The path to leadership in creative tech is one that relies on ingenuity, and a creative approach to both life and work. Stepping off a known path, and imagining new ways of creating, thinking, and working are keys to both success and creative freedom in art and technology. But how can these pillars of leadership show up in our everyday work and lives? And what small steps can we all take to feel a sense of agency over our own creative practice, no matter the medium. In this conversation between artists and entrepreneurs, we’ll discuss leadership and strategies for bringing this to work, life, and creativity on a personal scale.
Krystal Persaud is a product designer, and the Founder of Grouphug. She is obsessed with developing products that fall in the intersection of education, technology, and society. Anything else is not worth designing. Persaud is a Founding Member & former Senior Director of Product Design at littleBits, and a graduate of the Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design. Persaud is an adjunct instructor at NJIT, SVA, and Parsons, and has spoken at numerous events including the annual AIGA Design Conference, IDSA’s International Design Conference, FIT's Women & Technology Symposium, MIT’s Sandbox Conference, & Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival.
Nadav Assor's work takes on military-industrial systems of technological mediation; from eye-tracking cameras to drones, telepresence-robots, and mixed-reality environments, and critically repurposes low-fi versions of these technologies as a means for creating communities, connections, intimate human dialog and visceral audio-visual-tactile experiences. His videos, installations and performances have been featured in film festivals, museums, galleries, and live venues across North America, Europe, and Asia. He is an Associate Professor at Connecticut College’s Studio Art department and is the Director of the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology there. He is a current Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab at MIT, and he lives and works in Providence, RI.
