Grace Chee

Based in San Francisco, available globally.

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Grace Chee designs events and brand experiences for tech and consumer companies, from sales kickoffs and conference activations to interactive installations. Trained as an architect, she makes products make sense in a room.

For four years she led creative and creative technology at the experiential agency On Board Experiential. She was creative lead on B2B events for Red Canary and Perplexity and worked on OpenAI's Frontiers Exec Summit, alongside campaigns for Nike, Visa, Sephora, Chase and Converse. Her work earned Gold at The Drum Awards and the Shorty Awards, and drove results like $224K in in-store sales for Visa at the NFL Draft.

She now runs Glom Labs, a creative technology studio building experiential activations and event tech.

Based in San Francisco. Available globally.

Experience

  • Founder Glom Labs
    2025 – present
  • Senior Creative Technologist On Board Experiential
    2021 – 2025
  • Editor & Writer Time Out Beijing · Tatler · Lifestyle Asia
    2013 – 2017

Education

  • Master of Architecture I Harvard Graduate School of Design
    2017 – 2021
  • BBA, Marketing The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    2011 – 2015

Selected clients

Red Canary · OpenAI · Perplexity · Workato · Nike · Visa · Sephora · Chase · Converse · Zelle · LG Nova · NBA 2K League · Rise · Intuit · The Infatuation

Awards & recognition

  • Gold — The Drum Awards · Gold — Shorty Awards 2024 SEPHORiA Virtual
  • Silver — Ex Awards 2024 SEPHORiA Virtual
  • Plus BizBash, Event Marketer and Digiday honors 2024 SEPHORiA Virtual

Grants & fellowships

  • Seed Grant Hong Kong Design Trust, 2024
  • Ike Kligerman Barkley Traveling Fellowship Harvard GSD, 2020
  • Peter B. Saltonstall Grant Harvard GSD, 2020
  • Harvard Asia Center Grant Harvard University, 2019
  • Prof. Bill Breger Fund Harvard GSD, 2017 – 2021
  • Dean's Merit Scholarship Harvard GSD, 2017 – 2018

Conferences & publications

  • "SHERPA: Tangible Privacy and Empathetic Interactions in the Smart Home" ACADIA 2024, Calgary & Banff
  • "Doze: hydrogel-based epidermal platform for personalized scent diffusion" ACM UbiComp / ISWC, 2020

Speaking

  • Main Stage Speaker SF Design Week, 2024
  • Panelist Seattle Design Festival, 2024

Press

  • BizBash · Event Marketer · Bustle · Hypebae · WWD 2023
  • Boston Globe · Forbes · ArchDaily · Harvard Gazette · Dezeen 2020

Contact

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