I take a small number of speaking engagements each year on topics I think and write about regularly. If you are a podcast host, conference organizer, or panel curator, the topics below are where my work is most useful right now.
To inquire: hello@marycamacho.com
Topics
Who is writing the prompts?
The values encoded into the AI systems sitting between us and our information, our health, and our work, and what shifts when the people writing the prompts come from outside the rooms where the infrastructure was designed.
Privacy by architecture, not by promise
What it takes to build a wellness technology company that cannot sell its users' data because the architecture forecloses it. Drawn from building Cirdia.
A different kind of vessel: women's wellness AI infrastructure
Why the AI being built for women's wellness is insufficient, why no single company can fix it, and what a cooperative of femtech operators owning the infrastructure together could look like.
Wellness technology designed for women's bodies
Why an industry that has spent fifteen years optimizing wearables for twenty-something male athletes systematically misses the population most likely to benefit from continuous health insight, and what designing for that population looks like.
Distributed systems and self-sovereignty
What I learned in six years leading a peer-to-peer infrastructure company about the tradeoffs between user agency and ease of use, and where the field is heading now that AI agents are entering the picture.
Building, with and without venture capital
Thirty years of starting things: the one that won an ethics award, the one that did not survive the post-9/11 downturn, the consulting firm, the peer-to-peer infrastructure platform, and the one I am building now. What I would do the same. What I would not.
Past appearances
A selection. The full list is on /appearances.
- Past the Profile (August 2025). Long-form interview on Cirdia and the design philosophy behind privacy-first wearables.
- Femme Futurists. Interview from the Holo era on peer-to-peer infrastructure and a more human internet.
My own podcast
I host Terms of Service, conversations on privacy, AI, governance, and design with the people thinking hardest about each. Recent episodes:
- Environments Are Not Neutral: Biology, Burnout, and the Design of Work, with Dr. Elizabeth C. Nelson
- Designing Privacy You Can Feel: Smooth, Supportive, Empowering, with Molly Willson and Eriol Fox (Superbloom)
- Who Watches the Watchers? Privacy Law, AI, and Power, with William McGeveran, Dean of Minnesota Law
- Dynamics of Digital Spaces: Rethinking Democracy Online, with Nathan Schneider
- Empowerment Tech: Unlocking Customer Data for Better Choices and Better Business, with Jamie Smith
- Beyond Honeypots: Privacy, Security, and the Future of Distributed Webs, with Liz Steininger
Listen at termsofservice.xyz.