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Sep 2025
Control, Voice and Democracy in the age of AI
MIT Solve Closing Plenary
June 2025
Community-Built Datasets for Transparent AI
Harvard Berkman Center
May 2025
The Hardware Renaissance and Revenge of the Makers
NY Tech Week – Hardware Meetup Keynote
August 2024
Mozilla: The power of community
Dublin
March 2023
International Women’s Day
Swedish Dialogue Institute for the Middle East and North Africa
July 2022
The Changing Face of Robotics
TechCrunch Live
April 2021
The Building Blocks of the Future
Natural History Museum of Utah
May 2020
Graduation Commencement
Parsons School of Design, NY
October 2019
Science or Science Fiction: Creating the Future
MIT, Cambridge, USA
April 2019
Commencement Speech
Marymount School of New York
New York, USA
January 2019
What Makes a Toy a STEM/STEAM Toy?
Toy Fair
New York, USA
April 2016
Breaking Down Gender Stereotypes in Media and Toys featuring LEGO, Mattel, Disney, Pixar and littleBits
The White House
Washington DC, USA
July 2015
The Brick
MIT Media Lab Design Summit
Boston, USA
February 2015
Keynote
International Design Association IxDA
San Francisco, USA
February 2012
Building Blocks that Blink, Beep and Teach
TED
Longbeach, USA
October 2011
Electronics as Material
Talk To Me Symposium
MoMA
New York, USA