Speakers
Claire L. Evans, Blippo+ Writer, YACHT
Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician in Los Angeles. She is the writer of the experimental video game Blippo+, published for Nintendo Switch and Steam by Panic Games, for which she won the 2025 Herman Melville Award for Best Writing from the New York Game Awards.
In her other life, she is the singer of the Grammy-nominated pop group YACHT, co-founder of VICE’s imprint for speculative fiction, Terraform, and co-editor, with Brian Merchant, of the accompanying anthology Terraform: Watch Worlds Burn (MCD Books, 2022). Her 2018 history of women in computing, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, published by Penguin Random House, has been translated into six languages and was named one of the Top 10 Best Nonfiction Tech Books of All Time in 2023. Her award-winning journalism has appeared in MIT Technology Review, Quanta, WIRED, The Verge, and The Guardian, among many others.
She has given invited talks at the Hirshhorn Museum, Sónar Festival, Walker Art Center, TEDx, Google I/O, The New Museum, XOXO Festival, SXSW, Gray Area, Neural Information Processing Systems, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Decentralized Web Summit, among many others. She is a 2024 MacDowell Calderwood Fellow for Journalism.