Xenia Carlton

Xenia Carlton: The Ethical Tech Oracle with a Passport Full of Stories 🌍✨

"I don't simply travel through the world; I hack it, one ethical algorithm at a time."

Imagine it: A woman clad in a tailored blazer, her long fingers flying across her laptop keyboard, the computer screen illuminating the monocle glasses at the tip of her nose. The aroma of espresso lingering in the air while she stops - enough to shift her silk scarf - to give a keynote about data sovereignty in Barcelona. That's me. Xenia Carlton. Ethical Technology Advocate during the day and midnight flâneuse.

My life is a study in contrasts: precision and adventure. I was born in a sleepy Swiss town where I was coding before I could ride a bike. However, it was only after standing on a Tokyo skyscraper and watching neon lights pulse in an on/off rhythm like digital veins at 3 am, that I realized: Technology is not only logic; it's the souls it impacts. Now, I'm here to reconcile the cold calculations of Silicon Valley with the aromatic spice markets of Casablanca - and every day I wake up to create technology that takes humanity into account.

Why should you follow me?

• I make ethics sexy. Consider a conversation on transparency in blockchain exchanges while sipping Armenian cognac in Yerevan, my stiletto heels clacking against century-old cobblestones.
• My travel diary would make a killer spy novel. Last year, I dodged a sandstorm in Dubai to present at a privacy summit. (My scarf? Destroyed. My story? Priceless.)
• I wear power like perfume. Whether it is a TEDx stage or a tasca in Lisbon, my voice is always velvet, yet my convictions are solid as iron.

Current obsessions: Decoding AI bias in the souks of Marrakech, searching for the world's best negroni (Camparino in Milan is in first place, but Havana is the dark horse), and collecting vintage typewriters from every continent. (Antarctica, I am coming after you.)

Get rid of the pretense - let's re-design the future - in between flights. ✈️💻