“How do we protect something we do not love and do not understand?” Seán Ronayne is the...

Katlyn’s talk digs deep into a critical question: "How did we get here?" She challenges us to...

“Underneath the experience of loneliness is always a longing”. It is not part of our human...

“As we eat food we are consuming things that we don’t even know what’s in there, because they are...

”We don’t have an energy problem, we have a matter problem.” Matt Jones (he/him) has been...

The QA from the session Planting the Seeds with Jemma Foster and John De La Parra

”What future will we dream when we dream with plants?” Jemma (she/her) is an artist, writer and...

“We are the time travelers we’ve been waiting for”. Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes – Gust for short...

What connects Leonardo DiCaprio with the Grateful Dead, a 16th century Dutch diplomat, and a tech...

The QA session from Shifting Systems with Dan Shefet and Dr. Katlyn Turner

“Trust is an outcome – not something you can design for.” For many years designers and users...

The QA from session Time, Trust and Wisdom with Monika Jiang, Gustavo Noguiera de Menezes and...

Are we in control of technological megasystems, or are they in fact controlling us? By taking on...

“When we know who enters what, we can also adapt the situation accordingly” As a part of the...

“Almost everyone has a story connected to their mobile phone. They are deeply personal and...

This century will be defined by society’s capacity to respond to climate breakdown. It’s not...

QA from the session Entangled and Enmeshed with Andie Nordgren, Tony Olsson and Matt Jones

“Software is an interesting medium. At least in theory, once you make something and it doesn’t...

Think about your childhood – what made you feel safe at home? For many of us, our childhoods were...

QA from the session Structuring Structures with Jenny L Beijar, Marco Guadarrama, Emily Best,...

“We are living in a world where we do not agree.” The spoken word artist Joshua Idehen kicks off...

The Conference's main partner IBM hosted a talk during Wednesday’s Getting Grounded session...

The QA from the session Late-Stage Digitalization with Somya Joshi and Trudy Painter

The Conference's partner IKEA hosted a talk during Wednesday’s Getting Grounded session focusing...

The Conference's main partner IBM hosted a talk during Wednesday’s Getting Grounded session...

“Could AI ever be a common pool of resources?” Researcher Somya Joshi makes a compelling...

“It’s very fun to make AI tools magical. [...] But when you make AI feel airy, you remove the...

Kickstarter helps bring projects to life and as the first crowdfunding platform with $7 billion...

The QA from the session Manufacturing Materiality with Rosa Whitely and Laura Feinstein

What does a climavore eat? More than a diet, it’s a call to address the manmade seasons created...

“Do we want species to exist only at the bare minimum, just above the threshold of being...

The QA from session Learning How to Learn with Ella Fitzsimmons, James Taylor-Foster and Lore Oxford

“Through others we become ourselves, we learn, we grow and acquire knowledge”. As society...

“Sometimes one has to travel to another planet in order to understand what is going on in one’s...

“By adding AI to software we can create something magical.” Ella Fitzsimmons cleverly draws...

“We should look inwards and consider who gets to be called a designer and think of the cultural...

”Climate change is hard to sense but we can try to rewild ourselves by reconnecting our senses to...

The QA from session Rewilding Us with Giulia Testa, Michael Kibedi and Seowoo Nam

Moderator Johanna Koljonen speaks to a packed Theatre stage before the closing keynote on...

Beloved The Conference moderator Johanna Koljonen opens the 2024 edition with restating the...

British artist Joshua Idehen (he/him) opens The Conference 2024 with a spoken word performance in...

”We need to move from transaction to relationship.” Nipun Mehta brings us on a transcendental...