Summary
Philo Van Kemenade is a Data Lead with 12 years of interdisciplinary experience designing digital experiences that connect people to arts and culture. Based in Amsterdam, he blends AI, interaction design and storytelling to make audiovisual archives and museum collections more accessible and engaging. He has led data literacy and tooling initiatives at CLEVER°FRANKE, researched AI-driven interaction at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, and co-founded networks and festivals that fuse computational art, curation and community. Philo frequently teaches and runs hackathons, helping practitioners adopt inclusive, open methods while shipping projects from prototypes to public-facing installations. His background in cognitive computing and artificial intelligence gives him a rare mix of technical depth and cultural sensibility that informs both product strategy and hands-on development.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Cognitive Computing, Master of Science (MSc), Cognitive Computing at Goldsmiths College, U. of London
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Artificial Intelligence at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch, Spanish, German, Japanese, Slovak