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Building products using emerging technologies is more difficult. As we’re seeing with building AI products today, teams are often chasing which use case and customer profiles to focus on. It’s harder because the new technologies make us obsess over what’s possible rather than what people actually need. Dr. Llewyn Paine joins us to share lessons and strategies from her advising teams working on spatial computing, virtual reality, and robotics. Her expertise is helping teams make better product decisions through research. We’ll discuss how to identify your best potential customers and design higher-value products and services they’ll love to use.

She is an innovation strategy consultant with nearly two decades of experience in emerging technologies, including mixed reality and AI at Microsoft, and experimental media for Disney. She has helped emerging technology teams launch flagship products and secure investments of over $300M. designofai.substack.com to get additional resources.

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She’s speaking at the Designing with AI conference on June 4-5 where she’ll be diving into her most recent work: Protecting biometric data of research participants by leveraging AI