Ghislaine Boddington | Speaker Profile
Ghislaine Boddington is an award-winning speaker, curator, and director, specializing in the future human, body responsive technologies and immersive experiences. She is the Co-founder and Creative Director of body>data>space. With a background in dance and performing arts and a long-term focus on the blending of our virtual and physical bodies, she engages in highly topical and future digital issues for our living bodies, including personal data usage, and sees a future in which we connect ourselves into a networked “multi-self,” an “Internet of Bodies” enabled by hyper-enhancement of the senses and tele-intuition.
Featured speaker topics
Future Human: The Body is the Interface
The integration of humans with our evolving technologies is moving faster than we realize, pointing to major transformations not only to our bodies, but to our understanding of ourselves and our identities. Ghislaine shares her thoughts on the directions being taken and the potential positive and negative outcomes ahead, extending the debate over the enhancement of our bodies through an examination of the link between personal data and embedded biometric technologies.
Women in Tech: Diversity & Inclusivity Enables Innovation
Ghislaine is well known for her long-term advocacy for diversity in collaboration, believing strongly that this is the only future pathway for creating truly inclusive innovations. She proposes a clear view on why we should prioritize gender equity in the tech sector, which is based on her work founding one of the first women in tech networks Women Shift Digital, as Spokesperson for Deutsche Bank’s accelerator Women Entrepreneurs in Social Tech and as a Trustee of the Stemettes.
Experience Economy: How Technology Will Define Collaborations
As we mature through the digital revolution, our basic human need for collaboration is starting to define the types of experiences we want our technologies to offer us – interactive, reflective, and conducive to the creation of a more positive life.
Bio-hacking Onstage: Live Human Chip Implant Show
As the sci-fi vision of the digital human starts to become reality, how can we ensure and prepare for a positive enhancement of our human selves? As technologies move inside our bodies, Ghislaine presents examples of the burgeoning interest in non-medical implants – personalized for our own needs and able to replace several day-to-day requirements such as keys, travel and finance cards or enabling us to open our phones, laptops, and homes with gestural swipes.
Testimonials
“As Ghislaine Boddington, creative director of body>data>space, noted in her talk on virtual reality and the “Internet of Bodies”, the hope for the future is in recognizing and augmenting physical bodies in games and play.”
Jordan Erica Webber and Kat Brewster (The Guardian)
“Ghislaine Boddington, curator of the “future of love” section of the FutureFest, said [that] the aim is to look at things that aren’t around the corner but up to 30 years away and broaden horizons.”
Cahal Milmo (Chief Reporter for The Independent)
Speaker background
Ghislaine co-presents bi-weekly as a Studio Expert for BBC World Service Digital Planet (formerly Click) and is also a Reader in Digital Immersion at the University of Greenwich. Her research explores “The Internet of Bodies”, the evolution of our future multi-selves through gesture and sense interfaces, augmented realities, immersive experiences and embedded digital body connectivity, pointing to the rapid blending of the virtual and the physical body.
As an advocate for diversity and equality in tech she is a co-founder of Women Shift Digital, a Trustee for the Stemettes and in 2018 was invited to be the Spokesperson for the Deutsche Bank “Women Entrepreneurs in Social Tech” Accelerator.
She sits on the editorial board of the Springer journal AI and Society, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA), a member of the Internet of Things Council and digital arts network RAN (France), and is a TLA Tech London Advocates.
In 2017, Ghislaine was awarded the IX Immersion Experience Visionary Pioneer Award by Society for Arts and Technology. The award is in recognition of her role as a global thought leader, and major driving force in immersive experiences and body responsive technology. In 2019 she was named as one of the top Women In Tech in the Computer Weekly Long List and was an Inventor of the Year Finalist in the Tech Inclusive Alliance Awards 2019.
Organizations and event organizers can confidently hire this speaker to conduct keynotes and workshops about future trends across a diverse range of topics and in the following formats:
| Format | Description |
|---|---|
| Advisory calls | Discussion with your executives to answer specific questions on a topic, project or subject of choice. |
| Executive coaching | One-to-one coaching and mentoring session between an executive and the selected speaker. Topics are mutually agreed upon. |
| Topic presentation (Internal) | A presentation for your internal team based on a mutually agreed topic with content supplied by the speaker. This format is designed specifically for internal team meetings. Maximum 25 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (Internal) | Webinar presentation for your team members on a mutually agreed topic, including question time. Internal replay rights included. Maximum 100 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (External) | Webinar presentation for your team and external attendees on a mutually agreed topic. Question time and external replay rights included. Maximum 500 participants. |
| Event keynote presentation | Keynote or speaking engagement for your corporate event. Topic and content can be customized to event themes. Includes one-on-one question time and participation in other event sessions if required. |
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