Thematic Sessions

Will AI actually support humans, rather than displace us? This sessions shares frameworks for creating human-AI collaboration.

Bringing wisdom to current debates, this session offers direction for building strong research practices into the future.

These presentations share methodologies for using community perspectives and cultural insights to shift business strategies and products for better alignment.

This session presents frameworks for elevating vernacular knowledge to improve AI, healthcare, and policy development.

This session explores ethnographers’ role in advancing the public good, including trust and safety, equity, ecosystems health, and well being.

This session shares innovative methodologies for seeing, sensing, and interpretation using our bodies, machines, or both.

This session examines the role ethnography can play in helping people forge new paths, seize control, and reconcile their options.

This session illuminates essential practices of maintenance and renewal in technical systems, insights, documentation, and public services.

This session demonstrates the value of longer-term insight for meaningful innovation and for our professional lives.