Gabo Arora to speak at upcoming Responsible Tech Summit on May 20th in NYC

All Tech Is Human is thrilled to announce that Gabo Arora, a world renowned multi-award winning immersive artist, professor, entrepreneur and former UN diplomat who works with the most cutting-edge emerging technologies, will be speaking at the upcoming Responsible Tech Summit. Widely recognized as a pioneer of new documentary formats, his work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has been described by the BBC and LA Times, amongst many others, as “game changing”, “powerful, moving and without precedent”, and “transcending all the typical barriers of rectangular cinema.” He has designed and led campaigns of significant measurable impact, raising many millions of dollars, for the United Nations, UNICEF, USC Shoah foundation and the Nobel Peace Prize committee. He has had the honor of being the UN’s first-ever Creative Director; a Davos World Economic Forum Arts and Culture Leader; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and is the Founding Director of a new lab and academic department - the first of its kind - dedicated to Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technologies (ISET) at Johns Hopkins University. His creative tech and production studio LIGHTSHED.IO is based in Brooklyn.

The Responsible Tech Summit on May 20th seeks to unite a diverse range of stakeholders to build on each other’s work and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. All-day event (9am to 5pm) with panels, fireside chats, and plenty of networking and collaboration. Talks will be livestreamed for a global audience. Our event partner for May 20th is the Consulate General of Canada in New York. 

This gathering will be in person, while the talks on stage will be livestreamed for a global audience. To find out more about the upcoming Responsible Tech Summit and how to get involved, read here.

All Tech Is Human specializes in bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders to tackle thorny tech & society issues. Previous summits, livestreams, and reports our organization have featured individuals from Aspen Institute, Berkman Klein Center, World Economic Forum, Data & Society, Mozilla, IEEE, DataKind, Center for Humane Technology, IBM, Salesforce, New_Public, Deloitte, Accenture, the New York Times, Avanade, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, TikTok, Discord, Sesame Workshop, Consumer Reports, Google, the FCC, Hulu, Roblox, Partnership on AI, Web Foundation, Omidyar Network, Tony Blair Institute, and many more. All Tech Is Human held a virtual Responsible Tech Summit on September 15, 2020 that drew over 1200 registered attendees across 60 countries. Pre-Covid, the organization held summits in NYC, San Francisco, and Seattle. Its inaugural summit was held in NYC in the Fall of 2018.

Two of our recent reports dealt specifically with improving digital spaces. Our most recent is called the HX Report: Aligning Our Tech Future With Our Human Experience. All Tech Is Human is a member of the HX Project, alongside organizations such as Aspen Institute, Data & Society, Project Zero, and Headstream, to have an “approach to talking about, engaging with, and designing technology in a way that is aligned with our needs as humans — not users.” In our HX Report we took a holistic approach to improving digital spaces, looking at product design, business models, content moderation, digital citizenship, tech augmentation, and tech & wellbeing.

And previous to the HX Report, our organization released Improving Social Media: The People, Organizations, and Ideas for a Better Tech Future. These two reports featured resources from over 150 organizations doing valuable work in the ecosystem, and included profile interviews with over 80 leaders focused on improving digital spaces.