Ashlee Valdes

Ashlee Valdes (@ashevaldes) is fascinated by new technology and human behavior, a combination which has led her to become a facilitator of innovation methodologies. Drawing from a background in psychology and business she has worked in research management in 3 countries, her native USA, South Africa and the Netherlands. 

Bringing together research, service design and new technology development, she has worked with innovation labs at INFO and Thomson Reuters, on topics ranging from IoT, AI/ML, to fin-tech. Building communities around topics of impact and learning are one of her motivators, and as such she has joined the board of ThingsCon in early 2019.

Ashlee is part of the organising team of ThingsCon and curating the session on storytelling.