Julie Nguyen

Julie is the founder of SNAP TASTE and a driving force in global storytelling, innovation, and creative leadership. A respected member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, she also serves as a judge for the CES Innovation Awards (2024, 2025, and 2026), bringing her perspective to the intersections of business, culture, and breakthrough technologies.

Her immersive reporting has taken audiences behind the scenes of defining world moments, from the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and Expo 2020 Dubai to CES, D23 Expo, and the Milano Monza Motor Show. Through her lens, global events become intimate, human stories.

An accomplished film critic and editorial voice, Julie has built a reputation for reviews that go beyond analysis, finding the heartbeat within the frame. Her work on National Geographic documentaries and other cinematic works speaks to audiences who believe that great storytelling has the power to shift perspectives and expand the world.

At the heart of everything Julie does is a belief that art, technology, and culture are not separate conversations. She has spent her career proving they never were.

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Design

MVRDV’s “Rotterdam ROCKS!” Turns a Riverside Landmark Into a Living, Breathing Argument for the Future

On the south bank of the Maas, at the future landing point of Rotterdam's third city bridge, a new kind of civic monument is...
Blender

AI Won’t Replace the 3D Artist, But It Will Change How They Work

For years, 3D artists have carried the same quiet burden: the gap between an idea and the finished model is long, tedious, and full...
Red Dot Award: Product Design 2026

Red Dot Names Its 2026 Best of the Best: What the Winners Say About Where Design Is Headed

Essen doesn't usually make headlines, but for one night every year, the German city becomes ground zero for the design world. On July 7,...
Claude AI

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork Lets You Assign AI Tasks From Your Phone and Walk Away

Artificial intelligence is getting better at doing things. The harder challenge has always been getting it to do things without you watching. Anthropic's Claude...
Entertainment

Chris Hemsworth’s A Road Trip to Remember, A Nat Geo Story...

Some journeys are not measured in miles but in moments. In A Road Trip to Remember, Chris Hemsworth steps away from heroics and celebrity...
Lynsey Addario on assignment in Tiné, on the Sudanese border in Northeast Chad.

Lynsey Addario’s Journey Through National Geographic’s Love + War

The camera, for Lynsey Addario, is not a shield. It is an instrument of record, a way to measure the distance between what the...
CISL Seoul founder Alex Lee with Dr. Donghyun Youn

Engineering Beauty: How CISL Seoul Translates Medical Science Into Daily Ritual

From the clinical halls of Seoul’s top dermatology centers comes a new model for skincare. It is grounded in measurable outcomes, regenerative science, and...
Victoria Beckham

Victoria Beckham: The Woman Who Would Not Surrender Her Dream

There is a moment in the final episode of Victoria Beckham, the Netflix docuseries, where she stands behind the curtain at Paris Fashion Week,...
World-renowned ski mountaineer Jim Morrison, left, and Jimmy Chin. National Geographic Documentary Films' "Everest North" (working title), from the Oscar® and BAFTA Award-winning directors of "Free Solo," Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, is currently in production.

Into the Thin Air: How Jim Morrison Reimagined the Limits of...

At 8,848 meters above sea level, where the air thins and the world curves beneath the horizon, Jim Morrison stood on the summit of...
Kathleen Martinez with artifacts in the Greco-Roman Museum.

Into the Depths with Nat Geo’s Cleopatra’s Final Secret

Dr. Kathleen Martínez has dedicated the past twenty years of her life to one of history’s greatest unsolved mysteries—the final resting place of Cleopatra...