Sabine Seymour

Dr. Sabine Seymour is an entrepreneur, researcher, and athlete. As a technologist, Sabine conceives products at the intersection of sensors, data, and the body. As an economist, she develops wealth distribution and asset ownership models for citizens who generate biometric and environmental data using distributed technologies. Her recent venture SUPA® is democratizing data by tokenizing the body™. Her think tank MOONDIAL is the nexus between silicon and style™ for clients like Intel, Siemens, GE, and Disney. Dr. Seymour was the inaugural professor and director of the Fashionable Technology Lab at Parsons School of Design in New York, led the research project BODYMETAPHOR with co-researcher Miriam Steele at the New School of Social Research, conceived Computational Cellulose at Aalto University, and was the Chair of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Computational Fashion Research Initiative at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center. She authored three books: Fashionable Technology, Functional Aesthetics, Computational Fashion, and currently works on Social Data Capitalism. She serves as a board member, and startup mentor, and received numerous grants and awards. She was a Tory Burch Foundation Fellow and received the Michael Kalil Fellowship for Smart Design. She is an invited domain expert for Disney, Autodesk, NASA, and Lufthansa and a public speaker at TEDx, SXSW, and Ars Electronica. She was called the inventor of the future by Cool Hunting and has been featured in Wired, Vogue, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and appeared on PBS, NBC, and ORF. She was featured as an example for her life's work at the Museum of Applied Arts 150 years anniversary exhibition in Vienna. Dr. Seymour holds a Ph.D. and joint-MSc/MBA in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Economics in Vienna and Columbia Business School, and a Master in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. She is an avid snowboarder, skier, surfer, golfer - and sneakerhead, and built a helmet as a game controller in 1996.