Amber Case studies the interactions between humans and technology, and how technology affects culture.
Case is an internationally recognized design advocate and speaker, and the author of four books, including Calm Technology and A Kids Book About Technology. She spent two years as a fellow at MIT’s Center for Civic Media and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and was a 2021 Mozilla Fellow.
Named one of Inc. Magazine’s 30 under 30 and Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology, she was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2012 and received the Claude Shannon Innovation Award from Bell Labs. She was the co-founder and CEO of Geoloqi, a location-based software company acquired by Esri.
Case is the founder of The Calm Tech Institute, a foundation that exists to establish new standards for designing harmonious human-tech interactions that improve our lives. She works on design, governance, and AI through her position as a Research Director at the Metagovernance Project.
Case provides dynamic, engaging and refreshing perspectives that provide new perspectives and inspire growth and innovation. Her most popular talks are about Calm Technology, the interaction between humans and technology, Cyborg Anthropology, and the History and Future of AI.
Amber Case closed our Øredev conference with a fantastic keynote. The main topic of the talk was on how our lives change with technology. She gave breathtaking examples of early evangelists driving the use of technology to the extreme. What were extreme twenty years ago are commodities now. Amber doesn’t only talk the topic, she also lives it. She gives examples on how she endorses and drive the possibilities of technology
Amber Case closed our Øredev conference with a fantastic keynote. The main topic of the talk was on how our lives change with technology. She gave breathtaking examples of early evangelists driving the use of technology to the extreme. What were extreme twenty years ago are commodities now. Amber doesn’t only talk the topic, she also lives it. She gives examples on how she endorses and drive the possibilities of technology