Ariel Waldman is the founder of Spacehack.org, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration, and the creator of Science Hack Day SF, an event that brings together scientists, technologists, designers and people with good ideas to see what they can create in one weekend. She is also the coordinator for Science Hack Days around the world, an interaction designer, and a research affiliate with Institute For The Future.
Additionally, she sits on the advisory board for the SETI Institute‘s science radio show Big Picture Science, is a contributor to the book State of the eUnion: Government 2.0 and Onwards, and is the founder of CupcakeCamp. In 2008, she was named one of the top 50 most influential individuals in Silicon Valley. Previously, she was a CoLab Program Coordinator at NASA, a Digital Anthropologist at VML (a WPP agency), and a sci-fi movie gadget columnist for Engadget.
Ariel’s keynote on Hacking Space Exploration at O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention:
Future talks:
• Over the Air (keynote), England, June 2012
• The Hacker’s Guide to the Galaxy, dConstruct, England, September 2012
Past presentations:
• IxDA SF’s Interaction12 redUX, April 2012
• Get Excited and Make Things with Science, SXSW Interactive, March 2012
• Interaction 12, Ireland, February 2012 (video)
• The Future of Science, Technology Ten Year Forecast, October 2011
• Linux Users Group of Davis, October 2011
• PSFK Conference, October 2011
• Hacking Space Exploration (keynote), DARPA’s 100 Year Starship Study Symposium, September 2011
• Hacking Space Exploration (keynote), OSCON, July 2011 (video)
• European Aeronautic and Defense Space Company, June 2011
• BAVC Producers Institute, June 2011
• GitHub’s CodeConf, April 2011
• SXSW Interactive, March 2011
• Institute For The Future, March 2011
• Open Source Bridge, June 2010
• Open Science, SXSW Interactive, March 2010
• Linux.conf.au, New Zealand, January 2010
• Defining Augmented Reality & the Future, Augmented Reality DevCamp, 2009
• Open Collaboration, Sci Foo Camp, 2009
• Science BarCamp, 2009
• Where 2.0 Ignite, 2009
• Government 2.0, Social Media Club SF/SV, 2009
• Achieving Geekgasm, SXSW Interactive, 2008
• Virtual Communities (keynote), Joint Technology Assn. Conference, 2007 (slides)
