Lunch Talks

Steve Daniels

Founding Director, Makeshift
February 21, 2014

The more you dig into informal economies the more you realize…that they hack society

Steve Daniels is passionate about using technology to transform society. He’s part of IBM‘s design leadership team, responsible for driving a culture of design and innovation throughout the company. He is also the founding director of Makeshift, a magazine and think tank dedicated to uncovering creative solutions at the economic fringe.

Steve has received awards and patents for his work at IBM on Smarter Cities, the Watson question-answer system, an SMS App Store for emerging markets, and enterprise crowdfuning. He is the author of Making Do, which catalogs his research on Kenya’s jua kali roadside engineering culture. As an undergraduate, he founded the annual Better World by Design conference, ran Brown University’s chapter of Engineers Without Boarders, and developed an entrepreneurship center and curriculum for at-risk teens. He has spoken at TED, PopTech, and the New York Forum.

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