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I'm helping business apps reduce churn and enable workflows with native integrations. If you're selling to businesses, get in touch to learn how to make your app sticker and get more customers via partner apps.
I'm a technologist and a strong believer that technology can bring about social change. I am deeply interested in creating systems that have a deep impact on our time here. To this end, I've started multiple companies to change the way information is accessed in places with limited connectivity using low-tech and high-tech.
I specialize in getting things done using a combination of technical and business skills. I love information and I ingest vast swaths of it to create a better understanding of our world.
I co-founded Pring in Pakistan, a social network designed to be accessible to every Pakistani with a phone via offline SMS access along with powerful online tools.
I implemented the first version of Pring and scaled it from zero to more than 5 million users while processing more than a billion messages every month. I expertise in NoSQL (Cassandra), Django, Python, RDBMs (MySQL, SQLite, Postgre), Java, C++, PHP and the usual suspects on the web: HTML, CSS, AJAX etc.
I'm passionate about bringing local content to more people and have been working on creating a better technical understanding of local languages to bubble good content and identify subject of discussion.
Democratization of technology & information is forever and irreversibly changing our time. We're at the cusp of an age where the cost of innovation is rapidly approaching zero, everyone can be an inventor, no one needs permission and everyone is eager to make a change. I, for one, am very excited about our generation's and our children's future. 
Lauren Bedal is a designer and thought leader in human-computer interaction, bridging the worlds of technology and embodiment. With an extensive background in movement, choreography and dance, she helps startups, agencies, and Fortune 100 companies like Google bring emerging technologies to market, focusing on embodied inputs such as proximity, gestures, body language, and biometrics powered by machine learning and modern AI techniques. Her contributions to the field of design have resulted in multiple launched products, patents, academic papers, and speaking invitations including Harvard, Columbia, Northeastern, and MIT. Her contributions to design have been recognized by global publications such as the New York Times, Wired, Forbes, and Fast Company. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where she currently works on physical artificial intelligence systems at Archetype AI.
design coaching or mentorship: https://forms.gle/L1nr8FkaJup2L6bu5
Speaking:
2024: Columbia University: Natural User Interfaces (NUIs)
2023: Columbia University: Physical AI
2022: CES, CTA Fall Forum, San Diego California
2022: AWE - Santa Clara, California
2022: Harvard University, WeCode
2022: Northeastern University, Center for Design
2021: DCD, Evolve Workshop, UK
2020: UX University (Google)
2020: CRCI @ Brown University
2019: UX University (Google)
2018: MIT, 'Embodied Interaction Design'
2017: AWE, Munich 'Embodied Interaction Design'
Writing/Press:
2022: Motion and Gesture Sensing for Radar (Chapter 8)
2022: Google Keyword Blog https://blog.google/products/atap/how-computers-can-use-radar-to-understand-nonverbal-cues/
2022: Wired Magazine, Nonverbal Interactions with Soli: https://tinyurl.com/34ep24az
2022: Engaget
2022: Fast Co
2021: RadarNet ACM CHI (Co-author, Best Paper Award)
2020: Dance Magazine Interview on Choreographic Interfaces: https://bit.ly/33SiuJL
2020: Google Design https://design.google/library/a-new-interaction-language/
2018: Designing for the Human Body in XR: http://bit.ly/2j2Iqfg
2017: Embodied interaction: https://bit.ly/2JJtPT4
Patents:
See below
Performance/Choreography:
2020: “Hummingbird” Music Video for Joel St. Julien
2020: “It Fits” Music Video for Michael Wall
2019: International Conference of Movement and Computing MOCO - Phoenix, Arizona
2018: International Conference of Movement and Computing MOCO - Genova, Italy
2018: Midway Gallery, Illum Festival
2018: CODAME Festival 
