info [at] nonfiction.design
45 29th St. San Francisco, California 94110
Phnam is an engaging speaker who lights up any stage with her personality, unique storytelling skills, broad reach of professional expertise, and rich life experiences.
She speaks internationally on the subject of "Designing between Earth and Space".
Her areas of expertise include future thinking, design, space exploration, education, sustainability, healthcare/wellness, and cutting-edge technologies aimed to make the world a better place.
Press package:
Portrait (updated November 2023)
Biographies and Links (updated February 2025)
Resume (updated May 2025)
To book Phnam for your next event, please email info [at] nonfiction [dot] design
December 2024
OSMED Conference
"What is Design, and How Does it Relate to Space Medicine and Engineering?"
November 2024
XPANSE Abu Dhabi
"When Space Becomes Home"
October 2024
University of Southern California
"Making Space More Human"
September 2024
International Design Conference
"Designing between Earth and Space"
August 2024
KES Brazilian Delegation
"Designing between Earth and Space"
June 2024
San Francisco Design Week
"Earthspace on Mars"
May 2024
Analog Astronaut Conference
"Designing between Earth and Space"
April 2024
NIGCOMSAT Nigeria
"Designing between Earth and Space"
April 2024
NARSDA Nigeria
"Designing between Earth and Space"
March 2024
Future Candy
"Designing between Earth and Space"
January 2024
SITRA, with the Parliament of Finland
"Designing between Earth and Space"
December 2023
YACademy
"Architecture for Outer Space"
October 2023
Martian Greenhouse 4.0
"Space Architectures"
March 2023
SXSW (Featured Speaker)
"Designing between Earth and Space"
February 2023
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"Story Talk: Turning Science Fiction into Reality"
February 2023
LEAP Saudi Arabia
"Designing between Earth and Space"
February 2023
LEAP Saudi Arabia
"Nurturing the Next Generation of Space Explorers"
December 2022
Biotech Planet
"Design and Biotech"
November 2022
Puzzle X
"Designing between Earth and Space"
November 2022
COP27
"60 min to Change your Mind about Eating Insects"
October 2022
Martian Greenhouse 3.0
"Turning Science Fiction into Reality"
October 2022
AIA Arizona State Conference
"Designing the Future of Everything"
September 2022
TED
"Gournet Food for the Final Frontier"
May 2022
University of Wollongong Malaysia KDU
"Designing the Future of Everything"
May 2022
The Future of Eating Insects
Panel discussion about design, sustainability and the culinary arts of entomophagy, with Brooklyn Bugs and Itemfarm
April 2022
Space Education & Consciousness Symposium
"Making Space More Human"
April 2022
Health Experience Design (HXD)
"Designing for Human Transformation"
March 2022
SXSW
"Designing the Future of Everything"
February 2022
Ecole d'Architecture Paris Val de Seine
"Making Space more Human"
February 2022
"Art Architecture Ecology" at the Ruby Room
"Designing the Future of Everything"
February 2022
STEM School Highlands Ranch with Gregg Cannady
"The Future of Education"
December 2021
Space Philosophy by AIAA LA/LV
"Imperfect Astronauts: Inviting the Whole of Humanity into Space"
December 2021
Biotech Planet Conference(Portugal)
"Design & Biotech"
December 2021
iDesign Conference at University of Houston
Keynote: "Designing the Future of Humanity"
November 2021
ASCEND by AIAA
"Designing the Future of Humanity"
November 2021
Silicon Valley Teen Tech Talk
"Meaningful & Transformative IoT"
November 2021
Founder Institute Silicon Valley
"Branding & Design"
October 2021
Sofia University
"Designing the Future of Humanity"
October 2021
4Ward Futures Space Conference
"Making Space More Human"
October 2021
SQUARE1 Design Conference
"Making Space More Human"
August 2021
Space Show
"Sustainable Living in Space"
August 2021
Founder Institute Palestine
"Branding & Design"
July 2021
IDSA Women in Design Deep Dive
"Designing the Future of Humanity"
June 2021
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
"How to Design Today for the Future"
June 2021
Biotech Planet
“Design, Experience and Branding in Biotech”
May 2021
Audio Engineering Society / APEI Webinar Series
“Industrial Design for the Audio Industry”
April 2021
Otis College of Art and Design
“Practicing Industrial Design”
April 2021
DigitalFUTURES
“Making Space More Human”
April 2021
Advanced Design / Offsite Sessions
“Philosophy of Design”
March 2021
Industrial Designers Society of America / SF Chapter
“Sustainability at Nonfiction”
March 2021
École d’Architecture de Paris Val de Seine
“Le Futur du Spatial est Humain” (French)
February 2021
Space4Women Show: Space Architecture and Design
“Making Space more Human”
February 2021
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
“The Business of Design”
February 2021
UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation: Design Field Notes
“From Science Fiction to Reality”
October 2020
Advanced Design / Offsite Session
“The Business of Design”
October 2020
Future of Education Conference
“Designing Educational Systems”
September 2020
CoMotion University of Washington
“Good Design. Bad Design”
September 2020
Hive / Port Harcourt, Nigeria
“Post-COVID Capacity Building”
July 2020
Advanced Design / Lens
“Design for a Better Future”
June 2020
Founder Institute / Mentor Sessions SV, London, Palestine, Indonesia
“Branding and Design”
June 2020
Transtech / Paris Chapter
“Calming Wearables”
December 2019
Hive: Masterclass
“Designing for a Better Future”
November 2019
Transtech Conference
“Design for a Better Future”
October 2019
Border Sessions Japan
“Design for a Better Future”
October 2019
Women in 3D Printing
“Ergonomic Beauty”
August 2019
Hive Global Leadership Summit
“Designing a Better Future”
July 2019
Transtech Academy
“Designing Transformational Technologies”
April 2019
VO Art / China University Tour: Shanghai, Guangzhou, Changsha, Wuhan, Chengdu
“Industrial Design in the USA”
March 2019
Northwestern University
“What is Industrial Design?”
January 2019
AIAS Conference
“Industrial Design as a Life Opportunity”
January 2018
AIAS Conference
“A Career in Industrial Design”
2025-present
Member of SolaMed Space Technical Advisory Council
Human health and performance on Earth and in space through precision innovation.
2023-present
Board Member at SciArt Exchange
STEAM Education, art installations and contests.
2022-present
Board Advisor at Abacus Ridge
Aerospace: energy resilience.
2022-2024
Board Advisor at Outlandish Ventures
Aerospace: deep tech for human resiliency and climate change.
2022-2023
Board Advisor at Deep Space Biology
Aerospace: innovations for accelerating safe deep space exploration.
2021-2022
Fast Company Executive Board Member
Leadership: article contributions that spark innovation and bring world-changing ideas to life.
2021-2022
Board Advisor at J Squared Innovations
Public safety: hardware innovation for inner city safety and behavior change.
2021-2022
Board Advisor at Padbanque
Women's health: period education and community supporting teenage girls and dads.
2020-present
Board Advisor at Positive Fibers
Sustainability, fashion: fully compostable high fashion.
2019-2024
Board Advisor at Smart Kaya
Technology, new economies: Afrocentric powered smart devices promoting culture, language preservation and education.
April 2022
Founder Institute VIP Mentor Talk
"Designing the Future of Everything"
March 2022
STEM School Highlands Ranch with Gregg Cannady
"Growing Food in Space"
January 2022
Founder Institute San Francisco
"Product Development" Mentoring
September 2021
Texas Innovation Center
Female Grad/PostDoc Pitch Competition Judge
September 2021
VO Art Union (China) Visiting Professor
Design students portfolio review.
March 2025
SXSW
"Define in Space, Design for Earth"
November 2024
XPANSE Aby Dhabi
"What About Aliens?"
October 2024
TechCrunch, with Alchemist Accelerator
"Creative Tech for Future Products"
September 2024
New York Climate Week, with Conscious Leaders Summit
"Turning Science Fiction into Reality for a Better Future"
September 2024
San Francisco Police Department
"Creativity and Innovation Workshop"
May 2024
International Space Development Conference
"Women in Space"
May 2024
SynBioBeta
"Function, Meet Form: Engaging Industrial Design for Physical Product-Market Fit"
May 2024
Humans to Mars Summit
"Innovation: Earth, and How Can Stakeholders Contribute?"
July 2023
San Francisco Police Department
"Creativity and Innovation Workshop"
May 2023
NYCxDesign
"NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge"
April 2023
Google Food Lab
"Taste of Space! Signals from Zoomers, Futurists and Foodlife Ethnography"
December 2022
Louisville Metro Police Department, with Blue Courage
"Utilizing Creativity in Law Enforcement"
November 2022
Launch Texas at University of Texas at Austin
"Space Innovation and Technology in the New Space Era"
July 2022
The GFDA, Prowl, Nonfiction
"The New Comfort"
December 2021
Biotech Planet Conference Panel (Portugal)
"The Future of Biotech"
November 2021
ASCEND by AIAA Workshop with MIT's Ariel Ekblaw
"Scaling space Architecture and Habitats; Next Generation Models for Growth in Orbit"
November 2021
SpaceConneX Moderator
"Architecture Reciprocities of the Earth-Space Continuum"
October 2021
Clubhouse panel hosted by 9AM in Japan
"The Future of Wearables"
October 2021
Clubhouse panel hosted by 9AM in Japan
"The Future of Education"
September 2021
Master of Translational Medicine - UCSF/UC Berkeley
"Defining Good Design"
"Storytelling for Innovators"
July 2021
IDSA Women in Design Deep Dive
Q&A Roundtable
July 2021
Yeh Design Summit
"Guiding Businesses Through Change"
June 2021
Vital Voice Training
"Executive Presence"
May 2021
CHI 2021 / SpaceCHI workshop
“Making Space More Human”
March 2021
United Nations CSW65
“Empowering Women and Girls for Gender Equality”
March 2021
Thought Experiments with Nonfiction
“The Future of Happiness on Mars”
September 2020
UC Berkeley/UCSF: Master of Translational Medicine
“Storytelling & Good Design”
March 2020
EmotionAI Conference
“Quantified Self”
April 2025
Space Point Podcast
"Interview with Space Architect Phnam Bagley"
March 2025
Say Hi to the Future Podcast
"A Human Experience in Space"
March 2025
Ignited Thinkers
"Space Champion Interview with Phnam Bagley"
March 2025
Space Café Podcast
"Space Architecture and Design"
August 2024
Space for Kentucky
"Space Food"
June 2024
Big Cabal Media
"Moonshot Conversations with Phnam Bagley"
January 2024
Prototyping Futures, with Futurity Systems
"Designing for Earth and Space"
August 2023
Space Marketing Podcast
"Phnam Bagley with Nonfiction"
June 2023
Beat the Often Path Podcast
"How to Turn Science Fiction Into Reality with Phnam Bagley"
April 2023
Edible Planet Ventures
"Beyond Earth: Revolutionizing the Way We Think About Food in Space"
March 2023
CNN Business
"Does This Look Appetizing? If You Go to Mars, It May Be Your Meal"
March 2023
The Green Podcast
"The Future of Sustainable Space Travel"
March 2023
Future of Space Podcast
"Phnam Bagley Interview"
January 2023
Holistic Ambition Podcast
"The Future of Everything"
August 2022
The Boss Ladies Podcast
"Designing the Future of Everything"
July 2022
Epiphany with Tiffany Podcast
"Designing the Future of Everything"
May 2022
Design Lab with Bon Ku
"Designing the Future of Everything"
March 2022
Exceptional Alien
"Interview with Phnam Bagley"
February 2022
VOICE(is) by Vital Voice Training
"Executive Presence"
December 2021
Yeh IDeology Podcast
"Designing Futures" with Virgil Calasejan
March 2021
Build The Future Podcast
“Space Architecture & Design”
February 2021
Being an Engineer Podcast
“Knowing nothing can make you more creative”
October 2020
Next Wave Leadership Podcast
“On building a world that doesn’t exist yet”
October 2020
Nomads, the HCI Podcast
“Union of creativity, logic and design for the future”
October 2020
Leadership Activators Podcast
“Daring to design for a better future”
August 2020
Integral Podcast
“Design for a better future”
July 2020
Design Wanted
“Design for and from the future”
February 2025
OSMED
"The Integration of Space Medicine, Engineering, and Design for human Spaceflight"
October 2023
Short Chats with Space Cats
"Coloring the Grayscale Moon"
April 2023
AgFunder News
"Meet the founder: Phnam Bagley heads into space, the final frontier for agrifoodtech"
June 2022
Fast Company
"Designing for Impact: How Good Design Benefits Humans, the Environment, and Innovation."
October 2021
Fast Company
"Making Space More Human: Innovation requires designing systems from scratch."