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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Technology

Cinema 4D Gets Its Own AI Hotline: What Maxon’s New MCP Server Means for Artists

Maxon has added built in Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to Cinema 4D, and it changes how artists can work with AI assistants such...
Anne Hathaway stars as Verity Crawford and Josh Hartnett as Jeremy Crawford in director Michael Showalter's VERITY, from Amazon MGM Studios.

Inside Verity: Anne Hathaway on Her Most Chilling Role Yet

There is a particular kind of house that exists only in fiction, and then, occasionally, someone finds it standing in the world, waiting. This...
MVRDV Rotterdam ROCKS Tidal Park Elevation

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...
Entertainment

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...
Monster: The Ed Gein Story. (L to R) Laurie Metcalf as Augusta Gein, Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein in episode 307 of Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Reconstructing Evil: Inside the Making and Meaning of Netflix’s Ed Gein...

A Mirror Too Clear The camera lingers on a snow-choked field in rural Wisconsin. A voice mumbles somewhere offscreen — uncertain, almost childlike. It’s Ed...
Mantis(L to R) Yim Si-wan as Lee Han-ul, Jo Woo-jin as Dokgo in Mantis.

Mantis: A Neon-Lit Masterclass in Korean Action Cinema

South Korean action cinema has a new icon in Mantis, a Netflix feature that spins out of the Kill Boksoon universe and turns it...
VERA FARMIGA as Lorraine Warren in New Line Cinema’s “THE CONJURING: LAST RITES,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

Inside The Conjuring: Last Rites The Final Haunting Revealed

In the vast landscape of modern cinema, there are franchises that dazzle, franchises that endure, and then there are those that carve themselves into...
Dr. Dre Mural At Compton High School

Creating Place Through Public Art: The Pulling Paint Murals Story

Public art plays a significant role in shaping the cultural and visual identity of cities worldwide. Unlike artwork displayed in galleries, public art exists...