Speaking Highlights & Events

Config 2024: The design renaissance

This session will talk about moving from awareness to covering the bridge of technology, emotions, and what AI can’t do. Reginé will dive into understanding emotion, emotional design, understanding humor, common sense, ethical considerations, and original thought.

Reginé smiling while speaking at Ciscos’s DZone Conference in 2024

Reginé Gilbert is a highly accomplished international public speaker who has delivered captivating talks at prestigious educational institutions and high-profile events worldwide. One of her notable speaking engagements was at Stanford's renowned Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series.

Reginé's dynamic and engaging speaking style allows her to connect with diverse audiences, inspiring and empowering them with her insights and expertise. She is driven by a passion for sharing knowledge and sparking meaningful conversations, and she constantly seeks new opportunities to captivate and educate through the power of public speaking.

Reach out if you'd like to book Reginé Gilbert for a future speaking engagement.

2025

  • What AI Misses and the Human Element - Watch Me Think

  • The Access Blueprint: Where AI Meets Humanity - UCDA Creative Summit 2025

  • Designing Our Future Worlds Workshop - University of Miami

  • Inclusive Design for a Digital World and AI - Queen Mary School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

2024

  • Inclusive Design for a Digital World with Reginé Gilbert

  • Reginé Gilbert on the Essence of Accessibility

  • The Design Renaissance - Figma

  • Human Spatial Computing and the Road to Inclusion - Design Matters DM24 Mexico

  • What Can We Teach About Accessibility that AI Can’t? (AccessU 2024 workshop)

  • Spring 2024 Sciame Lecture Series: “Human Spatial Computing

  • Designing for Your Future Self - Design Matters

  • What Can We Teach About Accessibility that AI Can’t?

2023

  • Towards XR Accessibility Heuristics via Principles of Universal Design

  • Poster Session Interviews - XR Access Symposium 2023

  • Formulating Inclusive and Accessible Heuristics: A Developmental Approach

  • Global Design: Prioritizing Inclusion, Accessibility, and Sustainability - Design Matters Tokyo

  • Design Matters Lagos

  • Global Design: Prioritizing Inclusion, Accessibility, and Sustainability

2022

  • Advancing a Disability - Inclusive Metaverse GatherVerse

  • The State of Black Design

  • Accessibility, Inclusion and Equity Beyond the Web - SXSW

  • Accessible Data and Design - Axe-Con

  • 3 Play Media: ACCESS: The Age of Digital Inclusion

  • Stanford HCI Seminar

  • Moving from Awareness to Action - Design Matters

2021

  • Inclusive Design for a Digital World - UCD

  • WUD Milan

  • 23rd edition of the Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR)

  • Interaction Design Foundation

  • Tory Burch Foundation

  • Augmented World Expo

  • Ethics in Design

  • Service Design Jam DC

  • AccessU, Knowability Conference

  • Global Accessibility Awareness Day, UC Davis

  • Patient Experience Summit

  • VRAR Association

  • Teach Access

  • MMT_Tech Meetup UK, Women in Tech

  • Design Week, Designing for All, General Assembly

  • Adobe Design Circle

  • Microsoft Speaker Series, MR Speaker Series - XR Accessibility and the XR Access Initiative

  • Inclusive Content, ContentED Conference

  • Ethics and Design, General Assembly Denver

2020

  • Inclusive Design and Accessibility - General Assembly

  • Designing for your future self - IXPA Cincinnati Meetup

  • Brooklyn Product Meetup

  • World Usability Day, Michigan University

  • Disability Justice and Inclusive Design, NYU Center for Disability Studies

  • Wall Street Journal - Experience Management Forum

  • Tory Burch Foundation

  • The PLUG Summit

  • A11y Toronto Conference

  • IO2020 Virtual Summit

  • B Tech Conference, University of Miami

  • UK Government Meetup, UK Government

  • UX Design Workshop, America on Tech

  • Future of UX, Adobe

  • AI4All, Columbia University

  • Machines and Media - NYC Media Lab

  • G4C Games 4 Change

  • HUE Design Summit

  • XR Access

  • Design Elephants, the accessibility elephant, Postlight

  • Inclusive Design for a Digital World, General Assembly

2019

  • A11y NYC Meetup

  • Service Design Meetup

  • Design & Diversity Conference

  • Parsons

  • Amazon

  • TED

  • Longhorn PHP Conference

  • HEBS International

  • Women in Design Panel

  • UXCampDC

2018

  • Computer Science Week Panel, New York Department of Education

  • Questioning Forensics, New York Bar Association

  • Inclusive Design Panel, General Assembly

  • Womentechmakers Leadership Summit, Google

  • Women in Product Inclusive Design Panel

  • Computer Science for All Equity Panel, New York Department of Education

  • Coffee and Coded

  • MongoDB World

  • Google Developer Group International Women’s Day Celebration

  • NABJ Region 1 Conference

  • New York on Tech Career Panel

  • HOW Design Live

  • NYU STEM Panel

  • B Sides Cyber Security Conference

2017

  • Ladies that UX New York

  • Revolve Conference

  • Code(Her) Conference

  • UXPA International Conference

  • Afristack Panel

  • Meetup-Impact Hub

  • NABJ Regional 1 Conference

  • Core Connect

  • General Assembly Career Lab-UX 101

  • UXCampDC-UX and Social Justice

2016

  • C/I Hackathon-UX Workshop

  • MIT Hacking the Arts-Mentor

  • Steeamnista Summit at Samsung Innovation Lab

  • PTC's 12th Annual Women's Corporate Mingle-NYU

  • Code (Her) Conference at The Washington Post

  • National NABJ/NAHJ Conference at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park

  • Front End Camp at The United Nations

  • UXCamp NYC at General Assembly

  • NABJ Region 1 Conference at Morgan State University

  • UXCamp DC Washington DC at the District Architecture Center