Bonnie is an expert at making meaningful connection between people, place, technology and play to catalyze massively collaborative civic innovations for tangible real world impact.

Bonnie brings a delightfully playful perspective to all her work, and offers over 10 years of international experience in innovation strategy, facilitation, digital strategy, urban design, civic engagement, and campaign implementation.

She is an exceptional manager of people and projects, and has worked with global consumer brands, public/private media and broadcasting companies, real estate and development agencies, global financial institutions, libraries, non-profits and community service organizations, and federal, state and local government agencies. Working across Australia, UK and USA, she has produced global campaigns, revolutionary strategy, sustainable training programs, vibrant festivals, and long term community engagement.

Bonnie is a serial social innovator:

• She was recently honored as a Fellow of The RSA.
• She is the founder of global photographic treasure hunt and community engagement game Snap-Shot-City - a ground breaking digital storytelling event played by 1000’s of people in 100’s cities around the world.
• She is the Founder and Dean of the DC chapter of The Awesome Foundation - a global organization of micro funded philanthropy that catalyzes community innovation by providing $1000 micro-grants every month for awesome projects.
• She is a co-creator of the 24 Hour City Project - a community sourced experiment in hacking the city and temporary urbanism.
• She is the organizer of the Digital Divas Dinners - a quarterly event focused on bringing together women working in all sectors of technology to foster a strong learning environment and sustainable support network.

Get in touch via: @bon_zai

Bonnie is sought after globally as a speaker and workshop facilitator with specialities in creative communities and collaborative civic innovation, the future of cities and technology, online/offline community engagement, serious gaming and digital storytelling, and capacity building and change management.

In 2012 she gave keynote presentations on Collective Individualism, Creative Communities and Urban Experiments for the  X Media Lab and Vivid Festival at the Sydney Opera House, for Mashable and BMW at the Guggenheim Lab in Berlin, and for the PICNIC Festival in Amsterdam.

You can watch her keynote addresses from the PICNIC Festival here:

Short Bio:

Bonnie is an expert at making meaningful connection between people, place, technology and play to catalyze massively collaborative civic innovations for tangible real world impact. Bonnie brings a delightfully playful perspective to all her work, and offers over 10 years of international experience in innovation strategy, facilitation, digital strategy, urban design, civic engagement, and campaign implementation. She is an exceptional manager of people and projects, and has worked with global consumer brands, public/private media and broadcasting companies, real estate and development agencies, global financial institutions, libraries, non-profits and community service organizations, and federal, state and local government agencies. Working across Australia, UK and USA, she has produced global campaigns, revolutionary strategy, sustainable training programs, vibrant festivals, and long term community engagement.

Bonnie is a serial social innovator. She is the Founder of the global photographic treasure hunt and community engagement game Snap-Shot-City, Founder and Dean of the DC chapter of The Awesome Foundation, co-creator of the 24 Hour City Project, organizer of the Digital Divas Dinners, and an honored Fellow of The RSA.