ODI Fridays: The smart home – not smart enough or too smart?

ODI Fridays are free lunchtime lectures for everyone. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk. We talk about smart homes as if they had already become a reality but for many they are a worrying trend towards data being hoovered up for advertising purposes elsewhere. Based on her book ‘Smarter Homes: how technology will change your home life’ author and designer Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino will speak about the relationships between people and technological advancements that have shaped our home lives and what this latest trend of ‘smart homes’ tells us about the future. About the speaker Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is an interaction designer, product designer, entrepreneur based in London. She was named 1st in a list of 100 Internet of Things Influencers (Postscapes, 2016), 2nd in Top 100 Internet of Things Thought Leaders (Onalytica, 2014) and in the Top 100 Influencial Tech Women on Twitter (Business Insider, 2014), Smith & Williamson Power 100 (2017). She is the founder of the Good Night Lamp, connected lamps for your global friends and family. She is also the Director of designswarm a strategic consultancy focusing on the internet of things. Some of her clients include BBC R&D, P&G, British Gas, EDF R&D and Nominet, British Telecom and others. She is @iotwatch on Twitter