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The Future Crashes into our Present

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Karen Palmer

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Karen Palmer is the Storyteller from the Future and she has come back to enable you to survive what is to come through the power of storytelling. This Talk is a cautionary tale of the impeding future crashing into our present and the potential role of the audience.

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Incorporating Neuroscience, Behavioural Psychology and the Parkour philosophy of moving through fear. As an international speaker she highlights the impact of technology from a social justice perspective and the necessity to Democratise AI. The Future of Storytelling as a return to the role of mythology as a form of rights of passage through utilising Art & Tech to influence Cognitive Behaviour and reprogram our subconscious behaviour.

Why you should book Karen Palmer for your next event

  • She is well-rounded.  With her ingenious background in directing, Karen uses her skill of insight, technology, and creativity to enhance consumers thought process, and will power.  She then further demonstrates how to successfully apply these skills in any real-life situations.
  • She is futuristic.  Karen encourages consumers to use and boost your subconscious behavior as well as build new neurological pathways for effective use and stimulation for your own “gym of the mind”.  Applying this to your lifestyle enhances behavioral actions and reactions.
  • She is advanced.  Karen empowers thoughts through training, understanding, reflecting and many other strategies through the utilization of your own brain.  Optimize your self through the power of AI.

Her recent commission by the BFI will be released in 2022 is Consensus Gentium an emotionally responsive film designed to be experienced on a mobile devise, tapping into the intimacy and authenticity of your smartphone features and world to create a uniquely realistic experience. Set in a near future of an increased surveillance State and bias AI. Consensus Gentium enables you to experience potential surveillance technologies today.

Karen has been described as a Thought Leader in the realms of Immersive Storytelling, Futurism and Tech and featured in innumerable interviews and events. Ranging from The Future of Storytelling Festival NYC to The Big Think. She has been opening Keynote speaker at AT&T Shape Conference, L.A, Wired for Wonder Festival Australia, Sydney & Melbourne, MIT and TEDx Australia Speaker at the Sydney Opera House.

Delivered keynotes and workshops to corporate clients and Leadership Summits include Microsoft Seattle, Vertex Berlin, ThoughtWorks Toronto and Google Cultural Institute in Paris. International Film and Storytelling events the Netherlands Film Festival to the Future of Storytelling in NYC. Worked closely with prestigious organisations such as the British Councils in Canada, Western Balkans, South Africa and Peru. Invited to speak,ZKM Living Amongst Intelligent Machines AI Conference in Germany. IFA+Summit Innovative Summit Berlin, Silbersalz Festival, was keynote speaker, Future, Science & media Festival, Halle Germany, Strategic Storytelling Seminar NYC Lincoln Centre. CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival under the theme, Art, Technology & Change to name a few.

In 2020 she received an Honorary Mention for the STARTS Prize ARS Electronica for Perception iO, the future of law enforcement. This is A.I. Law enforcement training simulation which will watch you back. Perception iO will enable participants to experience how easily human bias can be intergraded into networks by humans and therefore understand the necessity for Transparency and Regulation in AI.

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The Future Crashes into our Present

Karen Palmer is the Storyteller from the Future and she has come back to enable you to survive what is to come through the power of storytelling but she did not come back alone. This Talk is a cautionary tale of the impeding future crashing into our present and the potential role of the audience.

The audience takeaways cover futurism trends such as:

  • Surveillance Cities masquerading as Smart Cities.
  • Digital Colonisation : Exportation of Surveillance Cultures.
  • Exploring the ethical implications and social ramifications of AI through storytelling.
  • Impending emergence of neural networked digital social platforms.
  • Protocols developed by the Resistance-ranging from creating Open Source AI to to Democratisation AI & Data Democratisation and Hacking the psychology of Fear to name a few.
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Storyteller from the Future initiatives

Hack the Future Labs.  In the time where she comes from they use the power of storytelling to envisage strategies of liberation. Empowering people to not just imagine alternative futures but create the tools, networks and open source tech to full-fill the visions.

She is currently in your time developing this blueprint now, titled  Hack the Future Labs Think & Action Tanks at the intersection of Art, Neuroscience, Technology, Activism, Social Justice, Spirituality and the Parkour Philosophy of moving through Fear.

New immersive emotionally responsive film experience Consensus Gentium. The film that watches you back using AI and facial detection technology to enable the participant to become conscious of their subconscious behaviour.

The takeaways from this talk will be:

  • A call to action that will inspire the audience to activate their agency.
  • Enable participants to experience the future today.
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