Innovation Council Presents: Fall 2020 Program Series
This November, the Library’s Innovation Council presents a two-part series of online programs that explores the themes of equity, inclusion and social justice through the lens of technology, innovation and design.
TPL’s Innovation Council is an advisory group of recognized leading individuals from the academic, creative, and technology communities.
Grab your lunch and get inspired with these online programs, happening between 12-1 pm on Wednesdays, November 11 and 18.
Designing for Equity
Wednesday, November 11, 12 – 1 pm
It is often said that design exists to solve problems and innovation is about solving problems in new ways. “Solve big problems in just five days” was printed on the cover of one of last decade’s best-selling business books on the topic, and yet 2020 has shown that many of the world’s biggest problems are getting worse not better. Can design and designers actually help, or could they make things worse?
Join us as we reflect on this and more with three practicing design innovators: Jahan Mantin (Co-Founder Project Inkblot, NYC), Lindsay Ellerby (Senior Design Director, Normative, Toronto) Siqi Zhu (Associate Director, Public Realm at Sidewalk Labs).
Moderated By:
TPL Innovation Council member, Jeremy Bailey (Artist and Head of Experience, FreshBooks)
Featuring:
Jahan Mantin (Co-Founder Project Inkblot, NYC)
Project Inkblot consists of a team of designers and futurists who partner with companies to build equitable products, services and content using Design for Diversity™(D4D), and a NYC Women & Minority Owned Business. D4D is a framework that illuminates blind spots around cultural and racial biases within your design processes.
Lindsay Ellerby (Senior Design Director, Normative, Toronto)
Lindsay is the Senior Design Director at Normative, a software innovation firm, where she leads a team on a wide range of projects that include research, product design, innovation and strategy. Lindsay has worked in the field of design for over 15 years helping teams generate value for organizations including Citibank, Cisco, SickKids, Xerox PARC and Four Seasons.
Women in AI
Wednesday, November 18, 12- 1 pm
As the use of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence continues to gain attention, the discussion tends to focus on disruption, innovation and threats. Many of the leaders receiving attention are men.
This panel has two goals. First, to share the work of women leading efforts using AI. Secondly, to explore issues including gender and racial bias in AI use and how approaching AI through a diversity and inclusion lens can lead to different outcomes.
Moderated By:
TPL Innovation Council member, Pamela Robinson (Director, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University).
Featuring:
Suzie Dunn (PhD candidate and part time professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law)
Suzie’s research centers on the intersections of gender, equality, technology and the law. She is a research assistant with The eQuality Project where she is developing a database on criminal law cases related to tech-violence, a Senior Fellow with Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and is a member of Women’s Legal and Education Action Fund (LEAF) where she is participating in the Technology-Facilitated Violence Project.
Renata Avila (Guatemalan International Human Rights Lawyer and author)
Renata is a 2020 Stanford Race and Technology Fellow at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity in partnership with the Stanford Institute of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. She co-founded the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms, to bring more gender, social and racial justice to the future of automation.
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