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

National Geographic Secrets of the Penguins Delivers a Calming Cinematic Journey

This Earth Day, National Geographic invites you on a soul-soothing and visually spectacular adventure with Secrets of the Penguins, the newest addition to its...
The bow of the Titanic Digital Twin, seen from above at forward starboard side.

National Geographic’s Titanic: The Digital Resurrection Documents a New Phase in...

On April 14, 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,500 people. The event has...
An Oklahoma City fireman walks near explosion-damaged cars on the north side of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after a car bomb explosion on April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Inside the Oklahoma City Bombing with Ceri Isfryn on Nat Geo’s...

April 19, 1995—9:02 a.m. A Ryder truck packed with nearly 5,000 pounds of explosives detonates outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma...
Fire Ramesh performs his routine for David Blaine.

Nat Geo’s ‘David Blaine: Do Not Attempt’ – The Most Jaw-Dropping,...

If there’s one documentary series that will leave you in awe, gasping in shock, and questioning the limits of human endurance, it’s David Blaine:...
The Electric State. ™/© 2024 Netflix.

Exploring The Electric State on Netflix: A Study in World-Building and...

The Electric State is a Netflix sci-fi adventure from the directors of Avengers: Endgame, set in a retro-futuristic 1990s. Millie Bobby Brown stars as...
Antoni Porowski, Awkwafina, Insook Kim, Junho Lee and Shin Aga make Kimchi.

National Geographic’s No Taste Like Home Exploring Culture Through Comfort Food

For those who love comfort food, rich cultural narratives, and the warmth of family traditions, National Geographic’s new docuseries, No Taste Like Home with...