Speaking & Curation

UPCOMING: Fall 2026

  • Agentic UX Summit. This Is Your Brain on Automation: Cognitive Expansion as the Killer Feature (talk), September 15.

  • Shift UX 2026 Conference. Curator: Human-centered Tooling track + Shaping the Tools that Shape Us (talk), September 23-25. Use HUTKA-SHIFT26 for $75 off.

  • EPIC 2026 Conference. Co-chair. Building with Context: How to Translate Human-Centered Insights into Working Prototypes with Vibe Coding, October 26.

  • UC Berkeley: Design Field Notes. What Your Machines Should Do: The Science and Strategy of Human-Centered Automation (book talk), November 3.

  • DesignMeets & OCAD U. What Your Machines Should Do: The Science and Strategy of Human-Centered Automation (book talk), November 26.

  • Service Design Book Club. What Your Machines Should Do: The Science and Strategy of Human-Centered Automation (book talk), December 2.

More book tour talks coming soon, including Rotman Business School & UC Berkeley School of Information.

RECENT FEATURES

Select Invited PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES

Industry

  • Qualitative Research Consultants Association: Qual Tech Days 2026. Go Where You're Scarce: Why Qual's Strengths Are What AI Misses (keynote), 07/2026.

  • IDEO. The Case for the Forward Deployed Design Researcher (talk), 07/2026.

  • Toronto Product Conference. This Is Your Brain on Automation: Cognitive Expansion as the Killer Feature (talk), 05/2026. 

  • CTRL+SHIFT: Toronto Tech Week. Autonomy by Design (talk), 05/2026. 

  • Rosenfeld Media: Meet & Greet with UX Authors (panel), 04/2026.

  • DesignMeets x University of Toronto Rotman Business School, Business Design Initiative. AI & Human-Centered Design (panel), 11/2025.

  • UpScale Conf 2025. AI by Design: How AI is Reshaping Creativity and Collaboration (panel), 05/2025.

  • EPIC People Learning Week. Designing AI to Think With Us, Not For Us: A Guide to Cognitive Offloading (tutorial), 05/2025.

  • EPIC People Conference 2024. Designing AI to Think With Us, Not For Us (paper presentation), 08/2024.

  • Augmented World Expo USA. Building for the Future of Human Cognition (talk), 06/2024.

  • Augmented World Expo USA. How Generative AI Can Make XR Creation More Accessible (panel), 06/2024.

  • Y-Exchange: Kinetech Arts. Embodied, by Design (talk), 05/2024.

  • IDEO. Outsourcing Thinking, At What Cost? (talk), 03/2024

  • EPIC 2021. Building the Future, Together: Bringing Emerging Products to Market (case study presentation), 10/2021.

  • Augmented World Expo USA, Multisensory Perception in XR: Insights from Neuroscience and User Research (talk), 05/2020.

  • Department of Illusions UX Program, Prototype Testing (guest lecture), 05/2020.

  • Designers and Geeks Industry Meet-up, The Voyages of Conducting Augmented Reality UX Research (talk), 03/2019.

  • Adobe Design Summit Mainstage, Designing for Emerging Technologies (talk), 08/2018.

  • Web Summit Conference, 4D@4DameLane, Human-computer Interfaces for AR (talk), 11/2015.

  • Web Summit Conference, “Dublin Hacks” Hackathon, Human-computer Interfaces for AR (talk), 10/2015. 

Academia

  • UC Berkeley Department of Architecture: XR Lab, College of Environmental Design, User-Centric Design and Virtual Presence in Immersive Environments Seminar (ARCH 249). Multisensory Perception in XR: From Insights to Design Principles (guest lecture), 04/2026, 04/2025.

  • University of Toronto: Department of Psychology. Professional Psychology Graduate Course: Becoming a User Experience Researcher (talk), 03/2025.

  • New York University. UX for AI. Designing AI to Think With Us, Not For Us (guest lecture), 3/2025.

  • University of Toronto Mississauga: Department of Psychology Colloquium. Becoming a User Experience Researcher (talk), 03/2024.

  • University of Memphis. What does a UX Researcher do? (talk), 03/2023.

  • UC Berkeley: Info 213, User Interface Design and Development (guest lectures), 11/2019, 11/2021.

  • Pratt Institute, UX Career Day panel, 11/2020.

  • Parsons School of Design, Creative Entrepreneurial Approach of AR in Business and Technology (panel), 11/2020.

  • UC Berkeley, UX Careers "Ask Me Anything" (panel), 05/2020.

  • UC Berkeley: UC Berkeley Fung Fellowship, Leading UXR for Adobe Aero (talk), 03/2020.

  • UC Berkeley Extension, Epic Events, Augmented Reality Design (panel), 06/2019.

  • Princeton, Design Research Day Symposium, UXR Practice and Careers (panel), 05/2019. 

  • University of Southern California, Neurorehabilitation Seminar, Brain-computer Interfaces (guest lecture), 03/2016.

  • Claremont Colleges, Human-Computer Interfaces Seminar, Brain-computer Interfaces (guest lecture), 03/2016.

Robotics Hackathons

  • Winner, Get Your Bot On!, 2014

  • 1st Place, Design Category, Get Your Bot On!, 2012

What’s happening in the pics? Our team’s 2014 winning robotics concept, Snakes on a Brain, was inspired by melodic intonation therapy, which combines singing and rhythm to rehabilitate speech function following stroke. 

press

An academic paper I co-authored on the bidirectionality between language and music processing was featured in major news outlets.