“By the age of 25 there’s no atom in your body that you were born with. It’s all food. So some of...

“Design is an agent of change which can help us make sense of what is happening and turn it to...

“Oceans - I am sorry to say this - are covered from top to bottom in slime.” Life Is Slimey....

“Confusing risk and uncertainty can be very expensive and unpleasant.” “Organisations shaped by...

Artist and composer Ann Rosén performs a short concert. Ann Rosén (born 1956) is the composer,...

Moderator Johanna Koljonen opens The Conference 2022.

“Why not create a dish from the smell of old book?”“The most beautiful idea is to be able to eat...

“Fiction is an extraordinary shared language.” Fiction is a product of culture but it also...

“Search is not a query. It’s always a conversation. You’re not building a search engine - you’re...

“How will we garden the future of our abilities to speak with computers?” Hillary Juma spoke...

“My entire life my sense of self has been mediated by a computer screen.” Growing up, Maya Man...

QA for the session How to use a computer featuring Matt Webb, Hilary Juma and Maya Man

“Occupations paying less than 20 dollars per hour are most at risk to be replaced by technology.”...

“Covid-19 has done more for the digitalisation of organisations than the COO and CEO.” During...

“People wish to work less, but also to have more control over their time.” How do we free...

QA with Calle Rosengren (Lund University), Carl Benedikt Frey (Oxford University) and Rita...

“There are challenges when you’re trying to work in a multisensory medium in that the tools and...

“There seems to be a great inspiration that's being taken by AR artists today from the world of...

“At some point we might not refer to augmented reality anymore but instead just refer to...

QA for the session Spatial Computing featuring Grace Boyle, Lucia Tahan and Bas van de Poel.

“The tools we have change us fundamentally. They change our feelings and our cultures.” Have you...

“Spaces change people's behaviour.” Urban Misery or Urban Joy - a matter of place The context...

QA with Kristina Höök and Ewa Westermark during The Conference 2022.

“It can be dangerous to assume that more data just equals more reality.” "Can AI open up new...

“Connection means synergy. It’s never too late. Quantum social change is possible.” Victor...

“When we all act, we are reinforcing each other to act.” “This planet is our only home - not the...

“Be the best FOR the world, not IN the world.” What can system change look like from a business...

QA with Victor Galaz, Karol Gobczynski and Tessa van Soest.

"The future is synthetic." How do you feel about synthetics? Are you thinking about a wildly...

QA for the session (Natural) Intelligence featuring Susanne Wedlich and Christina Agapakis.

“Uncertainty is scary but also incredibly amazing.” Nowadays, we can often feel like everyone...

QA with Vaughn Tan (University Colledge London's School of Management) and Darja Isaksson (Vinnova).

“Is 65% spoon-ness a spoon?” “Something truly smart might rather do something unexpected.”...

“Sticky websites are traps designed to capture people.” Artisanal traps have two faces: where...

“Lager networks might have a slight conscious.” Maya Indira Ganesh is a cultural scientist who...

QA for the session (Artificial) Intelligence featuring Simone Rebaudengo (oio.studio), Nick...

Do you want a robot president? Let’s talk about the potential power of science-fiction stories....

Consider an object near you right now. How big is it? How does it feel? Who made the object? How...

QA with Joanne McNeil (Author) and Adrian Hon (Six to Start).

“With decentralised blockchains we get this thing back that we can actually own things on the...

“What are the manifestos that we want to live under?” Penny Rafferty believes that technology...

“When tech moves fast and breaks things, who picks up the pieces after?” Kyle McDonald is an...

QA for the session Get together with Web3 featuring Mikkel Malmberg, Penny Rafferty, Kyle McDonald

Moderator Johanna Koljonen closes The Conference 2022.

“The conflict between emotions and conscious rationality is at the core of what it means to be a...