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From a background in physics and education, I've spent ten years building teams and software infrastructure around principles of diversity and intersectionality, in domains across medical device and software infrastructure, industrial signals processing and optimization, AI explainability and trustworthiness. I work as an independent consultant and as the technical co-founder of Dyad, a platform for facilitating diverse and interconnected in-person communities in our cities. I think of myself as a physicist, a poet, and an expert on “in-betweens"
Sessions
Dyad is a social technology company in service to collective sensemaking, with a product members use to start and find face-to-face conversations in their cities. It started as a curated-conversation project called Dare in 2024, grew into a social platform entering private beta this spring, and is on its way to steward ownership. The talk walks through the journey: what started it, where we are, where we are going, and the tension of becoming self-sufficient social technology company without becoming part of the problem were are trying to solve.
What could our communities’ tools become if they didn’t need to know who we are?
Most apps today are built around long-lived profiles that accumulate our histories, reputations, relationships, and access rights. These records shape how we participate-- but they can also be sold, leaked, used to categorize us, or become barriers to access.
In this workshop, we’ll imagine and design tools where identity is lighter: temporary, contextual, and bounded by time and place. We’ll explore what communities actually need technology to do, and what becomes possible when permanent digital identity is no longer the default.
No coding required and nothing you need to bring.