The Conference 2024 (see all)
”We don’t have an energy problem, we have a matter problem.” Matt Jones (he/him) has been...
“We are living in a world where we do not agree.” The spoken word artist Joshua Idehen kicks off...
Georgina Voss – How To See What's Not There
Georgina Voss
Artist & Author of Systems Ultra
Are we in control of technological megasystems, or are they in fact controlling us? By taking on...
Lore Oxford – Ask me Anything: Social Learning in an Antisocial World
Lore Oxford
Cultural Intelligence, Reddit
“Through others we become ourselves, we learn, we grow and acquire knowledge”. As society...
Michael Kibedi – Human Decentered Design
Michael Kibedi
Design Researcher and Writer of First & Fifteenth
“We should look inwards and consider who gets to be called a designer and think of the cultural...
“How do we protect something we do not love and do not understand?” Seán Ronayne is the...
”We need to move from transaction to relationship.” Nipun Mehta brings us on a transcendental...
What connects Leonardo DiCaprio with the Grateful Dead, a 16th century Dutch diplomat, and a tech...
Jemma Foster – Listening to and Dreaming with Plants
Jemma Foster
Founder of Wild Alchemy Labs / Co-founder of Semantica
”What future will we dream when we dream with plants?” Jemma (she/her) is an artist, writer and...
The Conference 2023 (see all)
Monika Bielskyte - Protopia vs TESCREAL Visions of Tech Rapture
Monika Bielskyte
Founder-Protopia Futures, Speculative Designer, Futurist
In what kind of future would you like to live? Blade Runner or Black Panther? For too long, our...
“Injustice it’s not rooted in computing. It’s been happening for hundreds of years and it’s still...
When everyone else calls for economic growth, innovation, and addition, Timothée Parrique demands...
Cassie Robinson – Emerging Futures: Patterning the Third Horizon
Cassie Robinson
Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Stewarding Loss
Cassie Robinson Associate Director of Emerging Future at Joseph Rowntree Foundation “There’s...
Michael Slaby – On the Possibility of a Utopi-Yin Path Forward
Michael Slaby
Avens, Harmony Labs
What if the cracks in our social and civic institutions are not signs of collapse but the first...
Johanna Koljonen closes 2023's The Conference with a recap how we as participators have tried to...
With severe catastrophes happening around us constantly - ecologically, economically, as well as...
Examining the creativity of generative artificial intelligence tools brings up interesting...
Neef Rehman - Machine Forgetting: Memory as Instruction & the Fallacy of Time
Neef Rehman
Creative Technologist, Isometric
“The anthropomorphisation of AI is not the way to go. It is more interesting to look at how that...
The conference 2022 (see all)
“By the age of 25 there’s no atom in your body that you were born with. It’s all food. So some of...
Alice Rawsthorn – Design Emergency
Alice Rawsthorn
Design Critic and Author of Design Emergency
“Design is an agent of change which can help us make sense of what is happening and turn it to...
Susanne Wedlich – (Natural) Intelligence
Susanne Wedlich
Journalist and Author of Slime - A Natural History
“Oceans - I am sorry to say this - are covered from top to bottom in slime.” Life Is Slimey....
Vaughn Tan – How to organise innovation
Vaughn Tan
University College London's School of Management
“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...
The conference 2019 (see all)
Sci-fi and religion alike, have always been concerned with dilemmas we now associate with...
”AI is just another tool, but also not just another tool” Che-Wei Wang runs a small design...
Ryosuke Sakaki & Takashi Koyama – Playing with biology
Ryosuke Sakaki & Takashi Koyama
Open meals
Have you ever fantasized about 3D printing your own food? Sakaki and Koyama from Open Meals are...
At The Conference 2019, Zara Rahman, Director of Programs at The Engine Room spoke about the...
Jonas Stojiljkovic Pedersen and Magnus Borgkvist Johansson. Malmö based instrumental duo Solar...
Dr. James Beacham is a particle physicist searching for answers to the biggest open questions of...
“What is money? In my meaning it’s the best innovation ever. It’s a trust system, we put more...
Jacopo is an interaction designer at frog, a global design and strategy firm. He works on design...
The conference 2018 (see all)
"When we create a precarious society, fear becomes a very powerful political device." In order...
"I didn’t want to fight for my already god-given right to live." This highly personal talk start...
“There’s a concrete and causal relationship between the public understanding of technology and...
“If you could see the future, what would you have for dinner?” Dr. Lisa Mosconi, one of the...
"The Malmö model is quite flat, you don't feel much hierarchy here."
“Better is not the same as good, better hasn't an agenda.” What is better? Who’s better? Who...
"Kids don’t the see the divide between the physical and digital play – but parents do." The...
"There is a lot of profit to be gained from all this diversity. The problem right now is that...
"I want to change the education in Sweden."
The Conference 2017(See all)
"The future of Internet is decentralized." In this his session, Muneeb Ali, founder of...
"Innovation is not just a moment that can come from crisis; crisis can come from innovation."...
QA with Alexander Chen (Google Creative Lab), Kate Sicchio and Gene Kogan. Moderator: Johanna...
QA with Dr Rand Hindi (Snips), Sebastian Schmieg and Stephanie Dinkins (Stony Brook University)...
"You can’t formally define creativity." The scientific fields aren’t the only ones rapidly...
"What does music look like?" In this visual and musical presentation, Google’s Alexander Chen...
Leyla Acaroglu - Disrupting Status Quo by Design
Leyla Acaroglu
The Un-School of Disruptive Design
"Nature is the best teacher. Everything in nature is feeding into itself." Everything is...
The Conference 2016(See all)
Bits and pieces from The Conference week 2016. Thank you everyone who participated and...
QA with Nazanin Daneshvar (Takhfifan), Jemma Xu (Tripalocal) Toby Shapshak (Stuff).
QA with Fernanda Saboia (Huge inc) Martin Hoffman (ConvJournalism) Moderator: Paulina Modlitba...
QA with Michael Krona (Malmö University) Maura Conway (Dublin City University) Moderator:...
QA with Maya Weinstein (IBM Watson) and Deborah Harrison (Microsoft Cortana) Moderator: Paulina...
QA with Latoya Peterson (Racialicious), Dragana Kaurin (Localization Lab) and Elena Pedrazzani...
QA with Guy Standing (University of London) and Sha Hwang (Nava) about humans, labour and...
QA with architect Liam Young (Tomorrow's Thoughts Today) Moderator: Anders Mildner
QA with Isha Datar (New Harvest), Charles Spence (University of Oxford) and Arielle Johnson...
QA with Leah Reich (Slack), Marcela Sapone (Hello Alfred) and Lain Shakespeare (Mailchimp)...
QA with designers Caroline Sinders (Independent) and Michelle Mederos (Facebook). Moderator:...
QA with VR Filmmakers Jessica Brillhart (Google) and Gabo Arora (United Nations VR) and Creative...