I design the moments that change how people work with technology
Strategist and artist. AI programs for 9,000+ technologists at Intuit, hackathons with Google Research, and the occasional tarot deck.
Global Engineering Days
8,500 technologists, 13 global sites, one week to build products with AI and test them with real customers.
BitRate Hackathon
825 people in dozens of countries made music with machine learning, with Google Research's Magenta team.
Comms Dashboard skill
An open source Claude skill that turns your inbox into a dashboard. With a daily tarot card.
Emoji Foundation
A dictionary for a pictorial language. One million visitors in a single quarter.
Regenaissance
Curating art that inspires a regenerative future, at Miami Art Basel.
I'm Niki Selken, a strategist, artist, and technologist in Oakland, California. I lead tech culture programs at Intuit, chair the board at Gray Area, and come from a long line of Mexican artists and craftsmen. I love teaching people to make things with technology.
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Writing
Twenty years of games, wearables, emoji, theater, and other weird machines.
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