Thematic Sessions
Displacement? Productivity among the Machines
Will AI actually support humans, rather than displace us? This sessions shares frameworks for creating human-AI collaboration.
The Shake-Up: Crafting Research Futures
Bringing wisdom to current debates, this session offers direction for building strong research practices into the future.
Alignment Tango: Communities and Markets
These presentations share methodologies for using community perspectives and cultural insights to shift business strategies and products for better alignment.
The Technical and the Vernacular
This session presents frameworks for elevating vernacular knowledge to improve AI, healthcare, and policy development.
Protecting the Public
This session explores ethnographers’ role in advancing the public good, including trust and safety, equity, ecosystems health, and well being.
Ways of Seeing, Ways of Sensing
This session shares innovative methodologies for seeing, sensing, and interpretation using our bodies, machines, or both.
Ethnography and Agency
This session examines the role ethnography can play in helping people forge new paths, seize control, and reconcile their options.
Maintenance and Renewal
This session illuminates essential practices of maintenance and renewal in technical systems, insights, documentation, and public services.
Generational Insight: The Value of Looking Backward and Forward
This session demonstrates the value of longer-term insight for meaningful innovation and for our professional lives.