Speaking Engagements
SEMC
Keynote Speaker
Making Lightning
October 2024, Baton Rouge, LA
ASPAC
Presenter
Audrey Chang, Brad MacDonald
AI Use in Science Centres and Museums: Outcomes and Futures
September 2024, Seoul, South Korea
Presenter
Kaeshi Chai, Brad MacDonald
Case Study: Collaborations in Art and Science
September 2024, Seoul, South Korea
Futurespaces
Presenter
Designing for Strong Feelings
July 2024, Virtual
ECSITE
Panelist
Audrey Chang, Brad MacDonald, Sophia Ma, Amy Borchard, Karishma Gangwani
AI for career growth: It’s not just your CTO’s Problem anymore
June 2024, Ljubljana, Slovania
AAM Future of Museums Summit
Moderator
Brad MacDonald, Jane Alexander, Sandro Kereselidze, Takashi Kudo, Neil Carty
Beyond Immersion
October 2023, Virtual
Something Digital
Keynote Speaker
Mapping our Futures
October 2022, Brisbane, AU
SXWS
Panelist
Rachel Goslins, Brad MacDonald, Ashley Molese, Monica O. Montgomery
In Praise of a Slow Future
March 2022, Austin, TX
Art Basel - Tezos NFT Speaker Series
Panelist
Fanny Lakoubay, Brad MacDonald, Jesse Damiani, Karen Levy, Diane Drubay
How to Go From A Digital Museum to The Metaverse?
December 2021, Miami, FL
We Are Museums
Panelist
Exploring New Horizons: Videogames and Museums
October 2021, Virtual
RIot - IoT Demo Night
Speaker
Adapt or Die: Dinosaurs, Museums, and AR
October 2019, Raleigh, NC
Maxsine
Lecturer and workshop facilitator
August 2019, Beijing/Wuhan/Shanghai/Chengdu/Hangzhou/Guangzhou
China Academy of Art
Visiting professor
June 2019, Hangzhou
GXP - Geek Experience Podcast
Interview
Being Awesome by Design
May 2018
Maxsine
Lecturer and workshop facilitator
Cross Border Integration - the Future of Visualized Design Practice
August 2018, Beijing/Guangzhou/Chengdu/Hangzhou/Ningbo/Shanghai
ECSITE
Speaker
The Value of Rapid Prototyping
June 2018, Geneva, Switzerland
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Speaker and workshop facilitator
How Can Technology Help Us Tell Better Stories?
May 2017, Washington D.C.
Balboa Park Learning Institute
Speaker
Project Management and the Agile Museum
October 2016, San Diego, CA
ECSITE
Speaker
Inspiring connections: leveraging unusual partnerships to produce extraordinary visitor engagement
June 2016, Graz, Austria
Museum of Man
Thought-partner
Redesign Charrette
November 2015, San Diego, CA
Video Gamers United
Panel Discussion
The Evolution of Video Games
August 2014, Washington DC
Hackers Play Spaze
Speaker
The Spirit of Play
August 2014, New York, NY
PURE NYC
Facilitator
Tools not Rules Workshops
April 2014, New York, NY
The Society of Illustrators
Moderator
Tools not Rules: Panel Discussion
March 2014, New York, NY
The Society of Illustrators
Panelist
From Art School to Game Careers
January 2012, New York, NY
GDC China
Speaker
Finding the Artistic Soul of Your Social Game
2009, Shanghai, China
America’s Video Game Expo
Panelist
Tighten Up the Controls on Level 2
November 2006, Pennsylvania Convention Center, PA
NYC ACM/SIGGRAPH’s
Panelist
Hi-res vs. Lo-res Graphics: A Game Design Debate
May 2005, New York, NY; “Low-res Art”
America’s Video Game Expo
Speaker
Specialization in the Visual Arts
November 2006, Pennsylvania Convention Center, PA.