Professor Suzanne Stein
Director
Suzanne Stein is a Special Advisor on Foresight and an Associate Professor at OCAD University, specializing in Strategic Foresight & Innovation and Digital Futures. As a Foresight Analyst, Mentor, and Educator, she brings extensive experience in business strategy, organizational change, and experience design. At The Futures of Creativity and Compassion conference, Suzanne will share her expertise in leveraging foresight to drive innovative solutions and transformative change. She is also the Director of the Super Ordinary Lab at OCAD University, where she leads groundbreaking research and projects in new technologies and foresight, dedicated to creative techniques and participatory methods for complex problem-solving.
Danny Ghantous
Research Associate
Danny Ghantous is a foresight analyst for the Super Ordinary Lab and a current graduate student in OCAD University’s Strategic Foresight & Innovation Master’s program. Aside from his work at the lab, Danny is deeply engaged in a substantial research project examining the impact of the rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence on bots across the web and the current manifestation of the Dead Internet Theory. At the conference, Danny will share insights from his research, exploring the implications of AI on digital ecosystems.
Roberto Pires
Research Associate
Roberto Pires is a Master of Design candidate in Strategic Foresight & Innovation at OCAD University, with a background in UX research and design, and over a decade of experience in the film and television industry. He has contributed to major productions including Hockey Night in Canada, several Olympic Games broadcasts, and Family Feud Canada, bringing a flexible, high-performance approach to design under pressure.
Orus Mateo Castaño-Suárez
Research Associate
Orus Mateo Castaño-Suárez is an award-winning academic, artist, and designer who builds transdisciplinary collaboration across technology, mathematics, science, and the humanities. Castaño-Suárez uses the neuroscience and epistemology of the visuospatial to develop emerging and anticipatory cybernetic research methods that accelerate climate resilience and sustainability transitions. Innovation in their work is inextricably linked to anti-oppression and Indigenous futurities. Castaño-Suárez contributes to research in Canada and internationally, with notable presentations at Harvard University.
Evolving approaches to growing (wicked) problems
The Super Ordinary Lab at OCAD University focuses on exploring and developing innovative approaches to new technologies, business strategy, and experience design. The lab is dedicated to creating positive change through foresight and ethnographic techniques.