Season 1

Friday July 3 at 7pPST - Season Finale

Z-TOPIA has been running for 2months! We are taking a short break to prepare to come out of beta with a brand new season of formats, guests and topics.

Kristin Neidlinger - Sensoree
Vu Nguyen - Sr Designer at Slalom
Jose De La O - DelaO Studio
Corey Silverman - Owner Furnace Glassworks
Sarah Hendrix - VP/Treasurer DFI

Z-TOPIA July 3 2020 - Awkward finger dances from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Sat June 27 @ PRIMER 2020 Closing party

A special edition broadcast at the PRIMER 2020 closing event

Z-TOPIA at PRIMER 2020 from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Friday June 19

Ivy Mahsciao - Founder, Chief Product Scientist at Evermind AI
Lance Cassidy - CEO, Founder @ DXLabs
Dan Huss - Founder @ Gravity AI

Z-TOPIA June 19 - The "flow" state from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Sunday June 14

Alisan Atvur - Senior R&D User Experience (UX) Research Lead at Novo Nordisk
Chris Livaudais - Executive Director, IDSA

Z-TOPIA June 14 - What is "good" design these days? from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Friday June 12

Laura Maceira- Co-organizer Speculative Futures Guadalajara, Partner at Puntoasterisco
Leticia Fernández - Co-organizer Speculative Futures Medellín, Designer at Designit
Claudia Gallardo - Co-organizer Speculative Futures Lima

Z-TOPIA Ep.0.9 - Teddy Bears and the Mandela Effect from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Wed June 3 (5yr Anniversary show)

It’s been 5 years since our 1st meetup in San Francisco. Tonight we’ll be hosting Jeff Easter who was our first speaker at that little meetup at Extractable in 2015. We won’t be engaging in the usual random internet article banter but rather discussing what the last 5 yrs has been like for our community, what it was like to study at the RCA during the height of Critical Design, and what our future holds in academia and the corporate world.

Jeff Easter - Design Tech at Amazon
Sara Dean - Design Futures Professor at California College of the Arts
Select members of Design Futures Initiative Board (Sarah Hendrix, Andres Valencia, Adam Zeiner

Z-TOPIA June 3 - 5yr Anniversary Show from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Sunday May 31

Giovanni Caruso - Interaction Designer at Accenture, Speculative Futures Milan Leader
Grace Polifroni - Experiential Futures & Strategic Design Lead at Deloitte Digital Netherlands
Dave Hora - Researcher at Research Gate

Z-TOPIA Ep.0.8 from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Friday May 29

Nikolas Badminton - Chief Futurist Officer, Exponential Minds, Founder Dark Futures Conference
Dre Labre - Founder & Futurist, TBD.company
Jason Tester - Research Affiliate at Institute for the Future

Z-TOPIA Ep.0.7 from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Friday May 22

Chris Noessel - Senior Design Lead, IBM; Author of Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People
Julian Bleecker - Founder Omata, Near Future Lab
Ronni Kim - Founder at Collective Future

Z-TOPIA Ep.0.6 from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Friday May 15

Manu Zavattaro - Design Lead at Google
Zach Eng - Design Director at McKinsey Design
Richard King - Lead Product Designer at True Money, Ascend Group

Z-TOPIA Ep.0.5 from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Sunday May 10

Michael Johnston -Speculative Futures London chapter leader
Giuliana Mazzetta - Strategist & Futurist, Speculative Futures London chapter co-leader
Andreas Wegner - Principal & Founder, Futur2 Studio Berlin

Z-TOPIA Ep.0.4 from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Friday May 8

Rhonda Holberton - Artist & Professor, San Jose State University
Billie Carn - Founder & Chief Maverick at Maverick Wisdom
Adam Zeiner - Interaction Designer, Design Institute for Health
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Z-TOPIA Ep.0.3 from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.

Friday May 1

Tim Parsons & Jessica Charlesworth of Parsons & Charlesworth
Kristin Neidlinger - Sensoree
Vu Nguyen - Sr Designer at Slalom

Z-TOPIA Ep.0.2 from Design Futures Initiative on Vimeo.