Talks
Imagining how humans and technology will become more emotionally intelligent together.
Emotion + Tech = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Insightful, funny, a little quirky, Pamela travels around the world preaching an emotionally intelligent future for technology at conferences, festivals, hackathons, and events big and small. She has spoken at TEDx, SXSW, TNW, WebSummit, and more than 100 other events. She’s given guest lectures at Stanford d.school, Arizona State’s Center for Science and the Imagination, Carnegie Mellon's HCI program, and many more. She regularly speaks at organizations around the world, including Meta, IBM, and Vinted among others.
Recent Talk Topics
- The UX of Emotion AI
- A Future with Feeling
- Empathy in the Age of Automation
- The Emotional Life of Your Internet Things (or Autonomous Car or Connected Home)
- Detox Your Product
Selected Keynotes and Panels
- Techfest / May 2023 / Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dutch Digital Day / June 2022 / Amsterdam, Netherlands [video]
- Web Summit / November 2022 / Lisbon, Portugal
- SXSW / March 2022 / Austin, TX [video]
- Interintellect / September 2021 / online [series description]
- Aspen Institute / August 2021 / online
- Collision / June 2021 / Toronto, Canada
- LEAP / May 2021 / online
- Fintechlab / April 2021 / Budapest, Hungary
- Collision / June 2020 / online [press]
- 15 Seconds / June 2020 / online
- The Emotion AI Conference / May 2020 / online [interview]
- Retail Trends / November 2019 / Amsterdam, Netherlands [interview]
- Creative Mornings / September 2019 / Boston, MA
- Anxiety Tech / August 2019 / New York, NYC
- Bump Festival / June 2019 / Kortrijk, Belgium
- KES / June 2019 / Sao Paolo, Brazil
- Sparkassentag / May 2019 / Hamburg, Germany
- Chamber of Beautiful Business / May 2019 / New York, NY
- Car HMI / April 2019 / Detroit, MI
- SXSW / March 2019 / Austin, TX
- Awwwards / November 2018 / New York, NY
- Web Summit / November 2018 / Lisbon, Portugal
- Convey UX / October 2018 / Seattle, WA
- O'Reilly AI / October 2018 / New York, NY
- Web Expo / September 2018 / Prague, Czech Republic
- NEXT / September 2018 / Hamburg, Germany [video]
- Car HMI Europe / June 2018 / Berlin, Germany
- Collision / June 2018 / New Orleans, LA
- Planningness / May 2018 / San Francisco, CA
- TNW / May 2018 / Amsterdam, Netherlands [video]
- SXSW / March 2018 / Austin, TX
- Web Summit / November 2017 / Lisbon, Portugal [video]
- House of Beautiful Business / November 2017 / Lisbon, Portugal
- Google Design Talks / October 2017 / San Francisco, CA [video]
- NEXT / September 2017 / Hamburg, Germany
- Big Design / September 2017 / Dallas, TX [slides]
- Collision / May 2017 / New Orleans, LA [video]
- Rails Conf / April 2017 / Phoenix, AZ [video]
- Webit Festival/ April 2017 / Sofia, Bulgaria
- SxSW / March 2017 / Austin, TX [press | press]
- Interaction / February 2017 / New York, NY [video]
- Web Summit / November 2016 / Lisbon, Portugal [press]
- TEDx / November 2016 / New Bedford, MA [video]
- Design Montreal / November 2016 / Montreal, Canada
- Amuse UX / October 2016 / Budapest, Hungary
- Catskill Conference / October 2019 / Olivebridge, NY
- Fluxible / September 2016 / Kitchener, Canada
- O'Reilly Design / June 2016 / San Francisco, CA
- World IA Day / May 2016 / New York, NY
- PUSH / October 2015 / Munich, Germany [video]
- Strata / September 2015 / New York, NY
- UX STRAT / September 2015 / Boulder, CO
- Madison +UX / June 2015 / Madison, WI
- From Business to Buttons / May 2015 / Stockholm, Sweden [video]
- IA Summit / April 2015 / San Diego, CA
- SXSW / March 2015 / Austin, TX
- Snow Mobile / February 2014 / Madison, WI
Selected Corporate Talks
- Pepsico / June 2024 / online
- Vinted / May 2024 / Vilnius, Lithuania
- Spotify / May 2023 / New York, NY
- IBM / October 2023 / online
- Royal Bank of Canada / July 2023 / Toronto, Canada
- Upwork/ June 2023 / online
- Microsoft / April 2022 / Seattle, WA
- Adobe / October 2021 / online
- The Department / June 2021 / online
- Barco / June 2019 / Kortrijk, Belgium
- Meta/ October 2018 / Menlo Park, CA
- Dassault Systemes / June 2018 / Paris, France [video]
- Google Creative Labs/ June 2017 / New York, NY
Selected Guest Lectures
- The New School / October 2023 / New York, NY
- Carnegie Mellon University / October 2022 / Pittsburgh, PA
- School of Visual Arts/ March 2021 / New York, NY
- United States Naval Academy / April 2021 / Annapolis, MD
- Simon Fraser University / October 2020 / Vancouver, Canada
- University of Michigan / September 2020 / Ann Arbor, MI
- University of Washington / May 2019 / Seattle, WA
- University of Ghent / June 2019 / Ghent, Belgium
- Delft University of Technology / April 2018 / Delft, Netherlands
- Stanford University / November 2017 / Palo Alto, CA
- Arizona State University / March 2017 / Tempe, AZ