ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS

Moderator: Brian Green Director of Technology Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Panelist: Michele Elam William Robertson Coe Professor in the Humanities and Associate Director, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Panelist: Fr. Eric Salobir, O.P. President, Optic Technology

Moderator: Lindsey Kalkbrenner Director, Center for Sustainability

Panelist: TBD

Panelist: TBD

Moderator: Karen Peterson-Iyer Religious Studies

Panelist: Donna Freitas Research Associate, Center for Religion and Society, Notre Dame and Author, The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost

Panelist: Kate Ott Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics & University Scholar in Everyday Ethics, Drew University

Moderator: Rose Nakamoto Director, Career Center

Panelist: Natalie Foster Co-Chair of the Economic Security Project and Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative

Panelist: Juliana Bidadanure Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Research Director at the Basic Income Lab (BIL), Stanford University

Keynote Guest: Jenny Odell 

Jenny Odell is an artist, educator, and the author of the New York Times bestseller How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Her work generally involves acts of close observation, demonstrating the ways in which attention (or lack thereof) leads to consequential shifts in perception at the level of the everyday. Odell has exhibited her work internationally and has been an artist in residence at the Internet Archive, the San Francisco Planning Department, and the Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Believer, and the Paris Review. She teaches digital art at Stanford University and is based in Oakland. 

Conversation Partner: Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J. President, Santa Clara University