BiografÃa / Speaker Info
Joe Toscano is an award-winning designer, writer and international speaker. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News as a technology expert, in addition to other major media outlets. You may have seen Joe Toscano in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, or read articles about him in Forbes. His TEDx talk, Do you want to work for Google? You already do is an exemplary exhibit that summarizes much of his work.
After having been an experience design consultant at Google, Joe Toscano left Silicon Valley motivated by his belief that the industry misuses data. This led him to conclude that problems should be addressed through innovation rather than strict regulations. Since then, Joe Toscano has written a book called Automating Humanity and founded the Better Ethics and Consumer Outcomes Network (BEACON), both ventures focused on increasing technological literacy and uncovering collective and community opportunities through purposeful innovation.
In his lectures, Joe Toscano discusses how we can optimize the internet ecosystem through human-centered design. However, his topics of expertise are privacy, data protection, digital literacy and, more broadly, data rights as an integral part of human rights.
