Presenters
Rebekah Park is a Partner at Gemic, where she co-leads the Tech and Health practices. Over two decades she has worked across business, academia, and NGOs, including ReD Associates, Marlboro College, Poverty and Race Research Action Council, and African American Policy Forum. Her background in anthropology, race studies, and ethics enables her to work across global contexts and different topical areas around what it means to be human and how tech continuously changes how we live today.
Rich Radka is Founder of Fuse Foresight. Previously leadership roles have included Founder of Claro Partners, Partner at NEST, and Director of User Experience at Sapient. For more than 20 years Rich has provided deep human insights to corporate, scale-up and public sector clients to feed innovation, customer experience development and critical business decisions. He brings inspired design thinking, and a practical human-centred approach to co-create solutions that involve customers, employees, partners and other stakeholders. His current areas of focus are enabling organizational change, delivering strategic foresight, and empowering individuals to gain greater agency and satisfaction in how they make their livings.
Host
Jamie Sherman is a cultural anthropologist and user experience researcher currently working as principal UX researcher at ESRI. She holds a PhD in anthropology and has been in the technology and UX space since joining Intel Labs in 2012, where she worked on a range of existing and emerging technologies, including wearable tech, mixed and virtual reality, and content creation. Her most recent focus is on the use of data and analytics to do things, from making movies to making maps. Jamie was Co-chair of EPIC2021 and Chair of EPIC2023 Learning & Networking Week.
