Biography
Jessica Jabr (she/her/hers), New-york based design technologist, holds an Master of Fine Arts in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design at the The New School Bachelors degree in Business Management with a minor in marketing.
Her experience in programs, entrepreneurship, and emerging technology fuels her projects, where she blends art, business, and tech.
Currently, she works at Cocone Xenon as a user experience designer, where she was contracted to solidify the product vision and secure management buy-in.
She was also contracted by the Cambridge Judge Business School as a program lead, overseeing cohorts of the Digital Transformation Strategy virtual course.
She has worked in the global startup/tech/media ecosystem while based in the Middle East and helped hundreds of startups and entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses through building and running support programs. Previously, she was in charge of the Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Center at AUB, and handled programs, activations, entrepreneur & investors engagement at Arabnet (one of the biggest startup/tech ecosystems in the MENA region). She also managed the Lebanese Rural Development Association’s EU fund where she launched their project across Lebanon in 2016.
With part-time educator experience as a visiting assistrant professor at Pratt Institute, she led the Transformation Design Studio under the Graduate Communications Design program. She also served as a lecturer at the Design & Technology BFA program at Parsons School of Design, The New School, where she taught Creative Technology Objects Lab focusing on interaction design and physical computing.
Her design-tech work is a combination of creating interaction on and off the screen, where the audience is immersed in the built environments. The core of her work is based on human-computer interaction. She designs user experiences intuitively and builds technology with human wellbeing at the forefront.
She brings with her a wealth of experience in global tech-entrepreneurship management, and has a deep understanding of organizational structures, leadership, consumer behaviour, marketing, and the corporate space with a global perspective on digital transformation, business models, and hacking growth strategies to push organizations forward.
Her experience in programs, entrepreneurship, and emerging technology fuels her projects, where she blends art, business, and tech.
Currently, she works at Cocone Xenon as a user experience designer, where she was contracted to solidify the product vision and secure management buy-in.
She was also contracted by the Cambridge Judge Business School as a program lead, overseeing cohorts of the Digital Transformation Strategy virtual course.
She has worked in the global startup/tech/media ecosystem while based in the Middle East and helped hundreds of startups and entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses through building and running support programs. Previously, she was in charge of the Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Center at AUB, and handled programs, activations, entrepreneur & investors engagement at Arabnet (one of the biggest startup/tech ecosystems in the MENA region). She also managed the Lebanese Rural Development Association’s EU fund where she launched their project across Lebanon in 2016.
With part-time educator experience as a visiting assistrant professor at Pratt Institute, she led the Transformation Design Studio under the Graduate Communications Design program. She also served as a lecturer at the Design & Technology BFA program at Parsons School of Design, The New School, where she taught Creative Technology Objects Lab focusing on interaction design and physical computing.
Her design-tech work is a combination of creating interaction on and off the screen, where the audience is immersed in the built environments. The core of her work is based on human-computer interaction. She designs user experiences intuitively and builds technology with human wellbeing at the forefront.
She brings with her a wealth of experience in global tech-entrepreneurship management, and has a deep understanding of organizational structures, leadership, consumer behaviour, marketing, and the corporate space with a global perspective on digital transformation, business models, and hacking growth strategies to push organizations forward.