback, etc. Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York     2008
Co-Curator (with Andrew Chetty), My Cyborg Future, Discovery Museum and Dott07, Newcastle, UK     2007
International Programming Committee Member, Wearable Section, ISEA, Helsinki, Finland & Tallinn, Estonia    2004
Faculty Curator, Wear Me, Video Collaboration Studio: Fashionable Technology, Rotherham, England, UK     2003
Curator, E-Fashion, Symposia on Fashion and Technology, Parsons School for Design, New York, USA     2001

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

As an artist, researcher, and professor led class projects
BMW Guggenheim Love Night New York (developed as Fashionable Technology class project at Parsons)    2012
Ambience’11 at Swedish School of Textiles, research project at Parsons: Amplification of Energy    2011
MIT Media Lab, research project at Parsons: Amplification of Energy, sponsored by VFC    2011
VFC corporate exhibition, SlopeStyle 2.0    2011
Firehouse 13: Fabric Futures, SUN No1, Providence, USA    2010
Eyebeam Art + Technology Center: Functional Aesthetics, SUN No1, New York    2010
Ars Electronica Festival, SUN No1, Linz, Austria    2009
E-Culturefair, SlopeStyle, Amsterdam, The Netherlands    2003
Ars Electronica Festival, NOISIA | VISION with Tom Blue, Linz, Austria    1999
European Media Arts Festival, Grrrl Power Possie, part of the artist collective Faces, Osnabrück, Germany    1998
Ars Electronica Festival, Faces, part of the artist collective Faces, Linz, Austria    1998

WORKSHOPS

Workshop Presenter and Concept, Computational Fashion Master Class, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, hosted by NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering (MAGNET), New York, New York    2014
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashion Lab #02 Workshop: Actuating The Body, with Bare Conductive, Museums of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria    2013
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashion Lab #01 Workshop: Wearing a Sound Perfume, with Bless and Popkalab, Museums of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria    2013
Workshop Participant and Concept, Sonic Fabric, with Chicks on Speed, Hangar, Barcelona, Spain    2012
Workshop Leader and Concept, Computational Second Skin, with Research Assistant Scott Peterman from MFA Design + Technology, Aalto University, Helsinki    2012
Workshop Leader and Co-Concept, Intelligent Materials, with Elisabeth de Senneville, hosted for students from Parsons who participated in the excursion and student from EnSAD, EnSAD, Paris    2012
Workshop Leader and Co-Concept, Smart Textiles, with Swedish School of Textiles, hosted for students from Parsons who participated in the excursion, Boras    2012
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashionable Technology: Bare Conductive, hosted for students from Parsons and students and faculty from ArtEZ Fashion Master, Arnhem School of Fashion, Parsons, New York    2012
Workshop Leader and Co-Concept, Intelligent Materials, with Elisabeth de Senneville, hosted for students at Parsons, Parsons, New York    2012
Expert Workshop Participant, Future Textiles, Herring, Denmark    2011
Workshop Leader and Co-Concept, Intelligent Materials, with Elisabeth de Senneville, hosted for students from Parsons who participated in the excursion and student from EnSAD, EnSAD, Paris     2011
Workshop Leader and Co-Concept, Intelligent Materials, with Elisabeth de Senneville, hosted for students at Parsons, Parsons, New York    2011
Expert Workshop Participant, V2, Rotterdam, The Netherlands     2009
Workshop Leader and Concept, Creating Experiential Designs with Fashionable Wearables, Master of Arts, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland, November 2008
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashionable Technology, Swedish School of Textiles, Boras, Sweden    2008
*Workshop Participant, Ubicomp2007, Innsbruck, Austria    2007
Workshop Leader and Concept, The empire’s new clothes, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway    2006
Workshop Participant, Acar2, Craft, Design, and Media Technology, Senones, France    2006
Workshop Participant, Electronic Etheralism, New York, USA    2006
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashionable Technology - The Epidermis as Metaphor, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Summer Design Institute, New York, USA    2003
Workshop Participant, ACAR/2 - An Academy for Interactive Crafts, Basel, Switzerland    2003
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashionable Technology, RAM3 - Reclaiming Cultural Territory in New Media, Tallinn, Estonia    2003

SELECT APPEARANCES IN BOOKS AND ART CATALOGS

Rebecca Pailes-Friedman, Smart Textiles for Designers: Inventing the Future of Fabrics    2016
Shane Richmond, Computerised You, How wearable technology will turn us into computers    2013
Bradley Quinn, Textile Visionaires, Innovation and Sustainability in Textiles Design    2012
Bradley Quinn, Textiles Futures    2010
Avantex, Frankfurt, Germany (DVD)    2005
E-CultureFair, Amsterdam, Netherlands (DVD)    2003
RAM3, Tallinn, Estonia    2003
Ars Electronica, Infowar, Linz, Austria     1998
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany 1998

PRESS

DerStandard, Ziel ist die Demokratisierung der Gesundheit by Wojciech Czaja    2019
Forbes, Are you smarter than my clothing?, by Debrah Weinswig (online)    2016
San Francisco Chronicle, Wearable tech’s future looks bright by Carolyne Zinko (online)    2014
Interviewed for EE Times, Wearables Sing in Smart Clothes by Jessica Lipsky (online)    2014
Wired, June 27, A Novel Tech Incubator That Silicon Valley Wouldn’t Understand by Liz Stinson    2014
L’Officiel Suisse/Schweiz, Future Fashion by Katharina Sand (print)    2014
USA Today, Fossil and Google collab is first of many for wearables by Brandon Carte (print)    2014

Additionally featured in: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, TechTimes, Cool Hunting, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, L’Officiel, Vogue, Disegno, PBS, NBC, BBC, Financial Times, Horizont Magazin, Springerin, Diivan, De:Bug, FSB Technology, MSN, Der Standard, Wienerin, Page, Hi!Tech by Siemens, WSGN, Wirtschaftsblatt, Businessoffashion.com, BBC, Die Presse, Trend

TELEVISION, RADIO & ONLINE VIDEO

ORF, Guten Morgen Österreich, television morning show    2023
Ö1, An der Schnittstelle zwischen Körper und Technik, Austria    2020
World Web Forum, Sabine Seymour Interview, Switzerland (online)    2019
Moneytoday.ch, Interview Blockchain, Switzerland (online)    2019
DMEXCO, Interview, Cologne, September     2018
Forbes, Apparel as data platform, USA (online)    2017
She’s Mercedes, Alter Ego, Mercedes Original Movie, USA (online)    2016
New York Times Video documentary (focused on MOONDIAL), USA    2015
TheVerge, “The future is now”, full video feature sponsored by Intel, USA (online)    2014
Vice / Creators Project, “#3 Human Experiences, Making it Wearable”, USA (online)    2014
Sparkfun.com, “Enginursday: To be a fly on the wall”, documentary of Zoomorphic, USA (online)    2014
PBS, The Future of Wearables, USA (online)    2013
NBC, Today Show, USA (TV)    2013
PBS Nova, The Secret Life of Scientist, USA (online)    2013
ORF (Austrian National Broadcasting), Newton, television documentary, Austria (TV)    2009