This media kit is a collection of pieces, presentations, bios and headshots.
Presentations / Interviews
I have participated in and facilitated a number of events, conferences and projects, dedicating time and energy to learning and teaching media, the web and social responsibility. I’ve spoken at conferences like OnBrand, Engage Prague, All Things Open, the Mozilla Festival, DML, FITC or OpenSyms, for policy makers at the European Commission and for networks like the Hive Learning Networks and the European Children’s University Network. I’ve taught film directors at the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Lab and the Producer’s Institute for New Media Teachnology, and helped activists from non-profits like Greenpeace and Avaaz improve their understandings of the web and online campaigning.
You can find the majority of my slides, links to conference sites and some videos of my talks here, or below:
- ePIC Conference (December 2023)
- Media and information literacies (November 2023)
- Badgesplaining: Open Recognition is for Everybody. Badge Summit (July 2023)
- Fostering Transparency and Building a Cooperative Economy. Mozfest House (June 2023)
- Dense Discovery mini-interview (December 2022)
- Mindset in Motion podcast (August 2022)
- Once Upon a Tech podcast (September, 2021)
- Ways to build trust (Open Org TV August, 2021)
- Getting Started: Open in Non-Profits (Open Org TV July, 2021)
- Meet the Ambassadors series (Open Org TV, June, 2021)
- Open Source, Open Minds (Red Hat, May 2021)
- Human at a Distance: Author chat (Open Org TV, March 2021)
- How Software Companies are Driving Social Good (Impact.Engineered panel, December 2020)
- Realities of non-profits: Building bridges between technology and global issues (NeosCon, June 2020)
- Kiron Talks: Open Platforms, Open Culture and Open for Business (Kiron Education, May 2020)
Press
- Red Hat Community and Social Responsibility 2020 (Red Hat, November 2020)
- Community Central: Meet the Open Organization Community (Red Hat Community, March 2020)
- Greenpeace takes open-source approach to finish web transformation (ComputerWeekly, February 2020)
- Greenpeace turns to open source to finish its web transformation (Diginomica, February 2020)
- Women in IT Awards London 2020 — Winners Revealed (PR Newswire, January 2020)
- Women in IT Awards London 2020 — winners revealed! (Information Age, January 2020)
- The Open Organization at Greenpeace (Opensource.com, 2019)
- Red Hat Shares ― Open processes, culture, and technology (Red Hat, 2019)
- The Linux Foundation Announces Full Agenda for Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference Europe (Irish Tech News, 2019)
- Supporting social causes? Take notes from the NGO playbook (Marketing Interactive, 2017)
Bios
Short Bio
Laura Hilliger is a writer, educator and technologist. She’s a multimedia designer and developer, a technical liaison, a project manager, a conceptual architect, an open advocate who is happiest in collaborative environments. She’s a co-founder of We Are Open Co-op, an Ambassador for Open Organizations, is helping to open up Greenpeace, and a Mozilla alum. She’s spoken at conferences like OnBrand, Engage Prague, All Things Open, the Mozilla Festival and many others as well as for policy makers at the European Commission. In 2020, Laura won the Women in IT Digital Leader of the Year award. Find her on Twitter and Mastodon as @epilepticrabbit.
Long Bio
Laura Hilliger is a writer, educator and technologist. She’s a conceptual architect, multimedia designer and developer, a product owner, technical liaison, project manager, and more. In addition, as both a specialist and a generalist, Laura is an activist who is happiest in collaborative environments.
Because she’s an advocate for systemic change, Laura believes that the Internet has more power than any other medium to create a better future for all of us. She is a co-founder of We Are Open Co-op, a cooperative that works to spread the culture, benefits and processes of open wherever it can. She’s also an Ambassador for Open Organizations, and has spent the last four years working to help Greenpeace become a more open organization.
Previously, Laura taught at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and was the lead mentor at the Bay Area Video Coalitions Producer’s Institute. She developed curriculum for the Adobe T3 project, has mentored at film labs in various countries and spent 5.5 years at Mozilla.
Laura has orchestrated multinational collaborations between the non-profit and tech worlds, invented concepts and platforms for global communities and spoken and run workshops all over the world. She studied multimedia design and has a Masters in Media and Education. Laura sits on several non-profit boards and is an active participant in open communities at a global scale. She can be found all over the web.
Older interviews
- Supporting social causes? Take notes from the NGO playbook (Marketing Interactive, 2017)
- How to succeed with reverse mentoring (Enterprisers Project, 2017)
- Reverse Mentoring: Is it right for IT? (Enterprisers Project, 2017)