Featuring salons, dinners and trend reports, building a bridge between iconic creatives and leading technological minds.

As the LightSlant founder, I devised and launched the salon series in San Francisco in partnership with Sherpa Foundry. Since 2016, LightSlant has hosted a number of curated, invite-only dinners in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles building a community of like-minded tastemaker individuals.

Previous Salons:

The Art of Humanizing Robots: How can designers bridge the gap between man and machine?

An event to discuss how artists and designers - who excel at examining the human condition - can help build robots that interact with us in more natural and human-readable ways. This is particularly important as we start to see more and more autonomous technologies creep into our lives. We focused on questions such as:
What sort of robots do we want to share our spaces with? Do we want them to talk to us like humans? Or should they just get on with work in the background? Are there cases where an emotionally intelligent robot might be valuable? And how can machines communicate their intentions, capabilities and limitations to untrained bystanders?

THE PANEL
Tobias Kinnebrew, Google Robotics
Yves Behar, Fuseproject
Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
Behnaz Farahi, USC/Autodesk

Moderated by: Olivia Solon
Illustrations by: Seana Gavin

Immersive Reality Check: What do VR and AR mean for human connection?

All signs point to a future filled with Virtual Reality. But how will this immersive technology impact our ability to connect with other people as we begin to interact in these digital worlds? 

A thought-provoking conversation with some of the foremost experts in the space, exploring what VR & AR mean for human connection.

THE PANEL
Eugene Chung, Founder + CEO, Penrose Studios
Lincoln Wallen, CTO, Dreamworks
Ivy Ross, VP Google, Head of Project Aura
Issac Cohen, VR Artist

Moderated by: Olivia Solon