Maggie Duval
Technology, New Media, & Event Production
Maggie Duval is a respected futurist and visionary who offers rare insight and understanding of current, evolving and emerging technologies. She has been an entrepreneur for almost two decades – enjoying a successful career as an independent technology, Web, marketing and creative business development consultant.
Maggie specializes in social, cultural and digital convergence technologies – strategizing unique, innovative ways to combine diverse mediums into comprehensive solutions for her clients. She thrives on the challenge of blending best approaches, products and capabilities of diverse vendors and individuals to create a unified, efficient solution for business issues and social causes. A natural liaison, she effortlessly utilizes her unparalleled community outreach, strong social capital and global access to build bridges and achieve successful collaborations.
While conceptualizing and producing the first community interactive streaming media festival in a small, underserved art town in West Virginia in 1999 – unheard-of at the time – her passion was ignited to seek methods to eliminate the “digital divide” and engage people in meaningful social interaction and activism.
Maggie is also an expert in cocreating and producing unique, experiential events, workshops, salons and conferences which are immersive, engaging, and iconoclastic – bringing together business, tech and ‘cultural creatives’ in exciting and innovative ways to dialogue and work together. Her current work in this area includes the annual EFF-Austin South by Southwest Interactive official after party, Plutopia, One Web Day, sustainable community building workshops and events and “emerging paradigm” salons.
Her Web development work has focused on science, art, tourism, entrepreneurs, writers and authors, inventors, sustainability and activism. Her extensive work with Travel Berkeley Springs ( West Virginia) resulted in an Internet marketing award in 2000 from the WV Tourism Board. She also designed Websites for both the former Coolfont Resort and the George Washington Heritage Trail National Scenic Byway (Morgan County Section) .
Maggie began her technology career in 1989 at CompuCom Systems (a computer and peripheral VAR) working with Fortune 500 companies. While at CompuCom, she won a 1991 award from IBM for top branch sales. She broadened her technical knowledge with Exemplar Logic, a computer chip software design company, by handling customer support, software licensing, and database management. In 1995 she served as both headquarters sales manager and Japanese and Pacific Rim liaison for Exemplar, and also began working as a freelance Web developer.
In conjunction with her Web development work, she virtually collaborated from 1995-1997 with Pearce Communications of California, a “boutique” PR firm focused on Mac-related software and Internet start-ups, as tactical implementer of online promotional activities. With Pearce, she also co-managed media relations for Burning Man in 1996.
Maggie serves as a board member of EFF-Austin, a civil liberties group that defends rights in the digital world, is a member of the National Women’s Political Caucus/Texas and Association for Women in Technology/Austin, and a member of two prominent “think and do” tanks – Bright Green Austin (supporting and fostering green initiatives and the emerging sustainability economy) and Plutopia (events with a futurism and convergence focus).
She lives in Austin, Texas with her daughter, Hunter, where she is active in cultural and sustainability initiatives. She is also a gifted speaker, teacher and ordained minister who continually researches leading edge, accessible tools and supportive platforms for the creation of user-generated content for effective change and community building.
