How many bad meetings have you attended in your life? And in particular during this pandemic? My dear friend and co-conspirator all topics of the future, Justin Flitter, kindly invited me to keynote Playbooks.Live Town Hall event this week. The theme? The future of meetings. At first I wasn’t sure Read more…
“It’s through her storytelling that she paints a vivid picture of how embracing your true self, the weird unicorn in all of us, can have the greatest impact on your future success.“ – Kind words from the Envision Experience Team about my work (!!) There is nothing more intimidating as Read more…
There are few things from the ‘before times’ that I miss more than travel. Business and speaking took me around the world, and while I never took it for granted, I couldn’t have anticipated how much the absence thereof would affect my sense of identity. It’s been a rough 11 Read more…
CES 2021 would have been my 10th show in attendance. Sharing ideas and favorite gadgets with the consumer technology community the first (or second) week of January is one of my favorite times of the year. Given my love for all things geeky, I didn’t want to let the pandemic Read more…
The team at Beep! Digital were kind enough to invite me on their CES 2021: What’s Next show in lieu of our annual gathering in Las Vegas. It was a total blast to share my thoughts on the future of networking, why remote work is more inclusive of diversity than Read more…
Kia Ora & Good Morning Everyone, It’s Savvy one of your emcees here, and it’s my job to make today a little different than the virtual conferences you’ve attended before. As a community builder and pro speaker, it’s a bummer we don’t get to meet face to face – I’m Read more…
It feels like a lifetime ago that SXSW was cancelled. In reality, it’s only been a month since were all scheduled to gather in Austin and share ideas over tacos and cheap beer. Our panel was slated for March 13th, 2020, and despite the radical change in circumstances, the GitLab Read more…
The New Zealand Tech Podcast is long-time favorite of ours, and Savannah had the pleasure of joining host Paul Spain for an episode March 10th, 2020. Note that this photo and podcast were captured before social distancing measures were put in place :). From the show notes: “This week on Read more…
Kiwis often joke about New Zealand being a “rock on the bottom of the Earth.” The reality is, it’s a massively creative, stunning, sustainability-focused prototype for the communities of our future. It’s not just their progressive agenda, or (relatively) agile government, it’s the value they place on community. It’s the Read more…
There are a select few humans that get to design the future, and Greg Broadmore is one of them. He’s been with Weta Workshop for 18 years, and has lead the creative studio designing Magic Leap’s first games for seven. If you’re unfamiliar with Weta, they’ve designed some of the Read more…