EPIC2025 Kickoff
Hear expert talks about our theme Intelligences and learn how to submit a proposal to present your work in the EPIC2025 Main Program
EPIC2025 explores Intelligences – the multiple, collective, and distributed capabilities of social, technical, business, and environmental systems. We invite you to join us to engage new kinds of intelligences and their application to advance the goals and wellbeing of diverse people and environments.
On January 30 we’re kicking it all off with a fun and inspiring event designed to inspire your work this year. The agenda includes:
- Introduction to Intelligences by EPIC2025 Chairs Anni Ojajärvi and Heli Rantavuo
- Expert talks on multiple Intelligences and their value to our work
- A lightning round in which our program committee chairs pitch their presentation formats and inspire you to submit a proposal to present your work in the EPIC2025 Main Program
- Breakout Q&A with EPIC2025 program committee members so you can share your ideas and ask questions about proposals, the review process, and the conference
This year we are inviting proposals for presentations and installations in several formats: Papers, Case studies, PechaKucha, Arts & Experiences, and Graduate Colloquium.
Our FREE, virtual Kickoff event happens twice—choose the time that’s most convenient for you:
January 30, 8–9:30am Pacific Time /
5–6:30pm CET
January 30, 3–4:30pm Pacific Time /
January 31, 10–11:30am AEDT
Meet the Kickoff Chairs
The thematic programming for the EPIC2025 is developed by EPIC Members:
Iveta hajdakova
Associate Director | Stripe Partners
Iveta is a specialist in economic anthropology and the anthropology of experience. She is interested in understanding how value is created through interactions with people, things, spaces, services and technology. Her approach draws inspiration from feminist thought and Science and Technology Studies (STS).
Iveta holds a PhD in Anthropology from Charles University in Prague and was a 2012–13 Fulbright-Masaryk Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York. Since leaving academia, she has worked with a range of global technology, retail and hospitality companies, helping them drive strategy, innovation and design.
Louise Vang Jensen
Partner & Co-CEO | IS IT A BIRD
Louise is the anthropological lighthouse and co-CEO of IS IT A BIRD. Alongside Sune Holm Thøgersen, she heads a creative, multidisciplinary team that applies diverse skills in research, design and strategy to a shared urge to place human needs and aspirations at the very core of the strategic development of organizations.
Louise is a trusted advisor to industry leading companies with a track record of collaboration at organizations including VELUX, Novo Nordisk and Nike.