Meghan McGrath

Meghan McGrath is a speculative design researcher and security ethnographer at IBM (M.S. Applied Cybernetics, M.I.S. Informatics, M.A. Ethnography/Folklore). She recently represented IBM at the 3Ai Institute, which focuses on how organizations can ethically scale artificial intelligence. She now leads the IBM Z Future Demands initiative and IBM Z Security design team. McGrath has been profiled in Fast Company and the forthcoming "What Do Folklorists Do?" textbook (Indiana University Press) for her work, and has been highlighted in papers and IBM media for her role in bringing enterprise design thinking to IBM's mainframe division. She led the design research for IBM z14 with Pervasive Encryption, which won IBM’s prestigious Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and garnered national media recognition. She is a member of the EPIC community (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community).

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Security ethnography, applied cybernetics, speculative research for enterprise and IBM Future Demands, applying design thinking at enterprise scale, corporate ethnography, humor research for enterprise, humor research for cybersecurity, women mainframers, etc.