I speak about my work at events, both local and international, and I offer mentorship during hackathons.
Events
2024
The Politics of Data
MY ROLE: Speaker with the talk 'The Politics of Data. And what designers can do', inspired by Ruben Pater's 'The Politics of Design'.
Resistance and Representation course
MY ROLE: Guest talk to Liberal Arts students of the Warwick University Venice Center about the use of data to highlight, and fight, the housing crisis in Venice.
AI Cafe, Reclaim the Tech
MY ROLE: Guest with the talk 'Data activism in tourist cities', on how we can collect, map, and use data to resist overtourism's transformation of cities.
Tech Drinks - Data Specialist
MY ROLE: Guest at the networking aperitif to discover tech and digital professions, organized by SheTech in Parma within the Digital EmpowHer² project.
Stories in Pixels
MY ROLE: Guest at Speck & Tech meetup with the talk 'Data Activism: Data as Rhetoric, Data as Power'
Future Fit Lab
MY ROLE: Speaker with the talk 'Critical Approaches to data visualization'
2023
In principio era l'algoritmo
MY ROLE: Radio Guest to discuss about the project Mapping Diversity and gender diversity in street names
Design Talk
MY ROLE: Speaker with the talk 'Critical Approaches to data visualization'
EUREKA: Urban Innovators Training Programme
MY ROLE: Speaker with the talk 'Critical Approaches to data visualization'
2022
FEDORA's II Creative Workshop
MY ROLE: Expert for the workshop on interdisciplinarity and creativity in science learning.
2021
Urban Dataviz • Designer Hackathon
MY ROLE: Hackathon Tutor
Urban Dataviz • Contest
MY ROLE: Contest Judge
Mapping Diversity: Odonomastica e patriarcato
MY ROLE: Talk to promote the project Mapping Diversity by Sheldon Studio and Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso.
2020
Airbnb and the Digital Services Act
MY ROLE: Speaker with the talk 'The Impact of short-term letting. Stories of resistance from Venice, Italy'.
Panel How Charts Lie. Author’s Chat with Alberto Cairo
MY ROLE: Panelist, in conversation with Alberto Cairo on How Charts lie.
Scenari e ruoli alternativi nella data science
MY ROLE: Speaker, with a talk on working as a data communicator.
2019
Internet Festival
MY ROLE: Speaker, with the talk on data physicalization 'Batjo, Installazioni fisiche DIY per raccontare i dati'.
Chips & Salsa
MY ROLE: Speaker, with the talk on data physicalization 'Numeri, bit, atomi: quando l'informazione diventa fisica'.
Data Journalism UK 2019
MY ROLE: Speaker, with the talk on data physicalization 'Imagining a Physical Future for Digital Journalism'.
Open Days dell'Innovazione
MY ROLE: Speaker, with the talk on data physicalization 'Batjo. Installazioni fisiche DIY per raccontare i dati'.
2018
Luoghi comuni. Geografie della città tra politica, estetica e studi urbani
MY ROLE: Speaker, with the talk on data activism for housing rights and Inside Airbnb physicalization 'Dati per capire, dati per agire. Airbnb e la trasformazione delle città'.
2016
EU Transparency Camp
MY ROLE: Speaker, with the talk on data scraping 'A Data Scraper’s Toolbox'.
2015
News Impact Summit • Remixing Journalism Formats, Technology and Design
MY ROLE: Speaker, with the talk 'Visualising Crowdsourced Data: Bellingcat, Silk and the Ukraine'.
Nordic Data Journalism Conference 2015
MY ROLE: Speaker, with the talk 'Tools: Silk'.
2014
Transparency Summit
MY ROLE: Speaker, with the talk on corporate transparency reports. Private stakeholder's summit.
2014
Berlin, Germany
Rethinking Journalism
MY ROLE: Speaker together with Dr. Stefania Milan with the talk 'Between news and algorithms. How does technology shape journalistic practice (and vice versa)? '.
Events attended as a participant
Other than speaking at events, I also enjoy participating in them! Here are a few events I have attended over the years
2018
- Infografica e Infoestetica by ISIA Firenze · Florence, Italy · 11 - 12 May 2018
2016
- Winter University: Using European data for better storytelling by EPP · Brussels, Belgium · 22 - 23 November 2016
- Contentious Data: A One-day event on the Politics of Big Data for Activism by DATACTIVE · Amsterdam, The Netherlands · 15 September 2016
- Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners by European University Institute · Fiesole, Italy · 11-15 July 2016
2014
- Hacks/Hackers Amsterdam by H/H Amsterdam · Amsterdam, The Netherlands · different events throughout the years 2014 - 2015
- Young European Journalist Workshop 'Data and Journalism: Between big stories and dirty surveillance' by M100 Sanssouci Colloquium · Potsdam, Germany · 8 - 13 September 2014
- London Data Dive by DataKind · Potsdam, Germany · 6 - 8 June 2014
2013
- Data Journalism Workshop 'Turning Data into Stories' by MediaLab Prado · Madrid, Spain · 25 - 27 October 2013 + 13 - 15 December 2013
- International Journalism Festival by IJF · Perugia, ItalY · 24 - 28 April 2013
- School of Data Journalism by School of Data · Perugia, ItalY · 24 - 27 April 2013