Toshi Hoo
Toshi Hoo
Toshi Anders Hoo is the Director of the Emerging Media Lab (EML) at Institute for the Future (IFTF). The EML researches and prototypes the future of human communication and collaboration and their work has been featured at venues and events around the world including The United Nations, Ars Electronica, and the Dubai Future Foundation. Institute for the Future is the world’s leading futures thinking organization. For over 50 years, businesses, governments, and social impact organizations have depended upon IFTF global forecasts, custom research, and foresight training to navigate complex change and develop world-ready strategies. IFTF methodologies and toolsets yield ...
Institute for The Future
Institute for the Future is the world’s leading futures thinking organization. For over 50 years, businesses, governments, and social impact organizations have depended upon IFTF global forecasts, custom research, and foresight training to navigate complex change and develop world-ready strategies. IFTF methodologies and toolsets yield coherent views of transformative possibilities across all sectors that together support a more sustainable future. Institute for the Future is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Palo Alto, California.
Stephanie Andrews
Stephanie Andrews is an experience designer and creative technologist interested in exploring economies of collectivity, care, and communication. Her work seeks to respond to emergent issues with levity and sentimentality, primarily taking the form of flux kits, software tools, art games, tactile spaces, and participatory installations.
Stephanie brings to her art practice an interdisciplinary background spanning software engineering, interaction design, public policy, social work, and community organizing. She specializes in building interactive systems that use digital, physical, and interpersonal mediums to create communal space.
Kieran Farr
Kieran is a self-taught developer and WebXR advocate and hobbyist. He's created many experiments exploring the intersection of WebXR, projection mapping / AR and building virtual cities. For his day job, he's worked in online video for over a decade with a mix of “left brain” and “right brain” leadership roles ranging from founder to developer, product, strategy and marketing.
He lives in the Mission and is an active member of the community, he organizes the SF WebXR meetup, volunteers at Chavez Elementary and supports the SOMA Rotary Club.
Steve Piasecki
Steve Piasecki (stevepi) is an artist who finds inspiration in the landscapes that we inhabit and in the technology that we create. The impact of what humans make and how they alter their landscapes is a major theme of his work. He has been making and showing work at Gray Area since 2019. His work has also been seen at the Lone Star, Gays Hate Techno, Light.Wav, and Dada Bar.
With experiences from running small underground events to leading web development teams to helping run large global marketing campaigns, Steve has led a variety of teams and managed many ...
