AI in Urban Life

Patricia McKenna is the founder and President of AmbientEase (Emergent Adaptive Solutions Everywhere) Inc., exploring the rapidly evolving information landscape afforded by new, emerging, and next generation technologies. As such, McKenna is concerned with the implications of new technologies for cities, communities, and learning environments. McKenna engages with educators, learners, business, government, and local communities around use experience and unexpected possibilities for leveraging and generating new relevancies and vibrancies in 21st century information spaces for learning, living, and working. With a focus on smart cities, learning cities, and future cities, McKenna has evolved a practice and learning space consisting of workshops, courses, project initiatives, community collaborations, presentations, and works in progress for sharing at conferences and in other physical and digital spaces.