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Tiffany Shlain              

Founder of The Webby Awards; Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker, Bestselling Author, Internet Pioneer & Futurist

Honored by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is a multi-disciplinary artist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, national bestselling author, and the founder of the Webby Awards. Working across mediums, Shlain's work explores ideas in philosophy, technology, neuroscience, and nature.

Her work has been shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Sundance Film Festival and U.S. embassies globally.

Her sculpture Dendrofemonology A Feminist History Tree Ring, was installed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and was in Madison Square Park in New York City for a Mobilization for Women's Rights and the Planet, to kick off Climate Week September 2024. Highlights can be seen in her new short film "We Are Here." This past fall, her solo exhibition You Are Here at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York was selected by both Artnet and Artforum on their "Must-See" gallery shows list. Her joint exhibition with Ken Goldberg for the Getty's PST ART: Art & Science Collide art initiative Ancient Wisdom for A Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles is on the Los Angeles Times' list of exhibitions to see and called "mind-bending" by Hyperallergic and will be on view until March 2025.

Her awards and distinctions include selection by the Albert Einstein Foundation for their Genius100 list, the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Intellectual Activity, and inclusion in National Public Radio’s list of best commencement speeches for her speech at University of California, Berkeley. Shlain is known for her dynamic cinematic talk experiences and speaks internationally.

Her films have received over 65 awards, and have had multiple premiers at Sundance. Shlain’s national bestselling book, "24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection," received the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award. Her recent film on neuroscience "The Teen Brain "was just released and is executive produced by Goldie Hawn and the MindUP program. She has been writing a monthly newsletter Breakfast @ Tiffany Shlain's for over 28 years.

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24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week

Tiffany Shlain will explore in her inspiring talk how turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul. By doing this practice for over fifteen years, Internet pioneer and renowned filmmaker Tiffany Shlain and her family have gained more time, productivity, connection, and presence. Drawn from the ancient ritual of Shabbat, living 24/6 can work for anyone from any background. With humor and wisdom, Shlain shares her story, offers lessons she has learned, and provides a blueprint for how to do it yourself.

The Teen Brain

Tiffany Shlain’s most recent film, "The Teen Brain" (executive produced by Goldie Hawn), explores the latest neuroscience on the adolescent years. In this new talk, Shlain brings these ideas to life by exploring what's happening in the teenage brain, illuminating that teenagers are emotionally brilliant, super-learners with brains that are undergoing rapid and significant remodeling and development. Based on the latest research on adolescence, and showcasing both teens and doctors and psychologists, the talk offers tools for teens and the adults in their lives who support them to help them stay balanced and navigate the powerful adolescent years.

Making Things Happen: Turning an Idea into a Reality

From creating the Webby Awards, to making award-winning films and books, to her art exhibitions and activations at MoMA and Madison Square Park in New York City, Tiffany Shlain illuminates her process for taking an idea into action. In this riveting and highly visual talk, Tiffany shares creating space to have new ideas, developing projects with advisory boards, fundraising and marketing projects to produce powerful ideas in the form of books, films and events into the world.

Art Talks on the Creative Process

Tiffany Shlain walks us through art from her recent art exhibits that explore ideas in trees, time and technology. In her time-based media, light boxes and sculptures, she explores how this scale realignment can change our perspective, offer context, reveal absurdities, and evoke humility, insights, and awe.

Art & AI

Actively experimenting with ChatGPT for her films and artwork, Tiffany Shlain shares what she has learned as she investigates the ways we can think about AI as an exciting new tool that sharpens our ability to ask and refine questions, and to discern what's real and what isn't. Finding humanity at a similar moment to when she founded the Webby Awards in the early days of the web, in this talk she explores the good, the bad, and the potential of this huge technological advancement.

The Future of Work & Wellbeing: Creating the New Work/ Life Balance in Our New Hybrid World

A dynamic presentation with interactive components for employees and employers, together. How do we maximize the benefits of technology (including remote work) while maintaining quality in-person office time? How do we create a work culture where both employers and employees can prosper? This talk offers effective answers for the new workplace.

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American Jewish Identity in the 21st Century

Known for updating Jewish ideas in creative and innovative ways, Tiffany Shlain will share through her projects (Sundance Film Festival hit film "The Tribe," to "Making of a Mensch" and her Tech Shabbats) the ways in which Jewish wisdom and practice (including rethinking rituals for the 21st century) have transformed her life.

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