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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. <br />
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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
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=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2020===<br />
====Thursday, 30 April 2020: Ghost Work in Pandemic Times with Mary L. Gray====<br />
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* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 7:30pm CET<br />
* Location: Broadcast and archived on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw3pKIYbQ5M Youtube] for Mozillians and the public, and on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-04-30 Airmo] for NDAd Mozillians. We'll take questions on Slack on #speaker-series and on Twitter through @jofish.<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Gray will draw from ''Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass'' (her 2019 book, coauthored with computer scientist Siddharth Suri), to argue that public health and economic recovery hinge on reckoning with the value of on-demand workers. The talk will outline the rise of on-demand services and the labor conditions and market flows that organize it. She will connect the global shift away from a shared worksite, co-present colleagues, and secure employment status many are experiencing today to the lessons learned from people who have been navigating ghost work conditions for more than a decade. Gray will end with a warning about another form of ghost work on the horizon: If not stopped now, the drive to develop automated contact tracing could reinforce ‘the paradox of automation’s last mile’—a relentless tech optimism that draws our attention to tech innovation as it elides the value of contingent human labor. Weathering the COVID-19 pandemic will require building technologies that assist and amplify rather than erase trusted healthcare workers. <br />
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* Speaker:<br />
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Mary L. Gray is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and an Edward J. Safra Center for Ethics Fellow at Harvard University. Gray also maintains a faculty position in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Gray, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how everyday uses of technologies transform people’s lives. She is the co-author of ''Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a Global Underclass.'' Gray chairs the Microsoft Research Ethics Review Program—the only federally-registered review board of its kind in the tech industry. She is recognized as a leading expert in the emerging field of AI and ethics, particularly research at the intersections of computer and social sciences. She currently sits on the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors and the board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), the nation’s oldest organization advancing ethics in the social and biomedical sciences.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 16 April 2020: Rethinking Trust and Well-Being in this Strange New World with Jeff Hancock====<br />
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* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 7:00pm CET<br />
* Location: Broadcast and archived for Mozillians and the public on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-04-16 Airmo], on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLWCZNuopco Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR].<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
A new trust framework is emerging – fueled by social, economic and technological forces that will profoundly alter how we trust, not only what we see and read online, but also one another. At the same time, technology is now crucial for staying distant socializing while we must keep our social distance. These changes have profound implications for our psychological well-being. In this talk we will discuss how principles from psychology and communication intersect deception, trust and well-being with technology. We will discuss several studies that reveal key principles to guide how we think about truth and trust on the internet, and I will report on a new meta-analysis examining every study examining social media and well-being. <br />
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* Speaker:<br />
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Jeff Hancock is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University and the Founding Director of the Stanford Social Media Lab. A leading expert in social media behavior and the psychology of online interaction, Professor Hancock studies the impact of social media and technology on well-being, relationships, deception and trust, identity, and more.<br />
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His research has been published in over 100 journal articles and conference proceedings and has been supported by funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense. Professor Hancock’s TED Talk on deception has been seen over 1 million times and his research has been frequently featured in the popular press, including the New York Times, CNN, NPR, CBS and the BBC.<br />
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Professor Hancock worked for Canada Customs before earning his PhD in Psychology at Dalhousie University, Canada. He was a Professor of Information Science (and co-Chair) and Communication at Cornell University prior to joining Stanford in 2015. He currently lives in Palo Alto with his wife and daughter, and he regularly gets shot at on the ice as a hockey goalie.<br />
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====Thursday, 26 March 2020: Three waves of open source voice: how do we shape the voice landscape over the next 5 years?, with Kathy Reid====<br />
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* Time: Noon PT / 3:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT (and 6:00 AM Friday AEDT)<br />
* Location: Broadcast and archived for Mozillians and the public on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-03-26 Airmo], on [http://youtube.com Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR].<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
When we investigate the evolution of open source voice technologies, two 'waves' become evident. We sit on the cusp of a "third wave" of open source voice - an inflection point of technologies, communities, business models, drivers, stakeholders and languages. In this presentation, Kathy Reid outlines the three-wave approach to open source voice, highlighting where it has come from, the current state of play, and outlines several possible arcs that it could follow. Each of these trajectories has an associated set of conditions - and actions that need to be taken to see the trajectory materialise into reality. <br />
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While this talk focuses on Voice, the research approach, the understandings of the ecosystem and the process of open source project assessment have relevance across Mozilla.<br />
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* Speaker:<br />
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After two decades bringing emerging technologies into the mainstream, Kathy Reid has gone back to further study and is a Master of Applied Cybernetics student at the 3A Institute at Australian National University. Long an open source advocate, her Master's capstone explores how we can assess open source voice products. Kathy is the former President of Linux Australia Inc. and former Director of Developer Relations at Mycroft AI. <br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
====Thursday, 5 March 2020: Social Media and Well-Being: Moving Beyond "Active" vs "Passive" Activities, with Nicole Ellison====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-01-16 Airmo], on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfmv3tzhmKs Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR] and archived for later watching by NDAd Mozillians on Airmo.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
In this talk, I’ll describe my current project: a co-authored book on social media and well-being broadly construed. Our goal is to shift public narratives about social media from one focusing on moral panics and negative outcomes to one that highlights what science can actually tell us about the implications of our use and highlights more positive and under-recognized aspects of use. I’ll also share findings from a recent empirical project on the “non-click.” This work was inspired by scholarship on well-being outcomes that often characterizes browsing (but not clicking) activities as passive use, contrasting it with more desirable active use. In this talk, I’ll report on a study investigating the non-click—instances where people intentionally and thoughtfully withhold from clicking on content they do pay close attention to—in order to interrogate assumptions that browsing is always passive and devoid of authentic attention. Employing a combination of eye tracking, survey, and interview methods (N=42), we found that there was no difference in attention (as measured by eye gaze duration) to clicked versus non-clicked Facebook content. Our interview data reveal that non-clicked content is often imported into other channels, where it serves as a stronger signal of relational investment than one-click “likes,” and highlight three audience-related concerns that contribute to active non-clicking. <br />
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* Speaker:<br />
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Nicole B. Ellison is the Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in Communication Theory and Research in 1999 from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. Nicole's research has explored social and interpersonal aspects of online technologies and computer-mediated communication, including research on self-presentational strategies used by online dating participants; the role of social media in reshaping college access patterns for low-income and first-generation college students; and the ways in which users employ the communication affordances of Facebook to receive and give social and informational support to members of their network. This research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Academies of Science. This year she is at Stanford University as a recipient of the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, where she is currently writing a book on social media and well-being.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 21 February 2020: Dark Elegies: The Choreographics of Surveillance and National Defense, with Sydney Skybetter, Brown University====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-02-21 Airmo], on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgAeRaJoHLc Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR] and archived for later watching on Airmo and Youtube.<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Choreographer and Brown University Professor, Sydney Skybetter, will present his research on the intersections of gesture, robotics, dance history and homeland security. With case studies of the Snowden leaks, military surveillance drones, the film Minority Report, and early motion capture research conducted with choreographers Merce Cunningham and Bill T. Jones, Skybetter will sketch a vision of the evolution of contemporary surveillance technologies undergirded by dance theory and choreographic method.<br />
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Hailed by Dance Magazine as “One of the most influential people in dance today,” his work has been performed at such venues as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow and The Joyce Theater. He has consulted on issues of change and technology for The National Ballet of Canada, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Hasbro, New York University and The University of Southern California, among others. A sought-after speaker, he has lectured on the relationship of dance history to emerging technologies at such institutions as Harvard University, South by Southwest Interactive, Yale, TEDx, and Stanford. He is a Public Humanities Fellow and Lecturer at Brown University, where he researches the problematics of human computer interfaces and mixed reality systems. He has served as a Grant Panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, is a founding member of the Guild of Future Architects, and is the winner of a RISCA Fellowship in Choreography from the State of Rhode Island. He received his MFA in Choreography from New York University. www.skybetter.org<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2019===<br />
====Wednesday, 11 December 2019: "Just Opt Out?": The Hidden Trade-Offs in Personal Data Ownership, with Janet Vertesi====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [ Airmo] and archived for later watching by NDAd Mozillians on Airmo.<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
This talk reviews seven years’ worth of personal experiments aimed at opting out of data detection and platforms associated with the personal data economy online -- from keeping a pregnancy hidden from the internet to building your own cell phone. As technology companies shrug that if we don’t like their data policies we can “just opt out,” I question how realistic this assumption truly is. Can anyone just opt out and yet maintain an active digital lifestyle? And which hidden tradeoffs must we make in order to simply evade detection? As the experiments range from inconvenient to ridiculous to potentially dangerous, I present design and ethical implications for the next generation of tools that support radical data ownership online. The fact that most people stay on these platforms despite their discontent reveals that opting out is much more difficult than it seems.<br />
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* Speaker:<br />
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Dubbed “Margaret Mead among the Starfleet” in the Times Literary Supplement, Janet Vertesi is assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, where she specializes in the sociology of science, technology, and organizations. Her past decade of research, funded by the National Science Foundation, examines how distributed robotic spacecraft teams work together effectively to produce scientific and technical results. Outside of academia, Vertesi is best known for keeping all information about a pregnancy away from data detection, and other experiments in radical data ownership. Vertesi is an active member of the Human-Computer Interaction research community, with publications at ACM CHI, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Ubiquitous Computing, and prior collaborations with Intel and Yahoo. Vertesi holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and M.Phil from University of Cambridge; she is a Fellow of the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy and an advisory board member of the Data & Society Institute. She is the author of Seeing Like a Rover: How robots, teams and images craft knowledge of Mars (Chicago, 2015), co-editor with David Ribes and others of digitalSTS (Princeton, 2019) and author of the forthcoming Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams (Chicago, 2020).<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 21 November 2019: The Stark Future of Trust Online, with Mor Naaman====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [ Airmo] and [YouTube] and archived for later watching by NDAd Mozillians on Airmo.<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Trust is what enables our society to function, from supporting interpersonal transactions to providing the very foundation of our democracy. How trust is established online is therefore a key question for HCI to understand and address, especially as the landscape is rapidly changing with AI and algorithms increasingly mediating our online experiences. This talk will cover two different and critical aspects of online trust. In the first part of the talk, I will present work on trust in the news media. Most people consume online news on platforms where algorithms present content from a mixed set of sources, for example news aggregators and news feeds. It is important, then, to evaluate the factors that contribute to how people evaluate the veracity of content in these environments. In this work, we follow on a body of research showing higher reported trust in politically aligned news sources. We investigate the determinants of the increased trust to distinguish between source evaluation and confirmation bias effects.<br />
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It is more than recommendations algorithms that mediate our online experiences. In the second part of the talk, I will outline a near-future where our personal communications are mediated by AI agents, or as we termed it: AI Mediated Communication (AI-MC). I will lay out the various ways in which AI-MC might impact our interpersonal communications, and describe a study where we examined the potential impact of AI-generated profile text on the perceived trustworthiness of Airbnb hosts. Taken together, the findings point to a bleak future of trust in our society, and offer a set of significant challenges for the future of HCI.<br />
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The studies I will present were led by PhD student Maurice Jakesch at Cornell, and are joint work with Jeff Hancock, Xiao Ma, and Karen Levy among others.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Mor Naaman is an associate professor of Information Science at the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech. Mor leads a research group focused on topics related to the intersection of technology, media and democracy. The group applies multidisciplinary techniques — from machine learning to qualitative social science — to study our information ecosystem and its challenges. Previously, Mor was on the faculty at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, led a research team at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Stanford University InfoLab, and played professional basketball for Hapoel Tel Aviv. He is also a former startup co-founder, and advises startup companies in social computing and related areas. His research is widely recognized, including with an NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award, research awards and grants from numerous corporations, and multiple best paper awards.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, October 17, 2019: When Users Control the Algorithms: Values Expressed in Practices on the Twitter Platform, with Jenna Burrell====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [ https://mzl.la/et-speaker-twitter-practices-2019-10-17 Airmo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZSJqDXQLE YouTube]<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Recent interest in ethical AI has brought a slew of values, including fairness, into conversations about technology design. Research in the area of algorithmic fairness tends to be rooted in questions of distribution that can be subject to precise formalism and technical implementation. We seek to expand this conversation to include the experiences of people subject to algorithmic classification and decision-making. By examining tweets about the “Twitter algorithm” we consider the wide range of concerns and desires Twitter users express. We find a concern with fairness (narrowly construed) is present, particularly in the ways users complain that the platform enacts a political bias against conservatives. However, we find another important category of concern, evident in attempts to exert control over the algorithm. Twitter users who seek control do so for a variety of reasons and their strategies often produce considerable social utility. Beyond the experiences on any single platform, we argue for better and clearer definitions of what constitutes legitimate and illegitimate control over algorithmic processes.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Jenna Burrell is an Associate Professor in the [https://ischool.berkeley.edu School of Information] at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on how marginalized communities adapt digital technologies to meet their needs and to pursue their goals and ideals. She is the co-director of the [https://afog.berkeley.edu/ Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group]. She is currently working on a book about rural communities that host critical Internet infrastructure such as fiber optic cables and data centers. Her first book [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/invisible-users Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana] (The MIT Press) came out in May 2012. She earned a PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics. <br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, October 10, 2019: Beyond “Bots and Trolls” — Understanding Disinformation as Collaborative Work, with Kate Starbird====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-10-10 Airmo] and<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=498-c_SjArg YouTube]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Strategic information operations (e.g. disinformation, political propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are a critical concern for democratic societies—as they destabilize the “common ground” that we need to stand upon to govern ourselves. In this talk, Kate Starbird argues that defending against strategic information operations will require a more nuanced understanding of the problem. In particular, we will need to move beyond focusing on “bots” and “trolls” to looking at the collaborative nature of disinformation campaigns that target, infiltrate, shape, and leverage online communities. Drawing from three distinct case studies, Starbird describes how orchestrated campaigns can become deeply entangled within “organic” online crowds and highlights a persistent challenge for researchers, platform designers, and policy makers—distinguishing between orchestrated, explicitly-coordinated information operations and the emergent, organic behaviors of an online crowd.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.hcde.washington.edu/starbird Kate Starbird] is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington (UW). Starbird’s research is situated within human-computer interaction (HCI) and the emerging field of crisis informatics—the study of the how information-communication technologies (ICTs) are used during crisis events. One aspect of her research focuses on how online rumors spread during natural disasters and man-made crisis events. More recently, she has begun to focus on disinformation and other forms of strategic information operations online. She is a co-founder and executive council member of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Starbird earned her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Technology, Media and Society and holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, September 5, 2019: Digital Patronage: A New Media Ecosystem Supporting Creative Content, with Yvette Wohn====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-09-05 Airmo] and<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLSpvpquaY YouTube]<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Digital patronage is the act of delivering recurring direct support to content creators online. In this talk I define digital patronage as a form of social support and examine why patrons engage in this behavior in the context of the live streaming platform Twitch. This mixed method research illustrates patrons’ motivations, how patronage motivations differ from that of donations, and the motivational factors that are associated with higher levels of patronage. I will also highlight different approaches of how content creators manage patronage and discuss what this means for the design of patronage platforms and emergence of a new creative content economy.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://yvettewohn.com/ Yvette Wohn] is an assistant professor of Informatics at New Jersey Institute of Technology and director of the Social Interaction Lab (socialinteractionlab.com). Her research is in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) where she studies the role of algorithms and social interactions in livestreaming, esports, gaming, and social media.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
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====Thursday, August 1, 2019: Where Did This $^@#$ Autonomous Car Learn to Drive? Addressing Cross-cultural differences in Autonomous Car Design, with Wendy Ju====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-08-01 AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uBw_iHl8FU YouTube]<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
The importance of understanding differences in culture have long been known to designers. Interactive technology enables new ways to localize products, but it also moves products into aspects of daily life where the subtle differences in culture become more important and more profound. Today's autonomous cars, for example, are designed to follow the letter of the local law, but do not adapt to regional variations in driving behavior. At scale, this lack of adaptation can cause accidents and cost lives. <br />
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I will discuss recent research looking at cross-cultural experiments in people's interactions with autonomous driving that were conducted between the US and the Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, and Israel and outline an emerging framework for designers to examine cultural differences.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Wendy Ju is an Assistant Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science field at Cornell University. Dr. Ju comes to Cornell Tech from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, where she was Executive Director of Interaction Design Research, and from the California College of the Arts, where she was an Associate Professor of Interaction Design in the Design MFA program. Her work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding. Dr. Ju has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems are built. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her monograph on The Design of Implicit Interactions was published in 2015.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, July 17, 2019: Growing Their Own: What We Can Learn from the Community-Driven Development of Archive of Our Own, with Casey Fiesler====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-2019-07-17 | AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epDBXwS7XtM | Youtube]<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> The fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own hosts almost 5 million works and 2 million users. It is also an open source project that was designed and developed entirely by the community it serves—which consists largely of women and LGBTQ people—and relies on a small army of volunteers who maintain a value-driven search and tagging system. This talk traces the history, growth, and features of the archive, which include grassroots development, design for inclusivity and empowerment, the benefits and challenges of maintaining a volunteer development team, and how a number of these volunteers from groups traditionally underrepresented in computing picked up computational skills along the way. <br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Casey Fiesler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research focuses on creating more positive networked spaces, which includes work on technology ethics, online governance, social norms, and designing to support marginalized groups. She is a member of the legal committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is behind the open source fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. Her ethics research is funded by the National Science Foundation PERVADE project, dedicated to empirical studies of research ethics for pervasive human data, and Mozilla and partners' Responsible Computer Science challenge.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
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====Thursday, July 11, 2019: How Privilege Defines Performance, with Tatiana Mac====<br />
* Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + broadcast on [https://onlinexperiences.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:1;F:US!100&PreviousLoginCount=8&ForceProfileToBeFilledOut=0&DisplayItem=E326976&ShowKey=44908&ShowFrameFormatOverride=NULL&RandomValue=1562689242748 | AirMo] <br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In theory, web performance, accessibility, and inclusive design all have similar goals: provide the best, most consistent experience to all people using the minimal amount of resources. In practice, this often falls apart. Product creators define what it means to be performant from where they stand, which is typically from places of privilege with unseen biases, struggling to find true empathy with their users. Through this talk, we'll examine how to build conscientiously, looking within to resist systematic problems in order to create more truly performant, accessible, and inclusive systems for our users. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tatiana Mac is an independent American designer who works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. She believes the trifecta of performance, accessibility, and inclusion can work symbiotically to improve our social landscape digitally and physically. When ethically-minded, she thinks technologists can dismantle exclusionary systems in favor of community-focused, inclusive ones. Never totally pleased with design tools, she designs in browser to bring performant, semantic, and accessible visual narratives into the web. Her current obsessions are optimizing variable fonts, converting raster images into to SVGs, and recreating modernist paintings in CSS grid. When she can successfully escape vim, she finds new countries to explore (33 and counting).<br />
<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tararobertson/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, June 6, 2019: Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality, with Katherine Isbister and Joshua McVeigh-Schultz====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 29, 2019: User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing, with Blase Ur====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
<br />
* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
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Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
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<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
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<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
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<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
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<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
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<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
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<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
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<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
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<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
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<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
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<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
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<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
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<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
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<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
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<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
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<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
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<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
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<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
<br />
<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
<br />
<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
<br />
<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
<br />
<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
<br />
* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
<br />
* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
<br />
<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
<br />
<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
<br />
<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
<br />
<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
<br />
<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
<br />
====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
<br />
<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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<br />
== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
<br />
* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
<br />
===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1226833Speaker Series2020-05-04T21:30:11Z<p>Wikibiz: /* 2020 */</p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
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===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We used to host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2020===<br />
====Thursday, 30 April 2020: Ghost Work in Pandemic Times with Mary L. Gray====<br />
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* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 7:30pm CET<br />
* Location: Broadcast and archived on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw3pKIYbQ5M Youtube] for Mozillians and the public, and on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-04-30 Airmo] for NDAd Mozillians. We'll take questions on Slack on #speaker-series and on Twitter through @jofish.<br />
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Gray will draw from ''Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass'' (her 2019 book, coauthored with computer scientist Siddharth Suri), to argue that public health and economic recovery hinge on reckoning with the value of on-demand workers. The talk will outline the rise of on-demand services and the labor conditions and market flows that organize it. She will connect the global shift away from a shared worksite, co-present colleagues, and secure employment status many are experiencing today to the lessons learned from people who have been navigating ghost work conditions for more than a decade. Gray will end with a warning about another form of ghost work on the horizon: If not stopped now, the drive to develop automated contact tracing could reinforce ‘the paradox of automation’s last mile’—a relentless tech optimism that draws our attention to tech innovation as it elides the value of contingent human labor. Weathering the COVID-19 pandemic will require building technologies that assist and amplify rather than erase trusted healthcare workers. <br />
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Mary L. Gray is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and an Edward J. Safra Center for Ethics Fellow at Harvard University. Gray also maintains a faculty position in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Gray, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how everyday uses of technologies transform people’s lives. She is the co-author of ''Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a Global Underclass.'' Gray chairs the Microsoft Research Ethics Review Program—the only federally-registered review board of its kind in the tech industry. She is recognized as a leading expert in the emerging field of AI and ethics, particularly research at the intersections of computer and social sciences. She currently sits on the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors and the board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), the nation’s oldest organization advancing ethics in the social and biomedical sciences.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 16 April 2020: Rethinking Trust and Well-Being in this Strange New World with Jeff Hancock====<br />
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* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 7:00pm CET<br />
* Location: Broadcast and archived for Mozillians and the public on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-04-16 Airmo], on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLWCZNuopco Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR].<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
A new trust framework is emerging – fueled by social, economic and technological forces that will profoundly alter how we trust, not only what we see and read online, but also one another. At the same time, technology is now crucial for staying distant socializing while we must keep our social distance. These changes have profound implications for our psychological well-being. In this talk we will discuss how principles from psychology and communication intersect deception, trust and well-being with technology. We will discuss several studies that reveal key principles to guide how we think about truth and trust on the internet, and I will report on a new meta-analysis examining every study examining social media and well-being. <br />
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Jeff Hancock is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University and the Founding Director of the Stanford Social Media Lab. A leading expert in social media behavior and the psychology of online interaction, Professor Hancock studies the impact of social media and technology on well-being, relationships, deception and trust, identity, and more.<br />
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His research has been published in over 100 journal articles and conference proceedings and has been supported by funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense. Professor Hancock’s TED Talk on deception has been seen over 1 million times and his research has been frequently featured in the popular press, including the New York Times, CNN, NPR, CBS and the BBC.<br />
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Professor Hancock worked for Canada Customs before earning his PhD in Psychology at Dalhousie University, Canada. He was a Professor of Information Science (and co-Chair) and Communication at Cornell University prior to joining Stanford in 2015. He currently lives in Palo Alto with his wife and daughter, and he regularly gets shot at on the ice as a hockey goalie.<br />
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====Thursday, 26 March 2020: Three waves of open source voice: how do we shape the voice landscape over the next 5 years?, with Kathy Reid====<br />
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* Time: Noon PT / 3:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT (and 6:00 AM Friday AEDT)<br />
* Location: Broadcast and archived for Mozillians and the public on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-03-26 Airmo], on [http://youtube.com Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR].<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
When we investigate the evolution of open source voice technologies, two 'waves' become evident. We sit on the cusp of a "third wave" of open source voice - an inflection point of technologies, communities, business models, drivers, stakeholders and languages. In this presentation, Kathy Reid outlines the three-wave approach to open source voice, highlighting where it has come from, the current state of play, and outlines several possible arcs that it could follow. Each of these trajectories has an associated set of conditions - and actions that need to be taken to see the trajectory materialise into reality. <br />
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While this talk focuses on Voice, the research approach, the understandings of the ecosystem and the process of open source project assessment have relevance across Mozilla.<br />
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After two decades bringing emerging technologies into the mainstream, Kathy Reid has gone back to further study and is a Master of Applied Cybernetics student at the 3A Institute at Australian National University. Long an open source advocate, her Master's capstone explores how we can assess open source voice products. Kathy is the former President of Linux Australia Inc. and former Director of Developer Relations at Mycroft AI. <br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
====Thursday, 5 March 2020: Social Media and Well-Being: Moving Beyond "Active" vs "Passive" Activities, with Nicole Ellison====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-01-16 Airmo], on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfmv3tzhmKs Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR] and archived for later watching by NDAd Mozillians on Airmo.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
In this talk, I’ll describe my current project: a co-authored book on social media and well-being broadly construed. Our goal is to shift public narratives about social media from one focusing on moral panics and negative outcomes to one that highlights what science can actually tell us about the implications of our use and highlights more positive and under-recognized aspects of use. I’ll also share findings from a recent empirical project on the “non-click.” This work was inspired by scholarship on well-being outcomes that often characterizes browsing (but not clicking) activities as passive use, contrasting it with more desirable active use. In this talk, I’ll report on a study investigating the non-click—instances where people intentionally and thoughtfully withhold from clicking on content they do pay close attention to—in order to interrogate assumptions that browsing is always passive and devoid of authentic attention. Employing a combination of eye tracking, survey, and interview methods (N=42), we found that there was no difference in attention (as measured by eye gaze duration) to clicked versus non-clicked Facebook content. Our interview data reveal that non-clicked content is often imported into other channels, where it serves as a stronger signal of relational investment than one-click “likes,” and highlight three audience-related concerns that contribute to active non-clicking. <br />
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Nicole B. Ellison is the Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in Communication Theory and Research in 1999 from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. Nicole's research has explored social and interpersonal aspects of online technologies and computer-mediated communication, including research on self-presentational strategies used by online dating participants; the role of social media in reshaping college access patterns for low-income and first-generation college students; and the ways in which users employ the communication affordances of Facebook to receive and give social and informational support to members of their network. This research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Academies of Science. This year she is at Stanford University as a recipient of the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, where she is currently writing a book on social media and well-being.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
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====Thursday, 21 February 2020: Dark Elegies: The Choreographics of Surveillance and National Defense, with Sydney Skybetter, Brown University====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-02-21 Airmo], on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgAeRaJoHLc Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR] and archived for later watching on Airmo and Youtube.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Choreographer and Brown University Professor, Sydney Skybetter, will present his research on the intersections of gesture, robotics, dance history and homeland security. With case studies of the Snowden leaks, military surveillance drones, the film Minority Report, and early motion capture research conducted with choreographers Merce Cunningham and Bill T. Jones, Skybetter will sketch a vision of the evolution of contemporary surveillance technologies undergirded by dance theory and choreographic method.<br />
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Hailed by Dance Magazine as “One of the most influential people in dance today,” his work has been performed at such venues as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow and The Joyce Theater. He has consulted on issues of change and technology for The National Ballet of Canada, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Hasbro, New York University and The University of Southern California, among others. A sought-after speaker, he has lectured on the relationship of dance history to emerging technologies at such institutions as Harvard University, South by Southwest Interactive, Yale, TEDx, and Stanford. He is a Public Humanities Fellow and Lecturer at Brown University, where he researches the problematics of human computer interfaces and mixed reality systems. He has served as a Grant Panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, is a founding member of the Guild of Future Architects, and is the winner of a RISCA Fellowship in Choreography from the State of Rhode Island. He received his MFA in Choreography from New York University. www.skybetter.org<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
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* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2019===<br />
====Wednesday, 11 December 2019: "Just Opt Out?": The Hidden Trade-Offs in Personal Data Ownership, with Janet Vertesi====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [ Airmo] and archived for later watching by NDAd Mozillians on Airmo.<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
This talk reviews seven years’ worth of personal experiments aimed at opting out of data detection and platforms associated with the personal data economy online -- from keeping a pregnancy hidden from the internet to building your own cell phone. As technology companies shrug that if we don’t like their data policies we can “just opt out,” I question how realistic this assumption truly is. Can anyone just opt out and yet maintain an active digital lifestyle? And which hidden tradeoffs must we make in order to simply evade detection? As the experiments range from inconvenient to ridiculous to potentially dangerous, I present design and ethical implications for the next generation of tools that support radical data ownership online. The fact that most people stay on these platforms despite their discontent reveals that opting out is much more difficult than it seems.<br />
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Dubbed “Margaret Mead among the Starfleet” in the Times Literary Supplement, Janet Vertesi is assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, where she specializes in the sociology of science, technology, and organizations. Her past decade of research, funded by the National Science Foundation, examines how distributed robotic spacecraft teams work together effectively to produce scientific and technical results. Outside of academia, Vertesi is best known for keeping all information about a pregnancy away from data detection, and other experiments in radical data ownership. Vertesi is an active member of the Human-Computer Interaction research community, with publications at ACM CHI, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Ubiquitous Computing, and prior collaborations with Intel and Yahoo. Vertesi holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and M.Phil from University of Cambridge; she is a Fellow of the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy and an advisory board member of the Data & Society Institute. She is the author of Seeing Like a Rover: How robots, teams and images craft knowledge of Mars (Chicago, 2015), co-editor with David Ribes and others of digitalSTS (Princeton, 2019) and author of the forthcoming Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams (Chicago, 2020).<br />
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====Thursday, 21 November 2019: The Stark Future of Trust Online, with Mor Naaman====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [ Airmo] and [YouTube] and archived for later watching by NDAd Mozillians on Airmo.<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Trust is what enables our society to function, from supporting interpersonal transactions to providing the very foundation of our democracy. How trust is established online is therefore a key question for HCI to understand and address, especially as the landscape is rapidly changing with AI and algorithms increasingly mediating our online experiences. This talk will cover two different and critical aspects of online trust. In the first part of the talk, I will present work on trust in the news media. Most people consume online news on platforms where algorithms present content from a mixed set of sources, for example news aggregators and news feeds. It is important, then, to evaluate the factors that contribute to how people evaluate the veracity of content in these environments. In this work, we follow on a body of research showing higher reported trust in politically aligned news sources. We investigate the determinants of the increased trust to distinguish between source evaluation and confirmation bias effects.<br />
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It is more than recommendations algorithms that mediate our online experiences. In the second part of the talk, I will outline a near-future where our personal communications are mediated by AI agents, or as we termed it: AI Mediated Communication (AI-MC). I will lay out the various ways in which AI-MC might impact our interpersonal communications, and describe a study where we examined the potential impact of AI-generated profile text on the perceived trustworthiness of Airbnb hosts. Taken together, the findings point to a bleak future of trust in our society, and offer a set of significant challenges for the future of HCI.<br />
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The studies I will present were led by PhD student Maurice Jakesch at Cornell, and are joint work with Jeff Hancock, Xiao Ma, and Karen Levy among others.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Mor Naaman is an associate professor of Information Science at the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech. Mor leads a research group focused on topics related to the intersection of technology, media and democracy. The group applies multidisciplinary techniques — from machine learning to qualitative social science — to study our information ecosystem and its challenges. Previously, Mor was on the faculty at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, led a research team at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Stanford University InfoLab, and played professional basketball for Hapoel Tel Aviv. He is also a former startup co-founder, and advises startup companies in social computing and related areas. His research is widely recognized, including with an NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award, research awards and grants from numerous corporations, and multiple best paper awards.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
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====Thursday, October 17, 2019: When Users Control the Algorithms: Values Expressed in Practices on the Twitter Platform, with Jenna Burrell====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [ https://mzl.la/et-speaker-twitter-practices-2019-10-17 Airmo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZSJqDXQLE YouTube]<br />
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Recent interest in ethical AI has brought a slew of values, including fairness, into conversations about technology design. Research in the area of algorithmic fairness tends to be rooted in questions of distribution that can be subject to precise formalism and technical implementation. We seek to expand this conversation to include the experiences of people subject to algorithmic classification and decision-making. By examining tweets about the “Twitter algorithm” we consider the wide range of concerns and desires Twitter users express. We find a concern with fairness (narrowly construed) is present, particularly in the ways users complain that the platform enacts a political bias against conservatives. However, we find another important category of concern, evident in attempts to exert control over the algorithm. Twitter users who seek control do so for a variety of reasons and their strategies often produce considerable social utility. Beyond the experiences on any single platform, we argue for better and clearer definitions of what constitutes legitimate and illegitimate control over algorithmic processes.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Jenna Burrell is an Associate Professor in the [https://ischool.berkeley.edu School of Information] at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on how marginalized communities adapt digital technologies to meet their needs and to pursue their goals and ideals. She is the co-director of the [https://afog.berkeley.edu/ Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group]. She is currently working on a book about rural communities that host critical Internet infrastructure such as fiber optic cables and data centers. Her first book [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/invisible-users Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana] (The MIT Press) came out in May 2012. She earned a PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics. <br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
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** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
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====Thursday, October 10, 2019: Beyond “Bots and Trolls” — Understanding Disinformation as Collaborative Work, with Kate Starbird====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-10-10 Airmo] and<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Strategic information operations (e.g. disinformation, political propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are a critical concern for democratic societies—as they destabilize the “common ground” that we need to stand upon to govern ourselves. In this talk, Kate Starbird argues that defending against strategic information operations will require a more nuanced understanding of the problem. In particular, we will need to move beyond focusing on “bots” and “trolls” to looking at the collaborative nature of disinformation campaigns that target, infiltrate, shape, and leverage online communities. Drawing from three distinct case studies, Starbird describes how orchestrated campaigns can become deeply entangled within “organic” online crowds and highlights a persistent challenge for researchers, platform designers, and policy makers—distinguishing between orchestrated, explicitly-coordinated information operations and the emergent, organic behaviors of an online crowd.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.hcde.washington.edu/starbird Kate Starbird] is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington (UW). Starbird’s research is situated within human-computer interaction (HCI) and the emerging field of crisis informatics—the study of the how information-communication technologies (ICTs) are used during crisis events. One aspect of her research focuses on how online rumors spread during natural disasters and man-made crisis events. More recently, she has begun to focus on disinformation and other forms of strategic information operations online. She is a co-founder and executive council member of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Starbird earned her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Technology, Media and Society and holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
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====Thursday, September 5, 2019: Digital Patronage: A New Media Ecosystem Supporting Creative Content, with Yvette Wohn====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-09-05 Airmo] and<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLSpvpquaY YouTube]<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Digital patronage is the act of delivering recurring direct support to content creators online. In this talk I define digital patronage as a form of social support and examine why patrons engage in this behavior in the context of the live streaming platform Twitch. This mixed method research illustrates patrons’ motivations, how patronage motivations differ from that of donations, and the motivational factors that are associated with higher levels of patronage. I will also highlight different approaches of how content creators manage patronage and discuss what this means for the design of patronage platforms and emergence of a new creative content economy.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://yvettewohn.com/ Yvette Wohn] is an assistant professor of Informatics at New Jersey Institute of Technology and director of the Social Interaction Lab (socialinteractionlab.com). Her research is in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) where she studies the role of algorithms and social interactions in livestreaming, esports, gaming, and social media.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
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====Thursday, August 1, 2019: Where Did This $^@#$ Autonomous Car Learn to Drive? Addressing Cross-cultural differences in Autonomous Car Design, with Wendy Ju====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-08-01 AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uBw_iHl8FU YouTube]<br />
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The importance of understanding differences in culture have long been known to designers. Interactive technology enables new ways to localize products, but it also moves products into aspects of daily life where the subtle differences in culture become more important and more profound. Today's autonomous cars, for example, are designed to follow the letter of the local law, but do not adapt to regional variations in driving behavior. At scale, this lack of adaptation can cause accidents and cost lives. <br />
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I will discuss recent research looking at cross-cultural experiments in people's interactions with autonomous driving that were conducted between the US and the Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, and Israel and outline an emerging framework for designers to examine cultural differences.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Wendy Ju is an Assistant Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science field at Cornell University. Dr. Ju comes to Cornell Tech from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, where she was Executive Director of Interaction Design Research, and from the California College of the Arts, where she was an Associate Professor of Interaction Design in the Design MFA program. Her work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding. Dr. Ju has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems are built. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her monograph on The Design of Implicit Interactions was published in 2015.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
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====Wednesday, July 17, 2019: Growing Their Own: What We Can Learn from the Community-Driven Development of Archive of Our Own, with Casey Fiesler====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-2019-07-17 | AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epDBXwS7XtM | Youtube]<br />
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<p> The fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own hosts almost 5 million works and 2 million users. It is also an open source project that was designed and developed entirely by the community it serves—which consists largely of women and LGBTQ people—and relies on a small army of volunteers who maintain a value-driven search and tagging system. This talk traces the history, growth, and features of the archive, which include grassroots development, design for inclusivity and empowerment, the benefits and challenges of maintaining a volunteer development team, and how a number of these volunteers from groups traditionally underrepresented in computing picked up computational skills along the way. <br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Casey Fiesler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research focuses on creating more positive networked spaces, which includes work on technology ethics, online governance, social norms, and designing to support marginalized groups. She is a member of the legal committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is behind the open source fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. Her ethics research is funded by the National Science Foundation PERVADE project, dedicated to empirical studies of research ethics for pervasive human data, and Mozilla and partners' Responsible Computer Science challenge.<br />
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====Thursday, July 11, 2019: How Privilege Defines Performance, with Tatiana Mac====<br />
* Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + broadcast on [https://onlinexperiences.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:1;F:US!100&PreviousLoginCount=8&ForceProfileToBeFilledOut=0&DisplayItem=E326976&ShowKey=44908&ShowFrameFormatOverride=NULL&RandomValue=1562689242748 | AirMo] <br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In theory, web performance, accessibility, and inclusive design all have similar goals: provide the best, most consistent experience to all people using the minimal amount of resources. In practice, this often falls apart. Product creators define what it means to be performant from where they stand, which is typically from places of privilege with unseen biases, struggling to find true empathy with their users. Through this talk, we'll examine how to build conscientiously, looking within to resist systematic problems in order to create more truly performant, accessible, and inclusive systems for our users. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tatiana Mac is an independent American designer who works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. She believes the trifecta of performance, accessibility, and inclusion can work symbiotically to improve our social landscape digitally and physically. When ethically-minded, she thinks technologists can dismantle exclusionary systems in favor of community-focused, inclusive ones. Never totally pleased with design tools, she designs in browser to bring performant, semantic, and accessible visual narratives into the web. Her current obsessions are optimizing variable fonts, converting raster images into to SVGs, and recreating modernist paintings in CSS grid. When she can successfully escape vim, she finds new countries to explore (33 and counting).<br />
<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tararobertson/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, June 6, 2019: Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality, with Katherine Isbister and Joshua McVeigh-Schultz====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 29, 2019: User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing, with Blase Ur====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
<br />
* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
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Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
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<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
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<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
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<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
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<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
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<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
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<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
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<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
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<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
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<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
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<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
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<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
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<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
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<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
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<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
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<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
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<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
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<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
<br />
<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
<br />
<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
<br />
<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
<br />
<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
<br />
* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
<br />
* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
<br />
<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
<br />
<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
<br />
<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
<br />
<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
<br />
<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
<br />
====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
<br />
<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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<br />
== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
<br />
* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
<br />
===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1226832Speaker Series2020-05-04T21:29:51Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Upcoming Speakers */</p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
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===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We used to host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2020===<br />
====Thursday, 16 April 2020: Rethinking Trust and Well-Being in this Strange New World with Jeff Hancock====<br />
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* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 7:00pm CET<br />
* Location: Broadcast and archived for Mozillians and the public on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-04-16 Airmo], on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLWCZNuopco Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR].<br />
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A new trust framework is emerging – fueled by social, economic and technological forces that will profoundly alter how we trust, not only what we see and read online, but also one another. At the same time, technology is now crucial for staying distant socializing while we must keep our social distance. These changes have profound implications for our psychological well-being. In this talk we will discuss how principles from psychology and communication intersect deception, trust and well-being with technology. We will discuss several studies that reveal key principles to guide how we think about truth and trust on the internet, and I will report on a new meta-analysis examining every study examining social media and well-being. <br />
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Jeff Hancock is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University and the Founding Director of the Stanford Social Media Lab. A leading expert in social media behavior and the psychology of online interaction, Professor Hancock studies the impact of social media and technology on well-being, relationships, deception and trust, identity, and more.<br />
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His research has been published in over 100 journal articles and conference proceedings and has been supported by funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense. Professor Hancock’s TED Talk on deception has been seen over 1 million times and his research has been frequently featured in the popular press, including the New York Times, CNN, NPR, CBS and the BBC.<br />
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Professor Hancock worked for Canada Customs before earning his PhD in Psychology at Dalhousie University, Canada. He was a Professor of Information Science (and co-Chair) and Communication at Cornell University prior to joining Stanford in 2015. He currently lives in Palo Alto with his wife and daughter, and he regularly gets shot at on the ice as a hockey goalie.<br />
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====Thursday, 26 March 2020: Three waves of open source voice: how do we shape the voice landscape over the next 5 years?, with Kathy Reid====<br />
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* Time: Noon PT / 3:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT (and 6:00 AM Friday AEDT)<br />
* Location: Broadcast and archived for Mozillians and the public on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-03-26 Airmo], on [http://youtube.com Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR].<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
When we investigate the evolution of open source voice technologies, two 'waves' become evident. We sit on the cusp of a "third wave" of open source voice - an inflection point of technologies, communities, business models, drivers, stakeholders and languages. In this presentation, Kathy Reid outlines the three-wave approach to open source voice, highlighting where it has come from, the current state of play, and outlines several possible arcs that it could follow. Each of these trajectories has an associated set of conditions - and actions that need to be taken to see the trajectory materialise into reality. <br />
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While this talk focuses on Voice, the research approach, the understandings of the ecosystem and the process of open source project assessment have relevance across Mozilla.<br />
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After two decades bringing emerging technologies into the mainstream, Kathy Reid has gone back to further study and is a Master of Applied Cybernetics student at the 3A Institute at Australian National University. Long an open source advocate, her Master's capstone explores how we can assess open source voice products. Kathy is the former President of Linux Australia Inc. and former Director of Developer Relations at Mycroft AI. <br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
====Thursday, 5 March 2020: Social Media and Well-Being: Moving Beyond "Active" vs "Passive" Activities, with Nicole Ellison====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-01-16 Airmo], on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfmv3tzhmKs Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR] and archived for later watching by NDAd Mozillians on Airmo.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
In this talk, I’ll describe my current project: a co-authored book on social media and well-being broadly construed. Our goal is to shift public narratives about social media from one focusing on moral panics and negative outcomes to one that highlights what science can actually tell us about the implications of our use and highlights more positive and under-recognized aspects of use. I’ll also share findings from a recent empirical project on the “non-click.” This work was inspired by scholarship on well-being outcomes that often characterizes browsing (but not clicking) activities as passive use, contrasting it with more desirable active use. In this talk, I’ll report on a study investigating the non-click—instances where people intentionally and thoughtfully withhold from clicking on content they do pay close attention to—in order to interrogate assumptions that browsing is always passive and devoid of authentic attention. Employing a combination of eye tracking, survey, and interview methods (N=42), we found that there was no difference in attention (as measured by eye gaze duration) to clicked versus non-clicked Facebook content. Our interview data reveal that non-clicked content is often imported into other channels, where it serves as a stronger signal of relational investment than one-click “likes,” and highlight three audience-related concerns that contribute to active non-clicking. <br />
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Nicole B. Ellison is the Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in Communication Theory and Research in 1999 from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. Nicole's research has explored social and interpersonal aspects of online technologies and computer-mediated communication, including research on self-presentational strategies used by online dating participants; the role of social media in reshaping college access patterns for low-income and first-generation college students; and the ways in which users employ the communication affordances of Facebook to receive and give social and informational support to members of their network. This research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Academies of Science. This year she is at Stanford University as a recipient of the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, where she is currently writing a book on social media and well-being.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 21 February 2020: Dark Elegies: The Choreographics of Surveillance and National Defense, with Sydney Skybetter, Brown University====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-02-21 Airmo], on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgAeRaJoHLc Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR] and archived for later watching on Airmo and Youtube.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Choreographer and Brown University Professor, Sydney Skybetter, will present his research on the intersections of gesture, robotics, dance history and homeland security. With case studies of the Snowden leaks, military surveillance drones, the film Minority Report, and early motion capture research conducted with choreographers Merce Cunningham and Bill T. Jones, Skybetter will sketch a vision of the evolution of contemporary surveillance technologies undergirded by dance theory and choreographic method.<br />
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Hailed by Dance Magazine as “One of the most influential people in dance today,” his work has been performed at such venues as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow and The Joyce Theater. He has consulted on issues of change and technology for The National Ballet of Canada, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Hasbro, New York University and The University of Southern California, among others. A sought-after speaker, he has lectured on the relationship of dance history to emerging technologies at such institutions as Harvard University, South by Southwest Interactive, Yale, TEDx, and Stanford. He is a Public Humanities Fellow and Lecturer at Brown University, where he researches the problematics of human computer interfaces and mixed reality systems. He has served as a Grant Panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, is a founding member of the Guild of Future Architects, and is the winner of a RISCA Fellowship in Choreography from the State of Rhode Island. He received his MFA in Choreography from New York University. www.skybetter.org<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2019===<br />
====Wednesday, 11 December 2019: "Just Opt Out?": The Hidden Trade-Offs in Personal Data Ownership, with Janet Vertesi====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [ Airmo] and archived for later watching by NDAd Mozillians on Airmo.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
This talk reviews seven years’ worth of personal experiments aimed at opting out of data detection and platforms associated with the personal data economy online -- from keeping a pregnancy hidden from the internet to building your own cell phone. As technology companies shrug that if we don’t like their data policies we can “just opt out,” I question how realistic this assumption truly is. Can anyone just opt out and yet maintain an active digital lifestyle? And which hidden tradeoffs must we make in order to simply evade detection? As the experiments range from inconvenient to ridiculous to potentially dangerous, I present design and ethical implications for the next generation of tools that support radical data ownership online. The fact that most people stay on these platforms despite their discontent reveals that opting out is much more difficult than it seems.<br />
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Dubbed “Margaret Mead among the Starfleet” in the Times Literary Supplement, Janet Vertesi is assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, where she specializes in the sociology of science, technology, and organizations. Her past decade of research, funded by the National Science Foundation, examines how distributed robotic spacecraft teams work together effectively to produce scientific and technical results. Outside of academia, Vertesi is best known for keeping all information about a pregnancy away from data detection, and other experiments in radical data ownership. Vertesi is an active member of the Human-Computer Interaction research community, with publications at ACM CHI, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Ubiquitous Computing, and prior collaborations with Intel and Yahoo. Vertesi holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and M.Phil from University of Cambridge; she is a Fellow of the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy and an advisory board member of the Data & Society Institute. She is the author of Seeing Like a Rover: How robots, teams and images craft knowledge of Mars (Chicago, 2015), co-editor with David Ribes and others of digitalSTS (Princeton, 2019) and author of the forthcoming Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams (Chicago, 2020).<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
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* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 21 November 2019: The Stark Future of Trust Online, with Mor Naaman====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [ Airmo] and [YouTube] and archived for later watching by NDAd Mozillians on Airmo.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Trust is what enables our society to function, from supporting interpersonal transactions to providing the very foundation of our democracy. How trust is established online is therefore a key question for HCI to understand and address, especially as the landscape is rapidly changing with AI and algorithms increasingly mediating our online experiences. This talk will cover two different and critical aspects of online trust. In the first part of the talk, I will present work on trust in the news media. Most people consume online news on platforms where algorithms present content from a mixed set of sources, for example news aggregators and news feeds. It is important, then, to evaluate the factors that contribute to how people evaluate the veracity of content in these environments. In this work, we follow on a body of research showing higher reported trust in politically aligned news sources. We investigate the determinants of the increased trust to distinguish between source evaluation and confirmation bias effects.<br />
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It is more than recommendations algorithms that mediate our online experiences. In the second part of the talk, I will outline a near-future where our personal communications are mediated by AI agents, or as we termed it: AI Mediated Communication (AI-MC). I will lay out the various ways in which AI-MC might impact our interpersonal communications, and describe a study where we examined the potential impact of AI-generated profile text on the perceived trustworthiness of Airbnb hosts. Taken together, the findings point to a bleak future of trust in our society, and offer a set of significant challenges for the future of HCI.<br />
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The studies I will present were led by PhD student Maurice Jakesch at Cornell, and are joint work with Jeff Hancock, Xiao Ma, and Karen Levy among others.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Mor Naaman is an associate professor of Information Science at the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech. Mor leads a research group focused on topics related to the intersection of technology, media and democracy. The group applies multidisciplinary techniques — from machine learning to qualitative social science — to study our information ecosystem and its challenges. Previously, Mor was on the faculty at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, led a research team at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Stanford University InfoLab, and played professional basketball for Hapoel Tel Aviv. He is also a former startup co-founder, and advises startup companies in social computing and related areas. His research is widely recognized, including with an NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award, research awards and grants from numerous corporations, and multiple best paper awards.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, October 17, 2019: When Users Control the Algorithms: Values Expressed in Practices on the Twitter Platform, with Jenna Burrell====<br />
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [ https://mzl.la/et-speaker-twitter-practices-2019-10-17 Airmo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZSJqDXQLE YouTube]<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Recent interest in ethical AI has brought a slew of values, including fairness, into conversations about technology design. Research in the area of algorithmic fairness tends to be rooted in questions of distribution that can be subject to precise formalism and technical implementation. We seek to expand this conversation to include the experiences of people subject to algorithmic classification and decision-making. By examining tweets about the “Twitter algorithm” we consider the wide range of concerns and desires Twitter users express. We find a concern with fairness (narrowly construed) is present, particularly in the ways users complain that the platform enacts a political bias against conservatives. However, we find another important category of concern, evident in attempts to exert control over the algorithm. Twitter users who seek control do so for a variety of reasons and their strategies often produce considerable social utility. Beyond the experiences on any single platform, we argue for better and clearer definitions of what constitutes legitimate and illegitimate control over algorithmic processes.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Jenna Burrell is an Associate Professor in the [https://ischool.berkeley.edu School of Information] at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on how marginalized communities adapt digital technologies to meet their needs and to pursue their goals and ideals. She is the co-director of the [https://afog.berkeley.edu/ Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group]. She is currently working on a book about rural communities that host critical Internet infrastructure such as fiber optic cables and data centers. Her first book [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/invisible-users Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana] (The MIT Press) came out in May 2012. She earned a PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics. <br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, October 10, 2019: Beyond “Bots and Trolls” — Understanding Disinformation as Collaborative Work, with Kate Starbird====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-10-10 Airmo] and<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=498-c_SjArg YouTube]<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Strategic information operations (e.g. disinformation, political propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are a critical concern for democratic societies—as they destabilize the “common ground” that we need to stand upon to govern ourselves. In this talk, Kate Starbird argues that defending against strategic information operations will require a more nuanced understanding of the problem. In particular, we will need to move beyond focusing on “bots” and “trolls” to looking at the collaborative nature of disinformation campaigns that target, infiltrate, shape, and leverage online communities. Drawing from three distinct case studies, Starbird describes how orchestrated campaigns can become deeply entangled within “organic” online crowds and highlights a persistent challenge for researchers, platform designers, and policy makers—distinguishing between orchestrated, explicitly-coordinated information operations and the emergent, organic behaviors of an online crowd.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.hcde.washington.edu/starbird Kate Starbird] is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington (UW). Starbird’s research is situated within human-computer interaction (HCI) and the emerging field of crisis informatics—the study of the how information-communication technologies (ICTs) are used during crisis events. One aspect of her research focuses on how online rumors spread during natural disasters and man-made crisis events. More recently, she has begun to focus on disinformation and other forms of strategic information operations online. She is a co-founder and executive council member of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Starbird earned her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Technology, Media and Society and holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, September 5, 2019: Digital Patronage: A New Media Ecosystem Supporting Creative Content, with Yvette Wohn====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-09-05 Airmo] and<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLSpvpquaY YouTube]<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Digital patronage is the act of delivering recurring direct support to content creators online. In this talk I define digital patronage as a form of social support and examine why patrons engage in this behavior in the context of the live streaming platform Twitch. This mixed method research illustrates patrons’ motivations, how patronage motivations differ from that of donations, and the motivational factors that are associated with higher levels of patronage. I will also highlight different approaches of how content creators manage patronage and discuss what this means for the design of patronage platforms and emergence of a new creative content economy.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://yvettewohn.com/ Yvette Wohn] is an assistant professor of Informatics at New Jersey Institute of Technology and director of the Social Interaction Lab (socialinteractionlab.com). Her research is in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) where she studies the role of algorithms and social interactions in livestreaming, esports, gaming, and social media.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, August 1, 2019: Where Did This $^@#$ Autonomous Car Learn to Drive? Addressing Cross-cultural differences in Autonomous Car Design, with Wendy Ju====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-08-01 AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uBw_iHl8FU YouTube]<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
The importance of understanding differences in culture have long been known to designers. Interactive technology enables new ways to localize products, but it also moves products into aspects of daily life where the subtle differences in culture become more important and more profound. Today's autonomous cars, for example, are designed to follow the letter of the local law, but do not adapt to regional variations in driving behavior. At scale, this lack of adaptation can cause accidents and cost lives. <br />
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I will discuss recent research looking at cross-cultural experiments in people's interactions with autonomous driving that were conducted between the US and the Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, and Israel and outline an emerging framework for designers to examine cultural differences.<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Wendy Ju is an Assistant Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science field at Cornell University. Dr. Ju comes to Cornell Tech from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, where she was Executive Director of Interaction Design Research, and from the California College of the Arts, where she was an Associate Professor of Interaction Design in the Design MFA program. Her work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding. Dr. Ju has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems are built. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her monograph on The Design of Implicit Interactions was published in 2015.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
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====Wednesday, July 17, 2019: Growing Their Own: What We Can Learn from the Community-Driven Development of Archive of Our Own, with Casey Fiesler====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-2019-07-17 | AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epDBXwS7XtM | Youtube]<br />
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<p> The fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own hosts almost 5 million works and 2 million users. It is also an open source project that was designed and developed entirely by the community it serves—which consists largely of women and LGBTQ people—and relies on a small army of volunteers who maintain a value-driven search and tagging system. This talk traces the history, growth, and features of the archive, which include grassroots development, design for inclusivity and empowerment, the benefits and challenges of maintaining a volunteer development team, and how a number of these volunteers from groups traditionally underrepresented in computing picked up computational skills along the way. <br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Casey Fiesler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research focuses on creating more positive networked spaces, which includes work on technology ethics, online governance, social norms, and designing to support marginalized groups. She is a member of the legal committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is behind the open source fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. Her ethics research is funded by the National Science Foundation PERVADE project, dedicated to empirical studies of research ethics for pervasive human data, and Mozilla and partners' Responsible Computer Science challenge.<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
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====Thursday, July 11, 2019: How Privilege Defines Performance, with Tatiana Mac====<br />
* Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + broadcast on [https://onlinexperiences.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:1;F:US!100&PreviousLoginCount=8&ForceProfileToBeFilledOut=0&DisplayItem=E326976&ShowKey=44908&ShowFrameFormatOverride=NULL&RandomValue=1562689242748 | AirMo] <br />
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<p> In theory, web performance, accessibility, and inclusive design all have similar goals: provide the best, most consistent experience to all people using the minimal amount of resources. In practice, this often falls apart. Product creators define what it means to be performant from where they stand, which is typically from places of privilege with unseen biases, struggling to find true empathy with their users. Through this talk, we'll examine how to build conscientiously, looking within to resist systematic problems in order to create more truly performant, accessible, and inclusive systems for our users. <br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Tatiana Mac is an independent American designer who works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. She believes the trifecta of performance, accessibility, and inclusion can work symbiotically to improve our social landscape digitally and physically. When ethically-minded, she thinks technologists can dismantle exclusionary systems in favor of community-focused, inclusive ones. Never totally pleased with design tools, she designs in browser to bring performant, semantic, and accessible visual narratives into the web. Her current obsessions are optimizing variable fonts, converting raster images into to SVGs, and recreating modernist paintings in CSS grid. When she can successfully escape vim, she finds new countries to explore (33 and counting).<br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tararobertson/ Tara Robertson]<br />
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====Thursday, June 6, 2019: Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality, with Katherine Isbister and Joshua McVeigh-Schultz====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 29, 2019: User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing, with Blase Ur====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
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<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
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<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
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<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
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<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
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<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
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<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
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* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
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<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
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Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
<br />
* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
<br />
Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
<br />
It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
<br />
Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
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<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
<br />
<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
<br />
<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
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<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
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<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
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<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
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<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
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<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
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<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
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<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
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<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
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<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
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<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
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<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
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<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
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<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
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<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
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<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
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<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
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<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
<br />
<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
<br />
<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
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''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
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<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
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<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
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<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
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<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
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<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
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<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
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<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
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<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
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<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
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<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
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<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
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<p>We’ll learn:<br />
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<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
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====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
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<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
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====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
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<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
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<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
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<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
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====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
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====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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<br />
== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
<br />
* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
<br />
===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1222940All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-28T12:32:26Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
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This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>In a collection of hands-on demos and animated mockups, see how a Fathom-powered Firefox improves web pages, massaging them to better serve the user. By inferring the meaning of page elements, Fathom lets us take our goal of user agency beyond matters of protocol and into the viewport.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--o8kdC9JpW3mi19IKpzExBg== Diego Fernandez Goberna])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This is a WebXR experience to introduce people to the medium and let them try different activities and environments.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/ssage Sandy Sage])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Jira-Bugzilla Integration ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Jira-Bugzilla integration that allows developers to collaborate on issue while using two different bug tracking systems. Jira tickets are created based on Bugzilla information, and afterwards users can sync both systems in real-time, or as a bulk operation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--uBOIu4tFUeagIPUAPSSq3w== David Bryant] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/mrstegeman Michael Stegeman])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PfhcxWQ1U16E4_1NX14JSQ== Sumita Sami])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Skyline Marketing ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--WKIeJ0uLVMSEQ3wMIUN-AA== Maciej Pluta])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> See how Mozilla showed up in the North America & EU markets, and what we've learned from this campaign. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1222936All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-28T10:56:07Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>In a collection of hands-on demos and animated mockups, see how a Fathom-powered Firefox improves web pages, massaging them to better serve the user. By inferring the meaning of page elements, Fathom lets us take our goal of user agency beyond matters of protocol and into the viewport.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--o8kdC9JpW3mi19IKpzExBg== Diego Fernandez Goberna])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This is a WebXR experience to introduce people to the medium and let them try different activities and environments.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/ssage Sandy Sage])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Jira-Bugzilla Integration ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Jira-Bugzilla integration that allows developers to collaborate on issue while using two different bug tracking systems. Jira tickets are created based on Bugzilla information, and afterwards users can sync both systems in real-time, or as a bulk operation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--uBOIu4tFUeagIPUAPSSq3w== David Bryant] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/mrstegeman Michael Stegeman])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PfhcxWQ1U16E4_1NX14JSQ== Sumita Sami])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Skyline Marketing ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--WKIeJ0uLVMSEQ3wMIUN-AA== Maciej Pluta])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> See how Mozilla showed up in the North America & EU markets, and what we've learned from this campaign. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1222756All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-22T16:34:36Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>In a collection of hands-on demos and animated mockups, see how a Fathom-powered Firefox improves web pages, massaging them to better serve the user. By inferring the meaning of page elements, Fathom lets us take our goal of user agency beyond matters of protocol and into the viewport.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--o8kdC9JpW3mi19IKpzExBg== Diego Fernandez Goberna])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This is a WebXR experience to introduce people to the medium and let them try different activities and environments.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/ssage Sandy Sage])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Jira-Bugzilla Integration ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Jira-Bugzilla integration that allows developers to collaborate on issue while using two different bug tracking systems. Jira tickets are created based on Bugzilla information, and afterwards users can sync both systems in real-time, or as a bulk operation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--uBOIu4tFUeagIPUAPSSq3w== David Bryant] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/mrstegeman Michael Stegeman])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PfhcxWQ1U16E4_1NX14JSQ== Sumita Sami])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Skyline Marketing ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--WKIeJ0uLVMSEQ3wMIUN-AA== Maciej Pluta])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> See how Mozilla showed up in the North America & EU markets, and what we've learned from this campaign. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1222657All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-21T19:52:30Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--o8kdC9JpW3mi19IKpzExBg== Diego Fernandez Goberna])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This is a WebXR experience to introduce people to the medium and let them try different activities and environments.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/ssage Sandy Sage])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Jira-Bugzilla Integration ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Jira-Bugzilla integration that allows developers to collaborate on issue while using two different bug tracking systems. Jira tickets are created based on Bugzilla information, and afterwards users can sync both systems in real-time, or as a bulk operation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--uBOIu4tFUeagIPUAPSSq3w== David Bryant] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/mrstegeman Michael Stegeman])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PfhcxWQ1U16E4_1NX14JSQ== Sumita Sami])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Skyline Marketing ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--WKIeJ0uLVMSEQ3wMIUN-AA== Maciej Pluta])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> See how Mozilla showed up in the North America & EU markets, and what we've learned from this campaign. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1222639All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-21T16:38:34Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--o8kdC9JpW3mi19IKpzExBg== Diego Fernandez Goberna])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This is a WebXR experience to introduce people to the medium and let them try different activities and environments.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/ssage Sandy Sage])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Jira-Bugzilla Integration ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Jira-Bugzilla integration that allows developers to collaborate on issue while using two different bug tracking systems. Jira tickets are created based on Bugzilla information, and afterwards users can sync both systems in real-time, or as a bulk operation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--uBOIu4tFUeagIPUAPSSq3w== David Bryant] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/mrstegeman Michael Stegeman])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PfhcxWQ1U16E4_1NX14JSQ== Sumita Sami])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1222479All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-18T02:37:24Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Demo Title (Contact) & Description */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--o8kdC9JpW3mi19IKpzExBg== Diego Fernandez Goberna])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This is a WebXR experience to introduce people to the medium and let them try different activities and environments.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/ssage Sandy Sage])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Jira-Bugzilla Integration ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Jira-Bugzilla integration that allows developers to collaborate on issue while using two different bug tracking systems. Jira tickets are created based on Bugzilla information, and afterwards users can sync both systems in real-time, or as a bulk operation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--uBOIu4tFUeagIPUAPSSq3w== David Bryant] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/mrstegeman Michael Stegeman])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PfhcxWQ1U16E4_1NX14JSQ== Sumita Sami])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1222478All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-18T01:20:20Z<p>Wikibiz: /* How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe (David Durst) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--o8kdC9JpW3mi19IKpzExBg== Diego Fernandez Goberna])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This is a WebXR experience to introduce people to the medium and let them try different activities and environments.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/ssage Sandy Sage])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--uBOIu4tFUeagIPUAPSSq3w== David Bryant] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/mrstegeman Michael Stegeman])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PfhcxWQ1U16E4_1NX14JSQ== Sumita Sami])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1222477All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-18T00:40:37Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Mozilla WebThings (Ben Francis + Kathy Giori) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
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==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--o8kdC9JpW3mi19IKpzExBg== Diego Fernandez Goberna])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This is a WebXR experience to introduce people to the medium and let them try different activities and environments.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--uBOIu4tFUeagIPUAPSSq3w== David Bryant] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/mrstegeman Michael Stegeman])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PfhcxWQ1U16E4_1NX14JSQ== Sumita Sami])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1222245All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-13T16:32:17Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Hello, WebXR (Fernando Serrano García + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--o8kdC9JpW3mi19IKpzExBg== Diego Fernandez Goberna) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--o8kdC9JpW3mi19IKpzExBg== Diego Fernandez Goberna])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This is a WebXR experience to introduce people to the medium and let them try different activities and environments.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PfhcxWQ1U16E4_1NX14JSQ== Sumita Sami])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1222244All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-13T16:31:39Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Hello, WebXR (Fernando Serrano García) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--o8kdC9JpW3mi19IKpzExBg== Diego Fernandez Goberna)===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This is a WebXR experience to introduce people to the medium and let them try different activities and environments.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PfhcxWQ1U16E4_1NX14JSQ== Sumita Sami])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1222207All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-10T19:24:40Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Demo Title (Contact) & Description */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our demos and technology democratize the access to and creation of XR content unlike the current closed proprietary alternatives.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PfhcxWQ1U16E4_1NX14JSQ== Sumita Sami])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221913All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2020-01-06T19:20:27Z<p>Wikibiz: /* RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket (Ian Wesley-Smith) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our demos and technology democratize the access to and creation of XR content unlike the current closed proprietary alternatives.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mentor-Learners Matching Portal/Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This portal will help to match more junior engineers with mentors to help them to grow into leadership positions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at http://recit.readitlater.com </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221600All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2019-12-20T16:45:14Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our demos and technology democratize the access to and creation of XR content unlike the current closed proprietary alternatives.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mentor-Learners Matching Portal/Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This portal will help to match more junior engineers with mentors to help them to grow into leadership positions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at https://recit.getpocket.dev/static/index.html </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221559All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2019-12-19T18:09:50Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo (Chris More) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our demos and technology democratize the access to and creation of XR content unlike the current closed proprietary alternatives.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mentor-Learners Matching Portal/Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This portal will help to match more junior engineers with mentors to help them to grow into leadership positions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla IoT - Delivering Smart Home Privacy, Security, and Interoperability ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Building a trusted personal agent for the connected home.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at https://recit.getpocket.dev/static/index.html </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221558All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2019-12-19T18:09:12Z<p>Wikibiz: /* The Machine Learning Menagerie (Kelly Davis) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>FPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our demos and technology democratize the access to and creation of XR content unlike the current closed proprietary alternatives.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mentor-Learners Matching Portal/Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This portal will help to match more junior engineers with mentors to help them to grow into leadership positions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla IoT - Delivering Smart Home Privacy, Security, and Interoperability ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Building a trusted personal agent for the connected home.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at https://recit.getpocket.dev/static/index.html </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> These demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and into future products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported. They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe, voice-based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, to create voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG. The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221557All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2019-12-19T18:07:55Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" (Jesse McCrosky) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>FPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our demos and technology democratize the access to and creation of XR content unlike the current closed proprietary alternatives.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mentor-Learners Matching Portal/Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This portal will help to match more junior engineers with mentors to help them to grow into leadership positions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--pRnEXknHUje7L2Xo3UeubQ== Hamilton Ulmer], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/klukas Jeff Klukas] and [https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla IoT - Delivering Smart Home Privacy, Security, and Interoperability ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Building a trusted personal agent for the connected home.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at https://recit.getpocket.dev/static/index.html </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text,text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and intofuture products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported.They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe voice based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, tocreate voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG.The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221556All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2019-12-19T18:05:51Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Mentor-Learners Matching Portal/Platform ([Marina Milshtein https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ==]) */</p>
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<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
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==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
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Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
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This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
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The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
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(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
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In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
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Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--to08uo8LUOqJZdmoyQtz3Q== Jon Lloyd])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>FPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our demos and technology democratize the access to and creation of XR content unlike the current closed proprietary alternatives.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Mentor-Learners Matching Portal/Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ== Marina Milshtein])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This portal will help to match more junior engineers with mentors to help them to grow into leadership positions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Mozilla IoT - Delivering Smart Home Privacy, Security, and Interoperability ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Building a trusted personal agent for the connected home.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider], [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--7dg5_fi-W7Sdrbh0BzuIpg== Solana Larsen])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at https://recit.getpocket.dev/static/index.html </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text,text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and intofuture products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported.They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe voice based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, tocreate voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG.The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020&diff=1221510All Hands/Berlin20202019-12-19T00:40:48Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Wednesday */</p>
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<div>'''What is it?''' -- Multiple team meetings, happening in the same city, at the same time + some opportunity to get together as one big group as well as with other teams as it makes sense. Then, on the last day, we have a fun social event for all, Mozilla-style! <br />
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=='''Dates and Location'''==<br />
Monday, January 27, 2020 - Friday, January 31, 2020 (travel days are Monday, Jan 27 & Saturday, Feb 1) in Berlin, Germany.<br />
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We have guestrooms at three hotels: [https://www.ihg.com/intercontinental/hotels/us/en/berlin/berha/hoteldetail InterContinental Berlin], [https://www.pullman-berlin-schweizerhof.com/en/ Hotel Pullman Schweizerhof], and [https://www.hotel-berlin.de/en/ Hotel Berlin, Berlin]. [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eu_rYMxuc_hgSNqCJxW7Vn32pYMNayPa&usp=sharing View on map].<br />
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=='''Registration'''==<br />
This is an invite-only event. All full time and Elance/Upwork employees are expected to attend this all company event. Contractors, Vendors and seasonal employees are included on a case by case evaluation based upon team needs and upon executive review and approval. <br />
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Advance registration is required. Attendees will need to wear their event badge at all times, including to evening events. We will have security at our events who will be ensuring everyone in our space should be there. This includes facilitators, and other related business guests. <br />
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=====New Hires=====<br />
We have a process to identify qualified regular full time new hires and Brianna will invite all new hires to register and book travel directly on their start date. No action is necessary from hiring managers other than to let them know about the event (please do not forward any links). Please work closely with your recruiting manager as they are aware of all deadlines.<br />
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All regular full time new hires must have a start date of January 6, 2020 or earlier and in workday by December 13, 2019. Final invites were extended on December 16, 2019. Contractors/vendors required executive approval and those who are hired after the approval period will not be invited, please see process/timeline [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lbxsJwkorleL6tchh5tL_yCeFZmHz7Qm5Lumm7u7-JA/edit?ts=5d6950bd here]. If you have any questions, please email bmark@mozilla.com.<br />
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=====Volunteer Contributors=====<br />
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'''Local contributors:'''<br />
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=====Registration Changes=====<br />
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=='''Immigration'''==<br />
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Benefits of Enrolling in STEP <br />
* Receive important information from the Embassy about safety conditions in your destination country, helping you make informed decisions about your travel plans.<br />
* Help the U.S. Embassy contact you in an emergency, whether natural disaster, civil unrest, or family emergency.<br />
* Help family and friends get in touch with you in an emergency.<br />
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==== Visas ====<br />
You do not need a visa if you hold a passport issued from the EU, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, or Canada. <br />
Please see here to confirm the entry document requirements for the country you’re from: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/einreiseundaufenthalt/visabestimmungen-node/staatenlistevisumpflicht-node <br />
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If you are from a country that requires a visa to enter Germany, please plan to obtain one as early as possible as government processing times constantly change. You can find a broad overview of the process here: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/einreiseundaufenthalt/visabestimmungen-node . For more detailed instructions regarding the visa process you will need to refer to the website of your nearest Mission/Consulate General. You will be able to learn more about the process by searching for “business visa” or “visitor visa” on the website for that German Mission.<br />
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'''Please keep in mind that while you are traveling for work, you are not traveling for a German based job.''' All Hands is a business conference/event. As you book your travel please also keep in mind that you could require a transit visa if you have a layover in a country that requires it. <br />
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If you have questions specific to your circumstances, please email immigration@mozilla.com. <br />
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==== Entering Germany ====<br />
Your passport or identity card will be checked when you arrive at an EU port or airport to make sure you’re allowed to come into the country. The passport must be valid for the whole of your stay. You may also need a visa to come into or travel through Germany, depending on your nationality. <br />
* If you are from an EEA country or Switzerland, you can enter Germany with either a valid passport or a national identity card issued by a EEA country. <br />
* If you need a United States Passport, start here: https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/passports.html. Please note it can take 4-6 weeks to receive your passport. Please plan ahead. <br />
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==== EU Visa Waiver Program Suspension - Update ====<br />
In March 2019 the EU announced that the visa free entry requirements for third country visitors to Europe would be changing. This change will not go into affect until 1 January 2021, note this is one year after our Berlin All Hands trip. After this date, citizens from certain countries, including the USA and Canada, will be required to obtain an ETIAS travel authorization before they can enter Europe.<br />
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==== More details: ==== <br />
Mission websites in popular Mozillian locations:<br />
* United States: https://www.germany.info/us-en/service/05-VisaEinreise/business-visa/963542<br />
* Canada: https://canada.diplo.de/ca-en/consular-services/visa/shortstay<br />
* UK: https://uk.diplo.de/uk-en/02/visa<br />
* Paris: https://allemagneenfrance.diplo.de/fr-de/service/00-visa-seite<br />
* Taiwan: https://taipei.diplo.de/tw-en/service/visa<br />
* Beijing: https://china.diplo.de/cn-zh/service/visa-einreise/schengenvisum/1343246<br />
* India: https://india.diplo.de/in-en/service/-/1908794<br />
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=='''Travel to Berlin'''==<br />
Bookings to Berlin are done. The Egencia instructions were emailed to '''anyone approved to attend'''. New hires have individual deadlines based upon hire/start date. Approved contractors, vendors, seasonal, status employees were notified with an email from bmark@mozilla.com with specific instructions. <br />
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Specific instructions were about how to book, as we have a new process for anyone based outside the US, Canada & Central/South America. APAC employees will '''NOT''' be booking your All Hands travel in country based site, and will be using Egencia Americas. European employees '''WILL''' be booking in your country based site to allow access to trains and low cost airlines. <br />
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Should you need to reach someone at '''Egencia Americas''' for special circumstances or changes that can't be done online:<br />
*Call+1 (800) 361-1120 or +1(702)939-2533; Hours of operations are Monday – Friday (except holidays) 5:00 AM– 6:00 PM PT or 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM ET or 12:00 PM - 1:00 AM UTC. If you call outside these hours, you will get an after-hours agent (not a meeting agent, who may not be as helpful) . Please ensure the agent you speak with knows you are booking for a meeting.<br />
*Email: groupagents@customercare.egencia.com. The email is monitored Monday - Friday.<br />
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Other Egencia contact details:<br />
*Egencia UK+EMEA - Email: customer_service@egencia.co.uk; UK Local #: +44 203 077 2536 (charged at local rate). For calls made outside the UK, please dial +00 44 161 233 5525. (From anywhere outside the EU, please dial +011 44...)<br />
*Egencia FR - Email: service_client@egencia.fr; France Local #: +33 8 11 65 66 53. For calls made outside France, please dial +33 4 86 06 15 18 (From anywhere outside the EU, please dial +011 33)<br />
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'''Important Details:'''<br />
Everyone should plan to arrive in Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) on Monday, January 27 and leave on Saturday, February 1. Anyone who plans to arrive ahead of that or to stay longer, regardless of the reason, must follow the "arriving early/departing late guidelines." These guidelines also apply if you want to fly in or out of airports other than your home airport and Berlin Tegel (anything custom). A few notes:<br />
*If you are a vendor (paid by a company other than Mozilla or Upwork), contractor, or seasonal staff, those approved will be sent separate email.<br />
*Volunteers will be handled separate from this process.<br />
*We work closely with Recruiting to ensure new hires are invited after their start date. No need to let us know about these.<br />
*If you would like to invite someone who is a business partner, facilitator or some other category that isn't an employee or volunteer (not a personal guest/family), email bmark@mozilla.com.<br />
*Change fees and changes in airfare will be covered by Mozilla for business reasons only. Please email bmark@mozilla.com ahead of calling Egencia to make the change. If the change is specific for all hands, payment can be made centrally. If a change is due to a team specific need, you will need to provide payment over the phone and submit for reimbursement with manager approval. Any changes for personal reasons must be paid by the employee directly to Egencia over the phone (see next point)<br />
*If you'd like to change your itinerary for personal reasons, please call Egencia directly (numbers above( and be prepared to provide payment for the change fee and any change in airfare over the phone. <br />
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====Arriving Early/Departing Late Guidelines====<br />
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Our standard travel guidelines apply (pre-populated in Egencia) when booking with a few additional budget constraints. Anything booked outside of them will require approval. Most people will arrive on Monday, January 27 and leave on Saturday, February 1. Here are some exceptions: <br />
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# If you plan to spend some extra '''personal time in Berlin/Europe''' or nearby (choosing to arrive before Monday, Jan 27 or depart after Saturday, Feb 1), you'll need to create a itinerary in Egencia for standard dates/locations within the Egencia Portal and compare to the custom dates/locations you'd like. Pricing for the standard dates should be ''Round Trip only''. Pricing for custom dates/locations should be for ''Round trip or Multi city trips only''. Please share the difference via email to bmark@mozilla.com and receive approval ahead of submission in Egencia. You can ''sway up to +$100 over'' and Mozilla will cover it. Otherwise you'll need to come with an alternate itinerary that fits within the pricing (like a round trip in and out of TXL w/ longer dates, and you personally book & cover the rest). Please note that one way trips are only approved on a case by case basis. Do not book one ways without prior approval. ''We '''do not''' have the ability for employees to reimburse Mozilla for any overage.'' This scenario also applies for routing through different airports to/from Berlin Tegel than your home airport (ex. a layover in London for a few days, or flying out of something other than TXL). <br />
# If you are attending the '''Sunday/Monday CI event''' (by invite), you can arrive on Sunday, January 26.<br />
# If you would like to arrive early to '''recover from jetlag''', you will need manager approval for any additional costs associated with the extension. There is '''no unilateral''' "All Hands" approval based upon timezone to arrive early. For hotel, you will book and pay on your own, and expense the manager approved amount (which is coded to your cost center). This policy does not apply to volunteer contributors, any jetlag recovery costs must be self funded.<br />
# If you are celebrating the '''Lunar New Year''', [https://wiki.mozilla.org/All_Hands/Berlin2020#Lunar_New_Year see here].<br />
# If you live in a country where '''work travel is prohibited on weekends''', you may travel on Friday, Jan 24 and Monday, Feb 3, if you’d prefer (not required). For hotel, you will book and pay on your own, and expense the manager approved amount (which is coded to your cost center). You must have approval from our benefits team in writing (and send to bmark@mozilla.com) '''prior''' to booking any travel. Approvals and expenses will not be applied retroactively. <br />
# If you live in a country where '''work travel is prohibited on Sunday''', you may travel on Saturday, Jan 25, if you’d prefer (not required). For hotel, you will book and pay on your own, and expense the manager approved amount (which is coded to your cost center). You must have approval from our benefits team in writing (and send to bmark@mozilla.com) '''prior''' to booking any travel. Approvals and expenses will not be applied retroactively.<br />
# If you'd like to make changes to extend your stay on either side after booking, you will be responsible for all change fees and change in airfare. <br />
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====Booking Family Travel====<br />
Whether your family will accompany you on your flight or join us later; and you have two options: direct with the airline (recommended) or through Egencia.<br />
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'''Direct (recommended):''' <br />
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First, figure out which flights you want to be on as an employee in Egencia. Hold them in Egencia. Find the flights you want for your family on the airline site and book them. Go back to Egencia and book your flights. Once you have both sets of confirmation numbers, call the airline and ask them to LINK your two reservations. This shows that you are traveling together and shouldn't be moved. When you call, you can also ask the airline agent to assign seats together. By booking your family direct on the airline, it gives them "priority" with the airline over people who book via a third party (expedia, booking.com, kayak, etc). These aren't guarantees, but they do help.<br />
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'''Via Egencia:'''<br />
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We do not recommend booking family through Egencia. If you'd like details about how to do it, please email bmark@mozilla.com<br />
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'''Notes:''' <br />
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* If your family is arriving on a different flights than you but would like to take advantage of the airport shuttles on Sunday/Monday and/or Saturday, please email their itinerary to mozilla@shworldwide.com.<br />
* We are unable to accommodate volunteer contributor families/guests.<br />
* As of 20 November, we only have rooms that can accommodate 2 adults. If a larger room is needed, it will need to be booked and paid for on your own.<br />
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====Not Flying====<br />
Mozilla will reimburse U-Bahn tickets for those based in the Berlin area for getting to/from hotels. For more information on the U-Bahn, please see the Berlin office guide on [https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/WPR/Berlin+Office+Guide#BerlinOfficeGuide-MovingAroundBerlin mana]. <br />
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For those outside of the Berlin area who are taking the train, please book by November 10. Instructions were emailed to everyone. <br />
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Parking is not reimbursable.<br />
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====Travel Insurance====<br />
Mozilla provides emergency medical accident and illness cover for all global MoCo employees/interns and their dependents. You can view more information on [https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PR/Travel+Insurance+-+Business Mana]. This coverage begins at the time the you leave home to start your business trip. It also has a provision for a 14 day extension for leisure travel outside of the business travel. If you have additional questions, please email benefits@mozilla.com. <br />
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Mozilla does not cover travel insurance for elancers, upworkers, contractors, vendors, or volunteers/community members (unless required for visa application).<br />
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====Air Travel Fine Print====<br />
*Change fees will be covered by Mozilla for '''business reasons only'''. If you need a change and have manager approval, email bmark@mozilla.com '''prior to requesting the change with Egencia'''. Once you have approval, call Egencia to make the change at 1-877-255-1090 (note this will not be possible without prior approval so be sure to get that by way of an email from your manager to Brianna Mark). If you are changing for personal reasons, the change in airfare, change fee and Egencia fee is your responsibility.<br />
*Mozilla will '''not''' reimburse for Business/First class upgrades, tickets or seat reservations. <br />
*Mozilla will reimburse for one checked bag each way.<br />
*''Mozilla Frequent Flyer perks do not apply for All Hands''. <br />
*Flights booked outside of Egencia will not be an approved expense unless email approval by Brianna is obtained prior to booking.<br />
*Any submitted expenses needs to have an itinerary attached to ensure it is employee expenses only and within policy.<br />
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====Ground Transportation====<br />
Berlin Tegel airport is open from 4:00 - 0:00. <br />
Shuttles will be provided from Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) to our 3 hotels:<br />
*Sunday, Jan 26 from 9:00 - 22:00, for flights landing between 7:45 and 21:45.<br />
*Monday, Jan 27 from 8:00 - 23:00, for flights landing between 7:15 and 22:55.<br />
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Shuttles from our 3 hotels to Berlin Tegel will be provided:<br />
*Saturday, Feb 1 from 4:00 - 20:00, for flights departing 7:15 and 22:15.<br />
*Sunday, Feb 2 from 4:00 - 12:00, for flights departing 6:00 - 14:00. ''If you are on a later flight, you can take the last shuttle at 12:00.'' <br />
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Taxis and Addison Lee are not reimbursable. <br />
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If you are arriving by train to Hauptbahnhof:<br />
To Hotel Berlin Berlin<br />
* FROM HAUPTBAHNHOF STATION: Take the S-Bahn metro lines S5, S9 or S75 to the station “Zoologischer Garten” (20 min.). From there, take the bus 100 to the stop Lützowplatz. <br />
* Via U-BAHN: Take the U-Bahn metro lines U2, U3 and U1 to the station “U-Nollendorfplatz”. Exit the station in the direction of “Karl-Heinrich-Ulrichs-Straße." The road leads directly to the hotel (approx 5 mins). <br />
* [https://www.hotel-berlin.de/d/berlinberlinpro/media/PDF/Anfahrt_A4_E_Karl-Heinrich-Ulrichs-Strae_5c2ab7.pdf Map]<br />
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To InterCon Berlin and Pullman<br />
* FROM HAUPTBAHNHOF STATION: Take the S-Bahn metro lines S3, S5, S7, or S9 to the station “Zoologischer Garten”. From there, walk 10 mins to hotel.<br />
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Berlin's integrated public transport is divided in 3 tariff zones (ABC). To travel within the city, including from Tegel airport to the hotels, you only need an AB ticket. Tickets can be bought at automated booths in most stations (accept credit cards), and on Metro (need coins). You can use the same ticket to travel on buses, metro, S-Bahn, U-Bahn. More information, including PDF maps, are available on [https://www.berlin.de/en/public-transportation/1772016-2913840-tickets-fares-and-route-maps.en.html this website]. A mobile app is available on stores ("BVG FahrInfo Plus") and allows to create routes between stations, or you can use directly the [https://www.bvg.de/en BVG] website.<br />
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====Getting around Berlin====<br />
You’ll rarely hear from your Berlin-based colleagues (or anyone else actually living in the city instead of the suburbs) that they prefer or even enjoy taking the car anywhere. Many don’t even own a car unless they truly need it because driving in Berlin is not a lot of fun with busy traffic, lots (looooots!) of construction sites, a bunch of one-way streets and barely any free parking spaces. When exploring the city, we recommend that you use public transportation instead, which takes you everywhere and is pretty reliable. Or you rent bikes and even add some exercise to your city tour.<br />
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In order to make sure that you know your transportation options, here’s an overview of what you may use — and how.<br />
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=====Buying tickets=====<br />
Most types of public transport require you to buy and validate your ticket before entering the respective vehicle. You can find ticket machines at the stations or buy a ticket at shops in one of the larger train stations. The machines usually inform you in German and in English, which makes them easy to use. <br />
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You’ll be able to buy different types of tickets depending on where you go and duration of their validity, from just one ride up to 6 days. If you plan to use public transportation for several days in a row it’s definitely recommended to get a multi-day ticket because the relative price will be lower.<br />
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Of course, there are also some peculiarities to each type of transportation when it comes to paying the fees:<br />
U-Bahn & S-Bahn: After buying a ticket at the machine, which you’ll most likely find on the platform or, if it’s a larger train station, in the entry area, you may need to validate it at an extra machine. They’re usually located on the platform, as well. [https://welcome2berlin.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/1/2/121289663/s-bahn-ticket-machine-00-img-6428-1920x2560-otmc-10-90_orig.jpg Here's a picture of a ticket machine with the ticket validation machine to its left.]<br />
Bus: Most bus stations don’t have ticket machines but you can buy one from the driver.<br />
Tram: Some trains have ticket machines inside; however, they don’t always work.<br />
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Please also take into account where you’re actually planning to go when buying a ticket. Berlin has 3 fare zones: A (city center), B (wider Berlin city area) and C (outside of the actual Berlin city area; Brandenburg). Unless you’re only exploring the area around the All Hands site, you’ll probably want to get “AB” tickets. If you need to go to or from Berlin Schönefeld Airport (SXF), it is located in fare zone C, so you'll need a ticket that covers area “C”. If you have an “AB” ticket you can buy an extension ticket for a single trip.<br />
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=====U-Bahn (the subway)=====<br />
The “U-Bahn” is our local subway system, which connects the entire city area, taking you almost everywhere within just a few minutes. There are 10 lines overall, named U1 to U9 (plus the kind of odd U55 that only connects very few stations). Big “U” signs all over Berlin help you spot the next station. <br />
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The BVG (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, the Berlin transport company) offer a fully interactive route map on their website. If you prefer a printed version, you can pick one up for free at one of their customer centers; the main office is located in the subway station “Alexanderplatz” in the city center. Or you just download their app, which is available for all major OS. You can also buy tickets via the app.<br />
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Pro tip: You may want to download the Berlin map in your favorite navigation app. Given that your phone plan may not apply to Europe (or it’s ridiculously expensive to go online), this can actually save your day because public WiFi isn’t as widely available in Germany as e.g. in North America.<br />
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=====Tram/Straßenbahn=====<br />
The tram is Berlin’s overground train service within the city. There are 22 lines overall: 9 so-called MetroTram lines (names consist of “M” plus a line number) and 13 streetcar lines (where the name is a simple number). They complement the U-Bahn and S-Bahn system by running on important routes that are not covered otherwise. <br />
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Given the size of the Berlin city area, you’ll most likely need to switch between trains and types of public transport, which includes the trams. They’re usually easy to find since they’re comparatively loud, painted in shining yellow and, well, run on overground tracks through pedestrian zones and next to roads used by cars. Also, big red signs with the word “tram” on them guide the way.<br />
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=====S-Bahn=====<br />
The S-Bahn is another overground train but covers longer distances than the tram (and doesn't run in or cross streets).<br />
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You’ll probably want to take the S-Bahn when visiting the neighbourhoods that are further out, doing a day trip to Potsdam or going to Schoenefeld Airport. If Berlin’s 3rd airport, BER, ever happens to open, transport from the city will also be covered by S-Bahn. It's also good for some trips within the city center.<br />
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=====Other trains=====<br />
Are you planning a trip through Germany or even beyond? Then you may want to consider taking one of the trains of the Deutsche Bahn (German railway company).<br />
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Trains leave from the 7 long-distance train stations in Berlin. You can buy tickets online (bahn.de) or at the machines in each of the stations. If you’re planning a longer trip or want to travel during peak times, it’s recommended to buy your ticket in advance, add a seat reservation and take sufficient provisions for the trip since food and drinks at the “Bord-Bistro” are ridiculously expensive.<br />
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Pro tip: If you bought a seat reservation in advance and there’s someone sitting in your spot, don’t be shy and ask them to get up. It may be awkward but it’s totally normal. Also, the reservation goes away if you don’t claim your seat within a certain amount of time after getting on the train.<br />
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Even though it carries about two billion passengers annually, it’s unlikely that you’ll experience amazing service or punctuality on your Deutsche Bahn trip — which is at least a little bit funny given that it used to be owned by the government of a country that’s mostly known for its efficiency. Just kidding ;) German trains are quite comfortable to use, prices are okay and from Berlin, you’ll arrive in most other larger cities in Germany and the neighbouring countries within comparatively short times as the trains can go up to 300 km/h.<br />
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=====Busses=====<br />
Just like in any other country, busses combine all of the inconveniences of public transportation and driving a car in the city: it’s crowded, you may need to stand for a pretty long time and it takes forever to get to your destination. Still, busses are used a lot (at least in Berlin) because they cover many short routes where there’s not S-Bahn, U-Bahn or Tram service.<br />
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When entering a bus in Berlin, operated by the aforementioned BVG, you’re theoretically required to show your ticket to the diver; some don’t really care while others are quite strict about it. Beyond that, there are a couple of additional rules you should be aware of before stepping into a BVG bus:<br />
* Don’t stand anywhere close to a door unless you feel prepared to deal with the rage of the bus driver. They don’t mind yelling at someone in the very back of the bus or even interrupt their route until the respective person behaves as they’re expected to.<br />
*This applies to your luggage just as much as to you as a person.<br />
*Make sure to monitor the route closely. If you want to get off the bus you need to push the button to request a stop soon enough or stay on the bus until the driver finishes their tour.<br />
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Pro tip: If you get on a bus that isn’t too crowded let the driver know where you want to go and take a seat nearby. They’re not all grumpy. Some of them are actually quite friendly and helpful when you approach them directly.<br />
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=====Taxi & Uber=====<br />
Uber has grown to become the most successful driving services in many countries but it is currently banned in Germany after its UberX service has been found in violation of German federal law prohibiting private citizens (e.g. without background checks) to offer transport services. Instead use one of the many (7500 in total) regular yellow licensed taxis. When calling a driver in Berlin you have several choices:<br />
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*Get a regular taxi by calling one over the phone (+49 30 20 20 20 OR +49 30 26 10 26), find a taxi stop, or stop a taxi on the street. Just make sure to have some cash on you as some of them don’t take credit cards. Remember, licensed Taxis are a light yellow ("light ivory", [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Taxis_at_EDDT-%28jha%29.jpg picture]).<br />
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*Call a regular taxi via the [https://www.taxi.eu/en/cities/berlin/ taxi.eu] app. This app (download: [http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/taxi.eu/id465315934 Apple iOS], [https://market.android.com/details?id=at.austrosoft.t4me.MB_BerlinTZBEU Android]) offers a similar service as Uber but gives access to the majority of Berlin's regular (and regulated) taxis (7200 of the 7500 total). The main difference is that you can either pay cash or need to be connected to the internet in order to pay through the app at the end of your ride: while you agree on a price with your Uber driver before getting into their car, taxi.eu will charge you for the actual distance/time it took to get you to your destination, which isn’t clearly determined before your arrival and only an estimate is shown during booking.<br />
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=='''Hotels'''==<br />
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For anyone who was registered by December 1, your hotel assignments/confirmations have been emailed. <br />
If you registered December 1 or later, approximately 2 weeks after registering. <br />
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The emails are coming from bmark@mozilla.com, not the hotel directly. Please make sure to read and check for accuracy. <br />
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In each email, you will find:<br />
*Your assigned hotel<br />
*The dates that have been booked for you<br />
*Links to book extra nights beyond what has been booked for you<br />
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A few things to note:<br />
#If you have any changes or questions about your reservation, email mozilla@shworldwide.com. The hotel cannot make changes to All Hands reservations so we’d like very much if you didn’t try (it complicates things).<br />
#If you registered that you have guests joining you for all or part of the week:<br />
*You will be responsible for covering all additional fees at the hotel. <br />
*All hotel rooms have a maximum capacity of 2 adults (with some exceptions limited to very small children)<br />
*If you registered by October 13:<br />
*Guests have already been added to your hotel reservation on your behalf. You have been assigned a room that can accommodate you and your guests. Please refer to the total occupants listed in your hotel confirmation.<br />
*If you need to add a guest, please email mozilla@shworldwide.com. Please note: all hotel rooms that can accommodate more than 2 adults have been alloted. If a larger room is needed, it will need to be booked and paid for on your own. <br />
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If you are planning to book pre/post stays, links to do so will be provided in your confirmation email. I recommend you do that soon, as rates and availability are limited, and will not be available after December 20. Please use your legal name and use LDAP email so we can match reservations. Reservations booked outside of these portals cannot be linked to All Hands reservations.<br />
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Everyone will be required to present a form of payment on check-in for incidentals. For your own sanity, please do not provide a debit/cash card. If you are unable to provide a credit card, please email mozilla@shworldwide.com and we can request special accommodations.<br />
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=='''Families/Guests'''==<br />
Of course our focus, for the majority of the week, will be on Mozilla. Everyone is expected to be present and engaged each day, during work hours (as your schedule dictates). Please do what you can to make sure your loved ones understand the kind of commitment you’ve made. Please note that what are able to do for families varies by each location. We are unable to accommodate volunteer contributor or intern families/guests at our All Hands. <br />
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====Quick summary logistics====<br />
* Air Travel: Employees do need to book via Egencia regardless of how families are booked. <br />
* Hotel: Family/friends are welcome to stay with you. All room rates are based upon single occupancy and include breakfast. Guests must be added to reservations in advance and any additional room expenses will be yours to cover. Most of our hotel rooms have a maximum of double occupancy (2 adults), with very limited availability of rooms for higher occupancy. Higher occupancy rooms will be assigned in the order that you register. As of 20 November, we only have rooms that can accommodate 2 adults. If a larger room is needed, it will need to be booked and paid for on your own. <br />
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Additional Guest fees<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Hotel !! Hotel Berlin !! InterCon !! Pullman<br />
|-<br />
| 2nd guest fee (incl bfast) || 20,00 € || 25,00 € || 24,00 €<br />
|-<br />
| 3rd guest fee (incl bfast) || 50,00 € || N/A || N/A<br />
|-<br />
| 4th guest fee (incl bfast) || 50,00 € || N/A || N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Age applicable || 6+ || All || All<br />
|}<br />
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* Lunch & Dinner: Family will be on their own for lunch daily and dinner on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. <br />
* Monday & Friday Night Events: Family members who are registered for the event and registered with the hotel, are invited to join us for our evening events.<br />
* Childcare Services: We will not provide centralized childcare services. We have found that every family has different needs and centralized childcare does not deliver on those needs. If you are in need of help finding options for your family, we are happy to connect you with staff whose families who are coming (#allhands-childcare and #parents are great places to start), as well we are happy to help support finding of resources (although you are likely better at it than us). Given every circumstance is unique, we defer to your manager to determine what Mozilla can support you with financially.<br />
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On demand babysitting services in Berlin: <br />
* https://extra-arms.com/for-families-babysitting/<br />
* https://www.withourbaby.com/<br />
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====Exploring Berlin with Kids====<br />
Berlin is a great city to explore with kids as it offers lots of fun, interesting and educational activities that are even suitable for the cold weeks of January. Which brings us to a very important recommendation we want to share right at the beginning of this section: dress your kids up appropriately to the weather but focus on layers. The onion look may not always be super fancy but both you and your kids will appreciate it: Since it can get unpleasantly cold in the Berlin winter, public places and attractions tend to heat up their indoor offers. Wearing layers makes sure that your kids neither get cold outside nor sweaty when going inside.<br />
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=====Inside activities=====<br />
*The Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Technical Museum) is a great place to spend time on a cold January day. It’s exciting for both adults and kids and offers a lot to explore. Discover the cultural history of technology by yourself! Also, you can get there from the All Hands location in just 20 minutes by public transport. <br />
Deutsches Technikmuseum, Trebbiner Straße 9, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg<br />
Opening hours: TUE-FRI 9am-5:30pm, SAT+SUN 10am-6pm<br />
*MACHmit! museum für Kinder is a museum like no other: Endless opportunities to discover and try new things encourage children to learn through play, whilst also gaining new and exciting experiences that they would not come across in an average day. Arts and crafts activities, lots of running and being loud and for parents a nice area where you can get coffee and snacks.<br />
MACHmit! Museum für Kinder, Senefelderstraße 5, 10437 Berlin<br />
Opening hours: TUE-SUN 10am-6pm<br />
*The Aquarium Berlin in the center of Berlin is one of Europe’s best-known and most notable aquariums. Behind the building’s historic façade awaits an impressive diversity of species that few facilities in the world can rival. The Aquarium not only houses numerous extraordinary fish, it is also home to hundreds of impressive reptiles and insects. Also, it’s just a 5 minutes walk from the All Hands location.<br />
Aquarium Berlin, Budapester Str. 32, 10787 Berlin<br />
Opening hours: Daily 9am-6pm<br />
*View the night sky without any clouds disrupting your view at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium! The largest planetarium in Central Europe was inaugurated in 1987. The Planetarium offers lots of events for young and older kids and is just impressive to be in. You should check it out!<br />
Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin<br />
Opening hours: TUE+SUN 9:30am-6pm, WED+THU 9:30am-9pm, FRI+SAT 9:30am-10:30pm<br />
*Tropical Island: Taking a break at Tropical Island means swimming, diving or just relaxing by the Tropical Sea or Lagoon, exploring the world's largest indoor rainforest or getting your adrenaline pumping on Germany's highest water slide tower -- plus lots of other great attractions. Disclaimer: It’s crowded, so if you are not so much into big groups of people, this might not be for you -- but kids LOVE IT. You can easily reach Tropical Island within a one-hour train ride. <br />
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=====Outside activities=====<br />
You and your kids don’t mind the cold too much? Great! There are plenty of nice things to do outside even the winter. As the train services run pretty well and Berlin is well connected even to the rural areas, you have a lot to choose from and it’s pretty easy as well as inexpensive to get there.<br />
*Just a few minutes outside of Berlin you’ll find Karls Erlebnis-Dorf (Karl’s Adventure Village) in Elstal. In addition to offering a spacious farmers market, many attractions for children are waiting for you, including a big wooden roller coaster. Admission is free. You can get there by car, bus and train.<br />
Karls Erlebnis-Dorf, Döberitzer Heide 1, 14641 Elstal<br />
Opening hours: Daily 8am-7pm<br />
*Tempelhofer Feld is a big recreation area in the Berlin districts Neukölln and Tempelhof. It’s actually the largest inner-city open space worldwide, Berlin’s most spacious urban park as well as part of larger historical project. Throughout the year, the park is used for outdoor sports like jogging, biking, roller-blading, and kiting, but is also a popular spot for wild gardening and barbecues. The Mozilla Berlin Family Day 2017 took place right there.<br />
Accessible via 10 entrances<br />
Opening hours: From sunrise to sunset<br />
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=='''Lunar New Year'''==<br />
We are aware of the overlap in the Lunar New Year celebrations with the Berlin All Hands. To help folks who decide to attend the Berlin All Hands and who also celebrate Chinese New Year, we will offer the following:<br />
* A higher airfare caps for air travel to allow for fewer layovers on Monday, January 27<br />
* Assurance that Berlin is optional but if employee wants to attend they can shift their holiday days to another time. <br />
* Live Airmo Feeds of Plenary (+ relevant team all hands meetings) + quick posting of recording to accommodate those who choose not to travel. <br />
* Potentially shifting any main plenary session date/time<br />
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We are working with leadership and representatives of those most affected and will update wiki regularly with updates. Feel free to reach out to Brianna with questions.<br />
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=='''Week at a Glance'''==<br />
View [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kIwKEmlYE9tMuWRvSNZnYDGWFwEumcHVp1s0LVPz-e8/edit#gid=0 Week at a glance]<br />
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====Monday====<br />
*Monday is travel/arrival day<br />
*Registration<br />
*Welcome Reception from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm<br />
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====Tuesday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*Dinner on own<br />
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====Wednesday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*[https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/event/YKzH/demos Demos] from 4pm - 6pm ([https://wiki.mozilla.org/All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos full list])<br />
*Dinner on own<br />
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====Thursday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*Dinner on own<br />
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====Friday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*Closing event at Motorwerk<br />
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====Saturday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Departure day only. No scheduled activities.<br />
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===Berlin All Hands Event Calendar===<br />
Here: https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/. <br />
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Don't see stuff for your org yet? Don't fret! The schedule changes regularly as meetings and events are confirmed. Keep checking back. Team specific events are managed by [https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=EAs&title=Mozilla+EA+Directory team EAs]. <br />
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=====Create an account=====<br />
We don’t recommend using the same email & password as anything like bank accounts, etc. We care about your security! If you already have a Sched account from past All Hands, it still works, log in with that.<br />
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=====Add items to your calendar=====<br />
Select the circle on any agenda item to add it to your calendar (you do need to have an account & be logged in to do this)<br />
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You can also share a link to meetings to invite others. Go into the meeting and copy the short link. You can email that out to anyone and they can quickly add it to their calendar.<br />
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=====Subscribe to GCal Calendar Link=====<br />
Click on the mobile phone on the right hand side of the screen. All the calendar options are available here. <br />
You have the option to choose ALL meetings or YOUR meetings. Unless you have 400 items on your calendar, just select your calendar. It will add anything on your calendar to your GCal (also an option for Outlook and iCal). It syncs once per day.<br />
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The "only syncs once per day" only applies to Google Calendar. With almost all other clients (like Apple Calendar, Outlook, or the calendar app on your phone) you can set the refresh interval, and Sched's instructions recommend 1 hour. Note - the gcal function has been buggy for some users in the past. If it doesn't update with new items, delete the calendar and download again. <br />
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Warning: This is a link that utilizes your username for the .ics file.<br />
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=====From Mobile=====<br />
Visit from any mobile device (https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/mobile-site) - bookmark or add to your homescreen for quick access. There is a bonus icon you get by doing this. It caches the last time you opened the page offline and refreshes anytime you are connected.<br />
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=====Filters=====<br />
'''Filters'''<br />
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We have filtering functionality. You can filter by:<br />
Departments (ex: People)<br />
AND<br />
Functional Teams (ex: People & Capabilities)<br />
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*Search by Room, Speaker/Leader<br />
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'''Further Filtering'''<br />
*Audience - who should be there (ex: Team only or Invite)<br />
*Homerooms (you can quickly see what is happening in homerooms, by team) - why do you care? If you have a cross team meeting in their room, its a quick way to search<br />
*Views - Lots of view options. It defaults to the simple view, but there are quite a few options.<br />
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Have a tip? Feel free to add it!<br />
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=='''Food, Drink & Events'''==<br />
Lunch & snacks will be provided and paid for centrally for attendees. Breakfast is provided Tuesday - Saturday as part of your guestroom reservation - you must eat breakfast in the hotel you sleep in. You will not be reimbursed if you go to another hotel and pay to eat there. <br />
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Allergies/preferences: We will ensure that all food/environmental allergies are taken into consideration and will always have gluten-free and vegan options. If you have severe allergies that we need to know about; you can indicate in registration.<br />
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===Hosted Evening Events===<br />
We have evening events on the Monday and Friday nights.<br />
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====Monday Night Welcome Reception====<br />
6 pm - 9 pm, InterCon hotel<br />
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====Friday Night at Motorwerk====<br />
6:00 pm - 11:00 pm<br />
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======Getting to/from the event======<br />
Shuttles depart from the hotels starting at 5:00 pm. Shuttles will return starting at 8:00 pm. The last departure returning will leave at 11:05 pm. The only way to access the event is via our shuttles.<br />
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=====Coat Check=====<br />
Coat check will be available for clothing only, no bags. <br />
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====Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday Night Dinners====<br />
You'll be on your own for Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday and will have a similar expense policy from past all hands (50EUR/night - 150EUR total to include food, beverage, transportation, exchange fees, etc). <br />
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Here is how this will work:<br />
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For all evenings, once your meetings have concluded, you and your team, friends, new acquaintances, are free to explore and to find somewhere great to eat that suits you. Each of you can expense a total of 150EUR over the three days (or 50EUR/night).<br />
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This amount includes:<br />
*Meal cost, including tax & gratuity<br />
*Any beverages<br />
*Transportation to/from the restaurant<br />
*Conversion fees (for credit cards) or cash withdrawal fees<br />
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Anything over the 150EUR for the three evenings will be your own expense. The fine print:<br />
*If your team is hosting an evening event 1 of the nights and the payment is coordinated (meaning, you don’t have to open your wallet and pay), you can expense up to 100EUR for the other night.<br />
*You will be asked (later) to submit a Berlin All Hands only expense report. You can submit ONE report for Berlin only and must be submitted no later than February 28, 2020.<br />
*No expenses over 50 EUR per night will be [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XUD5KYotSr5SNi0q4ldgGG3bzBu-G3q4l5i-JiPE5ko/edit approved].<br />
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Volunteer Contributors will have a separate process that will be communicated directly.<br />
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=====Groups, Restaurants & Reservations=====<br />
*Group dinners - All large (eight or more people) reservations must go through Lisa Carlson (email lcarlson@mozilla.com) and dinners must stay within the per diem per night (50EURpp including, food, beverage, tax, gratuity and transportation), and employees attending must not also expense their per diem for that night.<br />
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In no case should employees expense or use MoCo corporate cards to cover purchases of alcohol outside of team dinners or the 50EUR individual per diem.<br />
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=='''Safety & Security'''==<br />
=====Alcohol at Events=====<br />
To better support and sustain an environment (and workplace culture) where people feel safe and included, we have made a set of changes regarding alcohol at our events. In all cases, our approach aligns with our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/ Community Participation Guidelines] (“CPG”).<br />
*All participants are '''required to read and acknowledge our new Community Participation Guidelines as a condition of participation'''.<br />
*We will '''limit bar-servings to beer and wine''' and ensure an equal number and quality (i.e. not just Coke) of non-alcoholic drink options are available and displayed.<br />
*Team dinners should be '''thoughtful about the potential exclusionary nature of alcohol when planning'''.<br />
*Clearly outlined, communicated (to event teams, HR and managers) and understood '''escalation process''' for behavior that might be deemed counter to the spirit of our CPG.<br />
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=====Device Security=====<br />
If you are traveling to the All Hands with a device that has Mozilla data (laptop, personal cell phone/tablet with @mozilla gmail, etc) on it and your device has been retained for further inspection by border agents, or if your device has been inspected outside your immediate presence - and you believe your credentials have been compromised - you must notify the Enterprise Information Security team as soon as possible at infosec@mozilla.com or by calling Mozilla End User Services at +1 650-963-8811. (This number will be staffed 24x7)<br />
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We will work with you to reset your credentials and help you get your device back to a known good state either by getting you a new one (if it’s been taken), or by resetting it back to a verifiable Mozilla-approved installation.<br />
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=====Physical Security=====<br />
Badges are required to access all meeting spaces and evening events.<br />
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=='''Accessibility'''==<br />
====Evenings====<br />
Monday Night reception is at the InterContinental Berlin. No stairs or elevators required. <br />
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====Meeting spaces====<br />
* InterCon: Most meeting space levels are accessible by elevators.<br />
* Pullman: All meeting space levels are accessible by guestroom elevators.<br />
* Hotel Berlin: All meeting space is on the ground level.<br />
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====Listen Systems====<br />
We will have Listen Systems available for any meeting in the main plenary space. Visit the AV booth to pick one up.<br />
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====Bathrooms====<br />
TBA <br />
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====Breastfeeding/pumping stations====<br />
Milk Stork Services are reimbursable - please contact benefits@mozilla.com for more information.<br />
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=='''Sustainability'''==<br />
'''Hotel Berlin, Berlin''' is certified partner of visitBerlin we stand for sustainable, green meetings and events. For more information, visit https://convention.visitberlin.de/en/sustain.<br />
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'''InterContinental Hotel Berlin''' is Green Globe Certified. Green Globe Certification is the worldwide sustainability system based on internationally accepted criteria for sustainable operation and management of travel and tourism businesses. Operating under a worldwide license, Green Globe Certification is based in California, USA and is represented in over 83 countries. Green Globe Certification is a member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, supported by the United Nations World Tourism Organization. Additonally, as part of IHG’s Green Engage™ program the InterContinental Berlin has implemented best practices at all operational levels. The innovative Environmental Management System not only measures the day-to-day energy, water and waste consumption, but also provides recommended actions – ‘green solutions’ – to improve energy conservation and the property’s carbon footprint score.<br />
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=='''Berlin: In your spare time (likely pre/post)'''==<br />
=====First things first=====<br />
Germany overall is widely diverse with regard to mentality, language, architecture, history, and more. In this guide we’re focusing on Berlin. However, if you have the opportunity to see a bit more of the country, you should definitely take it. We may also add that if you plan for a larger Europe trip, while there might be overlaps and similarities between the individual European countries, there are also lots and lots of differences -- and we’re by far not only referring to language. If you want to learn more about any other places you’re planning to go reach out to Mozillians who’re based there or otherwise know the city/country well. First-hand information is usually the most valuable and we have so many amazing people from anywhere in the world at our organization that it’s almost impossible that you don’t find someone who can help!<br />
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=====Exploring the city -- beyond Charlottenburg and Mitte!=====<br />
For the All Hands week we’re going to be in Charlottenburg, one of the neighbourhoods most visited by tourists. Along with Mitte (basically the city center), it’s an attractive destination for shopping and sightseeing. Nevertheless, we can only recommend that you leave the usual tourist trail in order to get a more diverse impression of Germany’s capital. There’s, for example, kind-of-hipster Kreuzberg, where our German office is located -- along with a bunch of amazing bars, restaurants, clubs and much more. Or take vibrant Friedrichshain, which is just across the Spree river from Kreuzberg, or family-friendly Prenzlauer Berg, all of which have their own interesting tourist attractions that are complemented by a relaxed local vibe. Overall, Berlin has 12 boroughs and a total of 96 officially recognized localities, so there’s clearly a lot to see!<br />
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=====Orientation=====<br />
Berlin is a pretty large city (891 qm, or 344 sq mi), so even Berliners use navigation apps regularly -- especially when leaving their “Kiez”. We therefore recommend that you download the Berlin map to your phone, as well, in order to make orientation easier, especially when doing some sightseeing.<br />
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This is also due to peculiarities that may make orientation less obvious, such as house numbers which do not necessarily run in the same direction (up or down) everywhere: On a lot of streets, the numbers ascend on one side and descend on the other. So to avoid getting you lost, you should check the numbering scheme first: you can find the name of the street at nearly every street corner. The same sign will usually state the range of house numbers in that segment.<br />
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Thanks to the subway system in particular, you can actually visit multiple neighbourhoods on the same day even if they’re not close. You can go from east to west in not much more than half an hour (if you’re lucky and have a good connection) and, even though it’s recommended to dedicate at least a few hours to each of the neighbourhoods you visit in order to get a proper impression, you should make use of it. Only by visiting different parts of the city that don’t share all of their history and demographics, you’ll be able to truly “see” Berlin. <br />
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=====Sightseeing & history=====<br />
As mentioned (multiple times) before Berlin is full of history. It’s almost impossible to walk around the city for half an hour without coming across some sort of historical site. This ranges from a huge range of museums and galleries, which you’ll best get informed about through a guidebook, as well as historical buildings, such as churches.<br />
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If you don’t mind the cold weather, make sure to set aside some time for sites outside. You could, for example, explore cold war history and go to Checkpoint Charlie, the former border crossing between East and West Berlin, which is undoubtedly one of the city’s top attractions. Another recommendation would be a visit to Hohenschönhausen, a former Stasi prison where East German dissidents were incarcerated. Tours of the prison are conducted daily and often led by a former prisoner, who will give you a real insight into this fascinating, albeit traumatic time in history.<br />
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If you’re looking for something more cheerful and/or a bunch of suggestions for historical sightseeing options by neighbourhood, you should check out Wikivoyage, a free web-based travel guide that has also been called the “Wikipedia of travel guides”. Take a look at the article on City West, if you want to explore the vicinity of our All Hands location. Literally every other Berlin tourist would likely favor the eastern districts of Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg and (western) Kreuzberg, for its lower price and a lot of international bars, cafés and many other tourist attractions.<br />
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Links<br />
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Berlin/City_West<br />
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Berlin/East_Central<br />
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=====Food!=====<br />
Being an international city, almost any cuisine you can imagine is available in Berlin. Still, we recommend that you try out some actual German food during your stay. For example, go to a local bakery and you’ll be stunned by the variety: There are over 300 types of dark and white breads, and more than 1,200 different kinds of “Brötchen” and “Kleingebäck” (bread rolls and mini-breads). We’re so much into bread that every region in Germany even has their own term for bread rolls (“Brötchen” vs. “Schrippe” vs. “Weck” vs. Semmel”...). Bread is central to the “German diet”: For breakfast, many people eat it with cheese, sausage products, honey or marmalade and “Abendbrot” (“evening bread” = dinner) usually consists of sandwiches.<br />
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If you’re rather looking for a warm meal, you should try a Currywurst (“curry sausage”). Over the last couple of years, the Berlin foodie scene has truly exploded and you can get so much more than the stereotypical type of curry sausage nowadays, from plain to fancy, for meat lovers or for vegans. You can get them in restaurants, at street food markets or even from salespeople in the pedestrian zones.<br />
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When visiting restaurants that offer German cuisine, you’ll notice that meat is a main ingredient for many meals -- though there are also plenty of fish and vegetarian options nowadays. With regard to side dishes, potatoes (in a lot of different varieties, such as cooked, roasted, mashed or as cakes) are very popular as well as noodles. <br />
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In Germany as in many other countries it’s quite common to meet friends and family for dinner and go to a bar or pub afterwards. Berlin has a lot to offer in that respect and most places have their very individual flair. If you’re not into the aforementioned beer options, you could go for a (non-alcoholic or boozed) cocktail or a good glass of wine. Since Germany has several renown wine-growing regions, there’s a lot to choose from!<br />
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=='''All Hands Expense Policy'''==<br />
1. All "All Hands" Expenses must be submitted on 1 (and only 1) Expense report (e.g. Berlin All Hands Expense Report). Each expense must be tagged with "All Hands - Jan 2020"<br />
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2. It must contain only those expenses relative to the All Hands Event in Berlin. <br />
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3. If your submitted expense report for All Hands is submitted outside these guidelines, it will be rejected and you will be asked to re-submit with only All Hands Expenses<br />
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4. The deadline to submit the All Hands Expense Report is '''February 28, 2020'''.<br />
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5. Expenses related to team events (except those coordinated through Lisa Carlson), parking, room service, mini-bar charges, and food/drink costs above the vouched amounts, will not be approved. <br />
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6. When submitting your expense report through Egencia, make sure to "attached the PDF" (toggle on mobile, check box on desktop). <br />
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'''The intention of our all hands are to centrally organize a structure that includes:'''<br />
*Meals (2 evening events + breakfast, lunch, drinks and snacks Tuesday - Friday)<br />
*Transportation<br />
*Accommodations<br />
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Expenses submitted can not exceed the approved amounts. Any social events (except dinners/team building activities coordinated through Lisa Carlson) that are not part of our central plan will generally be self-organized and funded by participants. <br />
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=====Travel expenses policy=====<br />
Reimbursement will be made for necessary and reasonable expenses. <br />
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* Getting to/from home to your airport: We ask that you use the most economical option, while balancing your personal needs - whether that be mileage/parking, public transportation or ride shares. We will not reimburse for private towncar services or car rental. <br />
* Per standard Mozilla travel policy, Travel Meal Policy: Employees are eligible for travel meals when traveling. For Meals: There is a $75 USD per day meal policy while traveling. This covers breakfast (est. $15), lunch (est. $20), and dinner (est. $40). Receipts: Receipts are required. When submitting a meal for reimbursement, please include how many people attended the meal. There is no need to include names.<br />
* We will not reimburse for seat/class upgrades. Frequent flyer status does not apply for All Hands. <br />
* We will reimburse for bag checking fees for one bag. <br />
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Any other expenses must be approved by your manager ahead of time. Any expenses for extending your stay for business reasons - such as additional hotel nights, meals, etc must be approved by your manager before booking and travel.<br />
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=====Cell phone reimbursement policy=====<br />
Cell phone reimbursement must be approved by your manager prior to submitting the expense. Teams will decide for their staff what is appropriate to expense. <br />
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=====Internet reimbursement policy=====<br />
Internet will be provided in all guestrooms and meeting space in all hotels. If you opt to upgrade/add service, those costs are not reimbursable, unless previously approved by your manager and are for business reasons.<br />
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=='''Activities'''==<br />
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=====Lockpicking Event=====<br />
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On Wednesday Evening, there will be a Lockpicking event run by :decoder. The event will start at 6:30 PM and there will be dinner available at the venue for all the participants as well. [https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/event/Ya9V/lockpicking-dinner Advance registration] is required. <br />
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We will be joined by four other lockpickers from Berlin, two of them being championship winners on several national competitions. The same two people are also engineers working in the lock industry, so there will be plenty of interesting things to hear and learn this evening.<br />
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For better planning, we ask that people fill out the [https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/event/Ya9V/lockpicking-dinner registration form], we are limited to 100 participants initially. If the course ends up being fully booked and you still want to participate, you can join us at 8:00 PM on that same evening (without any guarantees on wait time and without dinner., but we still need you to [https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/event/Ya9V/lockpicking-dinner register]). We are confident that we will be able to accommodate everyone who wants to join. However, registering makes the planning a lot easier.<br />
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'''''What is Lockpicking?'''''<br />
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Lockpicking is a sport where you open locks (e.g. padlocks) without destroying them using manipulation tools ("picks").<br />
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'''''Why would I want to do this?'''''<br />
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Lockpicking is a great activity to practice patience, imagination and dexterity. From an engineering perspective, it helps to strengthen your sense for what is going on in that "black box" and even has some parallels to debugging. However, lockpicking is first and foremost about having fun and the lock being a challenge. So no matter what you work on, I promise you this will be a fun experience and also a good opportunity to put your laptop/phone aside for a while.<br />
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'''''Do I need to know anything about this prior to participating?'''''<br />
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Absolutely not. We will teach you how locks work, how to handle the tools and everything else you need to know. The only thing you need to bring with you is some patience.<br />
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'''''I have some tools, should I bring them?'''''<br />
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We will have tools at the venue and would ask people to not bring their own tools. Traveling with lock picks is possible under certain conditions but the legal situation, especially when it comes to flying, is complicated and depends on the countries you travel through. Hence we ask people to not travel with their tools because it can get you delayed and cause other legal issues.<br />
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'''''Isn't this illegal?'''''<br />
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Lockpicking as a sport/hobby is legal in many countries (including most of the EU), as long as you only open your own locks. Of course, opening locks for which you don't have permission to do so can get you into trouble and is strongly discouraged by the community.<br />
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However, there are a few countries around the world, including a handful of states in the US and some provinces in Canada where the possession of the tools (lock picks) is illegal without a license. If you want to do this at home and don’t know the rules for your country, feel free to ask us at the venue and we will try to help find the answers.</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221509All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2019-12-19T00:38:50Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Campaigning for a Better Internet (Jessie Keating) */</p>
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<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
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==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>FPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our demos and technology democratize the access to and creation of XR content unlike the current closed proprietary alternatives.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mentor-Learners Matching Portal/Platform ([Marina Milshtein https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ==])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This portal will help to match more junior engineers with mentors to help them to grow into leadership positions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla IoT - Delivering Smart Home Privacy, Security, and Interoperability ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Building a trusted personal agent for the connected home.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work<br />
in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library<br />
developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and<br />
we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at https://recit.getpocket.dev/static/index.html </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text,text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and intofuture products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported.They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe voice based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, tocreate voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG.The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221508All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2019-12-19T00:36:24Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fenix! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--XEuNB0FMWEe_UfV8REQ-uQ== Betty Fleming])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The new and enhanced Firefox for Android (aka Fenix) is launching in Q2 2020; all interested in mobile development, come see our focus on building a highly usable and performant product that's aligned with Mozilla's values of protecting user privacy and user choice.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>FPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our demos and technology democratize the access to and creation of XR content unlike the current closed proprietary alternatives.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mentor-Learners Matching Portal/Platform ([Marina Milshtein https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--REkYeCaoXdyDht5B-JRqSQ==])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This portal will help to match more junior engineers with mentors to help them to grow into leadership positions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla IoT - Delivering Smart Home Privacy, Security, and Interoperability ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Building a trusted personal agent for the connected home.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Privacy-Preserving Sponsored Content ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--aef7GOMPV2e-5A25wZaIDA== Mathijs Miermans])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We show how we deliver targeted sponsored content to the Firefox New Tab, while preserving the privacy of our users and being transparent about our work.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Puppetize Firefox - Firefoxify Puppeteer ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Xb1YelqVVtOnApBMdiC-Cg== Henrik Skupin])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The internet is not healthy if popular web automation or testing tools only work<br />
in Chrome. Until recently, that was the case with Puppeteer, a node.js library<br />
developed by Google on top of the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).<br />
<br />
The Web Compatibility team has implemented a subset of CDP in Firefox, and<br />
we're working with Google toward cross-browser support in Puppeteer. At the same time, this work is the first step toward bidirectional communication in the WebDriver standard for browser remote control: someday it will be easy to write event-driven browser automation that works across all browsers.<br />
<br />
Our demo will showcase the current state of the project, how it relates to WebDriver, and how Puppeteer can currently be used with Firefox, e.g. by running the Gutenberg editor tests for Wordpress.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===RecIt Ralph: Content Recommendations from Pocket ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--I3vFXjxlXVW9pRHisvbliA== Ian Wesley-Smith])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our work directly deals with exploring high quality content and helping users find content that is worth their time, not just the content advertisers want them to see. We think this aligns with Mozilla's mission of shaping an internet that puts people first. You can see an early demo of our work at https://recit.getpocket.dev/static/index.html </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Social Mixed Reality with Hubs & Spoke ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--quItNcqyW_mAEmxyCeBdbg== Robert Long])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hubs is a project that supports Mozilla's mission in making the internet accessible and open - it provides a safe, private way for people to connect from around the world in shared 3D spaces to exchange conversation, ideals, and ideas. It is part of the resilience KPI, in exploring product opportunities that reach new markets and allow us to develop relationships with new audiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Subscription Platform ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--H7GFe9HeVTWD39xovyU0Hg== Stephen Hood])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Subscription Platform is a critical component of Mozilla's push to develop new business models and Revenue opportunities, and to expand our Relationships with customers.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Taskcluster: Open Source CI for Developers and Community ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--ob9UahmoXT29y6gaYTAL_g== Chris Cooper])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>There have been several acquisitions in the CI space over the past two years, and, more recently, a few high-profile CI providers have made questionable policy decisions. Consolidation leaves CI customers with fewer, less-appealing choices. An open source CI option from Mozilla could be well positioned to gain traction.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===The Machine Learning Menagerie ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--x3ruYmhuX26zz7xT7JHWtA== Kelly Davis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The demos that are part of The Machine Learning Menagerie will consist of machine learning based speech-to-text,text-to-speech, and translation engines integrated into current products (Firefox, Firefox Reality, WebThings) and intofuture products such as our Voice Technology Stack.<br />
<br />
These demos address our Mission directly by, for example, providing internet access through voice in languages otherwise not supported.They also enable our Vision by, for example, providing the open source tools that give developers the power to create their own safe voice based tools independent of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google). Our True North is also addressed as, for example, the Voice Technology Stack will allow for Mozilla, and others, tocreate voice based trusted personal agents, independent of the monopoly on such agents imposed by FAAMG.The Mozilla Strategy is also tied to these demos. The integration of voice and translation into Firefox buoys the agency Firefox provides online. Similarly, the Voice Technology Stack will create an entirely new type of agency that Mozilla has never explored.<br />
<br />
In addition, each demo is tied directly to one, or more, KPI for 2020.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Tools for Code Review and Development ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/marco Marco Castelluccio])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We will show Firefox developers new tools we are working on, and will deploy soon, to make Firefox development quicker and more reliable, and we will explain them how they can make the best use of the current and future tools. This increases our Resilience, allowing us to deliver features faster and with fewer bugs (one of the best ways to become the leading provider of user agency ;)). Also, there are opportunities for Relationships, as some of these tools are being developed partly in collaboration with other companies (Ubisoft).</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221507All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2019-12-19T00:19:11Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Title (Contact) & Description==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>FPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jofish Jofish Kaye])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning into privacy-first voice experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox's Fantastic Developer Tools ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/digitarald Harald Kirschner])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>DevTools help Firefox's engineers and support developers to build a web that works excellent for Firefox's users.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===GLAM! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--J9W3fdEjVbGb8ZE07LJ-Zw== Rob Miller])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>GLAM is the new "Glean Aggregated Metrics dashboard", a major new tool for Firefox (and Fenix, and Lockwise, and ...) product managers and engineers to use to understand performance and to see how telemetry probes are behaving for various user populations.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Glean SDK: Telemetry for Humans ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/dexter Alessio Placitelli])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Glean SDK is the future of the telemetry collection at Mozilla: it was build to support Fenix, and it recently expanded to support platforms other than Android (iOS, Python, Rust). The cross-platform Glean SDK is the future: our 2020 will be about bringing Firefox on Glean, boosting data as a service and reducing the cost and frustration of adding new telemetry instrumentation.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Hello, WebXR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/fernandojsg Fernando Serrano García])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Our demos and technology democratize the access to and creation of XR content unlike the current closed proprietary alternatives.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===How Lockwise and Monitor Work Across Platforms to Keep you Safe ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--4zIHCddZUuelXvQ1y9HtWQ== David Durst])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Lockwise and Monitor support the Reach KPI as well as the Privacy and Security features. We are driving towards a cross-platform, personal data protection suite that integrates with desktop to encourage good security hygiene and expanded use of Mozilla products.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Iodide ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/wlach William Lachance])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Iodide supports Mozilla's data science and engineering teams by providing a convenient tool to create dashboard and reports using Telemetry data. Going forward, we expect that Iodide will be used as a publishing tool for communicating our work with the outside world.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Looking at Web Monetization ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--8szFPEguX0qklv2SnIIW3A== Anselm Hook ])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Fixing Web Monetization may attract Creators to the Web and help Patrons have better experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla & Data Stewardship: Why, How, and You! ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--PCnJgnDMU32NrbpWnHtuEw== Alicia Gray])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>At Mozilla, like at many other organizations, we rely on data to make product decisions. But here, unlike many other organizations, we balance our goal of collecting useful, high-quality data with our goal to give users meaningful choice and control over their own data. The Firefox data collection program was created to ensure we achieve both goals whenever we make a change to how we collect data in our products. This program supports product needs and provides transparency for our users, directly driven by our data privacy principles and making us a more trusted user agent.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jteh James Teh])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We are demoing features which make Firefox and the web delightfully accessible to people with disabilities and thus more inclusive of all. Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental values enshrined in the Mozilla Manifesto, specifically in our commitment "to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth - where a person's demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience."</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard aka "GUD" ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jmccrosky Jesse McCrosky])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Provides a standardized and accessible view supporting data democratization around our reach and relationship KPIs. Empowers everyone to answer metric questions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla IoT - Delivering Smart Home Privacy, Security, and Interoperability ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--MqcUNs8aUhGB8AlcyMlFow== Kathy Giori])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>IoT - everyone talks about security, but privacy and interoperability are rarely mentioned. We protect users with an open source implementation that does all three!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Mozilla WebThings ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--oCwPREb_WHKkmyTs90V3jg== Ben Francis])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Building a trusted personal agent for the connected home.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Performance Tools: Optimize memory usage and performance with the Firefox Profiler ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/julienw Julien Wajsberg])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We want to show the tooling we develop so that mozillians know how to optimize their app. This is good because we want all our products and websites to work better and faster and consume less energy.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
==="*Privacy Not Included" Buyer’s Guide and Raffle ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--Krx_3Ah2Vwqw6DTxuo88pg== Jen Caltrider])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The *Privacy Not Included buyers guide and special edition Internet Health Report on “Rethinking the Smart Home” encourages consumers and companies to adopt higher standards for privacy and security. We’ll highlight MoCo/MoFo collaborations on these projects, and include other calls to action or ways to get involved in future editions.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221506All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2019-12-19T00:00:58Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 29, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Titles (Contact) & Descriptions==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Private Network VPN and Secure Proxy Demo ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/cmore Chris More])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>FPN and Secure Proxy support Mozilla's goals for financial resilience. Come check 'em out!</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--hEAcIRh-V0mQQmYRv2pWvw== Janice von Itter])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Reality aka "FxR" contributes to Mozilla's broader Resilience KPI to diversify our products and revenue.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Firefox Reality AR ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/jdm Josh Matthews])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bringing Firefox's values to augmented reality-based platforms to ensure the web remains open on these new platforms.</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221505All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2019-12-18T23:56:15Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>Overview</p> ==<br />
On Wednesday, January 28, 2019 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
<br />
==Demo Titles (Contact) & Descriptions==<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
<br />
Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
<br />
This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
===Building User Agency via Personal AIs ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
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(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
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In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Campaigning for a Better Internet ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--mdlpppnEVR-Bu_TSwYkRBg== Jessie Keating])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Mozilla Foundation advocacy team is where the Mozilla manifesto is put into action. We actively campaign for policies and products that make our internet a better place for all of us, sometimes facing some of the biggest and best resourced companies in the world. Recent campaigns have included calling for more transparency around political ads, insights into Youtube's recommendation engine, and for popular consumer products and services like Venmo to put user privacy first.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Common Voice ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/mbranson Megan Branson] + [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg== Lindsay Saunders])<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Common Voice is part of Mozilla's efforts to bridge the digital speech divide, through making voice recognition better and available for everyone (e.g. Mozilla strategy/vision). Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. Mozilla is working to make voice data freely and publicly available (e.g. Mozilla mission), and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people (e.g. Mozilla vision).</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Fathom-ing User Tasks ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--bvXR5oaoVAKGbPWmAhxMlQ== Erik Rose])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>By identifying what the user is doing—shopping, reading articles, using technical materials—we can bolster user agency by recommending relevant add-ons or services (like Pocket). All the while, we preserve user privacy by running entirely on the client.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Firefox Content Network: Disrupting the Ads Ecosystem on the Web ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--R7xCWsxsU7-61UTrXIt1eQ== Matt Grimes])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>We're cleaning up the web by offering alternative monetization strategies for content publishers. We aren't just fixing the web for the big players though. We're making it easy for any creative to monetize their content and be seen. This model encourages excellent content and discourages click-bait.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Firefox Lite 2.0 ([https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--jiVZdljDXdqlECsL-1UFwQ== Wesly "One E" Huang])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Firefox Lite 2.0 is a one-stop browser platform providing beyond-browser experiences for Emerging Markets users. It supports the exploration of growth market opportunities.</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020/Demos&diff=1221504All Hands/Berlin2020/Demos2019-12-18T23:47:10Z<p>Wikibiz: Created page with "On Wednesday, January 28 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically): =Demo..."</p>
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<div>On Wednesday, January 28 from 16:00 - 18:00 (4pm - 6pm) we'll host 35 demos at the Intercontinental. Here's who and what you can expect (we listed them alphabetically):<br />
=Demo Titles (Contact) & Descriptions=<br />
===Browser Interop Visualisation (contact: [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--v-eenVuQX4-KwKe641Vo0Q== James Graham])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>A healthy internet requires multiple browser engines that are able to work with all web sites and applications. When content is only accessible in some engines it causes compatibility issues leading users to switch to the browser which works with most sites, almost always the market leader. Left unchecked, this eventually leads to a web entirely controlled by a single vendor; one which is indistinguishable from a proprietary platform.<br />
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Even smaller levels of interop difference can lead to the web being hard to develop for; a recent MDN survey showed that 4/5 of the top frustrations for site authors were related to browser incompatibilities. These failings increase the chance that authors will develop sites that only support a subset of engines, or abandon the web for native app development.<br />
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This demo will focus on the work to visualise interoperability failures in the web platform. In particular it will showcase the data we get from the web-platform-tests project and how Gecko engineers can use this to find areas where we are incompatible with other implementations before they appear as site compatibility bugs.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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===Building User Agency via Personal AIs (contact: [https://people.mozilla.org/p/r--yoJC9uy1Up2B1aen8QGl6Q== Richard Whitt])===<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Advanced AI systems need not be the sole provenance of large, non-fiduciary plaforms motivated solely by their own financial or political gain. Each human being should have the ability to possess her own highly-individualized virtual intelligence, to provide both online and offline support. These computational agents would exist on one’s personal devices, managed for us by trustworthy mediators such as MoCo. This Personal AI, or "PAI," concept has the potential to evolve into an entirely new support system within the paradigm — the essential trusted digital agent.<br />
<br />
The demo will show how the PAI interacts directly with the client’s digital “screens, scenes, and unseens” to, among other tasks: <br />
<br />
(1) manage and protect their clients’ online and offline data flows, and other digital interactions with third parties;<br />
(2) ensure that online recommendation engines are serving relevant information, and not harmful content such as “deep fakes” or addictive videos;<br />
(3) challenge the efficacy of financial, healthcare, law enforcement, and other impactful algorithms for bias and other flaws that would harm its client; and <br />
(4) actively prevent environmental devices -- smart speakers, facial recognition cameras, biometric sensors -- from needlessly surveilling and extracting our data.<br />
<br />
In all such cases, the demo will show how the PAI occupies a critical agential interface, between the ordinary human being it serves, and the vast range of Institutional AIs spanning our digital world. The various core PAI functions and dependencies, and the ways they mediate with the data extraction/influence lifecycle, also will be demonstrated.<br />
<br />
Personal AIs are a natural fit for the Mozilla longer-term strategy, and a truly open Web. Simply put, the PAI can become the ultimate locus of human agency in the digital era. By developing and introducing PAIs to consumers, MoCo can become the leading provider of user agency online. Human beings then would be empowered to take greater control over their digital lives, with the PAI acting as the trusted virtual agent, and MoCo acting as the trusted institutional agent. Finally, a healthy Internet puts people first. The PAI can shift the current dominant platforms paradigm, from one where humans are the mere objects of data extraction and influence, to one where humans can become the empowered subjects and authors of their own digital experiences.</BLOCKQUOTE></div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020&diff=1221503All Hands/Berlin20202019-12-18T23:36:13Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Wednesday */</p>
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<div>'''What is it?''' -- Multiple team meetings, happening in the same city, at the same time + some opportunity to get together as one big group as well as with other teams as it makes sense. Then, on the last day, we have a fun social event for all, Mozilla-style! <br />
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'''''The information on this wiki primarily applies to Full time and contractor staff. If you are a volunteer contributor please inquire with your community manager/program manager about [[All_Hands/Contributor_nominations|contributor nominations]], interns please inquire to your coordinator. Volunteer contributors who have recieved an invitation can find relevant information [[All_Hands/Berlin2020/contributors|here]]. '''''<br />
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=='''Dates and Location'''==<br />
Monday, January 27, 2020 - Friday, January 31, 2020 (travel days are Monday, Jan 27 & Saturday, Feb 1) in Berlin, Germany.<br />
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We have guestrooms at three hotels: [https://www.ihg.com/intercontinental/hotels/us/en/berlin/berha/hoteldetail InterContinental Berlin], [https://www.pullman-berlin-schweizerhof.com/en/ Hotel Pullman Schweizerhof], and [https://www.hotel-berlin.de/en/ Hotel Berlin, Berlin]. [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eu_rYMxuc_hgSNqCJxW7Vn32pYMNayPa&usp=sharing View on map].<br />
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''*For those countries where rest time is required on weekends (vs. work travel), Mozilla will cover a return on the next available work day, if you choose. This needs to pre-approved and pre-arranged.''<br />
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=='''Registration'''==<br />
This is an invite-only event. All full time and Elance/Upwork employees are expected to attend this all company event. Contractors, Vendors and seasonal employees are included on a case by case evaluation based upon team needs and upon executive review and approval. <br />
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Advance registration is required. Attendees will need to wear their event badge at all times, including to evening events. We will have security at our events who will be ensuring everyone in our space should be there. This includes facilitators, and other related business guests. <br />
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=====New Hires=====<br />
We have a process to identify qualified regular full time new hires and Brianna will invite all new hires to register and book travel directly on their start date. No action is necessary from hiring managers other than to let them know about the event (please do not forward any links). Please work closely with your recruiting manager as they are aware of all deadlines.<br />
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All regular full time new hires must have a start date of January 6, 2020 or earlier and in workday by December 13, 2019. Final invites were extended on December 16, 2019. Contractors/vendors required executive approval and those who are hired after the approval period will not be invited, please see process/timeline [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lbxsJwkorleL6tchh5tL_yCeFZmHz7Qm5Lumm7u7-JA/edit?ts=5d6950bd here]. If you have any questions, please email bmark@mozilla.com.<br />
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=====Volunteer Contributors=====<br />
There are a number of policies that apply specifically to contributors that are different than for staff. Please look [[All_Hands/Berlin2020/contributors|here]] for all contributor specific instructions and policies.<br />
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'''Local contributors:'''<br />
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Please note that because of the extensive nomination and screening process we apply to all contributors who attend the event - we are unable to invite local contributors or temporary participants to the event outside of the regular nomination and screening process.<br />
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=====Registration Changes=====<br />
Everyone who registered received a confirmation email titled "Registration Confirmation to Mozilla Berlin All Hands" which shows you how you answered each question. If you didn't get the email and/or need to make changes to your registration, please email mozilla@shworldwide.com.<br />
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=='''Immigration'''==<br />
If you have any questions about immigration, please email immigration@mozilla.com. <br />
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==== STEP ====<br />
'''What is STEP?''' <br />
The [https://step.state.gov/ Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP)] is a free service to allow U.S. citizens and nationals traveling abroad to enroll their trip with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate. <br />
Benefits of Enrolling in STEP <br />
* Receive important information from the Embassy about safety conditions in your destination country, helping you make informed decisions about your travel plans.<br />
* Help the U.S. Embassy contact you in an emergency, whether natural disaster, civil unrest, or family emergency.<br />
* Help family and friends get in touch with you in an emergency.<br />
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==== Visas ====<br />
You do not need a visa if you hold a passport issued from the EU, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, or Canada. <br />
Please see here to confirm the entry document requirements for the country you’re from: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/einreiseundaufenthalt/visabestimmungen-node/staatenlistevisumpflicht-node <br />
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If you are from a country that requires a visa to enter Germany, please plan to obtain one as early as possible as government processing times constantly change. You can find a broad overview of the process here: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/einreiseundaufenthalt/visabestimmungen-node . For more detailed instructions regarding the visa process you will need to refer to the website of your nearest Mission/Consulate General. You will be able to learn more about the process by searching for “business visa” or “visitor visa” on the website for that German Mission.<br />
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'''Please keep in mind that while you are traveling for work, you are not traveling for a German based job.''' All Hands is a business conference/event. As you book your travel please also keep in mind that you could require a transit visa if you have a layover in a country that requires it. <br />
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If you have questions specific to your circumstances, please email immigration@mozilla.com. <br />
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==== Entering Germany ====<br />
Your passport or identity card will be checked when you arrive at an EU port or airport to make sure you’re allowed to come into the country. The passport must be valid for the whole of your stay. You may also need a visa to come into or travel through Germany, depending on your nationality. <br />
* If you are from an EEA country or Switzerland, you can enter Germany with either a valid passport or a national identity card issued by a EEA country. <br />
* If you need a United States Passport, start here: https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/passports.html. Please note it can take 4-6 weeks to receive your passport. Please plan ahead. <br />
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==== EU Visa Waiver Program Suspension - Update ====<br />
In March 2019 the EU announced that the visa free entry requirements for third country visitors to Europe would be changing. This change will not go into affect until 1 January 2021, note this is one year after our Berlin All Hands trip. After this date, citizens from certain countries, including the USA and Canada, will be required to obtain an ETIAS travel authorization before they can enter Europe.<br />
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==== More details: ==== <br />
Mission websites in popular Mozillian locations:<br />
* United States: https://www.germany.info/us-en/service/05-VisaEinreise/business-visa/963542<br />
* Canada: https://canada.diplo.de/ca-en/consular-services/visa/shortstay<br />
* UK: https://uk.diplo.de/uk-en/02/visa<br />
* Paris: https://allemagneenfrance.diplo.de/fr-de/service/00-visa-seite<br />
* Taiwan: https://taipei.diplo.de/tw-en/service/visa<br />
* Beijing: https://china.diplo.de/cn-zh/service/visa-einreise/schengenvisum/1343246<br />
* India: https://india.diplo.de/in-en/service/-/1908794<br />
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=='''Travel to Berlin'''==<br />
Bookings to Berlin are done. The Egencia instructions were emailed to '''anyone approved to attend'''. New hires have individual deadlines based upon hire/start date. Approved contractors, vendors, seasonal, status employees were notified with an email from bmark@mozilla.com with specific instructions. <br />
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Specific instructions were about how to book, as we have a new process for anyone based outside the US, Canada & Central/South America. APAC employees will '''NOT''' be booking your All Hands travel in country based site, and will be using Egencia Americas. European employees '''WILL''' be booking in your country based site to allow access to trains and low cost airlines. <br />
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Should you need to reach someone at '''Egencia Americas''' for special circumstances or changes that can't be done online:<br />
*Call+1 (800) 361-1120 or +1(702)939-2533; Hours of operations are Monday – Friday (except holidays) 5:00 AM– 6:00 PM PT or 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM ET or 12:00 PM - 1:00 AM UTC. If you call outside these hours, you will get an after-hours agent (not a meeting agent, who may not be as helpful) . Please ensure the agent you speak with knows you are booking for a meeting.<br />
*Email: groupagents@customercare.egencia.com. The email is monitored Monday - Friday.<br />
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Other Egencia contact details:<br />
*Egencia UK+EMEA - Email: customer_service@egencia.co.uk; UK Local #: +44 203 077 2536 (charged at local rate). For calls made outside the UK, please dial +00 44 161 233 5525. (From anywhere outside the EU, please dial +011 44...)<br />
*Egencia FR - Email: service_client@egencia.fr; France Local #: +33 8 11 65 66 53. For calls made outside France, please dial +33 4 86 06 15 18 (From anywhere outside the EU, please dial +011 33)<br />
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'''Important Details:'''<br />
Everyone should plan to arrive in Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) on Monday, January 27 and leave on Saturday, February 1. Anyone who plans to arrive ahead of that or to stay longer, regardless of the reason, must follow the "arriving early/departing late guidelines." These guidelines also apply if you want to fly in or out of airports other than your home airport and Berlin Tegel (anything custom). A few notes:<br />
*If you are a vendor (paid by a company other than Mozilla or Upwork), contractor, or seasonal staff, those approved will be sent separate email.<br />
*Volunteers will be handled separate from this process.<br />
*We work closely with Recruiting to ensure new hires are invited after their start date. No need to let us know about these.<br />
*If you would like to invite someone who is a business partner, facilitator or some other category that isn't an employee or volunteer (not a personal guest/family), email bmark@mozilla.com.<br />
*Change fees and changes in airfare will be covered by Mozilla for business reasons only. Please email bmark@mozilla.com ahead of calling Egencia to make the change. If the change is specific for all hands, payment can be made centrally. If a change is due to a team specific need, you will need to provide payment over the phone and submit for reimbursement with manager approval. Any changes for personal reasons must be paid by the employee directly to Egencia over the phone (see next point)<br />
*If you'd like to change your itinerary for personal reasons, please call Egencia directly (numbers above( and be prepared to provide payment for the change fee and any change in airfare over the phone. <br />
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====Arriving Early/Departing Late Guidelines====<br />
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Our standard travel guidelines apply (pre-populated in Egencia) when booking with a few additional budget constraints. Anything booked outside of them will require approval. Most people will arrive on Monday, January 27 and leave on Saturday, February 1. Here are some exceptions: <br />
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# If you plan to spend some extra '''personal time in Berlin/Europe''' or nearby (choosing to arrive before Monday, Jan 27 or depart after Saturday, Feb 1), you'll need to create a itinerary in Egencia for standard dates/locations within the Egencia Portal and compare to the custom dates/locations you'd like. Pricing for the standard dates should be ''Round Trip only''. Pricing for custom dates/locations should be for ''Round trip or Multi city trips only''. Please share the difference via email to bmark@mozilla.com and receive approval ahead of submission in Egencia. You can ''sway up to +$100 over'' and Mozilla will cover it. Otherwise you'll need to come with an alternate itinerary that fits within the pricing (like a round trip in and out of TXL w/ longer dates, and you personally book & cover the rest). Please note that one way trips are only approved on a case by case basis. Do not book one ways without prior approval. ''We '''do not''' have the ability for employees to reimburse Mozilla for any overage.'' This scenario also applies for routing through different airports to/from Berlin Tegel than your home airport (ex. a layover in London for a few days, or flying out of something other than TXL). <br />
# If you are attending the '''Sunday/Monday CI event''' (by invite), you can arrive on Sunday, January 26.<br />
# If you would like to arrive early to '''recover from jetlag''', you will need manager approval for any additional costs associated with the extension. There is '''no unilateral''' "All Hands" approval based upon timezone to arrive early. For hotel, you will book and pay on your own, and expense the manager approved amount (which is coded to your cost center). This policy does not apply to volunteer contributors, any jetlag recovery costs must be self funded.<br />
# If you are celebrating the '''Lunar New Year''', [https://wiki.mozilla.org/All_Hands/Berlin2020#Lunar_New_Year see here].<br />
# If you live in a country where '''work travel is prohibited on weekends''', you may travel on Friday, Jan 24 and Monday, Feb 3, if you’d prefer (not required). For hotel, you will book and pay on your own, and expense the manager approved amount (which is coded to your cost center). You must have approval from our benefits team in writing (and send to bmark@mozilla.com) '''prior''' to booking any travel. Approvals and expenses will not be applied retroactively. <br />
# If you live in a country where '''work travel is prohibited on Sunday''', you may travel on Saturday, Jan 25, if you’d prefer (not required). For hotel, you will book and pay on your own, and expense the manager approved amount (which is coded to your cost center). You must have approval from our benefits team in writing (and send to bmark@mozilla.com) '''prior''' to booking any travel. Approvals and expenses will not be applied retroactively.<br />
# If you'd like to make changes to extend your stay on either side after booking, you will be responsible for all change fees and change in airfare. <br />
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====Booking Family Travel====<br />
Whether your family will accompany you on your flight or join us later; and you have two options: direct with the airline (recommended) or through Egencia.<br />
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'''Direct (recommended):''' <br />
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First, figure out which flights you want to be on as an employee in Egencia. Hold them in Egencia. Find the flights you want for your family on the airline site and book them. Go back to Egencia and book your flights. Once you have both sets of confirmation numbers, call the airline and ask them to LINK your two reservations. This shows that you are traveling together and shouldn't be moved. When you call, you can also ask the airline agent to assign seats together. By booking your family direct on the airline, it gives them "priority" with the airline over people who book via a third party (expedia, booking.com, kayak, etc). These aren't guarantees, but they do help.<br />
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'''Via Egencia:'''<br />
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We do not recommend booking family through Egencia. If you'd like details about how to do it, please email bmark@mozilla.com<br />
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'''Notes:''' <br />
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* If your family is arriving on a different flights than you but would like to take advantage of the airport shuttles on Sunday/Monday and/or Saturday, please email their itinerary to mozilla@shworldwide.com.<br />
* We are unable to accommodate volunteer contributor families/guests.<br />
* As of 20 November, we only have rooms that can accommodate 2 adults. If a larger room is needed, it will need to be booked and paid for on your own.<br />
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====Not Flying====<br />
Mozilla will reimburse U-Bahn tickets for those based in the Berlin area for getting to/from hotels. For more information on the U-Bahn, please see the Berlin office guide on [https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/WPR/Berlin+Office+Guide#BerlinOfficeGuide-MovingAroundBerlin mana]. <br />
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For those outside of the Berlin area who are taking the train, please book by November 10. Instructions were emailed to everyone. <br />
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Parking is not reimbursable.<br />
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====Travel Insurance====<br />
Mozilla provides emergency medical accident and illness cover for all global MoCo employees/interns and their dependents. You can view more information on [https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PR/Travel+Insurance+-+Business Mana]. This coverage begins at the time the you leave home to start your business trip. It also has a provision for a 14 day extension for leisure travel outside of the business travel. If you have additional questions, please email benefits@mozilla.com. <br />
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Mozilla does not cover travel insurance for elancers, upworkers, contractors, vendors, or volunteers/community members (unless required for visa application).<br />
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====Air Travel Fine Print====<br />
*Change fees will be covered by Mozilla for '''business reasons only'''. If you need a change and have manager approval, email bmark@mozilla.com '''prior to requesting the change with Egencia'''. Once you have approval, call Egencia to make the change at 1-877-255-1090 (note this will not be possible without prior approval so be sure to get that by way of an email from your manager to Brianna Mark). If you are changing for personal reasons, the change in airfare, change fee and Egencia fee is your responsibility.<br />
*Mozilla will '''not''' reimburse for Business/First class upgrades, tickets or seat reservations. <br />
*Mozilla will reimburse for one checked bag each way.<br />
*''Mozilla Frequent Flyer perks do not apply for All Hands''. <br />
*Flights booked outside of Egencia will not be an approved expense unless email approval by Brianna is obtained prior to booking.<br />
*Any submitted expenses needs to have an itinerary attached to ensure it is employee expenses only and within policy.<br />
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====Ground Transportation====<br />
Berlin Tegel airport is open from 4:00 - 0:00. <br />
Shuttles will be provided from Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) to our 3 hotels:<br />
*Sunday, Jan 26 from 9:00 - 22:00, for flights landing between 7:45 and 21:45.<br />
*Monday, Jan 27 from 8:00 - 23:00, for flights landing between 7:15 and 22:55.<br />
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Shuttles from our 3 hotels to Berlin Tegel will be provided:<br />
*Saturday, Feb 1 from 4:00 - 20:00, for flights departing 7:15 and 22:15.<br />
*Sunday, Feb 2 from 4:00 - 12:00, for flights departing 6:00 - 14:00. ''If you are on a later flight, you can take the last shuttle at 12:00.'' <br />
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Taxis and Addison Lee are not reimbursable. <br />
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If you are arriving by train to Hauptbahnhof:<br />
To Hotel Berlin Berlin<br />
* FROM HAUPTBAHNHOF STATION: Take the S-Bahn metro lines S5, S9 or S75 to the station “Zoologischer Garten” (20 min.). From there, take the bus 100 to the stop Lützowplatz. <br />
* Via U-BAHN: Take the U-Bahn metro lines U2, U3 and U1 to the station “U-Nollendorfplatz”. Exit the station in the direction of “Karl-Heinrich-Ulrichs-Straße." The road leads directly to the hotel (approx 5 mins). <br />
* [https://www.hotel-berlin.de/d/berlinberlinpro/media/PDF/Anfahrt_A4_E_Karl-Heinrich-Ulrichs-Strae_5c2ab7.pdf Map]<br />
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To InterCon Berlin and Pullman<br />
* FROM HAUPTBAHNHOF STATION: Take the S-Bahn metro lines S3, S5, S7, or S9 to the station “Zoologischer Garten”. From there, walk 10 mins to hotel.<br />
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Berlin's integrated public transport is divided in 3 tariff zones (ABC). To travel within the city, including from Tegel airport to the hotels, you only need an AB ticket. Tickets can be bought at automated booths in most stations (accept credit cards), and on Metro (need coins). You can use the same ticket to travel on buses, metro, S-Bahn, U-Bahn. More information, including PDF maps, are available on [https://www.berlin.de/en/public-transportation/1772016-2913840-tickets-fares-and-route-maps.en.html this website]. A mobile app is available on stores ("BVG FahrInfo Plus") and allows to create routes between stations, or you can use directly the [https://www.bvg.de/en BVG] website.<br />
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====Getting around Berlin====<br />
You’ll rarely hear from your Berlin-based colleagues (or anyone else actually living in the city instead of the suburbs) that they prefer or even enjoy taking the car anywhere. Many don’t even own a car unless they truly need it because driving in Berlin is not a lot of fun with busy traffic, lots (looooots!) of construction sites, a bunch of one-way streets and barely any free parking spaces. When exploring the city, we recommend that you use public transportation instead, which takes you everywhere and is pretty reliable. Or you rent bikes and even add some exercise to your city tour.<br />
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In order to make sure that you know your transportation options, here’s an overview of what you may use — and how.<br />
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=====Buying tickets=====<br />
Most types of public transport require you to buy and validate your ticket before entering the respective vehicle. You can find ticket machines at the stations or buy a ticket at shops in one of the larger train stations. The machines usually inform you in German and in English, which makes them easy to use. <br />
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You’ll be able to buy different types of tickets depending on where you go and duration of their validity, from just one ride up to 6 days. If you plan to use public transportation for several days in a row it’s definitely recommended to get a multi-day ticket because the relative price will be lower.<br />
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Of course, there are also some peculiarities to each type of transportation when it comes to paying the fees:<br />
U-Bahn & S-Bahn: After buying a ticket at the machine, which you’ll most likely find on the platform or, if it’s a larger train station, in the entry area, you may need to validate it at an extra machine. They’re usually located on the platform, as well. [https://welcome2berlin.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/1/2/121289663/s-bahn-ticket-machine-00-img-6428-1920x2560-otmc-10-90_orig.jpg Here's a picture of a ticket machine with the ticket validation machine to its left.]<br />
Bus: Most bus stations don’t have ticket machines but you can buy one from the driver.<br />
Tram: Some trains have ticket machines inside; however, they don’t always work.<br />
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Please also take into account where you’re actually planning to go when buying a ticket. Berlin has 3 fare zones: A (city center), B (wider Berlin city area) and C (outside of the actual Berlin city area; Brandenburg). Unless you’re only exploring the area around the All Hands site, you’ll probably want to get “AB” tickets. If you need to go to or from Berlin Schönefeld Airport (SXF), it is located in fare zone C, so you'll need a ticket that covers area “C”. If you have an “AB” ticket you can buy an extension ticket for a single trip.<br />
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=====U-Bahn (the subway)=====<br />
The “U-Bahn” is our local subway system, which connects the entire city area, taking you almost everywhere within just a few minutes. There are 10 lines overall, named U1 to U9 (plus the kind of odd U55 that only connects very few stations). Big “U” signs all over Berlin help you spot the next station. <br />
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The BVG (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, the Berlin transport company) offer a fully interactive route map on their website. If you prefer a printed version, you can pick one up for free at one of their customer centers; the main office is located in the subway station “Alexanderplatz” in the city center. Or you just download their app, which is available for all major OS. You can also buy tickets via the app.<br />
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Pro tip: You may want to download the Berlin map in your favorite navigation app. Given that your phone plan may not apply to Europe (or it’s ridiculously expensive to go online), this can actually save your day because public WiFi isn’t as widely available in Germany as e.g. in North America.<br />
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=====Tram/Straßenbahn=====<br />
The tram is Berlin’s overground train service within the city. There are 22 lines overall: 9 so-called MetroTram lines (names consist of “M” plus a line number) and 13 streetcar lines (where the name is a simple number). They complement the U-Bahn and S-Bahn system by running on important routes that are not covered otherwise. <br />
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Given the size of the Berlin city area, you’ll most likely need to switch between trains and types of public transport, which includes the trams. They’re usually easy to find since they’re comparatively loud, painted in shining yellow and, well, run on overground tracks through pedestrian zones and next to roads used by cars. Also, big red signs with the word “tram” on them guide the way.<br />
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=====S-Bahn=====<br />
The S-Bahn is another overground train but covers longer distances than the tram (and doesn't run in or cross streets).<br />
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You’ll probably want to take the S-Bahn when visiting the neighbourhoods that are further out, doing a day trip to Potsdam or going to Schoenefeld Airport. If Berlin’s 3rd airport, BER, ever happens to open, transport from the city will also be covered by S-Bahn. It's also good for some trips within the city center.<br />
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=====Other trains=====<br />
Are you planning a trip through Germany or even beyond? Then you may want to consider taking one of the trains of the Deutsche Bahn (German railway company).<br />
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Trains leave from the 7 long-distance train stations in Berlin. You can buy tickets online (bahn.de) or at the machines in each of the stations. If you’re planning a longer trip or want to travel during peak times, it’s recommended to buy your ticket in advance, add a seat reservation and take sufficient provisions for the trip since food and drinks at the “Bord-Bistro” are ridiculously expensive.<br />
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Pro tip: If you bought a seat reservation in advance and there’s someone sitting in your spot, don’t be shy and ask them to get up. It may be awkward but it’s totally normal. Also, the reservation goes away if you don’t claim your seat within a certain amount of time after getting on the train.<br />
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Even though it carries about two billion passengers annually, it’s unlikely that you’ll experience amazing service or punctuality on your Deutsche Bahn trip — which is at least a little bit funny given that it used to be owned by the government of a country that’s mostly known for its efficiency. Just kidding ;) German trains are quite comfortable to use, prices are okay and from Berlin, you’ll arrive in most other larger cities in Germany and the neighbouring countries within comparatively short times as the trains can go up to 300 km/h.<br />
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=====Busses=====<br />
Just like in any other country, busses combine all of the inconveniences of public transportation and driving a car in the city: it’s crowded, you may need to stand for a pretty long time and it takes forever to get to your destination. Still, busses are used a lot (at least in Berlin) because they cover many short routes where there’s not S-Bahn, U-Bahn or Tram service.<br />
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When entering a bus in Berlin, operated by the aforementioned BVG, you’re theoretically required to show your ticket to the diver; some don’t really care while others are quite strict about it. Beyond that, there are a couple of additional rules you should be aware of before stepping into a BVG bus:<br />
* Don’t stand anywhere close to a door unless you feel prepared to deal with the rage of the bus driver. They don’t mind yelling at someone in the very back of the bus or even interrupt their route until the respective person behaves as they’re expected to.<br />
*This applies to your luggage just as much as to you as a person.<br />
*Make sure to monitor the route closely. If you want to get off the bus you need to push the button to request a stop soon enough or stay on the bus until the driver finishes their tour.<br />
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Pro tip: If you get on a bus that isn’t too crowded let the driver know where you want to go and take a seat nearby. They’re not all grumpy. Some of them are actually quite friendly and helpful when you approach them directly.<br />
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=====Taxi & Uber=====<br />
Uber has grown to become the most successful driving services in many countries but it is currently banned in Germany after its UberX service has been found in violation of German federal law prohibiting private citizens (e.g. without background checks) to offer transport services. Instead use one of the many (7500 in total) regular yellow licensed taxis. When calling a driver in Berlin you have several choices:<br />
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*Get a regular taxi by calling one over the phone (+49 30 20 20 20 OR +49 30 26 10 26), find a taxi stop, or stop a taxi on the street. Just make sure to have some cash on you as some of them don’t take credit cards. Remember, licensed Taxis are a light yellow ("light ivory", [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Taxis_at_EDDT-%28jha%29.jpg picture]).<br />
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*Call a regular taxi via the [https://www.taxi.eu/en/cities/berlin/ taxi.eu] app. This app (download: [http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/taxi.eu/id465315934 Apple iOS], [https://market.android.com/details?id=at.austrosoft.t4me.MB_BerlinTZBEU Android]) offers a similar service as Uber but gives access to the majority of Berlin's regular (and regulated) taxis (7200 of the 7500 total). The main difference is that you can either pay cash or need to be connected to the internet in order to pay through the app at the end of your ride: while you agree on a price with your Uber driver before getting into their car, taxi.eu will charge you for the actual distance/time it took to get you to your destination, which isn’t clearly determined before your arrival and only an estimate is shown during booking.<br />
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=='''Hotels'''==<br />
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For anyone who was registered by December 1, your hotel assignments/confirmations have been emailed. <br />
If you registered December 1 or later, approximately 2 weeks after registering. <br />
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The emails are coming from bmark@mozilla.com, not the hotel directly. Please make sure to read and check for accuracy. <br />
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In each email, you will find:<br />
*Your assigned hotel<br />
*The dates that have been booked for you<br />
*Links to book extra nights beyond what has been booked for you<br />
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A few things to note:<br />
#If you have any changes or questions about your reservation, email mozilla@shworldwide.com. The hotel cannot make changes to All Hands reservations so we’d like very much if you didn’t try (it complicates things).<br />
#If you registered that you have guests joining you for all or part of the week:<br />
*You will be responsible for covering all additional fees at the hotel. <br />
*All hotel rooms have a maximum capacity of 2 adults (with some exceptions limited to very small children)<br />
*If you registered by October 13:<br />
*Guests have already been added to your hotel reservation on your behalf. You have been assigned a room that can accommodate you and your guests. Please refer to the total occupants listed in your hotel confirmation.<br />
*If you need to add a guest, please email mozilla@shworldwide.com. Please note: all hotel rooms that can accommodate more than 2 adults have been alloted. If a larger room is needed, it will need to be booked and paid for on your own. <br />
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If you are planning to book pre/post stays, links to do so will be provided in your confirmation email. I recommend you do that soon, as rates and availability are limited, and will not be available after December 20. Please use your legal name and use LDAP email so we can match reservations. Reservations booked outside of these portals cannot be linked to All Hands reservations.<br />
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Everyone will be required to present a form of payment on check-in for incidentals. For your own sanity, please do not provide a debit/cash card. If you are unable to provide a credit card, please email mozilla@shworldwide.com and we can request special accommodations.<br />
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=='''Families/Guests'''==<br />
Of course our focus, for the majority of the week, will be on Mozilla. Everyone is expected to be present and engaged each day, during work hours (as your schedule dictates). Please do what you can to make sure your loved ones understand the kind of commitment you’ve made. Please note that what are able to do for families varies by each location. We are unable to accommodate volunteer contributor or intern families/guests at our All Hands. <br />
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====Quick summary logistics====<br />
* Air Travel: Employees do need to book via Egencia regardless of how families are booked. <br />
* Hotel: Family/friends are welcome to stay with you. All room rates are based upon single occupancy and include breakfast. Guests must be added to reservations in advance and any additional room expenses will be yours to cover. Most of our hotel rooms have a maximum of double occupancy (2 adults), with very limited availability of rooms for higher occupancy. Higher occupancy rooms will be assigned in the order that you register. As of 20 November, we only have rooms that can accommodate 2 adults. If a larger room is needed, it will need to be booked and paid for on your own. <br />
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Additional Guest fees<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Hotel !! Hotel Berlin !! InterCon !! Pullman<br />
|-<br />
| 2nd guest fee (incl bfast) || 20,00 € || 25,00 € || 24,00 €<br />
|-<br />
| 3rd guest fee (incl bfast) || 50,00 € || N/A || N/A<br />
|-<br />
| 4th guest fee (incl bfast) || 50,00 € || N/A || N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Age applicable || 6+ || All || All<br />
|}<br />
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* Lunch & Dinner: Family will be on their own for lunch daily and dinner on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. <br />
* Monday & Friday Night Events: Family members who are registered for the event and registered with the hotel, are invited to join us for our evening events.<br />
* Childcare Services: We will not provide centralized childcare services. We have found that every family has different needs and centralized childcare does not deliver on those needs. If you are in need of help finding options for your family, we are happy to connect you with staff whose families who are coming (#allhands-childcare and #parents are great places to start), as well we are happy to help support finding of resources (although you are likely better at it than us). Given every circumstance is unique, we defer to your manager to determine what Mozilla can support you with financially.<br />
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On demand babysitting services in Berlin: <br />
* https://extra-arms.com/for-families-babysitting/<br />
* https://www.withourbaby.com/<br />
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====Exploring Berlin with Kids====<br />
Berlin is a great city to explore with kids as it offers lots of fun, interesting and educational activities that are even suitable for the cold weeks of January. Which brings us to a very important recommendation we want to share right at the beginning of this section: dress your kids up appropriately to the weather but focus on layers. The onion look may not always be super fancy but both you and your kids will appreciate it: Since it can get unpleasantly cold in the Berlin winter, public places and attractions tend to heat up their indoor offers. Wearing layers makes sure that your kids neither get cold outside nor sweaty when going inside.<br />
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=====Inside activities=====<br />
*The Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Technical Museum) is a great place to spend time on a cold January day. It’s exciting for both adults and kids and offers a lot to explore. Discover the cultural history of technology by yourself! Also, you can get there from the All Hands location in just 20 minutes by public transport. <br />
Deutsches Technikmuseum, Trebbiner Straße 9, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg<br />
Opening hours: TUE-FRI 9am-5:30pm, SAT+SUN 10am-6pm<br />
*MACHmit! museum für Kinder is a museum like no other: Endless opportunities to discover and try new things encourage children to learn through play, whilst also gaining new and exciting experiences that they would not come across in an average day. Arts and crafts activities, lots of running and being loud and for parents a nice area where you can get coffee and snacks.<br />
MACHmit! Museum für Kinder, Senefelderstraße 5, 10437 Berlin<br />
Opening hours: TUE-SUN 10am-6pm<br />
*The Aquarium Berlin in the center of Berlin is one of Europe’s best-known and most notable aquariums. Behind the building’s historic façade awaits an impressive diversity of species that few facilities in the world can rival. The Aquarium not only houses numerous extraordinary fish, it is also home to hundreds of impressive reptiles and insects. Also, it’s just a 5 minutes walk from the All Hands location.<br />
Aquarium Berlin, Budapester Str. 32, 10787 Berlin<br />
Opening hours: Daily 9am-6pm<br />
*View the night sky without any clouds disrupting your view at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium! The largest planetarium in Central Europe was inaugurated in 1987. The Planetarium offers lots of events for young and older kids and is just impressive to be in. You should check it out!<br />
Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin<br />
Opening hours: TUE+SUN 9:30am-6pm, WED+THU 9:30am-9pm, FRI+SAT 9:30am-10:30pm<br />
*Tropical Island: Taking a break at Tropical Island means swimming, diving or just relaxing by the Tropical Sea or Lagoon, exploring the world's largest indoor rainforest or getting your adrenaline pumping on Germany's highest water slide tower -- plus lots of other great attractions. Disclaimer: It’s crowded, so if you are not so much into big groups of people, this might not be for you -- but kids LOVE IT. You can easily reach Tropical Island within a one-hour train ride. <br />
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=====Outside activities=====<br />
You and your kids don’t mind the cold too much? Great! There are plenty of nice things to do outside even the winter. As the train services run pretty well and Berlin is well connected even to the rural areas, you have a lot to choose from and it’s pretty easy as well as inexpensive to get there.<br />
*Just a few minutes outside of Berlin you’ll find Karls Erlebnis-Dorf (Karl’s Adventure Village) in Elstal. In addition to offering a spacious farmers market, many attractions for children are waiting for you, including a big wooden roller coaster. Admission is free. You can get there by car, bus and train.<br />
Karls Erlebnis-Dorf, Döberitzer Heide 1, 14641 Elstal<br />
Opening hours: Daily 8am-7pm<br />
*Tempelhofer Feld is a big recreation area in the Berlin districts Neukölln and Tempelhof. It’s actually the largest inner-city open space worldwide, Berlin’s most spacious urban park as well as part of larger historical project. Throughout the year, the park is used for outdoor sports like jogging, biking, roller-blading, and kiting, but is also a popular spot for wild gardening and barbecues. The Mozilla Berlin Family Day 2017 took place right there.<br />
Accessible via 10 entrances<br />
Opening hours: From sunrise to sunset<br />
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=='''Lunar New Year'''==<br />
We are aware of the overlap in the Lunar New Year celebrations with the Berlin All Hands. To help folks who decide to attend the Berlin All Hands and who also celebrate Chinese New Year, we will offer the following:<br />
* A higher airfare caps for air travel to allow for fewer layovers on Monday, January 27<br />
* Assurance that Berlin is optional but if employee wants to attend they can shift their holiday days to another time. <br />
* Live Airmo Feeds of Plenary (+ relevant team all hands meetings) + quick posting of recording to accommodate those who choose not to travel. <br />
* Potentially shifting any main plenary session date/time<br />
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We are working with leadership and representatives of those most affected and will update wiki regularly with updates. Feel free to reach out to Brianna with questions.<br />
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=='''Week at a Glance'''==<br />
View [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kIwKEmlYE9tMuWRvSNZnYDGWFwEumcHVp1s0LVPz-e8/edit#gid=0 Week at a glance]<br />
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====Monday====<br />
*Monday is travel/arrival day<br />
*Registration<br />
*Welcome Reception from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm<br />
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====Tuesday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*Dinner on own<br />
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====Wednesday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*[https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/event/YKzH/demos Demos] from 4pm - 6pm<br />
*Dinner on own<br />
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====Thursday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*Dinner on own<br />
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====Friday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*Closing event at Motorwerk<br />
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====Saturday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Departure day only. No scheduled activities.<br />
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===Berlin All Hands Event Calendar===<br />
Here: https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/. <br />
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Don't see stuff for your org yet? Don't fret! The schedule changes regularly as meetings and events are confirmed. Keep checking back. Team specific events are managed by [https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=EAs&title=Mozilla+EA+Directory team EAs]. <br />
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=====Create an account=====<br />
We don’t recommend using the same email & password as anything like bank accounts, etc. We care about your security! If you already have a Sched account from past All Hands, it still works, log in with that.<br />
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=====Add items to your calendar=====<br />
Select the circle on any agenda item to add it to your calendar (you do need to have an account & be logged in to do this)<br />
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You can also share a link to meetings to invite others. Go into the meeting and copy the short link. You can email that out to anyone and they can quickly add it to their calendar.<br />
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=====Subscribe to GCal Calendar Link=====<br />
Click on the mobile phone on the right hand side of the screen. All the calendar options are available here. <br />
You have the option to choose ALL meetings or YOUR meetings. Unless you have 400 items on your calendar, just select your calendar. It will add anything on your calendar to your GCal (also an option for Outlook and iCal). It syncs once per day.<br />
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The "only syncs once per day" only applies to Google Calendar. With almost all other clients (like Apple Calendar, Outlook, or the calendar app on your phone) you can set the refresh interval, and Sched's instructions recommend 1 hour. Note - the gcal function has been buggy for some users in the past. If it doesn't update with new items, delete the calendar and download again. <br />
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Warning: This is a link that utilizes your username for the .ics file.<br />
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=====From Mobile=====<br />
Visit from any mobile device (https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/mobile-site) - bookmark or add to your homescreen for quick access. There is a bonus icon you get by doing this. It caches the last time you opened the page offline and refreshes anytime you are connected.<br />
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=====Filters=====<br />
'''Filters'''<br />
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We have filtering functionality. You can filter by:<br />
Departments (ex: People)<br />
AND<br />
Functional Teams (ex: People & Capabilities)<br />
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*Search by Room, Speaker/Leader<br />
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'''Further Filtering'''<br />
*Audience - who should be there (ex: Team only or Invite)<br />
*Homerooms (you can quickly see what is happening in homerooms, by team) - why do you care? If you have a cross team meeting in their room, its a quick way to search<br />
*Views - Lots of view options. It defaults to the simple view, but there are quite a few options.<br />
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Have a tip? Feel free to add it!<br />
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=='''Food, Drink & Events'''==<br />
Lunch & snacks will be provided and paid for centrally for attendees. Breakfast is provided Tuesday - Saturday as part of your guestroom reservation - you must eat breakfast in the hotel you sleep in. You will not be reimbursed if you go to another hotel and pay to eat there. <br />
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Allergies/preferences: We will ensure that all food/environmental allergies are taken into consideration and will always have gluten-free and vegan options. If you have severe allergies that we need to know about; you can indicate in registration.<br />
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===Hosted Evening Events===<br />
We have evening events on the Monday and Friday nights.<br />
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====Monday Night Welcome Reception====<br />
6 pm - 9 pm, InterCon hotel<br />
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====Friday Night at Motorwerk====<br />
6:00 pm - 11:00 pm<br />
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======Getting to/from the event======<br />
Shuttles depart from the hotels starting at 5:00 pm. Shuttles will return starting at 8:00 pm. The last departure returning will leave at 11:05 pm. The only way to access the event is via our shuttles.<br />
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=====Coat Check=====<br />
Coat check will be available for clothing only, no bags. <br />
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====Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday Night Dinners====<br />
You'll be on your own for Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday and will have a similar expense policy from past all hands (50EUR/night - 150EUR total to include food, beverage, transportation, exchange fees, etc). <br />
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Here is how this will work:<br />
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For all evenings, once your meetings have concluded, you and your team, friends, new acquaintances, are free to explore and to find somewhere great to eat that suits you. Each of you can expense a total of 150EUR over the three days (or 50EUR/night).<br />
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This amount includes:<br />
*Meal cost, including tax & gratuity<br />
*Any beverages<br />
*Transportation to/from the restaurant<br />
*Conversion fees (for credit cards) or cash withdrawal fees<br />
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Anything over the 150EUR for the three evenings will be your own expense. The fine print:<br />
*If your team is hosting an evening event 1 of the nights and the payment is coordinated (meaning, you don’t have to open your wallet and pay), you can expense up to 100EUR for the other night.<br />
*You will be asked (later) to submit a Berlin All Hands only expense report. You can submit ONE report for Berlin only and must be submitted no later than February 28, 2020.<br />
*No expenses over 50 EUR per night will be [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XUD5KYotSr5SNi0q4ldgGG3bzBu-G3q4l5i-JiPE5ko/edit approved].<br />
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Volunteer Contributors will have a separate process that will be communicated directly.<br />
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=====Groups, Restaurants & Reservations=====<br />
*Group dinners - All large (eight or more people) reservations must go through Lisa Carlson (email lcarlson@mozilla.com) and dinners must stay within the per diem per night (50EURpp including, food, beverage, tax, gratuity and transportation), and employees attending must not also expense their per diem for that night.<br />
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In no case should employees expense or use MoCo corporate cards to cover purchases of alcohol outside of team dinners or the 50EUR individual per diem.<br />
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=='''Safety & Security'''==<br />
=====Alcohol at Events=====<br />
To better support and sustain an environment (and workplace culture) where people feel safe and included, we have made a set of changes regarding alcohol at our events. In all cases, our approach aligns with our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/ Community Participation Guidelines] (“CPG”).<br />
*All participants are '''required to read and acknowledge our new Community Participation Guidelines as a condition of participation'''.<br />
*We will '''limit bar-servings to beer and wine''' and ensure an equal number and quality (i.e. not just Coke) of non-alcoholic drink options are available and displayed.<br />
*Team dinners should be '''thoughtful about the potential exclusionary nature of alcohol when planning'''.<br />
*Clearly outlined, communicated (to event teams, HR and managers) and understood '''escalation process''' for behavior that might be deemed counter to the spirit of our CPG.<br />
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=====Device Security=====<br />
If you are traveling to the All Hands with a device that has Mozilla data (laptop, personal cell phone/tablet with @mozilla gmail, etc) on it and your device has been retained for further inspection by border agents, or if your device has been inspected outside your immediate presence - and you believe your credentials have been compromised - you must notify the Enterprise Information Security team as soon as possible at infosec@mozilla.com or by calling Mozilla End User Services at +1 650-963-8811. (This number will be staffed 24x7)<br />
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We will work with you to reset your credentials and help you get your device back to a known good state either by getting you a new one (if it’s been taken), or by resetting it back to a verifiable Mozilla-approved installation.<br />
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=====Physical Security=====<br />
Badges are required to access all meeting spaces and evening events.<br />
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=='''Accessibility'''==<br />
====Evenings====<br />
Monday Night reception is at the InterContinental Berlin. No stairs or elevators required. <br />
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====Meeting spaces====<br />
* InterCon: Most meeting space levels are accessible by elevators.<br />
* Pullman: All meeting space levels are accessible by guestroom elevators.<br />
* Hotel Berlin: All meeting space is on the ground level.<br />
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====Listen Systems====<br />
We will have Listen Systems available for any meeting in the main plenary space. Visit the AV booth to pick one up.<br />
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====Bathrooms====<br />
TBA <br />
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====Breastfeeding/pumping stations====<br />
Milk Stork Services are reimbursable - please contact benefits@mozilla.com for more information.<br />
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=='''Sustainability'''==<br />
'''Hotel Berlin, Berlin''' is certified partner of visitBerlin we stand for sustainable, green meetings and events. For more information, visit https://convention.visitberlin.de/en/sustain.<br />
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'''InterContinental Hotel Berlin''' is Green Globe Certified. Green Globe Certification is the worldwide sustainability system based on internationally accepted criteria for sustainable operation and management of travel and tourism businesses. Operating under a worldwide license, Green Globe Certification is based in California, USA and is represented in over 83 countries. Green Globe Certification is a member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, supported by the United Nations World Tourism Organization. Additonally, as part of IHG’s Green Engage™ program the InterContinental Berlin has implemented best practices at all operational levels. The innovative Environmental Management System not only measures the day-to-day energy, water and waste consumption, but also provides recommended actions – ‘green solutions’ – to improve energy conservation and the property’s carbon footprint score.<br />
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=='''Berlin: In your spare time (likely pre/post)'''==<br />
=====First things first=====<br />
Germany overall is widely diverse with regard to mentality, language, architecture, history, and more. In this guide we’re focusing on Berlin. However, if you have the opportunity to see a bit more of the country, you should definitely take it. We may also add that if you plan for a larger Europe trip, while there might be overlaps and similarities between the individual European countries, there are also lots and lots of differences -- and we’re by far not only referring to language. If you want to learn more about any other places you’re planning to go reach out to Mozillians who’re based there or otherwise know the city/country well. First-hand information is usually the most valuable and we have so many amazing people from anywhere in the world at our organization that it’s almost impossible that you don’t find someone who can help!<br />
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=====Exploring the city -- beyond Charlottenburg and Mitte!=====<br />
For the All Hands week we’re going to be in Charlottenburg, one of the neighbourhoods most visited by tourists. Along with Mitte (basically the city center), it’s an attractive destination for shopping and sightseeing. Nevertheless, we can only recommend that you leave the usual tourist trail in order to get a more diverse impression of Germany’s capital. There’s, for example, kind-of-hipster Kreuzberg, where our German office is located -- along with a bunch of amazing bars, restaurants, clubs and much more. Or take vibrant Friedrichshain, which is just across the Spree river from Kreuzberg, or family-friendly Prenzlauer Berg, all of which have their own interesting tourist attractions that are complemented by a relaxed local vibe. Overall, Berlin has 12 boroughs and a total of 96 officially recognized localities, so there’s clearly a lot to see!<br />
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=====Orientation=====<br />
Berlin is a pretty large city (891 qm, or 344 sq mi), so even Berliners use navigation apps regularly -- especially when leaving their “Kiez”. We therefore recommend that you download the Berlin map to your phone, as well, in order to make orientation easier, especially when doing some sightseeing.<br />
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This is also due to peculiarities that may make orientation less obvious, such as house numbers which do not necessarily run in the same direction (up or down) everywhere: On a lot of streets, the numbers ascend on one side and descend on the other. So to avoid getting you lost, you should check the numbering scheme first: you can find the name of the street at nearly every street corner. The same sign will usually state the range of house numbers in that segment.<br />
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Thanks to the subway system in particular, you can actually visit multiple neighbourhoods on the same day even if they’re not close. You can go from east to west in not much more than half an hour (if you’re lucky and have a good connection) and, even though it’s recommended to dedicate at least a few hours to each of the neighbourhoods you visit in order to get a proper impression, you should make use of it. Only by visiting different parts of the city that don’t share all of their history and demographics, you’ll be able to truly “see” Berlin. <br />
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=====Sightseeing & history=====<br />
As mentioned (multiple times) before Berlin is full of history. It’s almost impossible to walk around the city for half an hour without coming across some sort of historical site. This ranges from a huge range of museums and galleries, which you’ll best get informed about through a guidebook, as well as historical buildings, such as churches.<br />
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If you don’t mind the cold weather, make sure to set aside some time for sites outside. You could, for example, explore cold war history and go to Checkpoint Charlie, the former border crossing between East and West Berlin, which is undoubtedly one of the city’s top attractions. Another recommendation would be a visit to Hohenschönhausen, a former Stasi prison where East German dissidents were incarcerated. Tours of the prison are conducted daily and often led by a former prisoner, who will give you a real insight into this fascinating, albeit traumatic time in history.<br />
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If you’re looking for something more cheerful and/or a bunch of suggestions for historical sightseeing options by neighbourhood, you should check out Wikivoyage, a free web-based travel guide that has also been called the “Wikipedia of travel guides”. Take a look at the article on City West, if you want to explore the vicinity of our All Hands location. Literally every other Berlin tourist would likely favor the eastern districts of Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg and (western) Kreuzberg, for its lower price and a lot of international bars, cafés and many other tourist attractions.<br />
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Links<br />
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Berlin/City_West<br />
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Berlin/East_Central<br />
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=====Food!=====<br />
Being an international city, almost any cuisine you can imagine is available in Berlin. Still, we recommend that you try out some actual German food during your stay. For example, go to a local bakery and you’ll be stunned by the variety: There are over 300 types of dark and white breads, and more than 1,200 different kinds of “Brötchen” and “Kleingebäck” (bread rolls and mini-breads). We’re so much into bread that every region in Germany even has their own term for bread rolls (“Brötchen” vs. “Schrippe” vs. “Weck” vs. Semmel”...). Bread is central to the “German diet”: For breakfast, many people eat it with cheese, sausage products, honey or marmalade and “Abendbrot” (“evening bread” = dinner) usually consists of sandwiches.<br />
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If you’re rather looking for a warm meal, you should try a Currywurst (“curry sausage”). Over the last couple of years, the Berlin foodie scene has truly exploded and you can get so much more than the stereotypical type of curry sausage nowadays, from plain to fancy, for meat lovers or for vegans. You can get them in restaurants, at street food markets or even from salespeople in the pedestrian zones.<br />
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When visiting restaurants that offer German cuisine, you’ll notice that meat is a main ingredient for many meals -- though there are also plenty of fish and vegetarian options nowadays. With regard to side dishes, potatoes (in a lot of different varieties, such as cooked, roasted, mashed or as cakes) are very popular as well as noodles. <br />
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In Germany as in many other countries it’s quite common to meet friends and family for dinner and go to a bar or pub afterwards. Berlin has a lot to offer in that respect and most places have their very individual flair. If you’re not into the aforementioned beer options, you could go for a (non-alcoholic or boozed) cocktail or a good glass of wine. Since Germany has several renown wine-growing regions, there’s a lot to choose from!<br />
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=='''All Hands Expense Policy'''==<br />
1. All "All Hands" Expenses must be submitted on 1 (and only 1) Expense report (e.g. Berlin All Hands Expense Report). Each expense must be tagged with "All Hands - Jan 2020"<br />
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2. It must contain only those expenses relative to the All Hands Event in Berlin. <br />
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3. If your submitted expense report for All Hands is submitted outside these guidelines, it will be rejected and you will be asked to re-submit with only All Hands Expenses<br />
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4. The deadline to submit the All Hands Expense Report is '''February 28, 2020'''.<br />
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5. Expenses related to team events (except those coordinated through Lisa Carlson), parking, room service, mini-bar charges, and food/drink costs above the vouched amounts, will not be approved. <br />
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6. When submitting your expense report through Egencia, make sure to "attached the PDF" (toggle on mobile, check box on desktop). <br />
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'''The intention of our all hands are to centrally organize a structure that includes:'''<br />
*Meals (2 evening events + breakfast, lunch, drinks and snacks Tuesday - Friday)<br />
*Transportation<br />
*Accommodations<br />
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Expenses submitted can not exceed the approved amounts. Any social events (except dinners/team building activities coordinated through Lisa Carlson) that are not part of our central plan will generally be self-organized and funded by participants. <br />
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=====Travel expenses policy=====<br />
Reimbursement will be made for necessary and reasonable expenses. <br />
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* Getting to/from home to your airport: We ask that you use the most economical option, while balancing your personal needs - whether that be mileage/parking, public transportation or ride shares. We will not reimburse for private towncar services or car rental. <br />
* Per standard Mozilla travel policy, Travel Meal Policy: Employees are eligible for travel meals when traveling. For Meals: There is a $75 USD per day meal policy while traveling. This covers breakfast (est. $15), lunch (est. $20), and dinner (est. $40). Receipts: Receipts are required. When submitting a meal for reimbursement, please include how many people attended the meal. There is no need to include names.<br />
* We will not reimburse for seat/class upgrades. Frequent flyer status does not apply for All Hands. <br />
* We will reimburse for bag checking fees for one bag. <br />
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Any other expenses must be approved by your manager ahead of time. Any expenses for extending your stay for business reasons - such as additional hotel nights, meals, etc must be approved by your manager before booking and travel.<br />
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=====Cell phone reimbursement policy=====<br />
Cell phone reimbursement must be approved by your manager prior to submitting the expense. Teams will decide for their staff what is appropriate to expense. <br />
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=====Internet reimbursement policy=====<br />
Internet will be provided in all guestrooms and meeting space in all hotels. If you opt to upgrade/add service, those costs are not reimbursable, unless previously approved by your manager and are for business reasons.<br />
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=='''Activities'''==<br />
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=====Lockpicking Event=====<br />
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On Wednesday Evening, there will be a Lockpicking event run by :decoder. The event will start at 6:30 PM and there will be dinner available at the venue for all the participants as well. [https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/event/Ya9V/lockpicking-dinner Advance registration] is required. <br />
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We will be joined by four other lockpickers from Berlin, two of them being championship winners on several national competitions. The same two people are also engineers working in the lock industry, so there will be plenty of interesting things to hear and learn this evening.<br />
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For better planning, we ask that people fill out the [https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/event/Ya9V/lockpicking-dinner registration form], we are limited to 100 participants initially. If the course ends up being fully booked and you still want to participate, you can join us at 8:00 PM on that same evening (without any guarantees on wait time and without dinner., but we still need you to [https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/event/Ya9V/lockpicking-dinner register]). We are confident that we will be able to accommodate everyone who wants to join. However, registering makes the planning a lot easier.<br />
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'''''What is Lockpicking?'''''<br />
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Lockpicking is a sport where you open locks (e.g. padlocks) without destroying them using manipulation tools ("picks").<br />
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'''''Why would I want to do this?'''''<br />
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Lockpicking is a great activity to practice patience, imagination and dexterity. From an engineering perspective, it helps to strengthen your sense for what is going on in that "black box" and even has some parallels to debugging. However, lockpicking is first and foremost about having fun and the lock being a challenge. So no matter what you work on, I promise you this will be a fun experience and also a good opportunity to put your laptop/phone aside for a while.<br />
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'''''Do I need to know anything about this prior to participating?'''''<br />
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Absolutely not. We will teach you how locks work, how to handle the tools and everything else you need to know. The only thing you need to bring with you is some patience.<br />
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'''''I have some tools, should I bring them?'''''<br />
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We will have tools at the venue and would ask people to not bring their own tools. Traveling with lock picks is possible under certain conditions but the legal situation, especially when it comes to flying, is complicated and depends on the countries you travel through. Hence we ask people to not travel with their tools because it can get you delayed and cause other legal issues.<br />
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'''''Isn't this illegal?'''''<br />
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Lockpicking as a sport/hobby is legal in many countries (including most of the EU), as long as you only open your own locks. Of course, opening locks for which you don't have permission to do so can get you into trouble and is strongly discouraged by the community.<br />
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However, there are a few countries around the world, including a handful of states in the US and some provinces in Canada where the possession of the tools (lock picks) is illegal without a license. If you want to do this at home and don’t know the rules for your country, feel free to ask us at the venue and we will try to help find the answers.</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Berlin2020&diff=1221502All Hands/Berlin20202019-12-18T23:35:25Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Wednesday */</p>
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<div>'''What is it?''' -- Multiple team meetings, happening in the same city, at the same time + some opportunity to get together as one big group as well as with other teams as it makes sense. Then, on the last day, we have a fun social event for all, Mozilla-style! <br />
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'''''The information on this wiki primarily applies to Full time and contractor staff. If you are a volunteer contributor please inquire with your community manager/program manager about [[All_Hands/Contributor_nominations|contributor nominations]], interns please inquire to your coordinator. Volunteer contributors who have recieved an invitation can find relevant information [[All_Hands/Berlin2020/contributors|here]]. '''''<br />
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=='''Dates and Location'''==<br />
Monday, January 27, 2020 - Friday, January 31, 2020 (travel days are Monday, Jan 27 & Saturday, Feb 1) in Berlin, Germany.<br />
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We have guestrooms at three hotels: [https://www.ihg.com/intercontinental/hotels/us/en/berlin/berha/hoteldetail InterContinental Berlin], [https://www.pullman-berlin-schweizerhof.com/en/ Hotel Pullman Schweizerhof], and [https://www.hotel-berlin.de/en/ Hotel Berlin, Berlin]. [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eu_rYMxuc_hgSNqCJxW7Vn32pYMNayPa&usp=sharing View on map].<br />
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''*For those countries where rest time is required on weekends (vs. work travel), Mozilla will cover a return on the next available work day, if you choose. This needs to pre-approved and pre-arranged.''<br />
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=='''Registration'''==<br />
This is an invite-only event. All full time and Elance/Upwork employees are expected to attend this all company event. Contractors, Vendors and seasonal employees are included on a case by case evaluation based upon team needs and upon executive review and approval. <br />
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Advance registration is required. Attendees will need to wear their event badge at all times, including to evening events. We will have security at our events who will be ensuring everyone in our space should be there. This includes facilitators, and other related business guests. <br />
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=====New Hires=====<br />
We have a process to identify qualified regular full time new hires and Brianna will invite all new hires to register and book travel directly on their start date. No action is necessary from hiring managers other than to let them know about the event (please do not forward any links). Please work closely with your recruiting manager as they are aware of all deadlines.<br />
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All regular full time new hires must have a start date of January 6, 2020 or earlier and in workday by December 13, 2019. Final invites were extended on December 16, 2019. Contractors/vendors required executive approval and those who are hired after the approval period will not be invited, please see process/timeline [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lbxsJwkorleL6tchh5tL_yCeFZmHz7Qm5Lumm7u7-JA/edit?ts=5d6950bd here]. If you have any questions, please email bmark@mozilla.com.<br />
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=====Volunteer Contributors=====<br />
There are a number of policies that apply specifically to contributors that are different than for staff. Please look [[All_Hands/Berlin2020/contributors|here]] for all contributor specific instructions and policies.<br />
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'''Local contributors:'''<br />
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Please note that because of the extensive nomination and screening process we apply to all contributors who attend the event - we are unable to invite local contributors or temporary participants to the event outside of the regular nomination and screening process.<br />
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=====Registration Changes=====<br />
Everyone who registered received a confirmation email titled "Registration Confirmation to Mozilla Berlin All Hands" which shows you how you answered each question. If you didn't get the email and/or need to make changes to your registration, please email mozilla@shworldwide.com.<br />
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=='''Immigration'''==<br />
If you have any questions about immigration, please email immigration@mozilla.com. <br />
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==== STEP ====<br />
'''What is STEP?''' <br />
The [https://step.state.gov/ Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP)] is a free service to allow U.S. citizens and nationals traveling abroad to enroll their trip with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate. <br />
Benefits of Enrolling in STEP <br />
* Receive important information from the Embassy about safety conditions in your destination country, helping you make informed decisions about your travel plans.<br />
* Help the U.S. Embassy contact you in an emergency, whether natural disaster, civil unrest, or family emergency.<br />
* Help family and friends get in touch with you in an emergency.<br />
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==== Visas ====<br />
You do not need a visa if you hold a passport issued from the EU, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, or Canada. <br />
Please see here to confirm the entry document requirements for the country you’re from: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/einreiseundaufenthalt/visabestimmungen-node/staatenlistevisumpflicht-node <br />
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If you are from a country that requires a visa to enter Germany, please plan to obtain one as early as possible as government processing times constantly change. You can find a broad overview of the process here: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/einreiseundaufenthalt/visabestimmungen-node . For more detailed instructions regarding the visa process you will need to refer to the website of your nearest Mission/Consulate General. You will be able to learn more about the process by searching for “business visa” or “visitor visa” on the website for that German Mission.<br />
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'''Please keep in mind that while you are traveling for work, you are not traveling for a German based job.''' All Hands is a business conference/event. As you book your travel please also keep in mind that you could require a transit visa if you have a layover in a country that requires it. <br />
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If you have questions specific to your circumstances, please email immigration@mozilla.com. <br />
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==== Entering Germany ====<br />
Your passport or identity card will be checked when you arrive at an EU port or airport to make sure you’re allowed to come into the country. The passport must be valid for the whole of your stay. You may also need a visa to come into or travel through Germany, depending on your nationality. <br />
* If you are from an EEA country or Switzerland, you can enter Germany with either a valid passport or a national identity card issued by a EEA country. <br />
* If you need a United States Passport, start here: https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/passports.html. Please note it can take 4-6 weeks to receive your passport. Please plan ahead. <br />
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==== EU Visa Waiver Program Suspension - Update ====<br />
In March 2019 the EU announced that the visa free entry requirements for third country visitors to Europe would be changing. This change will not go into affect until 1 January 2021, note this is one year after our Berlin All Hands trip. After this date, citizens from certain countries, including the USA and Canada, will be required to obtain an ETIAS travel authorization before they can enter Europe.<br />
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==== More details: ==== <br />
Mission websites in popular Mozillian locations:<br />
* United States: https://www.germany.info/us-en/service/05-VisaEinreise/business-visa/963542<br />
* Canada: https://canada.diplo.de/ca-en/consular-services/visa/shortstay<br />
* UK: https://uk.diplo.de/uk-en/02/visa<br />
* Paris: https://allemagneenfrance.diplo.de/fr-de/service/00-visa-seite<br />
* Taiwan: https://taipei.diplo.de/tw-en/service/visa<br />
* Beijing: https://china.diplo.de/cn-zh/service/visa-einreise/schengenvisum/1343246<br />
* India: https://india.diplo.de/in-en/service/-/1908794<br />
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=='''Travel to Berlin'''==<br />
Bookings to Berlin are done. The Egencia instructions were emailed to '''anyone approved to attend'''. New hires have individual deadlines based upon hire/start date. Approved contractors, vendors, seasonal, status employees were notified with an email from bmark@mozilla.com with specific instructions. <br />
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Specific instructions were about how to book, as we have a new process for anyone based outside the US, Canada & Central/South America. APAC employees will '''NOT''' be booking your All Hands travel in country based site, and will be using Egencia Americas. European employees '''WILL''' be booking in your country based site to allow access to trains and low cost airlines. <br />
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Should you need to reach someone at '''Egencia Americas''' for special circumstances or changes that can't be done online:<br />
*Call+1 (800) 361-1120 or +1(702)939-2533; Hours of operations are Monday – Friday (except holidays) 5:00 AM– 6:00 PM PT or 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM ET or 12:00 PM - 1:00 AM UTC. If you call outside these hours, you will get an after-hours agent (not a meeting agent, who may not be as helpful) . Please ensure the agent you speak with knows you are booking for a meeting.<br />
*Email: groupagents@customercare.egencia.com. The email is monitored Monday - Friday.<br />
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Other Egencia contact details:<br />
*Egencia UK+EMEA - Email: customer_service@egencia.co.uk; UK Local #: +44 203 077 2536 (charged at local rate). For calls made outside the UK, please dial +00 44 161 233 5525. (From anywhere outside the EU, please dial +011 44...)<br />
*Egencia FR - Email: service_client@egencia.fr; France Local #: +33 8 11 65 66 53. For calls made outside France, please dial +33 4 86 06 15 18 (From anywhere outside the EU, please dial +011 33)<br />
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'''Important Details:'''<br />
Everyone should plan to arrive in Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) on Monday, January 27 and leave on Saturday, February 1. Anyone who plans to arrive ahead of that or to stay longer, regardless of the reason, must follow the "arriving early/departing late guidelines." These guidelines also apply if you want to fly in or out of airports other than your home airport and Berlin Tegel (anything custom). A few notes:<br />
*If you are a vendor (paid by a company other than Mozilla or Upwork), contractor, or seasonal staff, those approved will be sent separate email.<br />
*Volunteers will be handled separate from this process.<br />
*We work closely with Recruiting to ensure new hires are invited after their start date. No need to let us know about these.<br />
*If you would like to invite someone who is a business partner, facilitator or some other category that isn't an employee or volunteer (not a personal guest/family), email bmark@mozilla.com.<br />
*Change fees and changes in airfare will be covered by Mozilla for business reasons only. Please email bmark@mozilla.com ahead of calling Egencia to make the change. If the change is specific for all hands, payment can be made centrally. If a change is due to a team specific need, you will need to provide payment over the phone and submit for reimbursement with manager approval. Any changes for personal reasons must be paid by the employee directly to Egencia over the phone (see next point)<br />
*If you'd like to change your itinerary for personal reasons, please call Egencia directly (numbers above( and be prepared to provide payment for the change fee and any change in airfare over the phone. <br />
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====Arriving Early/Departing Late Guidelines====<br />
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Our standard travel guidelines apply (pre-populated in Egencia) when booking with a few additional budget constraints. Anything booked outside of them will require approval. Most people will arrive on Monday, January 27 and leave on Saturday, February 1. Here are some exceptions: <br />
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# If you plan to spend some extra '''personal time in Berlin/Europe''' or nearby (choosing to arrive before Monday, Jan 27 or depart after Saturday, Feb 1), you'll need to create a itinerary in Egencia for standard dates/locations within the Egencia Portal and compare to the custom dates/locations you'd like. Pricing for the standard dates should be ''Round Trip only''. Pricing for custom dates/locations should be for ''Round trip or Multi city trips only''. Please share the difference via email to bmark@mozilla.com and receive approval ahead of submission in Egencia. You can ''sway up to +$100 over'' and Mozilla will cover it. Otherwise you'll need to come with an alternate itinerary that fits within the pricing (like a round trip in and out of TXL w/ longer dates, and you personally book & cover the rest). Please note that one way trips are only approved on a case by case basis. Do not book one ways without prior approval. ''We '''do not''' have the ability for employees to reimburse Mozilla for any overage.'' This scenario also applies for routing through different airports to/from Berlin Tegel than your home airport (ex. a layover in London for a few days, or flying out of something other than TXL). <br />
# If you are attending the '''Sunday/Monday CI event''' (by invite), you can arrive on Sunday, January 26.<br />
# If you would like to arrive early to '''recover from jetlag''', you will need manager approval for any additional costs associated with the extension. There is '''no unilateral''' "All Hands" approval based upon timezone to arrive early. For hotel, you will book and pay on your own, and expense the manager approved amount (which is coded to your cost center). This policy does not apply to volunteer contributors, any jetlag recovery costs must be self funded.<br />
# If you are celebrating the '''Lunar New Year''', [https://wiki.mozilla.org/All_Hands/Berlin2020#Lunar_New_Year see here].<br />
# If you live in a country where '''work travel is prohibited on weekends''', you may travel on Friday, Jan 24 and Monday, Feb 3, if you’d prefer (not required). For hotel, you will book and pay on your own, and expense the manager approved amount (which is coded to your cost center). You must have approval from our benefits team in writing (and send to bmark@mozilla.com) '''prior''' to booking any travel. Approvals and expenses will not be applied retroactively. <br />
# If you live in a country where '''work travel is prohibited on Sunday''', you may travel on Saturday, Jan 25, if you’d prefer (not required). For hotel, you will book and pay on your own, and expense the manager approved amount (which is coded to your cost center). You must have approval from our benefits team in writing (and send to bmark@mozilla.com) '''prior''' to booking any travel. Approvals and expenses will not be applied retroactively.<br />
# If you'd like to make changes to extend your stay on either side after booking, you will be responsible for all change fees and change in airfare. <br />
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====Booking Family Travel====<br />
Whether your family will accompany you on your flight or join us later; and you have two options: direct with the airline (recommended) or through Egencia.<br />
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'''Direct (recommended):''' <br />
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First, figure out which flights you want to be on as an employee in Egencia. Hold them in Egencia. Find the flights you want for your family on the airline site and book them. Go back to Egencia and book your flights. Once you have both sets of confirmation numbers, call the airline and ask them to LINK your two reservations. This shows that you are traveling together and shouldn't be moved. When you call, you can also ask the airline agent to assign seats together. By booking your family direct on the airline, it gives them "priority" with the airline over people who book via a third party (expedia, booking.com, kayak, etc). These aren't guarantees, but they do help.<br />
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'''Via Egencia:'''<br />
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We do not recommend booking family through Egencia. If you'd like details about how to do it, please email bmark@mozilla.com<br />
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'''Notes:''' <br />
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* If your family is arriving on a different flights than you but would like to take advantage of the airport shuttles on Sunday/Monday and/or Saturday, please email their itinerary to mozilla@shworldwide.com.<br />
* We are unable to accommodate volunteer contributor families/guests.<br />
* As of 20 November, we only have rooms that can accommodate 2 adults. If a larger room is needed, it will need to be booked and paid for on your own.<br />
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====Not Flying====<br />
Mozilla will reimburse U-Bahn tickets for those based in the Berlin area for getting to/from hotels. For more information on the U-Bahn, please see the Berlin office guide on [https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/WPR/Berlin+Office+Guide#BerlinOfficeGuide-MovingAroundBerlin mana]. <br />
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For those outside of the Berlin area who are taking the train, please book by November 10. Instructions were emailed to everyone. <br />
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Parking is not reimbursable.<br />
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====Travel Insurance====<br />
Mozilla provides emergency medical accident and illness cover for all global MoCo employees/interns and their dependents. You can view more information on [https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PR/Travel+Insurance+-+Business Mana]. This coverage begins at the time the you leave home to start your business trip. It also has a provision for a 14 day extension for leisure travel outside of the business travel. If you have additional questions, please email benefits@mozilla.com. <br />
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Mozilla does not cover travel insurance for elancers, upworkers, contractors, vendors, or volunteers/community members (unless required for visa application).<br />
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====Air Travel Fine Print====<br />
*Change fees will be covered by Mozilla for '''business reasons only'''. If you need a change and have manager approval, email bmark@mozilla.com '''prior to requesting the change with Egencia'''. Once you have approval, call Egencia to make the change at 1-877-255-1090 (note this will not be possible without prior approval so be sure to get that by way of an email from your manager to Brianna Mark). If you are changing for personal reasons, the change in airfare, change fee and Egencia fee is your responsibility.<br />
*Mozilla will '''not''' reimburse for Business/First class upgrades, tickets or seat reservations. <br />
*Mozilla will reimburse for one checked bag each way.<br />
*''Mozilla Frequent Flyer perks do not apply for All Hands''. <br />
*Flights booked outside of Egencia will not be an approved expense unless email approval by Brianna is obtained prior to booking.<br />
*Any submitted expenses needs to have an itinerary attached to ensure it is employee expenses only and within policy.<br />
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====Ground Transportation====<br />
Berlin Tegel airport is open from 4:00 - 0:00. <br />
Shuttles will be provided from Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) to our 3 hotels:<br />
*Sunday, Jan 26 from 9:00 - 22:00, for flights landing between 7:45 and 21:45.<br />
*Monday, Jan 27 from 8:00 - 23:00, for flights landing between 7:15 and 22:55.<br />
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Shuttles from our 3 hotels to Berlin Tegel will be provided:<br />
*Saturday, Feb 1 from 4:00 - 20:00, for flights departing 7:15 and 22:15.<br />
*Sunday, Feb 2 from 4:00 - 12:00, for flights departing 6:00 - 14:00. ''If you are on a later flight, you can take the last shuttle at 12:00.'' <br />
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Taxis and Addison Lee are not reimbursable. <br />
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If you are arriving by train to Hauptbahnhof:<br />
To Hotel Berlin Berlin<br />
* FROM HAUPTBAHNHOF STATION: Take the S-Bahn metro lines S5, S9 or S75 to the station “Zoologischer Garten” (20 min.). From there, take the bus 100 to the stop Lützowplatz. <br />
* Via U-BAHN: Take the U-Bahn metro lines U2, U3 and U1 to the station “U-Nollendorfplatz”. Exit the station in the direction of “Karl-Heinrich-Ulrichs-Straße." The road leads directly to the hotel (approx 5 mins). <br />
* [https://www.hotel-berlin.de/d/berlinberlinpro/media/PDF/Anfahrt_A4_E_Karl-Heinrich-Ulrichs-Strae_5c2ab7.pdf Map]<br />
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To InterCon Berlin and Pullman<br />
* FROM HAUPTBAHNHOF STATION: Take the S-Bahn metro lines S3, S5, S7, or S9 to the station “Zoologischer Garten”. From there, walk 10 mins to hotel.<br />
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Berlin's integrated public transport is divided in 3 tariff zones (ABC). To travel within the city, including from Tegel airport to the hotels, you only need an AB ticket. Tickets can be bought at automated booths in most stations (accept credit cards), and on Metro (need coins). You can use the same ticket to travel on buses, metro, S-Bahn, U-Bahn. More information, including PDF maps, are available on [https://www.berlin.de/en/public-transportation/1772016-2913840-tickets-fares-and-route-maps.en.html this website]. A mobile app is available on stores ("BVG FahrInfo Plus") and allows to create routes between stations, or you can use directly the [https://www.bvg.de/en BVG] website.<br />
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====Getting around Berlin====<br />
You’ll rarely hear from your Berlin-based colleagues (or anyone else actually living in the city instead of the suburbs) that they prefer or even enjoy taking the car anywhere. Many don’t even own a car unless they truly need it because driving in Berlin is not a lot of fun with busy traffic, lots (looooots!) of construction sites, a bunch of one-way streets and barely any free parking spaces. When exploring the city, we recommend that you use public transportation instead, which takes you everywhere and is pretty reliable. Or you rent bikes and even add some exercise to your city tour.<br />
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In order to make sure that you know your transportation options, here’s an overview of what you may use — and how.<br />
<br />
=====Buying tickets=====<br />
Most types of public transport require you to buy and validate your ticket before entering the respective vehicle. You can find ticket machines at the stations or buy a ticket at shops in one of the larger train stations. The machines usually inform you in German and in English, which makes them easy to use. <br />
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You’ll be able to buy different types of tickets depending on where you go and duration of their validity, from just one ride up to 6 days. If you plan to use public transportation for several days in a row it’s definitely recommended to get a multi-day ticket because the relative price will be lower.<br />
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Of course, there are also some peculiarities to each type of transportation when it comes to paying the fees:<br />
U-Bahn & S-Bahn: After buying a ticket at the machine, which you’ll most likely find on the platform or, if it’s a larger train station, in the entry area, you may need to validate it at an extra machine. They’re usually located on the platform, as well. [https://welcome2berlin.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/1/2/121289663/s-bahn-ticket-machine-00-img-6428-1920x2560-otmc-10-90_orig.jpg Here's a picture of a ticket machine with the ticket validation machine to its left.]<br />
Bus: Most bus stations don’t have ticket machines but you can buy one from the driver.<br />
Tram: Some trains have ticket machines inside; however, they don’t always work.<br />
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Please also take into account where you’re actually planning to go when buying a ticket. Berlin has 3 fare zones: A (city center), B (wider Berlin city area) and C (outside of the actual Berlin city area; Brandenburg). Unless you’re only exploring the area around the All Hands site, you’ll probably want to get “AB” tickets. If you need to go to or from Berlin Schönefeld Airport (SXF), it is located in fare zone C, so you'll need a ticket that covers area “C”. If you have an “AB” ticket you can buy an extension ticket for a single trip.<br />
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=====U-Bahn (the subway)=====<br />
The “U-Bahn” is our local subway system, which connects the entire city area, taking you almost everywhere within just a few minutes. There are 10 lines overall, named U1 to U9 (plus the kind of odd U55 that only connects very few stations). Big “U” signs all over Berlin help you spot the next station. <br />
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The BVG (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, the Berlin transport company) offer a fully interactive route map on their website. If you prefer a printed version, you can pick one up for free at one of their customer centers; the main office is located in the subway station “Alexanderplatz” in the city center. Or you just download their app, which is available for all major OS. You can also buy tickets via the app.<br />
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Pro tip: You may want to download the Berlin map in your favorite navigation app. Given that your phone plan may not apply to Europe (or it’s ridiculously expensive to go online), this can actually save your day because public WiFi isn’t as widely available in Germany as e.g. in North America.<br />
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=====Tram/Straßenbahn=====<br />
The tram is Berlin’s overground train service within the city. There are 22 lines overall: 9 so-called MetroTram lines (names consist of “M” plus a line number) and 13 streetcar lines (where the name is a simple number). They complement the U-Bahn and S-Bahn system by running on important routes that are not covered otherwise. <br />
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Given the size of the Berlin city area, you’ll most likely need to switch between trains and types of public transport, which includes the trams. They’re usually easy to find since they’re comparatively loud, painted in shining yellow and, well, run on overground tracks through pedestrian zones and next to roads used by cars. Also, big red signs with the word “tram” on them guide the way.<br />
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=====S-Bahn=====<br />
The S-Bahn is another overground train but covers longer distances than the tram (and doesn't run in or cross streets).<br />
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You’ll probably want to take the S-Bahn when visiting the neighbourhoods that are further out, doing a day trip to Potsdam or going to Schoenefeld Airport. If Berlin’s 3rd airport, BER, ever happens to open, transport from the city will also be covered by S-Bahn. It's also good for some trips within the city center.<br />
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=====Other trains=====<br />
Are you planning a trip through Germany or even beyond? Then you may want to consider taking one of the trains of the Deutsche Bahn (German railway company).<br />
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Trains leave from the 7 long-distance train stations in Berlin. You can buy tickets online (bahn.de) or at the machines in each of the stations. If you’re planning a longer trip or want to travel during peak times, it’s recommended to buy your ticket in advance, add a seat reservation and take sufficient provisions for the trip since food and drinks at the “Bord-Bistro” are ridiculously expensive.<br />
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Pro tip: If you bought a seat reservation in advance and there’s someone sitting in your spot, don’t be shy and ask them to get up. It may be awkward but it’s totally normal. Also, the reservation goes away if you don’t claim your seat within a certain amount of time after getting on the train.<br />
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Even though it carries about two billion passengers annually, it’s unlikely that you’ll experience amazing service or punctuality on your Deutsche Bahn trip — which is at least a little bit funny given that it used to be owned by the government of a country that’s mostly known for its efficiency. Just kidding ;) German trains are quite comfortable to use, prices are okay and from Berlin, you’ll arrive in most other larger cities in Germany and the neighbouring countries within comparatively short times as the trains can go up to 300 km/h.<br />
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=====Busses=====<br />
Just like in any other country, busses combine all of the inconveniences of public transportation and driving a car in the city: it’s crowded, you may need to stand for a pretty long time and it takes forever to get to your destination. Still, busses are used a lot (at least in Berlin) because they cover many short routes where there’s not S-Bahn, U-Bahn or Tram service.<br />
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When entering a bus in Berlin, operated by the aforementioned BVG, you’re theoretically required to show your ticket to the diver; some don’t really care while others are quite strict about it. Beyond that, there are a couple of additional rules you should be aware of before stepping into a BVG bus:<br />
* Don’t stand anywhere close to a door unless you feel prepared to deal with the rage of the bus driver. They don’t mind yelling at someone in the very back of the bus or even interrupt their route until the respective person behaves as they’re expected to.<br />
*This applies to your luggage just as much as to you as a person.<br />
*Make sure to monitor the route closely. If you want to get off the bus you need to push the button to request a stop soon enough or stay on the bus until the driver finishes their tour.<br />
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Pro tip: If you get on a bus that isn’t too crowded let the driver know where you want to go and take a seat nearby. They’re not all grumpy. Some of them are actually quite friendly and helpful when you approach them directly.<br />
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=====Taxi & Uber=====<br />
Uber has grown to become the most successful driving services in many countries but it is currently banned in Germany after its UberX service has been found in violation of German federal law prohibiting private citizens (e.g. without background checks) to offer transport services. Instead use one of the many (7500 in total) regular yellow licensed taxis. When calling a driver in Berlin you have several choices:<br />
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*Get a regular taxi by calling one over the phone (+49 30 20 20 20 OR +49 30 26 10 26), find a taxi stop, or stop a taxi on the street. Just make sure to have some cash on you as some of them don’t take credit cards. Remember, licensed Taxis are a light yellow ("light ivory", [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Taxis_at_EDDT-%28jha%29.jpg picture]).<br />
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*Call a regular taxi via the [https://www.taxi.eu/en/cities/berlin/ taxi.eu] app. This app (download: [http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/taxi.eu/id465315934 Apple iOS], [https://market.android.com/details?id=at.austrosoft.t4me.MB_BerlinTZBEU Android]) offers a similar service as Uber but gives access to the majority of Berlin's regular (and regulated) taxis (7200 of the 7500 total). The main difference is that you can either pay cash or need to be connected to the internet in order to pay through the app at the end of your ride: while you agree on a price with your Uber driver before getting into their car, taxi.eu will charge you for the actual distance/time it took to get you to your destination, which isn’t clearly determined before your arrival and only an estimate is shown during booking.<br />
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=='''Hotels'''==<br />
<br />
For anyone who was registered by December 1, your hotel assignments/confirmations have been emailed. <br />
If you registered December 1 or later, approximately 2 weeks after registering. <br />
<br />
The emails are coming from bmark@mozilla.com, not the hotel directly. Please make sure to read and check for accuracy. <br />
<br />
In each email, you will find:<br />
*Your assigned hotel<br />
*The dates that have been booked for you<br />
*Links to book extra nights beyond what has been booked for you<br />
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A few things to note:<br />
#If you have any changes or questions about your reservation, email mozilla@shworldwide.com. The hotel cannot make changes to All Hands reservations so we’d like very much if you didn’t try (it complicates things).<br />
#If you registered that you have guests joining you for all or part of the week:<br />
*You will be responsible for covering all additional fees at the hotel. <br />
*All hotel rooms have a maximum capacity of 2 adults (with some exceptions limited to very small children)<br />
*If you registered by October 13:<br />
*Guests have already been added to your hotel reservation on your behalf. You have been assigned a room that can accommodate you and your guests. Please refer to the total occupants listed in your hotel confirmation.<br />
*If you need to add a guest, please email mozilla@shworldwide.com. Please note: all hotel rooms that can accommodate more than 2 adults have been alloted. If a larger room is needed, it will need to be booked and paid for on your own. <br />
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If you are planning to book pre/post stays, links to do so will be provided in your confirmation email. I recommend you do that soon, as rates and availability are limited, and will not be available after December 20. Please use your legal name and use LDAP email so we can match reservations. Reservations booked outside of these portals cannot be linked to All Hands reservations.<br />
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Everyone will be required to present a form of payment on check-in for incidentals. For your own sanity, please do not provide a debit/cash card. If you are unable to provide a credit card, please email mozilla@shworldwide.com and we can request special accommodations.<br />
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=='''Families/Guests'''==<br />
Of course our focus, for the majority of the week, will be on Mozilla. Everyone is expected to be present and engaged each day, during work hours (as your schedule dictates). Please do what you can to make sure your loved ones understand the kind of commitment you’ve made. Please note that what are able to do for families varies by each location. We are unable to accommodate volunteer contributor or intern families/guests at our All Hands. <br />
<br />
====Quick summary logistics====<br />
* Air Travel: Employees do need to book via Egencia regardless of how families are booked. <br />
* Hotel: Family/friends are welcome to stay with you. All room rates are based upon single occupancy and include breakfast. Guests must be added to reservations in advance and any additional room expenses will be yours to cover. Most of our hotel rooms have a maximum of double occupancy (2 adults), with very limited availability of rooms for higher occupancy. Higher occupancy rooms will be assigned in the order that you register. As of 20 November, we only have rooms that can accommodate 2 adults. If a larger room is needed, it will need to be booked and paid for on your own. <br />
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Additional Guest fees<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Hotel !! Hotel Berlin !! InterCon !! Pullman<br />
|-<br />
| 2nd guest fee (incl bfast) || 20,00 € || 25,00 € || 24,00 €<br />
|-<br />
| 3rd guest fee (incl bfast) || 50,00 € || N/A || N/A<br />
|-<br />
| 4th guest fee (incl bfast) || 50,00 € || N/A || N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Age applicable || 6+ || All || All<br />
|}<br />
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* Lunch & Dinner: Family will be on their own for lunch daily and dinner on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. <br />
* Monday & Friday Night Events: Family members who are registered for the event and registered with the hotel, are invited to join us for our evening events.<br />
* Childcare Services: We will not provide centralized childcare services. We have found that every family has different needs and centralized childcare does not deliver on those needs. If you are in need of help finding options for your family, we are happy to connect you with staff whose families who are coming (#allhands-childcare and #parents are great places to start), as well we are happy to help support finding of resources (although you are likely better at it than us). Given every circumstance is unique, we defer to your manager to determine what Mozilla can support you with financially.<br />
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On demand babysitting services in Berlin: <br />
* https://extra-arms.com/for-families-babysitting/<br />
* https://www.withourbaby.com/<br />
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====Exploring Berlin with Kids====<br />
Berlin is a great city to explore with kids as it offers lots of fun, interesting and educational activities that are even suitable for the cold weeks of January. Which brings us to a very important recommendation we want to share right at the beginning of this section: dress your kids up appropriately to the weather but focus on layers. The onion look may not always be super fancy but both you and your kids will appreciate it: Since it can get unpleasantly cold in the Berlin winter, public places and attractions tend to heat up their indoor offers. Wearing layers makes sure that your kids neither get cold outside nor sweaty when going inside.<br />
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=====Inside activities=====<br />
*The Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Technical Museum) is a great place to spend time on a cold January day. It’s exciting for both adults and kids and offers a lot to explore. Discover the cultural history of technology by yourself! Also, you can get there from the All Hands location in just 20 minutes by public transport. <br />
Deutsches Technikmuseum, Trebbiner Straße 9, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg<br />
Opening hours: TUE-FRI 9am-5:30pm, SAT+SUN 10am-6pm<br />
*MACHmit! museum für Kinder is a museum like no other: Endless opportunities to discover and try new things encourage children to learn through play, whilst also gaining new and exciting experiences that they would not come across in an average day. Arts and crafts activities, lots of running and being loud and for parents a nice area where you can get coffee and snacks.<br />
MACHmit! Museum für Kinder, Senefelderstraße 5, 10437 Berlin<br />
Opening hours: TUE-SUN 10am-6pm<br />
*The Aquarium Berlin in the center of Berlin is one of Europe’s best-known and most notable aquariums. Behind the building’s historic façade awaits an impressive diversity of species that few facilities in the world can rival. The Aquarium not only houses numerous extraordinary fish, it is also home to hundreds of impressive reptiles and insects. Also, it’s just a 5 minutes walk from the All Hands location.<br />
Aquarium Berlin, Budapester Str. 32, 10787 Berlin<br />
Opening hours: Daily 9am-6pm<br />
*View the night sky without any clouds disrupting your view at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium! The largest planetarium in Central Europe was inaugurated in 1987. The Planetarium offers lots of events for young and older kids and is just impressive to be in. You should check it out!<br />
Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin<br />
Opening hours: TUE+SUN 9:30am-6pm, WED+THU 9:30am-9pm, FRI+SAT 9:30am-10:30pm<br />
*Tropical Island: Taking a break at Tropical Island means swimming, diving or just relaxing by the Tropical Sea or Lagoon, exploring the world's largest indoor rainforest or getting your adrenaline pumping on Germany's highest water slide tower -- plus lots of other great attractions. Disclaimer: It’s crowded, so if you are not so much into big groups of people, this might not be for you -- but kids LOVE IT. You can easily reach Tropical Island within a one-hour train ride. <br />
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=====Outside activities=====<br />
You and your kids don’t mind the cold too much? Great! There are plenty of nice things to do outside even the winter. As the train services run pretty well and Berlin is well connected even to the rural areas, you have a lot to choose from and it’s pretty easy as well as inexpensive to get there.<br />
*Just a few minutes outside of Berlin you’ll find Karls Erlebnis-Dorf (Karl’s Adventure Village) in Elstal. In addition to offering a spacious farmers market, many attractions for children are waiting for you, including a big wooden roller coaster. Admission is free. You can get there by car, bus and train.<br />
Karls Erlebnis-Dorf, Döberitzer Heide 1, 14641 Elstal<br />
Opening hours: Daily 8am-7pm<br />
*Tempelhofer Feld is a big recreation area in the Berlin districts Neukölln and Tempelhof. It’s actually the largest inner-city open space worldwide, Berlin’s most spacious urban park as well as part of larger historical project. Throughout the year, the park is used for outdoor sports like jogging, biking, roller-blading, and kiting, but is also a popular spot for wild gardening and barbecues. The Mozilla Berlin Family Day 2017 took place right there.<br />
Accessible via 10 entrances<br />
Opening hours: From sunrise to sunset<br />
<br />
=='''Lunar New Year'''==<br />
We are aware of the overlap in the Lunar New Year celebrations with the Berlin All Hands. To help folks who decide to attend the Berlin All Hands and who also celebrate Chinese New Year, we will offer the following:<br />
* A higher airfare caps for air travel to allow for fewer layovers on Monday, January 27<br />
* Assurance that Berlin is optional but if employee wants to attend they can shift their holiday days to another time. <br />
* Live Airmo Feeds of Plenary (+ relevant team all hands meetings) + quick posting of recording to accommodate those who choose not to travel. <br />
* Potentially shifting any main plenary session date/time<br />
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We are working with leadership and representatives of those most affected and will update wiki regularly with updates. Feel free to reach out to Brianna with questions.<br />
<br />
=='''Week at a Glance'''==<br />
View [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kIwKEmlYE9tMuWRvSNZnYDGWFwEumcHVp1s0LVPz-e8/edit#gid=0 Week at a glance]<br />
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====Monday====<br />
*Monday is travel/arrival day<br />
*Registration<br />
*Welcome Reception from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm<br />
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====Tuesday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*Dinner on own<br />
<br />
====Wednesday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*Demos from 4pm - 6pm<br />
*Dinner on own<br />
<br />
====Thursday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*Dinner on own<br />
<br />
====Friday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Lunch in hotels of your team homeroom<br />
*Closing event at Motorwerk<br />
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====Saturday====<br />
*Breakfast in hotel restaurants<br />
*Departure day only. No scheduled activities.<br />
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===Berlin All Hands Event Calendar===<br />
Here: https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/. <br />
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Don't see stuff for your org yet? Don't fret! The schedule changes regularly as meetings and events are confirmed. Keep checking back. Team specific events are managed by [https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=EAs&title=Mozilla+EA+Directory team EAs]. <br />
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=====Create an account=====<br />
We don’t recommend using the same email & password as anything like bank accounts, etc. We care about your security! If you already have a Sched account from past All Hands, it still works, log in with that.<br />
<br />
=====Add items to your calendar=====<br />
Select the circle on any agenda item to add it to your calendar (you do need to have an account & be logged in to do this)<br />
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You can also share a link to meetings to invite others. Go into the meeting and copy the short link. You can email that out to anyone and they can quickly add it to their calendar.<br />
<br />
=====Subscribe to GCal Calendar Link=====<br />
Click on the mobile phone on the right hand side of the screen. All the calendar options are available here. <br />
You have the option to choose ALL meetings or YOUR meetings. Unless you have 400 items on your calendar, just select your calendar. It will add anything on your calendar to your GCal (also an option for Outlook and iCal). It syncs once per day.<br />
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The "only syncs once per day" only applies to Google Calendar. With almost all other clients (like Apple Calendar, Outlook, or the calendar app on your phone) you can set the refresh interval, and Sched's instructions recommend 1 hour. Note - the gcal function has been buggy for some users in the past. If it doesn't update with new items, delete the calendar and download again. <br />
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Warning: This is a link that utilizes your username for the .ics file.<br />
<br />
=====From Mobile=====<br />
Visit from any mobile device (https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/mobile-site) - bookmark or add to your homescreen for quick access. There is a bonus icon you get by doing this. It caches the last time you opened the page offline and refreshes anytime you are connected.<br />
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=====Filters=====<br />
'''Filters'''<br />
<br />
We have filtering functionality. You can filter by:<br />
Departments (ex: People)<br />
AND<br />
Functional Teams (ex: People & Capabilities)<br />
<br />
*Search by Room, Speaker/Leader<br />
<br />
'''Further Filtering'''<br />
*Audience - who should be there (ex: Team only or Invite)<br />
*Homerooms (you can quickly see what is happening in homerooms, by team) - why do you care? If you have a cross team meeting in their room, its a quick way to search<br />
*Views - Lots of view options. It defaults to the simple view, but there are quite a few options.<br />
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Have a tip? Feel free to add it!<br />
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=='''Food, Drink & Events'''==<br />
Lunch & snacks will be provided and paid for centrally for attendees. Breakfast is provided Tuesday - Saturday as part of your guestroom reservation - you must eat breakfast in the hotel you sleep in. You will not be reimbursed if you go to another hotel and pay to eat there. <br />
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Allergies/preferences: We will ensure that all food/environmental allergies are taken into consideration and will always have gluten-free and vegan options. If you have severe allergies that we need to know about; you can indicate in registration.<br />
<br />
===Hosted Evening Events===<br />
We have evening events on the Monday and Friday nights.<br />
<br />
====Monday Night Welcome Reception====<br />
6 pm - 9 pm, InterCon hotel<br />
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====Friday Night at Motorwerk====<br />
6:00 pm - 11:00 pm<br />
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======Getting to/from the event======<br />
Shuttles depart from the hotels starting at 5:00 pm. Shuttles will return starting at 8:00 pm. The last departure returning will leave at 11:05 pm. The only way to access the event is via our shuttles.<br />
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=====Coat Check=====<br />
Coat check will be available for clothing only, no bags. <br />
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====Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday Night Dinners====<br />
You'll be on your own for Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday and will have a similar expense policy from past all hands (50EUR/night - 150EUR total to include food, beverage, transportation, exchange fees, etc). <br />
<br />
Here is how this will work:<br />
<br />
For all evenings, once your meetings have concluded, you and your team, friends, new acquaintances, are free to explore and to find somewhere great to eat that suits you. Each of you can expense a total of 150EUR over the three days (or 50EUR/night).<br />
<br />
This amount includes:<br />
*Meal cost, including tax & gratuity<br />
*Any beverages<br />
*Transportation to/from the restaurant<br />
*Conversion fees (for credit cards) or cash withdrawal fees<br />
<br />
Anything over the 150EUR for the three evenings will be your own expense. The fine print:<br />
*If your team is hosting an evening event 1 of the nights and the payment is coordinated (meaning, you don’t have to open your wallet and pay), you can expense up to 100EUR for the other night.<br />
*You will be asked (later) to submit a Berlin All Hands only expense report. You can submit ONE report for Berlin only and must be submitted no later than February 28, 2020.<br />
*No expenses over 50 EUR per night will be [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XUD5KYotSr5SNi0q4ldgGG3bzBu-G3q4l5i-JiPE5ko/edit approved].<br />
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Volunteer Contributors will have a separate process that will be communicated directly.<br />
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=====Groups, Restaurants & Reservations=====<br />
*Group dinners - All large (eight or more people) reservations must go through Lisa Carlson (email lcarlson@mozilla.com) and dinners must stay within the per diem per night (50EURpp including, food, beverage, tax, gratuity and transportation), and employees attending must not also expense their per diem for that night.<br />
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In no case should employees expense or use MoCo corporate cards to cover purchases of alcohol outside of team dinners or the 50EUR individual per diem.<br />
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=='''Safety & Security'''==<br />
=====Alcohol at Events=====<br />
To better support and sustain an environment (and workplace culture) where people feel safe and included, we have made a set of changes regarding alcohol at our events. In all cases, our approach aligns with our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/ Community Participation Guidelines] (“CPG”).<br />
*All participants are '''required to read and acknowledge our new Community Participation Guidelines as a condition of participation'''.<br />
*We will '''limit bar-servings to beer and wine''' and ensure an equal number and quality (i.e. not just Coke) of non-alcoholic drink options are available and displayed.<br />
*Team dinners should be '''thoughtful about the potential exclusionary nature of alcohol when planning'''.<br />
*Clearly outlined, communicated (to event teams, HR and managers) and understood '''escalation process''' for behavior that might be deemed counter to the spirit of our CPG.<br />
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=====Device Security=====<br />
If you are traveling to the All Hands with a device that has Mozilla data (laptop, personal cell phone/tablet with @mozilla gmail, etc) on it and your device has been retained for further inspection by border agents, or if your device has been inspected outside your immediate presence - and you believe your credentials have been compromised - you must notify the Enterprise Information Security team as soon as possible at infosec@mozilla.com or by calling Mozilla End User Services at +1 650-963-8811. (This number will be staffed 24x7)<br />
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We will work with you to reset your credentials and help you get your device back to a known good state either by getting you a new one (if it’s been taken), or by resetting it back to a verifiable Mozilla-approved installation.<br />
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=====Physical Security=====<br />
Badges are required to access all meeting spaces and evening events.<br />
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=='''Accessibility'''==<br />
====Evenings====<br />
Monday Night reception is at the InterContinental Berlin. No stairs or elevators required. <br />
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====Meeting spaces====<br />
* InterCon: Most meeting space levels are accessible by elevators.<br />
* Pullman: All meeting space levels are accessible by guestroom elevators.<br />
* Hotel Berlin: All meeting space is on the ground level.<br />
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====Listen Systems====<br />
We will have Listen Systems available for any meeting in the main plenary space. Visit the AV booth to pick one up.<br />
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====Bathrooms====<br />
TBA <br />
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====Breastfeeding/pumping stations====<br />
Milk Stork Services are reimbursable - please contact benefits@mozilla.com for more information.<br />
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=='''Sustainability'''==<br />
'''Hotel Berlin, Berlin''' is certified partner of visitBerlin we stand for sustainable, green meetings and events. For more information, visit https://convention.visitberlin.de/en/sustain.<br />
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'''InterContinental Hotel Berlin''' is Green Globe Certified. Green Globe Certification is the worldwide sustainability system based on internationally accepted criteria for sustainable operation and management of travel and tourism businesses. Operating under a worldwide license, Green Globe Certification is based in California, USA and is represented in over 83 countries. Green Globe Certification is a member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, supported by the United Nations World Tourism Organization. Additonally, as part of IHG’s Green Engage™ program the InterContinental Berlin has implemented best practices at all operational levels. The innovative Environmental Management System not only measures the day-to-day energy, water and waste consumption, but also provides recommended actions – ‘green solutions’ – to improve energy conservation and the property’s carbon footprint score.<br />
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=='''Berlin: In your spare time (likely pre/post)'''==<br />
=====First things first=====<br />
Germany overall is widely diverse with regard to mentality, language, architecture, history, and more. In this guide we’re focusing on Berlin. However, if you have the opportunity to see a bit more of the country, you should definitely take it. We may also add that if you plan for a larger Europe trip, while there might be overlaps and similarities between the individual European countries, there are also lots and lots of differences -- and we’re by far not only referring to language. If you want to learn more about any other places you’re planning to go reach out to Mozillians who’re based there or otherwise know the city/country well. First-hand information is usually the most valuable and we have so many amazing people from anywhere in the world at our organization that it’s almost impossible that you don’t find someone who can help!<br />
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=====Exploring the city -- beyond Charlottenburg and Mitte!=====<br />
For the All Hands week we’re going to be in Charlottenburg, one of the neighbourhoods most visited by tourists. Along with Mitte (basically the city center), it’s an attractive destination for shopping and sightseeing. Nevertheless, we can only recommend that you leave the usual tourist trail in order to get a more diverse impression of Germany’s capital. There’s, for example, kind-of-hipster Kreuzberg, where our German office is located -- along with a bunch of amazing bars, restaurants, clubs and much more. Or take vibrant Friedrichshain, which is just across the Spree river from Kreuzberg, or family-friendly Prenzlauer Berg, all of which have their own interesting tourist attractions that are complemented by a relaxed local vibe. Overall, Berlin has 12 boroughs and a total of 96 officially recognized localities, so there’s clearly a lot to see!<br />
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=====Orientation=====<br />
Berlin is a pretty large city (891 qm, or 344 sq mi), so even Berliners use navigation apps regularly -- especially when leaving their “Kiez”. We therefore recommend that you download the Berlin map to your phone, as well, in order to make orientation easier, especially when doing some sightseeing.<br />
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This is also due to peculiarities that may make orientation less obvious, such as house numbers which do not necessarily run in the same direction (up or down) everywhere: On a lot of streets, the numbers ascend on one side and descend on the other. So to avoid getting you lost, you should check the numbering scheme first: you can find the name of the street at nearly every street corner. The same sign will usually state the range of house numbers in that segment.<br />
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Thanks to the subway system in particular, you can actually visit multiple neighbourhoods on the same day even if they’re not close. You can go from east to west in not much more than half an hour (if you’re lucky and have a good connection) and, even though it’s recommended to dedicate at least a few hours to each of the neighbourhoods you visit in order to get a proper impression, you should make use of it. Only by visiting different parts of the city that don’t share all of their history and demographics, you’ll be able to truly “see” Berlin. <br />
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=====Sightseeing & history=====<br />
As mentioned (multiple times) before Berlin is full of history. It’s almost impossible to walk around the city for half an hour without coming across some sort of historical site. This ranges from a huge range of museums and galleries, which you’ll best get informed about through a guidebook, as well as historical buildings, such as churches.<br />
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If you don’t mind the cold weather, make sure to set aside some time for sites outside. You could, for example, explore cold war history and go to Checkpoint Charlie, the former border crossing between East and West Berlin, which is undoubtedly one of the city’s top attractions. Another recommendation would be a visit to Hohenschönhausen, a former Stasi prison where East German dissidents were incarcerated. Tours of the prison are conducted daily and often led by a former prisoner, who will give you a real insight into this fascinating, albeit traumatic time in history.<br />
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If you’re looking for something more cheerful and/or a bunch of suggestions for historical sightseeing options by neighbourhood, you should check out Wikivoyage, a free web-based travel guide that has also been called the “Wikipedia of travel guides”. Take a look at the article on City West, if you want to explore the vicinity of our All Hands location. Literally every other Berlin tourist would likely favor the eastern districts of Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg and (western) Kreuzberg, for its lower price and a lot of international bars, cafés and many other tourist attractions.<br />
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Links<br />
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Berlin/City_West<br />
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Berlin/East_Central<br />
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=====Food!=====<br />
Being an international city, almost any cuisine you can imagine is available in Berlin. Still, we recommend that you try out some actual German food during your stay. For example, go to a local bakery and you’ll be stunned by the variety: There are over 300 types of dark and white breads, and more than 1,200 different kinds of “Brötchen” and “Kleingebäck” (bread rolls and mini-breads). We’re so much into bread that every region in Germany even has their own term for bread rolls (“Brötchen” vs. “Schrippe” vs. “Weck” vs. Semmel”...). Bread is central to the “German diet”: For breakfast, many people eat it with cheese, sausage products, honey or marmalade and “Abendbrot” (“evening bread” = dinner) usually consists of sandwiches.<br />
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If you’re rather looking for a warm meal, you should try a Currywurst (“curry sausage”). Over the last couple of years, the Berlin foodie scene has truly exploded and you can get so much more than the stereotypical type of curry sausage nowadays, from plain to fancy, for meat lovers or for vegans. You can get them in restaurants, at street food markets or even from salespeople in the pedestrian zones.<br />
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When visiting restaurants that offer German cuisine, you’ll notice that meat is a main ingredient for many meals -- though there are also plenty of fish and vegetarian options nowadays. With regard to side dishes, potatoes (in a lot of different varieties, such as cooked, roasted, mashed or as cakes) are very popular as well as noodles. <br />
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In Germany as in many other countries it’s quite common to meet friends and family for dinner and go to a bar or pub afterwards. Berlin has a lot to offer in that respect and most places have their very individual flair. If you’re not into the aforementioned beer options, you could go for a (non-alcoholic or boozed) cocktail or a good glass of wine. Since Germany has several renown wine-growing regions, there’s a lot to choose from!<br />
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=='''All Hands Expense Policy'''==<br />
1. All "All Hands" Expenses must be submitted on 1 (and only 1) Expense report (e.g. Berlin All Hands Expense Report). Each expense must be tagged with "All Hands - Jan 2020"<br />
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2. It must contain only those expenses relative to the All Hands Event in Berlin. <br />
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3. If your submitted expense report for All Hands is submitted outside these guidelines, it will be rejected and you will be asked to re-submit with only All Hands Expenses<br />
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4. The deadline to submit the All Hands Expense Report is '''February 28, 2020'''.<br />
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5. Expenses related to team events (except those coordinated through Lisa Carlson), parking, room service, mini-bar charges, and food/drink costs above the vouched amounts, will not be approved. <br />
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6. When submitting your expense report through Egencia, make sure to "attached the PDF" (toggle on mobile, check box on desktop). <br />
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'''The intention of our all hands are to centrally organize a structure that includes:'''<br />
*Meals (2 evening events + breakfast, lunch, drinks and snacks Tuesday - Friday)<br />
*Transportation<br />
*Accommodations<br />
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Expenses submitted can not exceed the approved amounts. Any social events (except dinners/team building activities coordinated through Lisa Carlson) that are not part of our central plan will generally be self-organized and funded by participants. <br />
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=====Travel expenses policy=====<br />
Reimbursement will be made for necessary and reasonable expenses. <br />
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* Getting to/from home to your airport: We ask that you use the most economical option, while balancing your personal needs - whether that be mileage/parking, public transportation or ride shares. We will not reimburse for private towncar services or car rental. <br />
* Per standard Mozilla travel policy, Travel Meal Policy: Employees are eligible for travel meals when traveling. For Meals: There is a $75 USD per day meal policy while traveling. This covers breakfast (est. $15), lunch (est. $20), and dinner (est. $40). Receipts: Receipts are required. When submitting a meal for reimbursement, please include how many people attended the meal. There is no need to include names.<br />
* We will not reimburse for seat/class upgrades. Frequent flyer status does not apply for All Hands. <br />
* We will reimburse for bag checking fees for one bag. <br />
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Any other expenses must be approved by your manager ahead of time. Any expenses for extending your stay for business reasons - such as additional hotel nights, meals, etc must be approved by your manager before booking and travel.<br />
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=====Cell phone reimbursement policy=====<br />
Cell phone reimbursement must be approved by your manager prior to submitting the expense. Teams will decide for their staff what is appropriate to expense. <br />
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=====Internet reimbursement policy=====<br />
Internet will be provided in all guestrooms and meeting space in all hotels. If you opt to upgrade/add service, those costs are not reimbursable, unless previously approved by your manager and are for business reasons.<br />
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=='''Activities'''==<br />
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=====Lockpicking Event=====<br />
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On Wednesday Evening, there will be a Lockpicking event run by :decoder. The event will start at 6:30 PM and there will be dinner available at the venue for all the participants as well. [https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/event/Ya9V/lockpicking-dinner Advance registration] is required. <br />
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We will be joined by four other lockpickers from Berlin, two of them being championship winners on several national competitions. The same two people are also engineers working in the lock industry, so there will be plenty of interesting things to hear and learn this evening.<br />
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For better planning, we ask that people fill out the [https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/event/Ya9V/lockpicking-dinner registration form], we are limited to 100 participants initially. If the course ends up being fully booked and you still want to participate, you can join us at 8:00 PM on that same evening (without any guarantees on wait time and without dinner., but we still need you to [https://berlinallhandsjanuary2020.sched.com/event/Ya9V/lockpicking-dinner register]). We are confident that we will be able to accommodate everyone who wants to join. However, registering makes the planning a lot easier.<br />
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'''''What is Lockpicking?'''''<br />
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Lockpicking is a sport where you open locks (e.g. padlocks) without destroying them using manipulation tools ("picks").<br />
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'''''Why would I want to do this?'''''<br />
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Lockpicking is a great activity to practice patience, imagination and dexterity. From an engineering perspective, it helps to strengthen your sense for what is going on in that "black box" and even has some parallels to debugging. However, lockpicking is first and foremost about having fun and the lock being a challenge. So no matter what you work on, I promise you this will be a fun experience and also a good opportunity to put your laptop/phone aside for a while.<br />
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'''''Do I need to know anything about this prior to participating?'''''<br />
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Absolutely not. We will teach you how locks work, how to handle the tools and everything else you need to know. The only thing you need to bring with you is some patience.<br />
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'''''I have some tools, should I bring them?'''''<br />
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We will have tools at the venue and would ask people to not bring their own tools. Traveling with lock picks is possible under certain conditions but the legal situation, especially when it comes to flying, is complicated and depends on the countries you travel through. Hence we ask people to not travel with their tools because it can get you delayed and cause other legal issues.<br />
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'''''Isn't this illegal?'''''<br />
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Lockpicking as a sport/hobby is legal in many countries (including most of the EU), as long as you only open your own locks. Of course, opening locks for which you don't have permission to do so can get you into trouble and is strongly discouraged by the community.<br />
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However, there are a few countries around the world, including a handful of states in the US and some provinces in Canada where the possession of the tools (lock picks) is illegal without a license. If you want to do this at home and don’t know the rules for your country, feel free to ask us at the venue and we will try to help find the answers.</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1218326Speaker Series2019-09-26T20:07:28Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
====Thursday, October 10, 2019: Beyond “Bots and Trolls” — Understanding Disinformation as Collaborative Work====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-10-10 Airmo] and<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=498-c_SjArg YouTube]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Strategic information operations (e.g. disinformation, political propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are a critical concern for democratic societies—as they destabilize the “common ground” that we need to stand upon to govern ourselves. In this talk, Kate Starbird argues that defending against strategic information operations will require a more nuanced understanding of the problem. In particular, we will need to move beyond focusing on “bots” and “trolls” to looking at the collaborative nature of disinformation campaigns that target, infiltrate, shape, and leverage online communities. Drawing from three distinct case studies, Starbird describes how orchestrated campaigns can become deeply entangled within “organic” online crowds and highlights a persistent challenge for researchers, platform designers, and policy makers—distinguishing between orchestrated, explicitly-coordinated information operations and the emergent, organic behaviors of an online crowd.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.hcde.washington.edu/starbird Kate Starbird] is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington (UW). Starbird’s research is situated within human-computer interaction (HCI) and the emerging field of crisis informatics—the study of the how information-communication technologies (ICTs) are used during crisis events. One aspect of her research focuses on how online rumors spread during natural disasters and man-made crisis events. More recently, she has begun to focus on disinformation and other forms of strategic information operations online. She is a co-founder and executive council member of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Starbird earned her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Technology, Media and Society and holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
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====Thursday, September 5, 2019: Digital Patronage: A New Media Ecosystem Supporting Creative Content====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-09-05 Airmo] and<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLSpvpquaY YouTube]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Digital patronage is the act of delivering recurring direct support to content creators online. In this talk I define digital patronage as a form of social support and examine why patrons engage in this behavior in the context of the live streaming platform Twitch. This mixed method research illustrates patrons’ motivations, how patronage motivations differ from that of donations, and the motivational factors that are associated with higher levels of patronage. I will also highlight different approaches of how content creators manage patronage and discuss what this means for the design of patronage platforms and emergence of a new creative content economy.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://yvettewohn.com/ Yvette Wohn] is an assistant professor of Informatics at New Jersey Institute of Technology and director of the Social Interaction Lab (socialinteractionlab.com). Her research is in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) where she studies the role of algorithms and social interactions in livestreaming, esports, gaming, and social media.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, August 1, 2019: Where Did This $^@#$ Autonomous Car Learn to Drive? Addressing Cross-cultural differences in Autonomous Car Design====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-08-01 AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uBw_iHl8FU YouTube]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
The importance of understanding differences in culture have long been known to designers. Interactive technology enables new ways to localize products, but it also moves products into aspects of daily life where the subtle differences in culture become more important and more profound. Today's autonomous cars, for example, are designed to follow the letter of the local law, but do not adapt to regional variations in driving behavior. At scale, this lack of adaptation can cause accidents and cost lives. <br />
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I will discuss recent research looking at cross-cultural experiments in people's interactions with autonomous driving that were conducted between the US and the Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, and Israel and outline an emerging framework for designers to examine cultural differences.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Wendy Ju is an Assistant Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science field at Cornell University. Dr. Ju comes to Cornell Tech from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, where she was Executive Director of Interaction Design Research, and from the California College of the Arts, where she was an Associate Professor of Interaction Design in the Design MFA program. Her work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding. Dr. Ju has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems are built. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her monograph on The Design of Implicit Interactions was published in 2015.<br />
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</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, July 17, 2019: Growing Their Own: What We Can Learn from the Community-Driven Development of Archive of Our Own====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-2019-07-17 | AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epDBXwS7XtM | Youtube]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> The fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own hosts almost 5 million works and 2 million users. It is also an open source project that was designed and developed entirely by the community it serves—which consists largely of women and LGBTQ people—and relies on a small army of volunteers who maintain a value-driven search and tagging system. This talk traces the history, growth, and features of the archive, which include grassroots development, design for inclusivity and empowerment, the benefits and challenges of maintaining a volunteer development team, and how a number of these volunteers from groups traditionally underrepresented in computing picked up computational skills along the way. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Casey Fiesler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research focuses on creating more positive networked spaces, which includes work on technology ethics, online governance, social norms, and designing to support marginalized groups. She is a member of the legal committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is behind the open source fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. Her ethics research is funded by the National Science Foundation PERVADE project, dedicated to empirical studies of research ethics for pervasive human data, and Mozilla and partners' Responsible Computer Science challenge.<br />
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</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
====Thursday, July 11, 2019: How Privilege Defines Performance====<br />
* Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + broadcast on [https://onlinexperiences.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:1;F:US!100&PreviousLoginCount=8&ForceProfileToBeFilledOut=0&DisplayItem=E326976&ShowKey=44908&ShowFrameFormatOverride=NULL&RandomValue=1562689242748 | AirMo] <br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In theory, web performance, accessibility, and inclusive design all have similar goals: provide the best, most consistent experience to all people using the minimal amount of resources. In practice, this often falls apart. Product creators define what it means to be performant from where they stand, which is typically from places of privilege with unseen biases, struggling to find true empathy with their users. Through this talk, we'll examine how to build conscientiously, looking within to resist systematic problems in order to create more truly performant, accessible, and inclusive systems for our users. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tatiana Mac is an independent American designer who works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. She believes the trifecta of performance, accessibility, and inclusion can work symbiotically to improve our social landscape digitally and physically. When ethically-minded, she thinks technologists can dismantle exclusionary systems in favor of community-focused, inclusive ones. Never totally pleased with design tools, she designs in browser to bring performant, semantic, and accessible visual narratives into the web. Her current obsessions are optimizing variable fonts, converting raster images into to SVGs, and recreating modernist paintings in CSS grid. When she can successfully escape vim, she finds new countries to explore (33 and counting).<br />
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</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tararobertson/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, June 6, 2019: Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 29, 2019: User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
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<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
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<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
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<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
<br />
* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
<br />
Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
<br />
It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
<br />
Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
<br />
He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
<br />
Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
<br />
This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
<br />
This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
<br />
<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
<br />
<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
<br />
<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
<br />
<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
<br />
<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
<br />
* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
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<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
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<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
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<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
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<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
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<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
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<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
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<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
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<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
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<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
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<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
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<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
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<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
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<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
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<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
<br />
<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
<br />
<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
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<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
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<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
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<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
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<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
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<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
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<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
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<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
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<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
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<p>We’ll learn:<br />
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<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
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====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
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<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
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<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
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====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
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<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
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<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
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<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
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<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
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====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
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====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
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<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
<br />
<br />
== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
<br />
* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
<br />
===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1216637Speaker Series2019-08-15T22:39:40Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Thursday, September 5, 2019: Digital Patronage: A New Media Ecosystem Supporting Creative Content */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
<br />
====Thursday, September 5, 2019: Digital Patronage: A New Media Ecosystem Supporting Creative Content====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on AirMo and YouTube<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Digital patronage is the act of delivering recurring direct support to content creators online. In this talk I define digital patronage as a form of social support and examine why patrons engage in this behavior in the context of the live streaming platform Twitch. This mixed method research illustrates patrons’ motivations, how patronage motivations differ from that of donations, and the motivational factors that are associated with higher levels of patronage. I will also highlight different approaches of how content creators manage patronage and discuss what this means for the design of patronage platforms and emergence of a new creative content economy.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://yvettewohn.com/ Yvette Wohn] is an assistant professor of Informatics at New Jersey Institute of Technology and director of the Social Interaction Lab (socialinteractionlab.com). Her research is in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) where she studies the role of algorithms and social interactions in livestreaming, esports, gaming, and social media.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
<br />
====Thursday, August 1, 2019: Where Did This $^@#$ Autonomous Car Learn to Drive? Addressing Cross-cultural differences in Autonomous Car Design====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-08-01 AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uBw_iHl8FU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
The importance of understanding differences in culture have long been known to designers. Interactive technology enables new ways to localize products, but it also moves products into aspects of daily life where the subtle differences in culture become more important and more profound. Today's autonomous cars, for example, are designed to follow the letter of the local law, but do not adapt to regional variations in driving behavior. At scale, this lack of adaptation can cause accidents and cost lives. <br />
<br />
I will discuss recent research looking at cross-cultural experiments in people's interactions with autonomous driving that were conducted between the US and the Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, and Israel and outline an emerging framework for designers to examine cultural differences.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Wendy Ju is an Assistant Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science field at Cornell University. Dr. Ju comes to Cornell Tech from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, where she was Executive Director of Interaction Design Research, and from the California College of the Arts, where she was an Associate Professor of Interaction Design in the Design MFA program. Her work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding. Dr. Ju has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems are built. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her monograph on The Design of Implicit Interactions was published in 2015.<br />
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</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, July 17, 2019: Growing Their Own: What We Can Learn from the Community-Driven Development of Archive of Our Own====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-2019-07-17 | AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epDBXwS7XtM | Youtube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> The fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own hosts almost 5 million works and 2 million users. It is also an open source project that was designed and developed entirely by the community it serves—which consists largely of women and LGBTQ people—and relies on a small army of volunteers who maintain a value-driven search and tagging system. This talk traces the history, growth, and features of the archive, which include grassroots development, design for inclusivity and empowerment, the benefits and challenges of maintaining a volunteer development team, and how a number of these volunteers from groups traditionally underrepresented in computing picked up computational skills along the way. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Casey Fiesler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research focuses on creating more positive networked spaces, which includes work on technology ethics, online governance, social norms, and designing to support marginalized groups. She is a member of the legal committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is behind the open source fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. Her ethics research is funded by the National Science Foundation PERVADE project, dedicated to empirical studies of research ethics for pervasive human data, and Mozilla and partners' Responsible Computer Science challenge.<br />
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</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
====Thursday, July 11, 2019: How Privilege Defines Performance====<br />
* Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + broadcast on [https://onlinexperiences.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:1;F:US!100&PreviousLoginCount=8&ForceProfileToBeFilledOut=0&DisplayItem=E326976&ShowKey=44908&ShowFrameFormatOverride=NULL&RandomValue=1562689242748 | AirMo] <br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In theory, web performance, accessibility, and inclusive design all have similar goals: provide the best, most consistent experience to all people using the minimal amount of resources. In practice, this often falls apart. Product creators define what it means to be performant from where they stand, which is typically from places of privilege with unseen biases, struggling to find true empathy with their users. Through this talk, we'll examine how to build conscientiously, looking within to resist systematic problems in order to create more truly performant, accessible, and inclusive systems for our users. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tatiana Mac is an independent American designer who works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. She believes the trifecta of performance, accessibility, and inclusion can work symbiotically to improve our social landscape digitally and physically. When ethically-minded, she thinks technologists can dismantle exclusionary systems in favor of community-focused, inclusive ones. Never totally pleased with design tools, she designs in browser to bring performant, semantic, and accessible visual narratives into the web. Her current obsessions are optimizing variable fonts, converting raster images into to SVGs, and recreating modernist paintings in CSS grid. When she can successfully escape vim, she finds new countries to explore (33 and counting).<br />
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</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tararobertson/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, June 6, 2019: Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 29, 2019: User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
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<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
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<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
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<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
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<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
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<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
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* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
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<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
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<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
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<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
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<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
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* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
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Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
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<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
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<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
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<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
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<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
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<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
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<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
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<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
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<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
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<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
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<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
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<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
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<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
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<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
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<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
<br />
<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
<br />
<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
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<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
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<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
<br />
===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
<br />
<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
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<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
<br />
* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
<br />
<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
<br />
<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
<br />
<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
<br />
<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
<br />
====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
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* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
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===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1215656Speaker Series2019-07-29T18:02:13Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
<br />
====Thursday, August 1, 2019: Where Did This $^@#$ Autonomous Car Learn to Drive? Addressing Cross-cultural differences in Autonomous Car Design====<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-08-01 AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uBw_iHl8FU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
The importance of understanding differences in culture have long been known to designers. Interactive technology enables new ways to localize products, but it also moves products into aspects of daily life where the subtle differences in culture become more important and more profound. Today's autonomous cars, for example, are designed to follow the letter of the local law, but do not adapt to regional variations in driving behavior. At scale, this lack of adaptation can cause accidents and cost lives. <br />
<br />
I will discuss recent research looking at cross-cultural experiments in people's interactions with autonomous driving that were conducted between the US and the Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, and Israel and outline an emerging framework for designers to examine cultural differences.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Wendy Ju is an Assistant Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science field at Cornell University. Dr. Ju comes to Cornell Tech from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, where she was Executive Director of Interaction Design Research, and from the California College of the Arts, where she was an Associate Professor of Interaction Design in the Design MFA program. Her work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding. Dr. Ju has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems are built. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her monograph on The Design of Implicit Interactions was published in 2015.<br />
<br />
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</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
====Wednesday, July 17, 2019: Growing Their Own: What We Can Learn from the Community-Driven Development of Archive of Our Own====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-2019-07-17 | AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epDBXwS7XtM | Youtube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> The fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own hosts almost 5 million works and 2 million users. It is also an open source project that was designed and developed entirely by the community it serves—which consists largely of women and LGBTQ people—and relies on a small army of volunteers who maintain a value-driven search and tagging system. This talk traces the history, growth, and features of the archive, which include grassroots development, design for inclusivity and empowerment, the benefits and challenges of maintaining a volunteer development team, and how a number of these volunteers from groups traditionally underrepresented in computing picked up computational skills along the way. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Casey Fiesler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research focuses on creating more positive networked spaces, which includes work on technology ethics, online governance, social norms, and designing to support marginalized groups. She is a member of the legal committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is behind the open source fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. Her ethics research is funded by the National Science Foundation PERVADE project, dedicated to empirical studies of research ethics for pervasive human data, and Mozilla and partners' Responsible Computer Science challenge.<br />
<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
====Thursday, July 11, 2019: How Privilege Defines Performance====<br />
* Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + broadcast on [https://onlinexperiences.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:1;F:US!100&PreviousLoginCount=8&ForceProfileToBeFilledOut=0&DisplayItem=E326976&ShowKey=44908&ShowFrameFormatOverride=NULL&RandomValue=1562689242748 | AirMo] <br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In theory, web performance, accessibility, and inclusive design all have similar goals: provide the best, most consistent experience to all people using the minimal amount of resources. In practice, this often falls apart. Product creators define what it means to be performant from where they stand, which is typically from places of privilege with unseen biases, struggling to find true empathy with their users. Through this talk, we'll examine how to build conscientiously, looking within to resist systematic problems in order to create more truly performant, accessible, and inclusive systems for our users. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tatiana Mac is an independent American designer who works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. She believes the trifecta of performance, accessibility, and inclusion can work symbiotically to improve our social landscape digitally and physically. When ethically-minded, she thinks technologists can dismantle exclusionary systems in favor of community-focused, inclusive ones. Never totally pleased with design tools, she designs in browser to bring performant, semantic, and accessible visual narratives into the web. Her current obsessions are optimizing variable fonts, converting raster images into to SVGs, and recreating modernist paintings in CSS grid. When she can successfully escape vim, she finds new countries to explore (33 and counting).<br />
<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tararobertson/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, June 6, 2019: Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 29, 2019: User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
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* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
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<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
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<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
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<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
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Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
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Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
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<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
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<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
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<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
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<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
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* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
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Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
<br />
<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
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<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
<br />
<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
<br />
<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
<br />
<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
<br />
<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
<br />
<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
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<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
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<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
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<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
<br />
<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
<br />
<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
<br />
===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
<br />
<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
<br />
* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
<br />
* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
<br />
<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
<br />
<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
<br />
<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
<br />
<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
<br />
====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
<br />
<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
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* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
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* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
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* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
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===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands&diff=1215618All Hands2019-07-28T20:10:40Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
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<div>'''All Hands''' are a unique and special opportunity for all paid staff and our most impactful volunteers to come together, in person, to share experiences and interact with people they may not normally work with (or just see over Zoom). Given our size, work weeks are a key differentiator for us (larger organizations just can't do this sort of thing in a meaningful way). Being able to come together as a whole organization, 2x each year, exposes each of us to interactions that may spark new ideas and/or lead to new solutions. They are a core part of our annual planning process.<br />
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== Locations ==<br />
Locations are selected with input from a small group of Mozillians based on a variety of factors the most significant of which is meeting space availability (need require more than a normal "conference") and number of rooms in close proximity to each other (so we are not spread out and thus limit the amount of serendipitous collision that is part of the work week magic).<br />
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* [[/Vancouver2021|2021 June 7-12]] - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<br />
* [[/Hawaii2021|2021 January 25-30]] - Waikiki, Hawaii, USA<br />
* [[/Toronto2020|2020 June 15-20]] - Toronto, Ontario, Canada<br />
* [[/Berlin2020|2020 January 27-February 1]] - Berlin, Germany<br />
* [[/Whistler2019|2019 June 17-22]] - Whistler, British Columbia, Canada<br />
* [[/Orlando2018|2018 December 3-8]] - Orlando, Florida, USA (Swan & Dolphin)<br />
* [[/SanFrancisco2018|2018 June 11-16]] - San Francisco, California, USA (Marriott Marquis)<br />
* [[/Austin|2017 December 11-16]] - Austin, Texas, USA (JW Marriott Austin & Hilton Austin)<br />
* [[/SanFrancisco2017|2017 June 26-July 1]] - San Francisco, California, USA (Hilton & Parc 55 Union Square)<br />
* [[/2016 Hawaii|2016 December 5–9]] — Hawaii, Hawaii, USA (Hilton Waikoloa)<br />
* [[/2016 London|2016 June 13–17]] — London, UK (Hilton Metropole, Hilton Paddington, The Landmark London)<br />
* [[/2015 Orlando|2015 December 7–11]] — Orlando, Florida, USA (Swan & Dolphin)<br />
* [[/2015 Whistler|2015 June 22–26]] — Whistler, British Columbia, Canada<br />
* [[/2014 Portland|2014 December 1–5]] — Portland, Oregon, USA<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
* [[Events]]</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1215313Speaker Series2019-07-19T00:34:53Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
====Wednesday, July 17, 2019: Growing Their Own: What We Can Learn from the Community-Driven Development of Archive of Our Own====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-2019-07-17 | AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epDBXwS7XtM | Youtube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> The fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own hosts almost 5 million works and 2 million users. It is also an open source project that was designed and developed entirely by the community it serves—which consists largely of women and LGBTQ people—and relies on a small army of volunteers who maintain a value-driven search and tagging system. This talk traces the history, growth, and features of the archive, which include grassroots development, design for inclusivity and empowerment, the benefits and challenges of maintaining a volunteer development team, and how a number of these volunteers from groups traditionally underrepresented in computing picked up computational skills along the way. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Casey Fiesler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research focuses on creating more positive networked spaces, which includes work on technology ethics, online governance, social norms, and designing to support marginalized groups. She is a member of the legal committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is behind the open source fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. Her ethics research is funded by the National Science Foundation PERVADE project, dedicated to empirical studies of research ethics for pervasive human data, and Mozilla and partners' Responsible Computer Science challenge.<br />
<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
====Thursday, July 11, 2019: How Privilege Defines Performance====<br />
* Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + broadcast on [https://onlinexperiences.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:1;F:US!100&PreviousLoginCount=8&ForceProfileToBeFilledOut=0&DisplayItem=E326976&ShowKey=44908&ShowFrameFormatOverride=NULL&RandomValue=1562689242748 | AirMo] <br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In theory, web performance, accessibility, and inclusive design all have similar goals: provide the best, most consistent experience to all people using the minimal amount of resources. In practice, this often falls apart. Product creators define what it means to be performant from where they stand, which is typically from places of privilege with unseen biases, struggling to find true empathy with their users. Through this talk, we'll examine how to build conscientiously, looking within to resist systematic problems in order to create more truly performant, accessible, and inclusive systems for our users. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tatiana Mac is an independent American designer who works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. She believes the trifecta of performance, accessibility, and inclusion can work symbiotically to improve our social landscape digitally and physically. When ethically-minded, she thinks technologists can dismantle exclusionary systems in favor of community-focused, inclusive ones. Never totally pleased with design tools, she designs in browser to bring performant, semantic, and accessible visual narratives into the web. Her current obsessions are optimizing variable fonts, converting raster images into to SVGs, and recreating modernist paintings in CSS grid. When she can successfully escape vim, she finds new countries to explore (33 and counting).<br />
<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tararobertson/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, June 6, 2019: Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 29, 2019: User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
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<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
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<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
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<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
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* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
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<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
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Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
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<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
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<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
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<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
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* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
<br />
Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
<br />
Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
<br />
He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
<br />
Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
<br />
This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
<br />
This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
<br />
<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
<br />
<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
<br />
<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
<br />
<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
<br />
<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
<br />
* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
<br />
<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
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<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
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<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
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<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
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<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
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<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
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<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
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<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
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<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
<br />
<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
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<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
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<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
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<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
<br />
===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
<br />
<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
<br />
* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
<br />
* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
<br />
* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
<br />
<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
<br />
<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
<br />
<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
<br />
<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
<br />
<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
<br />
====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
<br />
<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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<br />
== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
<br />
* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
<br />
===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1215088Speaker Series2019-07-15T18:44:23Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, July 17, 2019: Growing Their Own: What We Can Learn from the Community-Driven Development of Archive of Our Own====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-2019-07-17 | AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epDBXwS7XtM | Youtube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> The fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own hosts almost 5 million works and 2 million users. It is also an open source project that was designed and developed entirely by the community it serves—which consists largely of women and LGBTQ people—and relies on a small army of volunteers who maintain a value-driven search and tagging system. This talk traces the history, growth, and features of the archive, which include grassroots development, design for inclusivity and empowerment, the benefits and challenges of maintaining a volunteer development team, and how a number of these volunteers from groups traditionally underrepresented in computing picked up computational skills along the way. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Casey Fiesler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research focuses on creating more positive networked spaces, which includes work on technology ethics, online governance, social norms, and designing to support marginalized groups. She is a member of the legal committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is behind the open source fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. Her ethics research is funded by the National Science Foundation PERVADE project, dedicated to empirical studies of research ethics for pervasive human data, and Mozilla and partners' Responsible Computer Science challenge.<br />
<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 11, 2019: How Privilege Defines Performance====<br />
* Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + broadcast on [https://onlinexperiences.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:1;F:US!100&PreviousLoginCount=8&ForceProfileToBeFilledOut=0&DisplayItem=E326976&ShowKey=44908&ShowFrameFormatOverride=NULL&RandomValue=1562689242748 | AirMo] <br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In theory, web performance, accessibility, and inclusive design all have similar goals: provide the best, most consistent experience to all people using the minimal amount of resources. In practice, this often falls apart. Product creators define what it means to be performant from where they stand, which is typically from places of privilege with unseen biases, struggling to find true empathy with their users. Through this talk, we'll examine how to build conscientiously, looking within to resist systematic problems in order to create more truly performant, accessible, and inclusive systems for our users. <br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tatiana Mac is an independent American designer who works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. She believes the trifecta of performance, accessibility, and inclusion can work symbiotically to improve our social landscape digitally and physically. When ethically-minded, she thinks technologists can dismantle exclusionary systems in favor of community-focused, inclusive ones. Never totally pleased with design tools, she designs in browser to bring performant, semantic, and accessible visual narratives into the web. Her current obsessions are optimizing variable fonts, converting raster images into to SVGs, and recreating modernist paintings in CSS grid. When she can successfully escape vim, she finds new countries to explore (33 and counting).<br />
<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tararobertson/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, June 6, 2019: Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 29, 2019: User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
<br />
* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
<br />
Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
<br />
It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
<br />
Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
<br />
He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
<br />
Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
<br />
This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
<br />
This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
<br />
<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
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<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
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<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
<br />
<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
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<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
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<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
<br />
<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
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<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
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<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
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<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
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<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
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<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
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<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
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<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
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<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
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<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
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<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
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<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
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<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
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<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
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<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
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''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
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<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
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<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
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<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
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<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
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<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
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<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
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<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
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<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
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<p>We’ll learn:<br />
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<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
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<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
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====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
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<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
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<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
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====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
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<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
<br />
<br />
== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
<br />
* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
<br />
===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Whistler2019/Demos&diff=1213903All Hands/Whistler2019/Demos2019-06-19T00:06:19Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Demos @ Sea to Sky Ballroom, 4pm - 6pm on Wednesday, June 19==<br />
=Map=<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bWxZM1NBLVhyXzlnYmtrdGxPTkFQdUpqNnhN/view?usp=sharing Map of Demo area]<br />
<br />
===Emerging Technology===<br />
* '''Voice Assistants in the Browser''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish Kaye])<br />
* '''Mozilla WebThings''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/giori Kathy Giori])<br />
* '''On-Device Speech Recognition: Firefox, Firefox Reality, and Beyond''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/kelly%20davis Kelly Davis])<br />
<br />
===Firefox===<br />
* '''Fathom, Recognizing Web Content, and Your Next Project''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/erik%20rose Erik Rose])<br />
* '''Fenix MVP''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/betty Betty Fleming])<br />
* '''Firefox for Fire TV & Firefox for Echo Show''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/hilda Hilda Soto] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/ashley%20thomas Ashley Thomas]) <br />
* '''Firefox Lite''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/wesley%20huang Wesley Huang])<br />
* '''Glean: A product analytics & Telemetry solution true to Mozilla values''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/gfritzsche@mozilla.com Georg Fritzsche])<br />
* '''Iodide''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/colloran Brendan Colloran])<br />
* '''Listen up! Podcasts by Firefox''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/michaela Michaela Smiley] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/fordon Anja Fordon])<br />
* '''Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all"''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/james%20teh James Teh])<br />
* '''Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard (GUD)''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/mccrosky Jesse McCrosky])<br />
* '''Profile your web app to improve its performance''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/julien%20wajsberg Julien Wajsberg])<br />
* '''Remote Debugging and Profiling for GeckoView''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/harald Harald Kirschner])<br />
* '''Taipei Innovation Ideas''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/wesly Wesly Huang])<br />
* '''Taskcluster: open source CI for developers''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/coop@mozilla.com Chris Cooper])<br />
<br />
===Mixed Reality===<br />
* '''Creating Mixed Reality Stories with the WebXR Viewer and MrEd''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/blair Blair MacIntyre] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmarinacci@mozilla.com Josh Marinacci])<br />
* '''Firefox Reality VR Browser''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jvonitter@mozilla.com Janice Von Itter])<br />
* '''Pathfinder on Magic Leap''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/ajeffrey@mozilla.com Alan Jeffrey])<br />
* '''Social Mixed Reality with Hubs by Mozilla''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/liv%20erickson Liv Erickson])<br />
<br />
===Open Innovation===<br />
* '''Common Voice // Activate''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/lsaunders@mozilla.com Lindsay Saunders])<br />
* '''Mozilla People Directory''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/hcondei@mozilla.com Hermina Condei])<br />
* '''Open Source Student Network''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/cbacharakis@mozilla.com Christos Bacharakis])<br />
* '''Playstore Respond: Outside The Box community support for the Fenix launch''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/mana@mozilla.com Madalina Ana])<br />
* '''State of the Rebel Alliance Report'''([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/hcondei@mozilla.com Hermina Condei]) <br />
<br />
===Office of the Chair===<br />
* '''"Reimagine Open"''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/berger Cathleen Berger)]<br />
<br />
===Operations===<br />
* '''Next-Generation Videoconferencing''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jsofijski@mozilla.com Juli Sofijski] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/akochendorfer@mozilla.com Andy Kochendorfer])<br />
* '''LTV (LifeTime Value) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/mmilshtein@mozilla.com Marina Milshtein])<br />
* '''xMatters and You''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/lgray@mozilla.com Lisa Gray])<br />
<br />
===Trailhead===<br />
* '''Ah CRUD! Manage your Firefox logins on mobile''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sandy%20sage Sandy Sage])<br />
* '''Facebook Container for Chrome''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/matt%20grimes Matt Grimes])<br />
* '''Go-to-market platform''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/heather%20crince Heather Crince])<br />
* '''Password generation comes to Firefox''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sandy%20sage Sandy Sage])<br />
* '''Trailhead: Membership Experience''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/niolet Lauren Niolet] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jim%20thomas Jim Thomas])</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Whistler2019/Demos&diff=1213711All Hands/Whistler2019/Demos2019-06-12T18:59:32Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Operations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Demos @ Sea to Sky Ballroom, 4pm - 6pm on Wednesday, June 19==<br />
===Emerging Technology===<br />
* '''Voice Assistants in the Browser''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish Kaye])<br />
* '''Mozilla WebThings''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/giori Kathy Giori])<br />
* '''On-Device Speech Recognition: Firefox, Firefox Reality, and Beyond''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/kelly%20davis Kelly Davis])<br />
<br />
===Firefox===<br />
* '''Fathom, Recognizing Web Content, and Your Next Project''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/erik%20rose Erik Rose])<br />
* '''Fenix MVP''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/betty Betty Fleming])<br />
* '''Firefox for Fire TV & Firefox for Echo Show''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/hilda Hilda Soto] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/ashley%20thomas Ashley Thomas]) <br />
* '''Firefox Lite''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/wesley%20huang Wesley Huang])<br />
* '''Glean: A product analytics & Telemetry solution true to Mozilla values''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/gfritzsche@mozilla.com Georg Fritzsche])<br />
* '''Iodide''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/colloran Brendan Colloran])<br />
* '''Listen up! Podcasts by Firefox''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/michaela Michaela Smiley] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/fordon Anja Fordon])<br />
* '''Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all"''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/james%20teh James Teh])<br />
* '''Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard (GUD)''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/mccrosky Jesse McCrosky])<br />
* '''Profile your web app to improve its performance''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/julien%20wajsberg Julien Wajsberg])<br />
* '''Remote Debugging and Profiling for GeckoView''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/harald Harald Kirschner])<br />
* '''Taipei Innovation Ideas''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/wesly Wesly Huang])<br />
* '''Taskcluster: open source CI for developers''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/coop@mozilla.com Chris Cooper])<br />
<br />
===Mixed Reality===<br />
* '''Creating Mixed Reality Stories with the WebXR Viewer and MrEd''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/blair Blair MacIntyre] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmarinacci@mozilla.com Josh Marinacci])<br />
* '''Firefox Reality VR Browser''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jvonitter@mozilla.com Janice Von Itter])<br />
* '''Pathfinder on Magic Leap''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/ajeffrey@mozilla.com Alan Jeffrey])<br />
* '''Social Mixed Reality with Hubs by Mozilla''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/liv%20erickson Liv Erickson])<br />
<br />
===Open Innovation===<br />
* '''Common Voice // Activate''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/lsaunders@mozilla.com Lindsay Saunders])<br />
* '''Mozilla People Directory''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/hcondei@mozilla.com Hermina Condei])<br />
* '''Open Source Student Network''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/cbacharakis@mozilla.com Christos Bacharakis])<br />
* '''Playstore Respond: Outside The Box community support for the Fenix launch''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/mana@mozilla.com Madalina Ana])<br />
* '''State of the Rebel Alliance Report'''([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/hcondei@mozilla.com Hermina Condei]) <br />
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===Office of the Chair===<br />
* '''"Reimagine Open"''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/berger Cathleen Berger)]<br />
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===Operations===<br />
* '''Next-Generation Videoconferencing''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jsofijski@mozilla.com Juli Sofijski] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/akochendorfer@mozilla.com Andy Kochendorfer])<br />
* '''LTV (LifeTime Value) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/mmilshtein@mozilla.com Marina Milshtein])<br />
* '''xMatters and You''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/lgray@mozilla.com Lisa Gray])<br />
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===Trailhead===<br />
* '''Ah CRUD! Manage your Firefox logins on mobile''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sandy%20sage Sandy Sage])<br />
* '''Facebook Container for Chrome''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/matt%20grimes Matt Grimes])<br />
* '''Go-to-market platform''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/heather%20crince Heather Crince])<br />
* '''Password generation comes to Firefox''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sandy%20sage Sandy Sage])<br />
* '''Trailhead: Membership Experience''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/niolet Lauren Niolet] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jim%20thomas Jim Thomas])</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1213445Speaker Series2019-06-07T17:06:34Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality */</p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
====Thursday, June 6, 2019: Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 29, 2019: User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
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<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
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<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
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* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
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Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
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<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
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<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
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<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
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<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
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<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
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<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
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<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
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<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
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<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
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<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
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<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
<br />
<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
<br />
<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
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<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
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<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
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<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
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<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
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<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
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<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
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<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
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<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
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<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
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<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
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<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
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<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
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====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
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<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
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* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
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===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
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===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1213444Speaker Series2019-06-07T17:04:22Z<p>Wikibiz: /* User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing */</p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
====Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 29, 2019: User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
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<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
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<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
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<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
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* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
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Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
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<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
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<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
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<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
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<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
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<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
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<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
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<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
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<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
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<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
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<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
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<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
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<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
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<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
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<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
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<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
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<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
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<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
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<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
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<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
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<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
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<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
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<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
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<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
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<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
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<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
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<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
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<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
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<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
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<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
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<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
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<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
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<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
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<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
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<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
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<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
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<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
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<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
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<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
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<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
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<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
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<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
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<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
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<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
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<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
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====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
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<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
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* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
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===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1213443Speaker Series2019-06-07T17:03:21Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
====Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
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<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
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<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
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* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
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Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
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<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
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<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
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<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
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<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
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<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
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<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
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<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
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<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
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<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
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<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
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<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
<br />
<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
<br />
<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
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<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
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<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
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<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
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<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
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<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
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<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
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<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
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<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
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<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
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<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
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<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
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<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
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====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
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<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
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* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
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===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1213378Speaker Series2019-06-05T23:36:24Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality */</p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
====Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
====User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
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<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
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<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
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<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
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* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
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Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
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<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
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<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
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<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
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<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
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<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
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<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
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<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
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<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
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<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
<br />
<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
<br />
<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
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<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
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<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
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<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
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<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
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<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
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<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
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<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
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<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
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<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
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<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
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<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
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<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
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====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
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<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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<br />
== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
<br />
* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
<br />
===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1213377Speaker Series2019-06-05T23:29:14Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Upcoming Speakers */</p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
====Shaping Pro-Social Interaction in Virtual Reality====<br />
* Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2019-06-06 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBD4lH_uBU YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p>With support from Mozilla, the research team at UC Santa Cruz's Social Emotional Technology Lab has been studying design factors that lead to positive social encounters and engagement in Virtual Reality. Today we present results and insights from conducting interviews with designers from major and nascent Social VR platforms, toward shaping a broadly accessible and inviting platform for the future. We also discuss ongoing studies and research-through-design prototyping activities.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speakers:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.katherineinterface.com/ Katherine Isbister] is a full professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of Computational Media, where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab, and the Center for Computational Experience. Her research combines technical prototyping and evaluative research to advance the state of the art in human computer interaction. Recent projects include hand-held objects (tangible computing) designed to help regulate mood and attention, wearables to augment feelings of connection and co-presence, and a gesture-based door entry authentication system that uses biometrics, among others. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Isbister’s most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. Her research has been covered in Wired, Scientific American, and many other venues. She was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://joshuamcveighschultz.com/ Joshua McVeigh-Schulz] is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. He an interactive media designer and researcher with a PhD from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where his dissertation explored the intersection between ritual and speculative design. His hybrid background intersects fields of HCI, anthropology, media studies, and design research. Recent projects and publications include topics of social VR, immersive design fiction, speculative ritual design, and vernacular accordance theory. He is the recipient of an Intel PhD fellowship, and he has conducted research at MSR and Intel Labs. The work presented was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish Kaye]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et-comms<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
====User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
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<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
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<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
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<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
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* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
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Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
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<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
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<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
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<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
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<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
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<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
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<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
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<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
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<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
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<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
<br />
<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
<br />
<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
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<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
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<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
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<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
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<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
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<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
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<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
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<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
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<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
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<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
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<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
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<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
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<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
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====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
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<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
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* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
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===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
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===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1213046Speaker Series2019-05-30T17:02:11Z<p>Wikibiz: /* User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing */</p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
====User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc62N1Y2Wp_FRZRAn2NWSWt6jeg0WWmdtLo-if40ULA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
<br />
* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
<br />
Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
<br />
Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
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<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
<br />
<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
<br />
<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
<br />
<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
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<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
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<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
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<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
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<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
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<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
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<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
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<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
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<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
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<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
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<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
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<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
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<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
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<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
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<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
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<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
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<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
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<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
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<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
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<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
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<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
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<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
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<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
<br />
<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
<br />
<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
<br />
<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
<br />
* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
<br />
* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
<br />
<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
<br />
<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
<br />
<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
<br />
<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
<br />
====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
<br />
<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
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====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
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<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
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===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
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<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
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====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
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<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
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====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
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====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
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====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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<br />
== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
<br />
* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
<br />
===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1213006Speaker Series2019-05-29T21:05:57Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
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<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
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=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
====User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing====<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
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<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
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<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
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<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
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<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
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* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
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<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
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<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
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<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
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* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
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<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
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<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
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<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
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Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
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Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
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<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
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<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
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<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
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<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
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* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
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Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
<br />
<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
<br />
<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
<br />
<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
<br />
<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
<br />
* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
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<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
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<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
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<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
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<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
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<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
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<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
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<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
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<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
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<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
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<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
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<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
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<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
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<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
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<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
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<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
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<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
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<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
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<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
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<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
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<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
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<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
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<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
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<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
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<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
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<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
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''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
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<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
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<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
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<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
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<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
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<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
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<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
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<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
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<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
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<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
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<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
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<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
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<p>We’ll learn:<br />
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<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
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====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
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<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
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<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
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====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
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<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
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<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
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<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
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<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
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====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
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====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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<br />
== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
<br />
* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
<br />
===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1213005Speaker Series2019-05-29T21:05:16Z<p>Wikibiz: </p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
===User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing===<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
<br />
* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
<br />
Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
<br />
It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
<br />
Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
<br />
He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
<br />
Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
<br />
This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
<br />
This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
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<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
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<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
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<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
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<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
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<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
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<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
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<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
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<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
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<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
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<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
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<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
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<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
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<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
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<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
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<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
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<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
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<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
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<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
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<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
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<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
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<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
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<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
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<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
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<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
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<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
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<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
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<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
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<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
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<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
<br />
<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
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<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
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<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
<br />
<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
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<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
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<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
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<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
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<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
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<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
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<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
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<p>We’ll learn:<br />
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<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
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====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
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<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
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<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
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====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
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<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
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<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
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<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
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====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
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===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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<br />
== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
<br />
* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
<br />
===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1212999Speaker Series2019-05-29T17:40:04Z<p>Wikibiz: /* User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
===User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing===<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E331008 Air Mozilla]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
<br />
Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
<br />
Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
<br />
<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
<br />
<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
<br />
<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
<br />
* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
<br />
Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
<br />
It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
<br />
Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
<br />
He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
<br />
Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
<br />
This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
<br />
This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
<br />
<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
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<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
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<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
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<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
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<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
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<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
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<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
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<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
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<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
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<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
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<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
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<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
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<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
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<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
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<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
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<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
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<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
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<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
<br />
<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
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<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
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<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
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<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
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<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
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<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
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<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
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<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
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<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
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<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
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<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
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<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
<br />
<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
<br />
<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
<br />
<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
<br />
<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
<br />
<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
<br />
* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
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<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
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<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
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<p>We’ll learn:<br />
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<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
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<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
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====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
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<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
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<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
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====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
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<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
<br />
<br />
== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
<br />
* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
<br />
===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
<br />
The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
<br />
===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Whistler2019/Demos&diff=1212773All Hands/Whistler2019/Demos2019-05-22T19:43:39Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Trailhead */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Demos @ Sea to Sky Ballroom, 4pm - 6pm on Wednesday, June 19==<br />
===Emerging Technology===<br />
* '''Alexa in the Browser''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish Kaye])<br />
* '''Mozilla WebThings''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/giori Kathy Giori])<br />
* '''On-Device Speech Recognition: Firefox, Firefox Reality, and Beyond''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/kelly%20davis Kelly Davis])<br />
<br />
===Firefox===<br />
* '''Fathom, Recognizing Web Content, and Your Next Project''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/erik%20rose Erik Rose])<br />
* '''Fenix MVP''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/betty Betty Fleming])<br />
* '''Firefox for Fire TV & Firefox for Echo Show''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/hilda Hilda Soto] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/ashley%20thomas Ashley Thomas]) <br />
* '''Firefox Lite''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/wesley%20huang Wesley Huang])<br />
* '''Glean: A product analytics & Telemetry solution true to Mozilla values''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/gfritzsche@mozilla.com Georg Fritzsche])<br />
* '''Iodide''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/colloran Brendan Colloran])<br />
* '''Listen up! Podcasts by Firefox''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/michaela Michaela Smiley] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/fordon Anja Fordon])<br />
* '''Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all"''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/james%20teh James Teh])<br />
* '''Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard (GUD)''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/mccrosky Jesse McCrosky])<br />
* '''Profile your web app to improve its performance''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/julien%20wajsberg Julien Wajsberg])<br />
* '''Remote Debugging and Profiling for GeckoView''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/harald Harald Kirschner])<br />
* '''Taipei Innovation Ideas''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/wesly Wesly Huang])<br />
* '''Taskcluster: open source CI for developers''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/coop@mozilla.com Chris Cooper])<br />
<br />
===Mixed Reality===<br />
* '''Creating Mixed Reality Stories with the WebXR Viewer and MrEd''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/blair Blair MacIntyre] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmarinacci@mozilla.com Josh Marinacci])<br />
* '''Firefox Reality VR Browser''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jvonitter@mozilla.com Janice Von Itter])<br />
* '''Pathfinder on Magic Leap''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/ajeffrey@mozilla.com Alan Jeffrey])<br />
* '''Social Mixed Reality with Hubs by Mozilla''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/liv%20erickson Liv Erickson])<br />
<br />
===Open Innovation===<br />
* '''Common Voice // Activate''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/lsaunders@mozilla.com Lindsay Saunders])<br />
* '''Mozilla People Directory''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/hcondei@mozilla.com Hermina Condei])<br />
* '''Open Source Student Network''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/cbacharakis@mozilla.com Christos Bacharakis])<br />
* '''Playstore Respond: Outside The Box community support for the Fenix launch''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/mana@mozilla.com Madalina Ana])<br />
* '''State of the Rebel Alliance Report'''([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/hcondei@mozilla.com Hermina Condei]) <br />
<br />
===Office of the Chair===<br />
* '''"Reimagine Open"''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/berger Cathleen Berger)]<br />
<br />
===Operations===<br />
* '''AirMozilla''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/akochendorfer@mozilla.com Andy Kochendorfer])<br />
* '''LTV (LifeTime Value) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/mmilshtein@mozilla.com Marina Milshtein])<br />
* '''Next-Generation Videoconferencing''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jsofijski@mozilla.com Juli Sofijski])<br />
* '''xMatters and You''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/lgray@mozilla.com Lisa Gray])<br />
<br />
===Trailhead===<br />
* '''Ah CRUD! Manage your Firefox logins on mobile''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sandy%20sage Sandy Sage])<br />
* '''Facebook Container for Chrome''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/matt%20grimes Matt Grimes])<br />
* '''Go-to-market platform''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/heather%20crince Heather Crince])<br />
* '''Password generation comes to Firefox''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sandy%20sage Sandy Sage])<br />
* '''Trailhead: Membership Experience''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/niolet Lauren Niolet] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jim%20thomas Jim Thomas])</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Whistler2019/Demos&diff=1212772All Hands/Whistler2019/Demos2019-05-22T19:40:56Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Mixed Reality */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Demos @ Sea to Sky Ballroom, 4pm - 6pm on Wednesday, June 19==<br />
===Emerging Technology===<br />
* '''Alexa in the Browser''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish Kaye])<br />
* '''Mozilla WebThings''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/giori Kathy Giori])<br />
* '''On-Device Speech Recognition: Firefox, Firefox Reality, and Beyond''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/kelly%20davis Kelly Davis])<br />
<br />
===Firefox===<br />
* '''Fathom, Recognizing Web Content, and Your Next Project''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/erik%20rose Erik Rose])<br />
* '''Fenix MVP''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/betty Betty Fleming])<br />
* '''Firefox for Fire TV & Firefox for Echo Show''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/hilda Hilda Soto] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/ashley%20thomas Ashley Thomas]) <br />
* '''Firefox Lite''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/wesley%20huang Wesley Huang])<br />
* '''Glean: A product analytics & Telemetry solution true to Mozilla values''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/gfritzsche@mozilla.com Georg Fritzsche])<br />
* '''Iodide''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/colloran Brendan Colloran])<br />
* '''Listen up! Podcasts by Firefox''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/michaela Michaela Smiley] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/fordon Anja Fordon])<br />
* '''Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all"''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/james%20teh James Teh])<br />
* '''Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard (GUD)''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/mccrosky Jesse McCrosky])<br />
* '''Profile your web app to improve its performance''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/julien%20wajsberg Julien Wajsberg])<br />
* '''Remote Debugging and Profiling for GeckoView''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/harald Harald Kirschner])<br />
* '''Taipei Innovation Ideas''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/wesly Wesly Huang])<br />
* '''Taskcluster: open source CI for developers''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/coop@mozilla.com Chris Cooper])<br />
<br />
===Mixed Reality===<br />
* '''Creating Mixed Reality Stories with the WebXR Viewer and MrEd''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/blair Blair MacIntyre] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmarinacci@mozilla.com Josh Marinacci])<br />
* '''Firefox Reality VR Browser''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jvonitter@mozilla.com Janice Von Itter])<br />
* '''Pathfinder on Magic Leap''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/ajeffrey@mozilla.com Alan Jeffrey])<br />
* '''Social Mixed Reality with Hubs by Mozilla''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/liv%20erickson Liv Erickson])<br />
<br />
===Open Innovation===<br />
* '''Common Voice // Activate''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/lsaunders@mozilla.com Lindsay Saunders])<br />
* '''Mozilla People Directory''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/hcondei@mozilla.com Hermina Condei])<br />
* '''Open Source Student Network''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/cbacharakis@mozilla.com Christos Bacharakis])<br />
* '''Playstore Respond: Outside The Box community support for the Fenix launch''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/mana@mozilla.com Madalina Ana])<br />
* '''State of the Rebel Alliance Report'''([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/hcondei@mozilla.com Hermina Condei]) <br />
<br />
===Office of the Chair===<br />
* '''"Reimagine Open"''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/berger Cathleen Berger)]<br />
<br />
===Operations===<br />
* '''AirMozilla''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/akochendorfer@mozilla.com Andy Kochendorfer])<br />
* '''LTV (LifeTime Value) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/mmilshtein@mozilla.com Marina Milshtein])<br />
* '''Next-Generation Videoconferencing''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jsofijski@mozilla.com Juli Sofijski])<br />
* '''xMatters and You''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/lgray@mozilla.com Lisa Gray])<br />
<br />
===Trailhead===<br />
* '''Ah CRUD! Manage your Firefox logins on mobile''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sandy%20sage Sandy Sage])<br />
* '''Building a journey for new Firefox members''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/niolet Lauren Niolet]<br />
* '''Facebook Container for Chrome''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/matt%20grimes Matt Grimes])<br />
* '''Go-to-market platform''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/heather%20crince Heather Crince])<br />
* '''Password generation comes to Firefox''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sandy%20sage Sandy Sage])<br />
* '''Trailhead: Membership Experience''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jim%20thomas Jim Thomas])</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=All_Hands/Whistler2019/Demos&diff=1212771All Hands/Whistler2019/Demos2019-05-22T19:37:37Z<p>Wikibiz: /* Firefox */</p>
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<div>==Demos @ Sea to Sky Ballroom, 4pm - 6pm on Wednesday, June 19==<br />
===Emerging Technology===<br />
* '''Alexa in the Browser''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish Kaye])<br />
* '''Mozilla WebThings''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/giori Kathy Giori])<br />
* '''On-Device Speech Recognition: Firefox, Firefox Reality, and Beyond''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/kelly%20davis Kelly Davis])<br />
<br />
===Firefox===<br />
* '''Fathom, Recognizing Web Content, and Your Next Project''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/erik%20rose Erik Rose])<br />
* '''Fenix MVP''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/betty Betty Fleming])<br />
* '''Firefox for Fire TV & Firefox for Echo Show''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/hilda Hilda Soto] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/ashley%20thomas Ashley Thomas]) <br />
* '''Firefox Lite''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/wesley%20huang Wesley Huang])<br />
* '''Glean: A product analytics & Telemetry solution true to Mozilla values''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/gfritzsche@mozilla.com Georg Fritzsche])<br />
* '''Iodide''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/colloran Brendan Colloran])<br />
* '''Listen up! Podcasts by Firefox''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/michaela Michaela Smiley] + [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/fordon Anja Fordon])<br />
* '''Mozilla Accessibility: Making the internet "accessible to all"''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/james%20teh James Teh])<br />
* '''Mozilla Growth & Usage Dashboard (GUD)''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/mccrosky Jesse McCrosky])<br />
* '''Profile your web app to improve its performance''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/julien%20wajsberg Julien Wajsberg])<br />
* '''Remote Debugging and Profiling for GeckoView''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/harald Harald Kirschner])<br />
* '''Taipei Innovation Ideas''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/wesly Wesly Huang])<br />
* '''Taskcluster: open source CI for developers''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/coop@mozilla.com Chris Cooper])<br />
<br />
===Mixed Reality===<br />
* '''Firefox Reality VR Browser''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jvonitter@mozilla.com Janice Von Itter])<br />
* '''MrEd: a mixed reality editor for students''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmarinacci@mozilla.com Josh Marinacci])<br />
* '''Pathfinder on Magic Leap''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/ajeffrey@mozilla.com Alan Jeffrey])<br />
* '''Social Mixed Reality with Hubs by Mozilla''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/liv%20erickson Liv Erickson])<br />
* '''WebXR Viewer on iOS and Authoring Narrative for Kids''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/blair Blair MacIntyre])<br />
<br />
===Open Innovation===<br />
* '''Common Voice // Activate''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/lsaunders@mozilla.com Lindsay Saunders])<br />
* '''Mozilla People Directory''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/hcondei@mozilla.com Hermina Condei])<br />
* '''Open Source Student Network''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/cbacharakis@mozilla.com Christos Bacharakis])<br />
* '''Playstore Respond: Outside The Box community support for the Fenix launch''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/mana@mozilla.com Madalina Ana])<br />
* '''State of the Rebel Alliance Report'''([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/hcondei@mozilla.com Hermina Condei]) <br />
<br />
===Office of the Chair===<br />
* '''"Reimagine Open"''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/berger Cathleen Berger)]<br />
<br />
===Operations===<br />
* '''AirMozilla''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/akochendorfer@mozilla.com Andy Kochendorfer])<br />
* '''LTV (LifeTime Value) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/mmilshtein@mozilla.com Marina Milshtein])<br />
* '''Next-Generation Videoconferencing''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jsofijski@mozilla.com Juli Sofijski])<br />
* '''xMatters and You''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/lgray@mozilla.com Lisa Gray])<br />
<br />
===Trailhead===<br />
* '''Ah CRUD! Manage your Firefox logins on mobile''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sandy%20sage Sandy Sage])<br />
* '''Building a journey for new Firefox members''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/niolet Lauren Niolet]<br />
* '''Facebook Container for Chrome''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/matt%20grimes Matt Grimes])<br />
* '''Go-to-market platform''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/heather%20crince Heather Crince])<br />
* '''Password generation comes to Firefox''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sandy%20sage Sandy Sage])<br />
* '''Trailhead: Membership Experience''' ([https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jim%20thomas Jim Thomas])</div>Wikibizhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Speaker_Series&diff=1212770Speaker Series2019-05-22T19:16:44Z<p>Wikibiz: /* User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing */</p>
<hr />
<div>== <p>'''Overview'''</p> ==<br />
Mozilla hosts speakers from tech, non-profit and other related industries to address topics tied to [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ our mission], our strategy and to our nearer-term business objectives. We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Upcoming Speakers'''==<br />
===User-Centered Privacy in Third-Party Online Tracking and Private Browsing===<br />
* Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + Air Mozilla + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgqgLRLM-nk YouTube]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<p> In this talk, Blase will discuss our group's recent and ongoing efforts in user-centered privacy on the web. He will focus on our work related to third-party online tracking. He will first discuss two online user studies (CHI 2018) involving a total of 543 participants. They evaluated how the particular types of inferences ad networks can make about users, as well as their process for doing so, impacted participants' comfort with targeting based on these inferences and their perceptions of its usefulness.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Blase will then discuss our ongoing work designing a new style of privacy-protective browser extension that aims to help users better understand third-party tracking. The extension visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from the user's browsing. He will discuss our recent longitudinal field study in which 425 participants used one of six variants of our extension for a week. He will also briefly discuss our prior work (WWW 2018) evaluating how users' misconceptions about what private browsing mode does are impacted by browsers' disclosures about this mode. In a 460-participant online study, the team found that browsers' disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested; results varied across browsers.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Through the talk, Blase hopes to connect with interested Mozilla researchers, designers, and engineers for potential collaborations and feedback regarding our future work in these directions. </p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.blaseur.com/ Blase Ur] is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he researches security, privacy, and human-computer interaction. As the UChicago SUPERgroup, he and his students use data-driven methods to help users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as to improve the usability of complex computer systems. He has received three best paper awards (CHI 2017, USENIX Security 2016, and UbiComp 2014), as well as honorable mentions at CHI 2016 and CHI 2012. He received the 2018 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, the 2016 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Fulbright scholarship. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (PhD and MS) and Harvard University (AB). https://www.blaseur.com/.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceytsai/ Janice Tsai]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors===<br />
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here].<br />
<br />
=='''Previous Speakers'''==<br />
===2019===<br />
====Wednesday, February 20, 2019: FIBER - Internet infrastructure and openness, with Susan Crawford====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/internet-access-2019-02-20 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzCoZNKtS0 YouTube]<br />
* Time: 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET / 10:00pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> Author Susan Crawford will join Wikimedia's Jorge Vargas and Mozilla's Ferras Vinh and Chris Riley to talk about internet infrastructure, and barriers and opportunities to increasing fiber availability in the U.S. Internet access and openness is one of Mozilla's top three priority public policy issues for 2019, and working to connect more people to an open internet complements our net neutrality leadership. Fiber is a big part of that long-term solution, and so we are excited to welcome Susan back to Mozilla, as she literally wrote the book on the subject.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE> [https://www.scrawford.net/ Susan Crawford] is a professor at Harvard Law School, the author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300205701/captive-audience "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"] and co-author of [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Responsive+City%3A+Engaging+Communities+Through+Data+Smart+Governance-p-9781118910900 "The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance"], and a former special advisor to President Obama. Her most recent book is [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It"].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/chris%20riley Chris Riley]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #policydiscussion <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, February 7, 2019: The Ethical OS Toolkit, with Jane McGonigal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2019-02-07 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JFHdlX1U YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPt-zpneHmHVli94321CUge8wVr4lBul3svM7emuc6M/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The EthicalOS toolkit was developed by IFTF with the support of the Omidiyar Network, and offers a range of approaches for safeguarding ethics and turning ethical opinions into strategic assets in the product development process. Many of these approaches are much more common at Mozilla than other companies. Others we could yet learn from. Since the toolkit's release in August there's been a demand for concrete tools and examples in the wild. We have many such tools and examples at Mozilla, and this conversation is one forum in which we can highlight them. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://janemcgonigal.com/ Jane McGonigal] is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.<br />
<br />
<p>She is the New York Times bestselling author of [http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World], and is the inventor and co-founder of [http://superbetter.com/ SuperBetter], a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/miriam%20avery Miriam Avery]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, February 1, 2019: Deep Breath, Folks: Using Bots to De-escalate Conflict in Social Media, with Libby Hemphill====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View (Vega) + Air Mozilla + [https://youtu.be/U4vfFyQuT9I YouTube] <br />
* Social media and archival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vfFyQuT9I<br />
* Open to the public<br />
* Time: 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UT<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Harassment, insults, trolling, threats, and many other anti-social behaviors are toxic to conversations online. Reporting and addressing these behaviors requires a lot of time, labor, and emotional strain, and they're often ineffective. To move toward more effective methods to curb problematic behaviors such as harassment and hostility, I propose that we think about the problem differently in two ways. First, we must be more specific and explicit about the behaviors and content that are unacceptable in particular contexts so that we can design targeted mechanisms for addressing them and recognize the potential unintended impacts of our interventions. Second, we must treat problematic behavior as a social problem, not just an individual one, which demands that we address the contexts in which behavior occurs. To ground this discussion, I'll provide an example of a targeted mechanism for addressing personal insults and an experiment designed to reduce their prevalence in existing online communities. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.si.umich.edu/people/libby-hemphill Libby Hemphill]<br />
Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor of information at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Her recent work focuses on political discussions in social media and automated techniques for detecting and addressing problematic behaviors online. She is especially interested in issues of access and power and how they impact behaviors online and how we study those behaviors.<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jofish Jofish]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on Slack #et<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Creating Value from Intangibles, with Baruch Lev====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://mzl.la/baruch-lev-2019-01-15 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOSkRNHSpA YouTube] <br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Not all investments yield measurable revenues. For example we at Mozilla invest in our community relationships, in educational efforts, and in policy work. When we do this, we're building intangible assets.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev Baruch Lev] will share about intangible assets: their special attributes, the problems they create for measurement systems (at all levels), and the considerable economic value they create. Baruch will help us begin to understand how to think about these kinds of resource allocation decisions.<br />
<br />
<p>Professor Lev has been with NYU over 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books including ''Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting''; ''Winning Investors Over'' (2012); and, most recently: ''The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers'' (Wiley, 2016). Lev has published over 100 research studies in the leading accounting, finance and economic journals and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/jmargolin@mozilla.com Jessica Margolin]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2018===<br />
====Thursday, 29 November 2018: Talk Emoji to me: How digital visual language impacts communication, culture and inclusion [Panel]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([http://events.mozilla.org/talkemoji public invite])+ [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E303467 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GAhuPE92A YouTube]<br />
* Time: 9am PT / 12:00pm ET / 6pm CET<br />
<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"Emoji has achieved what Esperanto was originally supposed to: becoming a truly international language basically everyone is able to understand. Emoji has its own movie and even ‘Moby Dick’ has been translated to the visual vocabulary. Just like any other language in the world Emoji is evolving continually. And like any other language, Emoji has to consider how inclusive it truly is.” -- [https://enorm-magazin.de/emojis-fuer-mehr-inklusion enorm Magazin, 2018]''<br />
<br />
<p>Not everyone might love emojis or give a lot of thought or meaning to them, still most people use them in their everyday digital communication to express themselves and underline their written words. They are unquestionably a participatory element of the web that can leverage inclusiveness and diversity so everybody feels welcome and represented on the web, without being subjected to stereotypes — and therefore an important indicator of a healthy web, as this year’s [https://internethealthreport.org/2018/emoji-politics-where-grassroots-meets-big-tech/ Internet Health Report] from Mozilla suggests. And there’s even another integrative element to Emoji with everyone being able to contribute ideas.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Still we also face some risks; for example, strengthening new stereotypes through Emoji (e.g. Muslim women are now seen as represented with the Hijab but what about those who don’t wear it?). Also, a big tech player committee -- the [http://unicode.org/emoji/ Unicode Emoji Subcommittee] -- first needs to evaluate which emojis will be included, which might restrict diversity (or: how diverse is the committee in fact?). At the same time the question remains how and to which extend emojis really help to include people and the understanding across borders.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We will discuss these and other questions at our Mozilla speaker series in Berlin on 29 November, which will be structured as some lightning talks followed by a panel discussion with experts from different areas.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~scheffler/ Tatjana Scheffler], Professor of Computational Linguistics (University of Potsdam)<br />
** [https://www.hfg-gmuend.de/Prof._Daniel_Utz.html Daniel Utz], Professor of Communication Design (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd) & initiator of the [http://openmoji.org/ OpenMoji] project<br />
** [https://leidmedien.de/autorinnen/judyta-smykowski/ Judyta Smykowski], Editor & Advisor Leidmedien.de, Ramp-Up.me & Gesellschaftsbilder.de<br />
** Moderator: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/solana%20larsen Solana Larsen]<br />
* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/tree.php?search/afleischmann@mozilla.com Alice Fleischmann]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, 2 November 2018: Revealing Data: Creepy or Curious? with Yvonne Rogers====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London ([https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-speaker-series-with-yvonne-rogers public invite]) + [https://mzl.la/speaker-series-2018-11-02 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/vEDfnn60EQk YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 BT<br />
<br />
* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://www.yvonnerogers.com/ Yvonne Rogers] is Professor and Director of the [https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers University College London's Interaction Centre].<br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udOECLpeeeLn60VAduGgFvVjut5Xrrq0eFWrAHQl4kQ/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/sarah%20allen Sarah Allen] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/jon%20lloyd Jon Lloyd]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Monday Oct 1, 2018: Free Speech: What is it, and Who’s Responsible? [Panel]====<br />
* Monday October 1 at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/san-francisco/ Mozilla SF] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E246131 Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/hMK3AQ_zf3Y YouTube]<br />
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8rkGWL2zYeAos7V5G2TRYoulWHyQhiwlVC6pbdGb7U/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
** Time: noon PT / 3pm ET<br />
** [https://events.mozilla.org/freespeech Public invite]<br />
** Host: [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee DiResta], Mozilla Fellow in Residence<br />
** Panelists: [https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick Mike Masnick], TechDirt + [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-chaslot-6774b982/ Guillaume Chaslot], [https://algotransparency.org/?candidat=is%20the%20earth%20flat%20or%20round?&file=ytrecos-science-2018-08-01 AlgoTransparency]<br />
** Description: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
''“Roughly a decade ago, social media turned everyone into a content creator, giving them the tools to not only say their piece but to amplify it, to grow an audience with little to no budget. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and grassroots activists bypassed the editorial old guard, gaining so much influence that they were elevated to an estate of the realm: The Fifth Estate.''<br />
<br />
<p>''The social networks facilitated and enabled this new guard, simultaneously providing a captive user base, a virality engine infrastructure, no editorial oversight, and fairly limited rules.”''</p><br />
''<p>-- [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renee diResta] ([https://www.wired.com/story/isis-russia-manufacture-crowds/ Wired], March 2018)</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>We know where things went from here. But despite heightened awareness of the issue, the problem of misinformation online is a thorny one. In the U.S., the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but what happens when terms of service trump how we express ourselves? And in an ecosystem where misinformation (often accompanied by toxic trolling) traverses platforms, who is responsible when the platforms are gamed and abused, pushing false information to its users or worse, threatening their security. Is it the platforms? The government? Users? And is it censorship if a platform changes its algorithms? How much human vs. machine intervention (if any) should happen?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on October 1 at noon, when Mozilla Fellow [http://www.reneediresta.com/ Renée DiResta] will host a panel representing technology, social media, policy and government to look at these and many more questions.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, September 18, 2018: Inclusive Design: Unlearning to Include and Innovate, with Jutta Treviranus====<br />
* Location: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/toronto/ Mozilla Toronto] + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E244077 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE543v8kj50 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/inclusivedesign External invite]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VekKObYTYhBBbQJ28Z6E-niwfoDkl8F/view?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wta650xhCXSuE6U6nmZBDZmm9IZTMPJA5pXcMpvyx0/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta] will present two assumptions that have become so central to our daily practice that we are no longer conscious of them. These two assumptions — tied to research methods, design, data analytics, AI and even our world views — have scaled and infused all of our thinking and practices, especially our foundational ideas about design, innovation and business. Every dilemma we are facing today can be traced back to these assumptions. She proposes turning these assumptions upside-down.<br />
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Jutta will briefly trace the history of these foundational assumptions and the impact on our work. She will propose counter notions and give examples showing how these counter notions may accomplish many of the goals that have evaded us. Her examples will include UX design and research, data analytics, and AR and VR.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Treviranus Jutta Treviranus] is the Director of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Design_Research_Centre Inclusive Design Research Centre] (IDRC) and professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Art_and_Design_University Ontario College of Art and Design University] (OCAD) in Toronto. The IDRC conducts research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of [http://old.raisingthefloor.org/ Raising the Floor International], whose mission is to “To make the web and mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status.” She also established and directs a graduate program in Inclusive Design.<br />
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Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/davidb/ David Bolter] and [https://tararobertson.ca/ Tara Robertson]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, July 26, 2018: Authoring for Mixed and Augmented Reality, with Timoni West====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E245669 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sB_QR_YS8 YouTube]<br />
* [https://events.mozilla.org/monthlyspeakerseriesauthoringf Public Invite]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>This year Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group has two core objectives: (1) prove product-market fit for end users and creators with experimental products; and (2) increase Mozilla’s active engagement with developers, and their adoption of our core web technologies.<br />
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<p>As part of Emerging Tech, the [https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/ Mixed Reality team] specifically wants to empower developers and users to build rich interfaces and experiences — whether in AR, VR, or both — and is looking at things like spatial computing, gestural interfaces and new input paradigms, and other ways to support the growth of the open web.</p><br />
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<p>At our July Speaker Series, we’ll hear how others are addressing these needs, and how this work ties to Mozilla. Specifically, Timoni West, who leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], will share about the latest tools that her team has created to create new and immersive online experiences.</p><br />
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<p>This includes an exploration of the challenges — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W_ox5lG1Y both hardware and software] — posed by [https://disruptionhub.com/spatial-computing/ spatial computing] (the way we interact with computers in our surroundings -- whether devices in the physical world, or to virtual reality settings). Spatial computing expands how we experience computing, from single, rigid LCD/screen interfaces out into the wider, physical world. She’ll share how her team is creating tools that match how people already think and operate ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception apperception]).</p><br />
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<p>Timoni will also share ways her team is helping non-technical creators to experiment and make new things in Mixed and Augmented Reality, drawing off of widely accessible data sets. And she’ll touch on how these new tools can provide privacy and freedom, in the spirit of Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker. [http://timoni.org/ Timoni West] leads XR Research at [https://labs.unity.com/ Unity Labs], managing a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers. Specifically, the immersive Authoring Tools Group that Timoni leads in Unity’s labs team is focused on how people will build worlds in the future. Their first public project, EditorVR, was released in December 2016. Labs works closely with partners, cheerlead indies making awesome experiences, and stays closely involved with the AR/VR/MR community.<br />
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* Host [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/anselm Anselm Hook]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Tracking in the Open, with Arvind Narayanan====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E242198 Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZg1vIpno6I YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><br />
Since Q1 2015, the percentage of people using ad blockers on the web rose nine percentage points, from 27% to 36% per the [https://www.globalwebindex.net/ Global Web Index]. The research points to two major motivations for using ad blockers: user experience e.g. cluttered pages, longer page load times, workflow interruptions; and privacy e.g. intrusiveness and unwanted personalization based on browsing history.<br />
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Both Apple and Google have announced plans to address some of these ad problems, and of course, Mozilla has already [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/ implemented] an optional Tracking Protection feature. But are these solutions best adopt our [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles-for-content-blocking/ content blocking principles] of transparency & control, content neutrality and openness? In short, are these the the right solutions for users, or can we do better?<br />
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It’s highly unlikely Mozilla will solve this alone. On May 23, Arvind Narayanan of Princeton will share what Firefox (and other browser makers) [https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/946891277609598976 can do] to protect users from risky data collection practices on the web in ways that align with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Mozilla's values], facilitate responsible advertising, and increase user trust in the web.<br />
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Specifically, Arvind will draw from his [https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/ Web Census research], a measurement & analysis of one million websites and the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking so far. Arvind will discuss ideas for how Firefox can move forward with content blocking while minimizing breakage of websites. [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/englehardt Steve Englehardt], the lead Ph.D. student behind the Web Census research, and a new Mozillian, will be present; Arvind and Steve will answer questions during the Q&A section.</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Host: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/don%20marti Don Marti]<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[http://randomwalker.info/etc/ Arvind Narayanan] is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He leads the [https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project] to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. <br />
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He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.<br />
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Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/random_walker @random_walker].</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 12 April 2018: Data Protection in the EU: What's Changing with GDPR? [Panel Discussion]====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-protection-in-the-eu-whats-about-to-change-with-gdpr-tickets-44456304002 Eventbrite)]+ [https://air.mozilla.org/gdpr-expert-panel/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDVsnZRE14 YouTube]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ7p4ntnDof0BzTs0WppglFUg9M28sPxEV368rOein4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET (90 minutes)<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was formally adopted by the EU Parliament in the spring of 2016. It will come into force across all 28 EU Member States on May 25, 2018 upleveling data protection to a more harmonised and digitally fit regulatory framework. While the adoption of GDPR has been widely celebrated and the date is fast approaching, few fully understand its exact scope and it seems hard to grasp what is really going to change -- questions that are not only raised by consumers, but by companies alike.<br />
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This is hardly surprising, as GDPR will introduce a number of changes to existing data protection rules and practices. For instance, the framework strengthens users’ rights, introduces procedural requirements for data-processing companies, as well as new legal principles that will also need to be tackled and implemented on a technical level - such as ‘data portability’. While the implications are barely known among Internet users, the increasing bureaucratic demands are deterring many companies from taking necessary or appropriate action. <br />
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This expert panel hosted by Mozilla in our Berlin office will help to clarify some of the existing and upcoming issues around GDPR, shed light on the implications of European data protection to global businesses and attempt share best practice examples for achieving compliance that puts users first and is privacy-protecting. <br />
</BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
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* Panelists<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9a-steinacker-77948827/ Léa Steinacker], Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche and expert on digital topics that move users and companies (moderator).<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-heitepriem-23a20828/ Dirk Heitepriem], Director Government Relations at BlackBerry EMEA, responsible for relations with governments, parliaments and authorities in Europe.<br />
** [http://www.dw.com/en/lampe-stefan/a-15859438 Stefan Lampe], Federal Agency for Civic Education, expert on net policy and in charge of the data protection dossier at bpb.de.<br />
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nikolaus-lindner-a88730b/ Dr. Nikolaus Lindner], Director Government Relations DE & EEC at eBay, who takes care of all legal and sociopolitical issues of the online marketplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
** [https://kattascha.de/ Katharina Nocun], net activist, writer and expert on data privacy.<br />
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* Hosts: [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/alice%20fleischmann Alice Fleischmann] and [https://phonebook.mozilla.org/?search/cathleen%20berger Cathleen Berger]<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, March 7, 2018: Computer Security In The Past, Present and Future, with Mikko Hypponen====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/computer-security-in-the-past-present-and-future-with-mikko-hypponen/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/DsUcCGtd5cI YouTube]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzna2rtf4lw8zfv/hypponen_mozilla_2018_v1.PPTX?dl=0 Deck] + [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIcLKGbTYtMIGLYMVSbiZl9sYePlpn8OdOt_cMPrrKs/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen has been hunting hackers since 1991. Join us to hear his insights and stories on computer security history. Mikko will also tell us where we are today, and where we will be going in the future. But the real question is: how are we ever going to secure ten billion new devices that will be going online over the next decade?<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-bryner-9b591b5/ Jeff Bryner] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Finland-based [https://mikko.hypponen.com/ Mikko Hypponen] is a well-respected, global security expert who once [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0 tracked down] the authors of the 1st computer virus (Brain) that spawned the entire anti-virus industry. He has worked at [https://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure] since 1991, and has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American. A 5+ time TED speaker, he has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge, dissected the infamous stuxnet and reverse engineered many, many computer viruses including ones targeting [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002669.html Olympic games of the past].</p><br />
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<p>He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.</p><br />
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<p>Mr. Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum. He sits in the advisory boards of t2, Social Safeguard and Hoxhunt, and in the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Bored & Brilliant: Finding Digital Equilibrium, with Manoush Zomorodi====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/speaker-series-bored-and-brilliant-manoush-zomorodi/ Air Mozilla] + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfyFsOjyuw YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT <br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Manoush Zomorodi never lacked for interesting ideas. As a journalist and podcaster covering technology and its impact on society, she found inspiration all around her: in parks and on walks as well as in the proverbial coffee shop.</p><br />
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<p>But as she spent more time on her smartphone, she gradually saw her ideas and her inspiration decline. Hypothesizing a connection between her own digital habits and her creativity, Manoush created a week-long series of experiments for her listeners to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jump-start their creativity.</p><br />
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<p>The challenge, which is being adapted by therapists, teachers and office managers, showed why greater emphasis on “doing nothing” is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions. Manoush consulted further with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about the possibilities of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity.</p><br />
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<p>Technology isn’t going anywhere, and that’s just fine. Manoush will share about how we can align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true to find equilibrium in our digital ecosystem. We’ll also have copies of [http://smarturl.it/BoredBrilliant_AMZ Bored and Brilliant] for those at the live event in San Francisco, and Manoush will stay on to sign them after her talk.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariappopova/ Maria Popova] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.manoushz.com/bio/ Manoush Zomorodi]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Manoush is a podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition.</p><br />
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<p>As host of [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself/ Note to Self], the podcast from WNYC Studios, she unpacks the forces shaping our accelerating world and guides listeners through its challenges. Her book, [http://www.manoushz.com/book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self] is based on her 2015 interactive project with tens of thousands of listeners. It empowers the reader to transform their digital anxiety into self-knowledge, autonomy, and action.</p><br />
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<p>Note to Self was named 2017’s Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Manoush has won numerous awards for her work including four from the New York Press Club. In 2014, the Alliance for Women in Media named her Outstanding Host.</p><br />
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<p>In spare moments, Manoush tweets [https://twitter.com/manoushz @manoushz] and takes deep cleansing breaths.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Open by Design: How NASA Innovates to Take on the Universe, with Steven Rader====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/open-by-design-how-nasa-innovates-to-take-on-the-universe-with-steven-rader/ Air Mozilla] + [https://youtu.be/b4vM3Jp0qso YouTube]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
In 2007, the Space Life Sciences group at U.S.-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crafted a strategy: it would go “outside” its own walls to build a balanced research & development portfolio.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Or put another way: NASA adopted an open innovation strategy for human space flights, refining its research and technology problems into challenge statements open to a variety of disciplines and technical backgrounds beyond NASA. They’re working with their staff to better define (and own) business and technology problems and connect with various communities (some commercial, some not) to improve solutions.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As Mozilla rethinks how we do open, thinking strategically about how we work with contributors and others throughout the product lifecycle (and sharing some of our approaches, well, openly), we thought it would be good to take a look at how NASA engineers use open innovation as a valuable tool.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 31, we’ll hear from Steve Rader, the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). We’ll learn how a large, bureaucratic organization tasked with the wildest innovation goals became more nimble and innovative by identifying and effectively working with outside collaborators, and what lessons might apply to us as we innovate in the open at Mozilla.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susystruble/ Susy Struble] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/steven-n-rader Steve Rader]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Steve Rader currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowd-sourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX for 25 years. He started his career as an environmental control and life support systems flight controller for Space Station Operations. He moved into flight software engineering where he developed delay tolerant communications software for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as wells as ground and flight command & control systems for the X-38 emergency crew return vehicle.</p><br />
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<p>Steve led the development of NASA’s Constellation Program’s interoperable Command, Control, Communications & Information (C3I) architecture. After the Constellation program, Mr. Rader supported the Mars design reference mission definition and a number of analog missions studying space mission operations and design.</p><br />
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<p>Steve began studying crowdsourcing communities in 2011 and joined the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as the deputy manager in 2013.<br />
<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 25 January, 2018: Net Neutrality in Europe: What’s Next? With Thomas Lohninger====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Berlin + [https://air.mozilla.org/net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-with-thomas-lohninger/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10:00am PT / 19:00pm CET<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-lohninger-on-net-neutrality-in-europe-whats-next-tickets-42116715229 Eventbrite invitation]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality Net neutrality]: the notion that all data on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Internet] should be treated the same, without discrimination or differential pricing -- is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/20/stand-net-neutrality-help-paperstorm-fcc/ at risk] in the United States but protected by law in Europe. But is it really being enforced?</p><br />
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<p>Our January speaker [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger] calls for citizens and technologists to join forces to make sure regulators enforce net neutrality as telcos and cable providers are not doing it on their own.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Thomas will share what the EU is doing: who are the decisionmakers, what is their process, what influences them, what has happened to date and what can we expect in the near future.</p><br />
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<p>He’ll also share key differences among the EU and the U.S. - not only legally, but culturally, politically and institutionally - and how these will impact the future of the Web, for all of us.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/_cberger_?lang=en Cathleen Berger] <br />
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* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/thomas-lohninger Thomas Lohninger]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Thomas Lohninger is a digital rights advocate in Europe mainly focused on net neutrality and surveillance. Together with the SaveTheInternet.eu campaign, he coordinated the civil society efforts to push pro net neutrality safeguards within the European telecom single market regulation. He is an expert in the field of net neutrality and worked as Policy Analyst for [http://edri.org European Digital Rights]. His current employment as executive director is with the Austrian privacy [https://akvorrat.at NGO Working Group] on Data Retention where he fights state surveillance and develops scientific concepts for surveillance footprint evaluation to asses the danger or surveillance to fundamental rights.</p><br />
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<p>He has a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, used to work as a system administrator and programmer for eight years, works since 2012 as a trainer for cyber security and has done several podcasts and radio shows in the past.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
===2017===<br />
====Tuesday, 5 December, 2017: When an Online Community Hits the Big Time, with Col Needham====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/when-an-online-community-hits-the-big-time-with-col-needham/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT / 6pm BST<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham] loves movies. So much so that he wanted others to be able to learn about movies, so in 1990 he published a series of scripts to search a lists of credits collected by a USENET group. Moonlighting while working for Hewlett-Packard during the day, Needham assembled a community from around the world to build what grew into one the most popular movie sites, [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb].</p><br />
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<p>Popular enough that, in 1998, Amazon purchased IMDb and the site now attracts over 250 million unique visitors each month on the web and its mobile app.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In December, Col will come to Mozilla’s London office to share how he built up a part-time hobby with several unknown volunteers around the world into being one of the foremost expert movie sites. What worked well? What did he change along the way?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Col will also talk about how working on a community site in 1990 was different from how IMDb operates today, and will share lessons for those of us working with global communities to build consumer products today.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://soledadpenades.com/ Soledad Penadés] <br />
<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ Col Needham]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Col Needham is the founder and CEO of IMDb, one of the world’s top movie websites. Born and living in the UK, Col has had a lifelong interest in both technology and movies. After starting a computer games software business at the age of 14, he went on to complete a computer science degree at Leeds University before commencing a career in technology research in Bristol, England.</p><br />
<br />
<p>IMDb grew out of a personal database of movie information (which Col created as a teenager) combined with similar data collected on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Col published the first version of IMDb online in October 1990 and co-ordinated IMDb as a worldwide volunteer effort from 1990-1996. IMDb incorporated in January 1996 with the volunteers as shareholders and IMDb became a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com in April 1998. Col continues in his original role to this day, working from an office in Bristol with IMDb staff members in countries around the world. <br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vznANka_9XknuGuK1IvCIpZ0ZISNJ0vXf_8OZVRPrw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Friday, December 1, 2017: The Power of Virtual Reality and Storytelling with Nonny de la Peña====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/power-of-vr-and-storytelling-nonny-de-la-pena/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
From the comforts of our couches, we hear about [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-lashes-the-dominican-republic-on-its-path-toward-bahamas/?utm_term=.adb187a98df6 natural disasters], [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41332750 wars] and [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-pulls-no-punches-rohingya-crisis-myanmar-constitutes-genocide/ genocides]. This discordance between actual events and our own personal experience leads to an empathy gap.</p><br />
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<p>But advances in technology - specifically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology immersive technology] like Virtual and Augmented Reality - makes it possible to learn of these types of events in unprecedented ways: we can actually experience them.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Inspired by World War II investigative journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn’s] desire to present an authentic, “on the ground” view of world events, Nonny de la Peña founded [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group] ten years ago to develop socially impactful virtual reality content with an emphasis on linear storytelling. The poignant social [http://www.immersivejournalism.com/ topics she’s addressed] include hunger, incarceration, sexuality and immigration (partial list).</p><br />
<br />
<p>As the world becomes increasingly global and our online and offline lives [https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/06/19/introducing-irl-original-podcast-mozilla/ increasingly integrated], it’s critical to convey stories that create empathy and preserve our humanity, and we’ll hear how Nonny is doing this, and what opportunities this technology offers to tell better stories.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://twitter.com/jofish Jofish Kaye] <br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonny-de-la-pe%C3%B1a-4363644/ Nonny de la Peña]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Nonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As CEO of [http://emblematicgroup.com/ Emblematic Group], a digital reality media company, Nonny uses cutting edge technologies to tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. Emblematic is also pushing the envelope with branded content, and an experiential volumetric search platform. From positional goggles to hand controllers, Emblematic has constantly innovated in this field.</p><br />
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<p>A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek, de la Peña is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field, and her spatial narratives are regularly met with critical acclaim.<br />
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</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4yoOKbBV3wOsrHBvUv5pBhNgVJeO_s4qO6jLPwerY4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 18 October 2017: Privacy as a Competitive Advantage with Gry Hasselbalch====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Paris + [https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-as-a-competitive-advantage-with-gry-hasselbalch/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon GMT / 2pm CET<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business.</p><br />
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<p>Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own data. The organizations who view data ethics as a social responsibility - who place similar importance on data as they do environmental awareness and respect for human rights - will win in the market.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Data ethics expert [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch] will share both broad industry trends as well as specific case studies of companies employing data ethics. She’ll also show how citizens and consumers are no longer just concerned about lack of control over their data, but are starting to act - demonstrating the importance of digital trust to growth and prosperity. She’ll also explore how new business models, advances in technology and a new European data protection regulation support a growing market for data-ethical products and services.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Raegan/ Raegan MacDonald] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sylvestre/ Sylvestre Ledru]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://gryhasselbalch.com/ Gry Hasselbalch]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Gry is an expert on data ethics and the social implications of technologies. She is co-founder of the [https://dataethics.eu/en/ ThinkDoTank DataEthics] and co-author of the book [https://dataethics.eu/book/ Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage] (Hasselbalch, Tranberg, 2016).</p><br />
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<p>Gry serves as independent expert for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 and the European Research Council ERC and previously worked in the pan-EU network Insafe raising awareness on youth and tech. She started the ’privacy as innovation’ series of debates and network at the UN Internet Governance Forum and has authored several studies, articles and reports on digital challenges and citizen awareness.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>She is a contributor to TechCrunch, Dailydot and OpenDemocracy and is a long term member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Her work is hosted at [https://mediamocracy.org/ Mediamocracy] and gryhasselbalch.com.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla Slack #speaker-series <br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Thursday, 14 September 2017: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard with Estelle Weyl====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/measuring-the-subjective-the-performance-dashboard-with-estelle-weyl/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://estelle.github.io/SpeedPerception/#slide1 Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yncs4NAoYejcHN2rzfYsNpW0qyAuo-5UMFNsdCeJrzw/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Measuring the Subjective: The Performance Dashboard <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Firefox 57: a new look, a new engine. And fast. Because performance is critical.</p><br />
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<p>But what does that mean? While performance is often seen a table stakes for software - it must be the best, and must continually improve - amazingly, no objective universal metric for performance exists.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In fact, performance varies quite a bit depending on the site, the environment and yes, the user. And users don’t check your performance metrics. Instead, they perceive how fast your site or app is. So what metrics currently exist that best reflect human perception?</p><br />
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<p>Drawing on results from a [http://speedperception.com/ speed perception study] and years of teaching & following web development best practices, [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl] will help us craft a useful definition of performance, unpack the difference between Speed Performance and Perceived Speed Performance, and show how we can leverage available performance tools to improve the user experience, ultimately getting the best ROI of our performance efforts.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/digitarald/ Harald Kirschner]<br />
* Speaker: [http://www.standardista.com/ Estelle Weyl]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
[http://twitter.com/estellevw Estelle Weyl] is an Open Web and performance evangelist, most recently at [http://instartlogic.com/ Instart Logic]. A web developer, trainer, [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/4943 author], [http://www.standardista.com/ blogger] and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple, among others. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.</p><br />
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* Questions:<br />
** During the event join us in the #speaker-series Slack & on IRC #AirMozilla; direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Thursday, 20 July 2017: Working Across Personality Types: The Introvert-Extravert Survival Guide with Jennifer Selby-Long====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-speaker-series-working-across-personality-types-2017-07-20/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YK8rIIW6Mp1EoQuY2bp7ZaIibQyjZgoYkhJTALK-jPg Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjyPFzVLCqaLtzyf4yAcxfFppF7udr-wqDv8_adSyS4/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
''If I attend that event, I'll have to talk to people. All. Day.</p>''<br />
<br />
<p>Over the past year nearly half of Mozilla staff have used the [https://www.insights.com/ Insights Discovery] tool to better learn about their individual personality temperaments, and to be more effective on their teams.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But can these tests really help us? What’s the real science behind them? Can they be abused? Or are there ways they can help us work together better?</p><br />
<br />
<p>On July 20, Jennifer Selby Long, [http://selbygroup.com/aboutus_founder.html an expert] in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), will lead us in an interactive session on this material. She’ll help us explore these frameworks and the science behind them, with a focus specifically on their Introversion / Extraversion dimensions and workplace collaboration.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>Importantly, we’ll make it personal, rolling up our sleeves with some exercises to help us explore how our (and our team’s) MBTI preferences can help us work together better, regardless of job description, culture, or demographics.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Hosts: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrassica Matt Frassica], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhaugen Tyler Haugen] & [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
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* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferselbylong Jennifer Selby-Long]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://jenniferselbylong.com/?page_id=2 Jennifer Selby Long] is an executive coach, management consultant, and MBTI® expert who helps technology leaders navigate the challenges of seismic change to achieve their highest potential. She also advises on the impact of personality and gender on financial behavior.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Jennifer is the past president of the Association for Psychological Type. She has been quoted by business and technology writers in the [http://www.fastcompany.com/3035286/hit-the-ground-running/five-situations-when-you-should-micromanage Fast Company], [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2938909/it-careers/the-programmers-guide-to-breaking-into-management.html Information World], [http://insights.dice.com/?s=how+to+manage+older+tech+workers&cat=-4722&category__not_in=4722 Dice.com], [http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/asi-se-vive-mejor-estilo-de-vida/preguntas-que-debes-evitar-en-una-entrevista-de-trabajo-fotos Univision], and the Bulletin of Psychological Type.</p><br />
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<p>She is an award-winning business writer and the author of Traveling Light, [http://jenniferselbylong.com/ a blog] helping leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Tuesday, 13 June 2017: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising with Tim Wu====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/selling-your-attention-the-web-and-advertising/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: Noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95YWtVZHJWUXRIUjA/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Uzsxmj4PpXEA9ZHU2f8Ptyv6Zoytc4zMAE_0LwxLZhA/edit?usp=sharing Transcript]<br />
* Topic: Selling Your Attention: The Web and Advertising<br />
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<BLOCKQUOTE>You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data.<br />
<br />
<p>While advertising-supported media was once confined to a small part of our lives like newspapers and radio, our work and lives are increasingly online and ads take the front row in our daily lives. <br />
This business model can have a democratizing effect: it makes products and information accessible to many more people, who might otherwise be priced out. But it also means that the main audience for these companies is not you - the person using their services - but rather, advertisers who keep the lights on.</p><br />
<br />
<p>History is punctuated by acts of refusal and outright revolt against this model, from the invention of the remote control, to the more recent rise of cord-cutting and ad-blocking software. Yet, whenever the attention merchants have seemed to lose their charm, they’ve always found a way to reinvent themselves and to recapture us.</p><br />
<br />
<p>What does this mean for the future of the open Internet? What can we, as Mozillians who ourselves live largely off of advertising revenues today, do? This is especially relevant to Mozilla, as we consider different ways we could shift ourselves and the web industry from being overwhelmingly advertising-supported.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us for a conversation with Tim Wu, historian, policy advocate and professor who [https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu coined the term “net neutrality,"] as he traces the history of the dynamics between advertisers, media and audiences, and calls on us to reevaluate what we are getting (or giving up) in exchange for our attention, especially in today’s always-on Internet.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/samb/ Sam Burton]<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p><br />
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School who coined the term "[https://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11936484/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu net neutrality]." Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139439&sr=8-1&keywords=master+switch The Master Switch] and [https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139413&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+merchants The Attention Merchants] have won wide recognition and awards.</p><br />
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<p>Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tim-wu NewYorker.com] and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us live on (1) IRC #AirMozilla and (2) Slack #speaker-series - be sure to direct questions to @samb<br />
** Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
<br />
====Wednesday, 10 May 2017: When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective from Adrian Hon====<br />
* Location: Mozilla London + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-speaker-series-adrian-hon-2017-05-10/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95djl0Nzd1Z3N2Xy1OMDJ5QVM3YWhDamxSblZN/view?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [http://mzl.la/AdrianHon Transcript]<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>It’s 2027. In the UK, 8 out of 10 homes host a range of microphones, cameras and motion detectors. They help users secure their homes, find lost items, assist with cleaning, keep an eye out for accidents and falls, and a hundred other everyday tasks. They're integrated so seamlessly into daily life that they're considered indispensable – and they're cheap.</p><br />
<p>Of course, consumption habits ranging from entertainment, clothing and food are not only known, but anticipated by intelligent systems. These habits are also owned, captured, analyzed and used by the corporations that run them.</p><br />
<p>Interestingly, just a few decades ago in the 1990s, the UK’s introduction of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) met with significant public outcry over concerns of privacy abuses. Yet now, less than half a century later, we’ve not only abandoned such talks: we’ve opted in to 24/7 surveillance of our homes.</p><br />
<p>In our May 10 “future retrospective,” we’ll look at how we - in 2027 - became so collectively compliant to others owning data about our personal habits and lives. What factors led to us to give so much of our lives to corporations, with so little transparency or accountability? Why were we more open to private surveillance than [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24#Wednesday.2C_26_April public surveillance]? And when we return to 2017, what can we learn from this evolution to map a different future?</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtallen/ Sarah Allen]<br />
* Speaker: [http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://mssv.net/about/ Adrian Hon] is CEO and founder at [http://www.sixtostart.com/ Six to Start], co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, [http://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Zombies, Run!]. The game has won awards for its stories and storylike games, and the team’s work has been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum in London.</p><br />
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<p>He’s the author of [http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ A History of the Future in 100 Objects], and he used to write [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/ about technology] for The Telegraph.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Previously, Adrian was Executive Producer and Director of Play at [http://www.mindcandydesign.com/ Mind Candy] from 2004 to 2007, where he designed and produced the [http://www.perplexcity.com/ Perplex City] alternate reality game (ARG). Adrian’s interest in ARGs began with the genre itself in 2001, when as a moderator for the [http://www.cloudmakers.org/ Cloudmakers] community for ‘The Beast’ (an ARG for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), he wrote a detailed walkthrough for the game, called [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/guide ‘The Guide].'</p><br />
<br />
<p>During that time, Adrian studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In 2003, he began a neuroscience DPhil at Oxford, but left after a year to join Mind Candy.</p><br />
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<p>Adrian has also spoken at the main TED conference in Monterey in 2001 (about the human colonisation of Mars), as well as various SXSW, GDC, Economist, and other such tech and gaming conferences.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Supplemental resources:<br />
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society The Transparent Society]<br />
** https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera<br />
** http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-alexa-add-11-billion-in-revenue-by-2020-2016-9<br />
** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-could-refund-more-than-70-million-worth-of-kids-in-app-purchases_us_58e654a6e4b0fe4ce088f31d<br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, April 26, 2017: American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/american-spies-surveillance-jennifer-granick-2017-04-26/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbNnHkpwmBeWJ5-rPVTGGqrlB-7MRqMboPfuBStuXc4/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]<br />
* [https://mzl.la/Granick Transcript]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: American Spies: U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.</p> <br />
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<p>Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick] will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.</p> <br />
<br />
<p>A teacher, practitioner and expert in surveillance and security law, Granick will share how the reality of modern surveillance in the U.S. differs from popular understanding, and what U.S. - and global - citizens can do to minimize its negative impact both for Americans and non-Americans around the world.</p></BLOCKQUOTE> <br />
* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchrisriley Chris Riley]<br />
* Speaker: [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Jennifer Granick]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Jennifer Stisa Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS)] and author of [https://www.americanspies.com/ American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (2017)].</p><br />
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<p>From 2001 to 2007, Granick was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. From 2007 to 2010 she served as the Civil Liberties Director at the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Granick practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, security vulnerability disclosure, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security’s Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Before teaching at Stanford, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
* Advance reading:<br />
** Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: [https://www.wired.com/2017/03/mass-spying-isnt-just-intrusive-ineffective/ Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective]<br />
** Guest post in [https://www.justsecurity.org Just Security]: [https://www.justsecurity.org/39233/reforming-surveillance-age-donald-trump/ Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump]<br />
** Video (1h21m) of American Spies book panel, [https://www.nyu.edu/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/modern-surveillance-under-the-trump-administration.html "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration"] with Jennifer and United States Senator from Oregon, [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ Ron Wyden]<br />
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====Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Building Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/habit-forming-products-nir-eyal-2017-03-15/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT<br />
* Topic: Building Habit-Forming Products<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Hundreds of millions of people use Firefox every day. But they don’t have to. They can - very easily - switch to another browser. But we know Firefox rocks and we want them to use it.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Enter habits. Those human behaviors that become regular, ongoing actions that don’t require thought or intention. Or, per [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit Merriam-Webster], “an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.”</p><br />
<br />
<p>Creating software that is habit-forming entails tapping into key human psychological drivers such as rewards, social validation and personal fulfillment. These drivers are at the foundation of developing experiences that drive product growth. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to software makers is significantly lower costs to acquire and maintain active users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>But what about the user? Is it manipulative to create habits for people so they can use your products without giving it a conscious thought? To “get in their heads” to ensure they use our software? Do we want people to use our products involuntarily?</p><br />
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<p>[http://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir Eyal] has built and invested in products reaching hundreds of millions of users including AdNectar, Product Hunt and EventBrite. He’ll draw on core psychological tenets to show how we can create products for users that are habit-forming. And he’ll show us how we can do this in a way that we feel good about - to “build the change we see.”</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [http://www.nirandfar.com/about Nir Eyal]<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>For most of his career Nir worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As an active angel investor Nir makes it personal, investing his own funds in habit-forming products he believes improves lives. His past investments include [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eventbrite Eventbrite], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt Product Hunt], Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marco-polo-live/id912561374?mt=8 Marco Polo], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/presencelearning Presence Learning], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/7-cups-of-tea 7 Cups], [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pana#/entity Pana], and [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symphony-commerce Symphony Commerce].</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. He’s sold two technology companies since 2003 and now helps teams design more engaging products.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Nir talks of his advanced degree from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks The School of Hard Knocks], but also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/cmore/ Chris More]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)====<br />
* Location: Mozilla San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-feb-speaker-series-inclusive-design-2017-02-22/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UT<br />
* Topic: '''Inclusive Design: The Intersection of Product and Behavior (Panel Discussion)'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. Its effectiveness as a public resource depends upon decentralized participation worldwide. — Excerpt, Mozilla Manifesto''</p><br />
<p>Mozilla cares not only about a functioning web, but a [https://internethealthreport.org healthy] one; a web where all people can both access and participate, resulting in an Internet that reflects the broad the diversity of its users.</p><br />
<p>But the Internet isn’t always like this.</p><br />
<p>Sometimes it's a place where groups of people are excluded. When Airbnb hosts deny service to guests based on their race, the web is no longer accessible. When neighbors make [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ destructive assumptions] based on race on local community site Nextdoor, or Twitter conversations devolve into [http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/twitter-trolling-figures/#JbgvA2UAaOqP trolling], the web is no longer a place of constructive participation.</p><br />
<p>These companies want to make the web better too. Approaches include [http://fusion.net/story/364420/twitter-abuse-filter/ hashtag] viewing controls on Twitter & [http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12887514/instagram-comments-abusive-words-filter-section filters for abusive comments] on Instagram; Airbnb’s [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-airbnb-discrimination-20160908-snap-story.html Instant Book] that prevents harmful stereotyping; and Nextdoor’s [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-social-network-neighborhoods-racial-profiling-decline-after-changes/ reporting system] designed to create more thoughtfulness around neighborhood conversations.</p><br />
<p>Mozilla builds products and platforms directly for developers, communities and publishers worldwide. How can we create and sustain experiences that are open, accessible and participatory? And what measures of success can we advocate to [http://www.tristanharris.com/the-need-for-a-new-design-ethics/ support positive experiences] for users, communities and publishers?</p><br />
<p>At our Speaker Series panel, we’ll address these questions with product leaders representing consumer, developer, business and gaming audiences as part of a conversation around "ethical design” with community, product and engineering professionals charting new territory in this area.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Panelists:<br />
** [https://www.pixelawards.com/judges/angel-steger Angel Steger] (Product Design Lead, Pinterest) is an entrepreneur and product designer developing award-winning products that empower people to get things done. Passionate about complex problems and human behavior, she’s worked in spaces as varied as genetic research, relationship management, and language learning. She currently leads the User State Machine team at Pinterest. On the side, you’ll find her practicing yoga, exploring food in SF, and gardening.<br />
** [https://medium.com/@randileeharper Randi Lee Harper] (Founder, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative). Randi is founded the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative to fight harassment with technical solutions. This includes the [http://ggautoblocker.com/ Good Game Auto Blocker] tool, built after a long career in tech (KIXEYE, Amazon, IronPort Systems). While Randi believes long term solutions involves cultural changes, but until that happens we can work develop shorter-term solutions to help targets of harassment. Current interests include tracking the way that certain communities interact, and helping define predictive behavior for outbreaks of online abuse.<br />
** Moderator & Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlosowsky Andrew Losowsky], Lead, Mozilla [http://coralproject.net/ Coral Project]. Andrew has turned a street into a museum, a volcano into a magazine, and academic research into a life-sized board game. A John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2013, he now runs Mozilla’s Coral Project, which helps news organizations build better communities around their work. Because journalism needs everyone. <br />
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* Questions: <br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #InclusiveDesign + #MozillaSpeakers<br />
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====Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Data and People: A Discussion with Laszlo Bock, Sr Advisor and former SVP of People Operations, Google====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/data-and-people-a-discussion-with-googles-former-svp-of-people-operations-laszlo-bock/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Data and People: A Discussion with Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When Google’s head of People came out with the bestselling book [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 Work Rules!] last year, he debunked many myths. Adopting an experiments-based approach with their people, his team was able to gather data challenging commonly accepted assumptions about hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, training and more.</p><br />
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<p>For example, in 2010 Google's research showed that junior, female software engineers were not getting promoted at the same rate as their male counterparts. Digging deeper, the team discovered differing self-nomination rates. Men, who in many cultures are typically more comfortable self-promoting, were nominating themselves at higher rates than their equally qualified but, on average, less self-promoting female peers.</p><br />
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<p>To address this, a senior leader shared the data with Googlers and encouraged all engineers to self-nominate when ready, and told managers to keep their eyes open for promo-ready Googlers. Eventually, promotion rates equaled out.</p><br />
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<p>Of course, Google isn’t Mozilla. For one thing, Google has over 60,000 staff in over 70 offices in 40 countries around the world. But the work and findings from Google - whose staff typically provide statistically-significant and rich data sets - can be useful references as we strive to create a Mozilla that is diverse, innovative and, at our core, puts people first.</p><br />
<br />
<p>On January 18, Mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro] will interview Laszlo. She’ll dig deeper into the approaches and learnings Google has taken with people and data, and help us uncover how these types of approaches apply to the science and art of people management at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker:<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>From 2006 to 2016, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock Laszlo Bock] served as SVP of People Operations, leading Google's people function responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers.” He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.</p><br />
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<p>During Bock's tenure, Google was named the Best Company to Work more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, Laszlo was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.</p><br />
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<p>He is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights.../dp/1455554790 "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead,"] which has been named one of the top 15 business books of 2015. He has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the PBS Newshour and on the Today Show.</p><br />
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<p>Bock's earlier experience spans executive roles at the General Electric Company, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting. He (briefly) held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance (along with 1,620 others).</p><br />
<br />
''* Note: Laszlo dedicates all proceeds of his book to charities relating to education and veterans, the former mainly focused on giving disadvantaged kids better access e.g. [http://www.peninsulabridge.org/ Peninsula Bridge].</BLOCKQUOTE>''<br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/lshapiro/ Larissa Shapiro]<br />
* Questions: <br />
** In advance submit questions [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdECql46iPaqIqUVjtDqtS-EpK8WirOM6YfGu97yDlaeMirIw/viewform here]<br />
** During the event join us on IRC #AirMozilla and direct questions to @diane<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* [https://mzl.la/2jDjsVg Transcript]<br />
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===2016===<br />
====November 16: Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation, with Ashley Good, Fail Forward====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/failure-the-hard-part-about-innovation-2016-11-16/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Failure: The Hard Part about Innovation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>When you start a new job or project, you envision exciting things you and your team will accomplish together. When you do your planning, you state what you'll achieve and measure those achievements. And when you are rewarded, it's typically for a job "well done.”</p><br />
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<p>Why even set goals, objectives or KPIs if you aren’t planning on succeeding?</p><br />
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<p>Because the best, most innovative organizations do more than set and achieve goals. They [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube also] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player fail]. Failure is actually a by-product of innovation. It's the "risk" element of the "risk - reward” equation. Cue the emergence of global failure [http://thefailcon.com/ events] and [http://fuckupnights.com/ meet ups].</p><br />
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<p>As humans conditioned to win and succeed since birth, navigating how to “fail well" is hardly intuitive. What constitutes a "good failure"? And at what point do you decide you’ve failed, rather than persevere? Or change your direction e.g. the notorious [https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/is-pivot-the-new-fail/ ‘pivot’]? In a world where success is rewarded and everyone is in the game to “win,” what does it mean to “fail well”?</p><br />
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<p>At our November [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series speaker series], we will explore how Mozilla can be a place where failure is not minimized, denied, or shunned, but instead treated as a valuable source of learning and insight to set us up for future successes.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Specifically, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygood Ashley Good] of [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] will get us started with very practical insights into how we can:<br />
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* Craft a language of failure<br />
* Communicate failure for learning<br />
* Develop the gift of feedback<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Working in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme and as a management consultant in Vancouver, [https://failforward.org/speaking/ Ashley Good] saw how fear of failure inhibits innovation, adaptation, and performance. In response, she launched [https://failforward.org/ Fail Forward] to spark a shift in how we perceive and talk about failure, and to help organizations learn, innovate and build resilience.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Since 2010 Ashley has worked with organizations – from grantmakers and nonprofits to government and private sector companies – to use failure as a learning tool and culture driver to support and foster innovation. She is well known for building the Organizational Learning Team at Engineers Without Borders Canada, and she continues to lead their annual [http://www.ewb.ca/resources Failure Report].</p><br />
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<p>Ashley is a contributor to the Globe and Mail Leadership Lab, Public Sector Digest, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Her work has received coverage in a wide range of media and news outlets, including [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-precious-fear-of-failure-how-successful-people-can-learn-to-value-the-fact-they-dont-know-it-all National Post], [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/failed-at-business-throw-a-party/article12202622/ The Globe and Mail], CBC [https://youinc.com/content/social/arlene-dickinsons-thanksgiving-day-radio-special Radio] and Television, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/wearing-your-failures-on-your-sleeve.html?_r=0 The New York Times], and [https://www.fastcompany.com/3040357/hit-the-ground-running/the-skills-you-need-to-make-failure-productive Fast Company].</p><br />
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<p>She is recognized by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey as the recipient of the [http://www.mixprize.org/story/fail-forward Innovating Innovation Award], hosted Canada’s first ever conference dedicated to intelligent failure, and is a half-ironman triathlete. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia with honours.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozilla Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/geroter/ George Roter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1_1F86Zk3YGC66WZkrN-qXjXMtsDgUDXxerMezuZBbz4/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====October 12: Metadata is the new data... and why that (really) matters, with Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Toronto + [https://air.mozilla.org/monthly-speaker-series-metadata-with-harlo-holmes-2016-10-12/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, October 12 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Metadata is the new data ... and why that (really) matters'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Maybe it’s when the person you had a bad date with on Tinder shows up in your “[http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/06/28/how-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section-just-got-creepier/#707316b92c5c people you may know]” feed in Facebook. Or when you accept the [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-stop-google-and-other-services-from-tracking-your-location-560176 default settings] on your Android phone and share all of your transit habits with Google. Those moments might lead you to suspect considerable information about you and your behavior (aka “metadata”) is being harvested, shared and saved.</p><br />
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<p>But you had no reason to predict that. Nobody told you what was being gathered, or who it was being shared with. Or maybe they did, in a long, detailed unread terms of service. Today’s proliferation of mobile devices and platforms such as Google and Facebook has exacerbated this extensive, prolific sharing about users and their behaviors in ways most do not understand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Announcements about Facebook encrypting Messenger and WhatsApp appear to be encouraging ways of protecting your data... but they belie a different story of splintered approaches to metadata collection and silos among major platform providers. Similar disparities exist among how browsers treat metadata. So while the actual content of our messages may be encrypted, dangerous legal, financial, political and even medical implications to metadata remain. The impact of information about what you do (and when you do it) has yet to be explored or defined, let alone systematized.</p><br />
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<p>Fortunately mozilla is in a position to advocate for practices and policies that serve users first. We’ll hear specifically how from Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Speaker: [https://freedom.press/about/staff/harlo-holmes Harlo] is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at the [https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation]. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective [https://guardianproject.info/ The Guardian Project]. She has helped journalists use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a member of [http://www.deeplab.net/#what Deep Lab], a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Mozilla Knight Open News Fellow in 2014.<br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aurelia/ Aurelia Moser]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ars1m5f5vq53d/hhomes_moz_2016.key?dl=0 Presentation deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====September 1: Being Human in a Data-Filled World with Genevieve Bell, Intel====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Portland + [https://air.mozilla.org/being-human-in-a-data-filled-world-with-genevieve-bell-of-intel/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 1 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
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* Topic: '''Being Human in a Data-Filled World'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>In May, Kevin Kelly [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ shared] the possibilities that technology will offer us over the next 30 years. Not addressed were some of the unintended consequences of this progress. Facebook Live, Snapchat and Pokemon Go provide a [http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/facebook_live_streaming_video_privacy_law.php few] [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/dani-mathers-model-body-shames-naked-woman-gym-snapchat.html examples] [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html of] [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/attackers-722320-multiple-anaheim.html how] tech is outpacing our ability to socially (and legally) master it. Innovation unchecked can pose serious challenges to our very humanity. Best practices for user research and focusing on specific use cases have limited impact on our ability to shape the future we want.</p><br />
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<p>[https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Dr. Genevieve Bell] is responsible for corporate sensing and insights at Intel. She leads a cross-discipline foresights community that delivers insights into significant societal, technical and global trends. At Mozilla she’ll deliver what she terms “more of a meditation and conversation than a talk” on what it means to proactively preserve our humanity in a world that is increasingly digital.</p><br />
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<p>This sounds high level but it's also practical: we’ll learn about five things that don’t change and five things that do, and how paying close attention to them will help us be successful.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>An accomplished anthropologist and researcher, [https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/genevieve-bell/ Genevieve Bell] joined Intel in 1998. During that time, she has helped drive Intel’s focus on user experiences and led various teams of social scientists and designers. She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user experience space. She is the author of numerous journal papers and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008, a vice president in 2013 and a Senior Fellow in 2016.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international field work and research.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Mozillian Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dietrich/ Dietrich Ayala]<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bztff7J_Ha95aWZKZm9RMm1BcFE Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
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====July 20, 2016: The Invention Cycle with Tina Seelig, Stanford University====<br />
* Location: Mozilla MV + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-invention-cycle-going-from-inspiration-to-implementation-with-tina-seelig/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, July 20 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Invention Cycle: Going From Inspiration to Implementation'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Are you stuck on where to go with your product and need an infusion of creativity? Do you struggle with brainstorming new ideas? Coming up with new solutions?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Bringing fresh ideas to life and ultimately to market is not a well charted course. In July, our guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] will share a new model, the Invention Cycle, that taps into our innate capabilities of imagination and creativity to help us innovate better. Tina’s framework captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’ll learn:<br />
<br />
<ul>- Crisp definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship</ul><br />
<ul>- Clear roadmap for progressing from the seed of an idea through implementation</ul><br />
<ul>- Concrete attitudes and actions needed to bring ideas to fruition</ul><br />
</p><br />
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<p>We’ll also be joined by a group of mozillians(1) who recently spent a half day working with Tina; they'll share how these learnings have translated directly into their roles at mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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(1) David Bialer, David Bryant, Greg Jost, Jean Gong, Jet Villegas, Martin Best, Rosana Ardila, Tim Murray, Jen Bertsch and Rina Jensen<br />
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* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://about.me/tinaseelig Tina Seelig] is passionate about creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As Professor of the Practice in the department of [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/index.php Management Science and Engineering], faculty director of the [http://stvp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Technology Ventures Program], and a founding member of the [http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design] (d.school) at Stanford's School of Engineering, she works with others who embrace the idea that entrepreneurs do much more than imaginable with much less than seems possible.</p><br />
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<p>After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in Neuroscience, Tina has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company. She’s also written 17 books and educational games, including The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of card games, called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are [http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191 What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20] (2009), [http://www.amazon.com/inGenius-A-Crash-Course-Creativity/dp/0062020706 inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity] (2012), and [http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Out-Ideas-Your-World/dp/0062301276 Insight Out] (2015).</p><br />
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<p>She’s been honored to receive significant recognition of her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the SVForum Visionary Award, and several university teaching awards.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rina/ Rina Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
* Deck materials also in [https://medium.com/@tseelig/inventure-cycle-e89579b328da#.ig8wmp5ql this post]<br />
<br />
====May 26, 2016: Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years with Kevin Kelly, Wired====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/twelve-technology-forces-shaping-the-next-30-years-interview-with-kevin-kelly/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 26 @ Mozilla SF - 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Twelve Technology Forces Shaping the Next 30 Years'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends already in motion. Wired founder Kevin Kelly has an optimistic roadmap for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.</p><br />
<br />
<p>These deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—overlap and are codependent on one another. And they will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. By understanding and embracing them, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Join us as mozilla's [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jjensen/ John Jensen] interviews Kevin on these trends: what exactly are they, how are they playing out in our world, and what can we do as technologists ourselves to ensure they contribute to the future we want.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[http://kk.org/biography Kevin Kelly] is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin [http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 The Inevitable] will be released in early June 2016. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular [http://kk.org/cooltools/ Cool Tools] website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.</p><br />
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<p>From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling [http://kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy]; the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, [http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/ Out of Control]; a graphic novel about robots and angels, [http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Cord-Kevin-Kelly/dp/1940689015/thebooklab-20 The Silver Cord]; an oversize catalog of the [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940689007/thebooklab-20 best of Cool Tools]; and his summary theory of technology in [http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/0143120174/thebooklab-20 What Technology Wants] (2010).</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
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* Host Interviewer: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jejensen John Jensen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kevin & John during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS #theinevitable<br />
<br />
====April 27, 2016: When Change is the Only Constant, with Kirsten Wolberg, PayPal====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/april-2016-speaker-series-when-change-is-the-only-constant-org-structure-doesnt-matter-kirsten-wolberg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''When Change is the Only Constant, Org Structure Doesn’t Matter'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>While it may be true in tech that “change is the only constant,” some changes are bigger than others.</p><br />
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<p>Things like…deciding to develop an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/14/first-panasonic-smart-tvs-powered-by-firefox-os-debut-worldwide/ OS as well as a browser]. And [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ an app]. Focusing on [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ devices beyond phones]. [https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/ Changing our approach to advertising and content]. Instilling an entire culture of experimentation and measurement [http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/agile-marketing-is-about-evolutionary-survival/ across functions].</p><br />
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<p>These types of shifts can impact job roles, titles, tools - in short, they impact all the stuff of our daily work. Whether an organization is decentralized or command & control, these kinds of changes are never simple nor straightforward. There’s no silver bullets. And yet, when done thoughtfully and holistically, significant change management can make the difference between life and death of a product, an organization and its community.</p><br />
<br />
<p>As a leader of major change efforts at PayPal, Salesforce and Charles Schwab, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] has moved a global organization to agile development and helped change the overall ownership of her organization. She'll draw off these experiences and share we might manage the changes happening at Mozilla.<br />
</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenwolberg Kirsten Wolberg] currently serves as Vice President, Talent at PayPal, leading the talent acquisition, performance and learning teams. She also holds the role as Separation Executive for PayPal leading the PayPal separation program as part of the eBay/PayPal tax-free split. Kirsten was selected to lead the newly created Talent organization for PayPal to bring her deep background in technology, operations and transformational change leadership to the talent function. She is leading the innovation to reimagine Talent for the newly independent PayPal.</p><br />
<p>Prior to her current roles she led the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology including technology strategy, planning, M&A, quality, transformation, employee engagement and the PayPal Open Source Office. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at salesforce.com and divisional CIO for Corporate Technology at Charles Schwab. Kirsten is on the Board of Silicon Graphics International. She is also Trustees for. Additionally she is a Board Member of the Greater Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Year Up Bay Area, and Jewish Vocational Services. Kirsten holds a BS degree in Finance from USC and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/dslater/ David Slater]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Kirsten during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #mozSS<br />
<br />
====March 24, 2016: The Role of a Product Manager with Josh Elman, Greylock Partners====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/the-role-of-a-product-manager-everything-and-nothing/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, March 24 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Role of a Product Manager - and Everyone Else'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>"The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.” Seems simple - but anyone who has worked on a product knows it’s not. At what point are you ready to ship? What is the right product? How do you know when you’ve built it? And often more complicated than it sounds: who are your users?</p><br />
<br />
<p>The best PMs are less product thought leaders and visionaries (though they certainly may be), but moreso shepherds of stakeholders and builders of processes to sort through these critical challenges. While they typically don’t produce tangible artifacts such as code or mockups, the ultimate success of the team and product can hinge on the effectiveness of the product manager. In short, product management done well helps make companies and products much better. But when done badly, it can significantly hurt a company and team.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>As an investment partner at [http://www.greylock.com/ Greylock], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe Josh Elman] invests in entrepreneurs building social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and connected devices. Josh specializes in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Before joining Greylock, Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Josh currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat, Operator, and Super. Josh also works closely with our investments in Nextdoor and Whosay. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95MS1Zb1N5dVp4R1BTZDQzQ3Awb18wTU5pVlBR/view Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hoosteeno/ Justin Crawford]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Josh during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina, #mozSS<br />
<br />
====February 25, 2016: Building Product with Partners - Interview with April Underwood, Slack====<br />
* Location: Mozilla SF + [https://air.mozilla.org/building-products-with-partners-interview-with-slacks-april-underwood/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Building Products with Partners: Interview with Slack's April Underwood'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Building products is complex. Building products with partners, considerably moreso. Varying resources, goals, strategies and cultures pose challenges. But partnering well on products is often worth the effort. This month April Underwood, head of all product & partnerships at Slack, will draw from her experiences at Google, Twitter, Travelocity and more to help us navigate the complexities of marrying products and partnerships. She'll be interviewed by our very own Bertrand Neveux, who has built products with partners for most of his career at and leading up to Mozilla.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood April Underwood] is head of Platform at Slack, a [http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform messaging platform] that has evolved into [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/slack-aims-to-become-a-control-panel-for-your-job/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 a diverse ecosystem of partners]. There, she drives key growth initiatives and oversees platform products, partnerships, API integrations and developer relations. She previously worked on products for Travelocity, Apple, Google, Climate Corp (Weatherbill). Just before joining Slack, April led teams of Product Managers as Director of Product on Twitter’s fast-growing Advertising (Ads API, ads.twitter.com) and Data (Firehose, Gnip) products. She was also a PM for the Tweet Button and Twitter API, and built Twitter's Business Development team from the ground up to strike strategic partnerships with firms including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA, Salesforce and Adobe. And while she used to write code (and sometimes writes term sheets as an angel investor), her first love is building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that people want to use.<br />
<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bneveux/ Bertrand Neveux]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for April during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtags: #mozSS #brantina<br />
<br />
====January 27, 2016: The Right Way to Build Software with Jocelyn Goldfein, ex-Facebook====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/january-2016-brantina-ideals-over-ideology-building-software-with-the-end-in-mind-with-jocelyn-goldfein/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, January 27 @ Mozilla MV - 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''The Right Way to Build Software: Ideals Over Ideology'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>[https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=614294385&messageId=614530409 Add-ons]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/threads/show?threadId=613722789&messageId=614485267 Advertising]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/%23/threads/show?threadId=602716342&messageId=602716342%0A Dogfooding]. [https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=414357831&search=zimbra&page=1&style=brief&search_origin=global&trk_event=search_click&trk_result_index=0&trk_entity_model=Message&trk_entity_id=414357831 Email clients]. Mozillians form strong opinions on all sides of these (and other) topics, often for legitimate reasons.</p><br />
<br />
<p>We’re not alone. Leading software firms such as VMWare and Facebook also grapple with contentious technology and process issues, and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldfein Jocelyn Goldfein] has firsthand experience of this. She's led engineering teams building software for both consumers and the enterprise; apps and the web; and for license fees and for free. These teams are like us: they debate how to best release software - and a host of other issues. Drawing from these experiences, Jocelyn will provide frameworks for how Mozilla can navigate these discussions effectively to drive better outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: Jocelyn Goldfein has held senior engineering leadership roles spanning from high-growth companies like VMware and Facebook to small startups. She is a widely recognized industry spokesperson on scaling engineering operations, mobile engineering, and diversity in tech. Goldfein currently is an independent angel investor and advisor to startups. As Director of Engineering at Facebook she led Facebook’s push on mobile infrastructure and quality, initiating major new investments in architecture and tooling and helped guide Facebook’s transition to “mobile first.” She launched new product initiatives in search, news feed, and photos. She also drove strategic engineering operational initiatives, including overhauling Facebook’s approach to technical recruiting. More on Jocelyn at [http://www.jocelyngoldfein.com/ her website].<br />
* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0Bztff7J_Ha95bmZyWlNzbjh4NW9Fd3BTajdkNGpMYW5uNk5n/view Deck] <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/osunick/ Nick Nguyen]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Jocelyn during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
* Hashtag: #brantina<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
====December 3, 2015: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Mike Arauz, August====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/optimizing-for-uncertainty/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, December 3 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: '''Optimizing for Uncertainty: Deciding and Moving Quickly'''<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>The web is increasingly complex and dynamic. How can larger software organizations keep up with this rapid, perpetual change? In the natural realm, 'complex adaptive systems’ allow for flux and change in tumultuous environments. Our December speaker will draw on these models to illustrate how modern organizations can decide and move quickly.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Mike will share how leading tech and product organizations are not simply adapting to increased change, but innovating and thriving in these dynamic environments by:</p><br />
* operating around networks vs hierarchies<br />
* distributing authority<br />
* processing information effectively<br />
* embracing structured and facilitated methods for collecting feedback and gaining consent on group action.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearauz Mike Arauz] is a Founding Member and Acting President at August, a New York based consulting firm that builds high-performing teams for the world’s most meaningful missions. Previously, Mike was a Partner at Undercurrent, where he worked with leaders of global companies to transform how their organizations work and thrive in the 21st century, including GE, Pearson, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mike is also a co-author of the [http://www.responsive.org/ Responsive.org] manifesto and a leading contributor to the global self-management and future of work movement.<br />
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/2b/Optimizing_For_Uncertainty.pdf Deck]<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/JimC/ Jim Cook], CFO, Mozilla<br />
* Recommended pre-watch: Mitchell’s 2nd [https://air.mozilla.org/mozlandia-day-2-mitchell-baker/ Portland Keynote] on Decisionmaking<br />
<br />
====October 22, 2015: Data as Empathy with Frances Haugen, Yelp====<br />
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/october-2015-brantina-data-as-emapthy-with-frances-haugen/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, October 22 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: Data As Empathy<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?</p><br />
<br />
<p>Our October speaker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances Haugen] will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
<br />
* Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen Frances] has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters. <br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Matt_G/ Matt Grimes], User Advocacy<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ15UP841EMtFzTA77AXDshQBEtngNS_MNciJ7TmXFQ/edit?ts=5615a4d3#slide=id.p Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====September 24, 2015: Should I Put it on Yammer? The Neuroscience of Online Communications with Deanna Zandt====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/september-brantina Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, September 24 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: “Should I put it on Yammer?”<br />
<br />
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts ([https://www.yammer.com/mozilla.com/#/Threads/show?threadId=372094698 this one] now the stuff of legends) can sometimes devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Not always, but enough to cause some communications platforms to be feared by some and occasionally counterproductive.</p><BR><br />
<br />
<p>This outcome, of course, is not confined to Yammer, nor is the behavior confined to Mozilla. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt, has generously volunteered to speak with us about the neuroscientific dynamics of online communications. She’ll provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.</p></BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [http://deannazandt.com Deanna Zandt] creates and implements web strategies supporting civic engagement and cultural agency, drawing off her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance. She’s worked with The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower’s [http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/ Hightower Lowdown]; and has also advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement. Deanna has been a [http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/ regular contributor to Forbes.com], as well as NPR’s flagship news program, [http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/ “All Things Considered”] and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio and Fox News.<br />
* Host: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Turner_%28Mozilla%29 Doug Turner]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sy025u2bx5spcy/DeannaZandt_Mozilla.pptx?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit questions for Deanna during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====August 13, 2015: Build, Measure, Learn: Being a Growth Organization with Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/august-brantina-with-hiten-shah-founder-kissmetrics-crazy-egg/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] will share his ideas and experience with growth hacking, a scrappy marketing technique developed by technology startups, and how it specifically applies to Mozilla. Larger companies that embrace this approach (examples include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox) use creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to gain product exposure and grow their market share quickly.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Speaker: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah Hiten Shah] is cofounder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg; he also advises startups.<br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kaykas/ Jascha Kaykas-Wolff]<br />
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/diuwv14mi7r5hr5/Mozilla%20-%20Brantina%20-%20Hiten.pdf?dl=0 Deck]<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Hiten in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/august-2015-brantina-hiten-shah-on-build-measure-learn here], or during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.<br />
<br />
====July 23, 2015: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi, GoogleX====<br />
* Location: San Francisco + [https://air.mozilla.org/july-brantina-on-prototyping-with-tom-chi/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi Tom Chi] has worked in disciplines ranging from astrophysical research to Fortune 500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo! Answers from 0 to 90 million users). He also co-founded GoogleX, the semi-secret group responsible for cutting edge projects including the autonomous driving vehicles, contact lenses that monitor glucose through tears and balloons in the stratosphere that provide Internet access.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Tom will talk about his approach to rapid prototyping using 'native' materials like paper and foam core to create and test experiences. Using this method, he has led teams to work more effectively and quickly, building state of the art (see above for examples) products as part of an ongoing innovation process.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Host: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcarpenter/ Josh Carpenter]<br />
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1FvfipWPkpnQ2gfFlRktfqPLTrVMjhbeg8sxFYau4UFw/edit?usp=sharing Deck]<br />
* [http://mozilla.github.io/participation-curriculum/rapid-prototyping/index.html#materials-prep-work Workshop] adapted from Tom's talk, from Mozilla Learning Network<br />
* Questions: Submit your questions for Tom in advance [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/july-2015-brantina-tom-chi-on-prototyping here].<br />
<br />
====May 21, 2015: Onboarding and Team Debt with Kate Heddleston====<br />
* Location: Mountain View + [https://air.mozilla.org/may-brantina-onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt-with-kate-heddleston/ Air Mozilla]<br />
* Day, Date & Time: Thursday, May 21 @ 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 4:00pm UTC<br />
* Speaker: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>[https://kateheddleston.com/ Kate Heddleston], a software engineer in San Francisco, does a lot of speaking on the people-dimensions of software development and engineering management best practices. Her focus is on how software gets made, as well as on what it does.</BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* Topic: <br />
<BLOCKQUOTE>Kate shares her thoughts on the topic of onboarding new hires - what it takes to do that well, particularly in an engineering environment - and the 'team debt' that results when we do it poorly. Kate also shared some of the fairly immediate things individual teams can do to reduce the debt. </BLOCKQUOTE><br />
* [https://makemeup.docsend.com/view/nrkbi4m Deck].<br />
* Questions submitted to Kate in advance are [https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-cantina-speaker-kate-heddleston here].<br />
<br />
== Testimonials ==<br />
* "I'd never thought about representation of people with disabilities in emoji and how emojis can be interpreted differently in different cultures. My job is diversity and inclusion, and it was cool to think about this." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I never knew that most mobile OS's freeze the set of emojis they provide. It's as if you only had Comic Sans font to write with." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "Yvonne's talk really opened my eyes about some 'creepy' technology that is under development or already exists out in the world, like facial expression analysis/tracking for example. Wow." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "I learned how technology to identify your facial recognition and analyze what you may be feeling exists/is being developed." ''--November 2018''<br />
* "It's difficult to get consensus on how to balance free speech with minimizing online harassment and hate speech. I could see good arguments both for and against regulation. I was hoping that we'd made more progress in weeding out bad actors." ''--October 2018''<br />
* "I learned how inclusive design makes all products better and ultimately more successful." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "Designing for the norm can result in quicker end-of-life for a solution, and that designing for inclusion not only degrades less quickly, but also more gracefully." ''--September 2018''<br />
* "There are unique challenges and things creatively being applied to authoring in augmented reality. Also - engaging and hyper intelligent speaker was awesome!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "About the various unique challenges involved with creating a VR world and what needs to be addressed going into the future. Fantastic presentation, by the way!" ''--July 2018''<br />
* "Fascinating information on fingerprinting and dark patterns." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "I appreciated the concrete suggestions for Mozilla to improve privacy in Firefox and also becoming "a moral user-agent." ''--May 2018''<br />
* "It was interesting to hear the detailed implications of the GDPR – how companies will have struggle to implement it, that 100% compliance is not realistic, how it will force global companies to it, it keeps privacy in the conversation, etc." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "I learned that political speech needs to be protected on the level as medical data. Don't panic, it's impossible to be compliant by May 25, but we should have our plan decided upon by then." ''--April 2018''<br />
* "Mikko shared about the history of computer viruses, and although I had previous knowledge of this, it was interesting hearing the perspective of a computer security expert. His speculations about the future of viruses/malware were particularly interesting." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "Mikko was one of the best talks I have watched in this series. Very well prepared and executed." ''--March 2018''<br />
* "That speaker was AWESOME! Her energy is infectious. She left our room on a high!!! Vancouver loves her!!!" ''--February 2018''<br />
* "Steve helped me understand how to structure projects as challenges to make solutions meaningful, and to collect input from varied sources." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "By far one of the *best* speaker series we’ve had. Awesome!!!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "One of my favourite perks of working at @mozilla is the amazing monthly speakers series. Today it's @socialhack speaking on 'Net Neutrality in Europe: What's Next?' Thanks for arranging this!" ''--January 2018''<br />
* "Thomas gave us an EU perspective on a world-wide issue. That's relevant for us Europeans. More of this, please! :D." ''--January 2018''<br />
* "It was awesome to hear the origin story of a site I love. Col was an interesting and engaging speaker." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "IMDb still collects and curates information from the community - nice bit of co-creation and networking shared interests." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny gave an amazing talk and these talks are an awesome perk of working at Mozilla." ''--December 2017''<br />
* "Nonny's talk was fantastic — well done!! ''--December 2017''<br />
* "I loved hearing Gry's perspective on how being privacy compliant/having high digital security products are now being used as a business development tool." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "I learned a lot about the GDPR and this talk clarified the law in a way I hadn't heard before." ''--October 2017''<br />
* "It's counterintuitive but "non-visual" metrics can be just as useful, if not more so, than visual ones." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "From a docs standpoint, being able to help people figure out the best way to implement stuff is amazing." ''--September 2017''<br />
* "Jennifer showed how extraversion/introversion is not a determinant for being a good leader/worker. This is important because a different communication/energy style should not limit your opportunities or what you are considered for." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "I now understand more about introversion and extraversion and learned very useful tips. I am a manager and this is very helpful for me to have more effective meetings." ''--July 2017''<br />
* "Tim drove home the history of advertising and how newspapers altered content for financial gain! It's crazy!" ''--May 2017''<br />
* "In the same way that we've long hit the point of no return with global warming, it is still imperative that we intervene on behalf of the web; we need to mitigate the damage." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "Adrian's vision of the future and the presentation of the incentives that would cause people to buy these devices was pretty insightful." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "The talk was entertaining because of the way that it was presented, where a garden path of wonder, highlighting the myriad of useful things with a very subtle undercurrent of what the implications were." ''--May 2017''<br />
* "These events add real value to me as an employee, and as a citizen of the net." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "I now have a much better understanding of the controversy surrounding the Snowden leaks and have an idea of what I can do as a private citizen to combat the government's use of mass surveillance." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "The topic was compelling and the level of expertise of the speaker made the information received very credible and thus easy to find relevant to my work." ''--April 2017''<br />
* "Today's speaker challenged my expectations of the internet and of corporate behavior and stimulated good office discussion." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "I dislike most presentations. This was among the best I have ever watched." ''--March 2017''<br />
* "SUPER INTERESTING talk!!! Glad I had the opportunity to hear Nir speak!" ''--March 2017''<br />
* "Today's panel helped me focus on the core problem, which is NOT technology but rather what technology is enabling -- people being jerks and why the technology makes it seem to be OK." ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Diversification of inputs makes design more inclusive and helps avoid problems like being wrongly bucketed in a certain demographic. Interesting modes of UX design include the unintuitive slowing down of user interactions, to prevent hasty life decisions based on a heightened emotional response. This is valuable because it is a well thought out piece of a design process - something that I feel like I can take away!" ''--February 2017''<br />
* "Laszlo's points were made with enthusiasm, rigor and data. He didn't shy away from the fact the some of the problems are difficult." ''--January 2017''<br />
* "AWESOME TOPIC AND ELEGANT SPEAKER, well done!!" ''--January 2017''<br />
* "It's rare for companies to be really good at learning from that failure and being diligent in discussing it. Hearing that part of the talk was really valuable to me. I'll try to make a conscious effort to learn from failure." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "The concept of reframing failure so others can learn and de-personalizing the sense of responsibility we feel was helpful." ''--November 2016''<br />
* "Before Harlo's talk, I also hadn't thought much about the role of freelance journalists and the complexities of protecting people and data who don't necessarily have the shelter of large news organizations. I think there are some implications for Mozilla community there." ''--October 2016''<br />
* "Genevieve showed us how designing data-rich experiences for humans often ignores important nuances and dualities that are present in life." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "There are human choices built in to the design of our technology systems, and Genevieve provided some examples of this (e.g. turning off mail servers) that I will use." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The opportunity to reflect on the unchanging constants of human behaviour and contrast them with the technology-driven product decisions we often make was illuminating." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "When building the next technologies of services, data sets, etc we need to ask ourselves if it plays into what is meaningful to the human race of family/friends, secrets/lies, community. Or we need to solve the challenges that have plagued us, time/reputation/forgetfulness. This is a great basis for Mozilla to start from when "prototyping the future." ''--September 2016''<br />
* "The most important thing I learned from Tina was about framing the question, because I often assume that solving the 'function' is solving the problem, when it is not. Zoom out to fall in love with the problem." ''--July 2016''<br />
* "Kevin was my favorite speaker yet! Thank you! It was very apropos to the direction we're going with Firefox being the 'personal browser.'" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Please keep it running as long as possible - it's an excellent forum!" ''--May 2016''<br />
* "Kirsten was GREAT. I don't think the lessons folks learned as mid-level managers in explosively growing social companies apply to Mozilla. But I do think Wohlberg's lessons apply to us." ''--April 2016''<br />
* "This series is really great. Focus on Product seems to be the theme and is a much necessary one for us now. Thanks for bringing them. It really helps." ''--March 2016''<br />
* "April addressed some questions that were particularly apropos to a project I'm working on. It was interesting to see how Slack faced the same problem!" ''--February 2016''<br />
* "Jocelyn's talk was brilliant. She presented a very insightful and productive way to reframe the conversation about release management. Just what we needed right now. Great choice!" ''--January 2016'' <br />
* "The speaker was very good, had thought-provoking ideas, yet delivered those ideas in a tasteful and relaxed way. I am likely to share and recommend my friends to go watch the video recording later." ''--December 2015''<br />
* "This speaker was especially relevant and valuable because she provided tangible and actionable information in addition to being thought-provoking." ''-- October 2015''<br />
* "Seeing speakers like this are really heartening to see at Mozilla. I think it will drive some really impactful change." ''-- September 2015''<br />
* "Bringing in subject matter experts from the outside help us push our sometimes-bubble-like thinking. It's very easy to get caught up in our own 'laws' and constraints but hearing best practices such as Hitten will help us open our eyes a bit more. I'm excited because his presentation was spot on and hopefully expanded our horizons a bit." ''-- August 2015''<br />
* "Really learned to think differently about a lot of things and also 'argument' differently when discussing new features or ideas. Always think about the user value, and how what you are working on will hinder or improve the user experience." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "This felt like the most interesting speaker so far, perhaps because it was directly relevant to our day-to-day work. He was also quite a good speaker, which helps. Getting people to talk about areas where we think we could do better or use a different perspective seems like a good general strategy." ''-- July 2015''<br />
* "I love getting an outside perspective from an expert in an area. We spend a lot of time talking to ourselves so that outside perspective is awesome." ''-- May 2015''<br />
* "The talk was engaging and the Paris employees loved the 'Brantina' idea and felt more a part of the conversation." ''-- May 2015''<br />
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== <p> '''2015-2018 Program'''</p>==<br />
===Topic Areas===<br />
We host topics that support our strategy:<br />
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* '''Grow Firefox & From Firefox''' e.g. product-related content such as user-centered design; user acquisition and retention; metrics & data.<br />
* '''Grow New Areas''' e.g. Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence; virtual, augmented and mixed reality; blockchain<br />
* '''Grow Mozilla''' topics tied to our [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/ Issues Agenda] including [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/internet-health/ Internet Health] and community initiatives<br />
* '''People Development & Support.''' Collaboration, communication and all the human stuffs.<br />
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===Speaker Criteria===<br />
We prefer speakers who:<br />
* Have practical hands-on experience in their area of expertise (vs. just academic or consulting)<br />
* Have significant experience public speaking and/or teaching, as well as in their domain of expertise<br />
* Are willing to customize their material to Mozilla’s specific needs<br />
* Motivate audiences to both learn and act (as distinguished from purely inspirational “TED”-like talks)<br />
* Encompass diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, perspectives and geographies<br />
* Are recommended by other Mozillians<br />
* Do not promote a commercial or personal agenda<br />
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The speaker(s) share live from a Mozilla office and are publicly streamed to Mozilla's other offices via [https://air.mozilla.org/channels/speaker-series/ Air Mozilla] and archived for subsequent viewing. We encourage speakers to allot at least 15-20 minutes for Q&A. Typical in-person attendance at each office is 20-30; additionally roughly 100-200 other attendees tune in live remotely. Follow-on views are available to our thousands of community members and the public.<br />
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===Objectives===<br />
We seek outside speakers to:<br />
* Expose Mozilla staff to outside ideas, practices and technologies<br />
* Facilitate learning, skill-building and professional development<br />
* Connect Mozilla to outside influencers</div>Wikibiz