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

The mission: Unfolding complexity because the world is complex.

"Stop applying your ideas on how the world works today." Throughout history we have...

"It's time to rethink the responsibility of a brand." Joanna takes a brand's perspective in the...

”Always relate to technology from a business perspective.” Futurist Nicklas Bergman talks about...

“Cash allows everybody to use it, it doesn’t care who you are.” At The Conference 2019, author...

”Empathy has morphed into a sort of catch-all for our collective desire to give a shit”...

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

Bits and pieces from The Conference week 2016. Thank you everyone who participated and...

Tricia Wang is Cultural Sociologist based in China. She is using immersive ethnography to create...

“The organization is dead.” In a session on the different aspects of work, Malou talks about...

”Visions are powerful because they inspire us, but also limit us” The future is a place for our...

"Anonymity is not the driving force to online harassment." Sociologist and writer Katherine...

"We can learn from the way nature solve problems to develop much better solutions that suits...

Nina Persson and Oskar Humlebo opened the second day of The Conference 2015 with The Cardigans'...

"Drop your institutional ego." Are today’s organizations too much “I” and too little “you”?...

”Strategy is dead. Design appropriately” As the founder of strategic design unit...

”Help the ecosystem grow, you are all in it together.” Nicole Yershon, Director of Innovative...

The utterly fabulous Derek Sivers, entrepreneur and programmer, shares his best advice on how to...

"Wearable tech is reshaping industries with global impact." In this talk, Joanna Peña-Bickley,...

”Resist taking the path of least resistance” Sha may have helped set up the American...

"In an increasingly global world we need design that is culturally responsive." Senongo Akpem,...

"The organization which make the fastest decisions will always win." Isaac Pinnock talks about...

“We need to bring love and science together.” Elliott Hedman, Design Scientist and creator of...

“I did not ask you what you do, I asked you who you are.” Nina Åkestam, Researcher at Stockholm...

”When food gets plated centrally people is willing to pay more” Adding music to your...

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

”In 2013 Iran had the highest rise on entrepreneurship in the world” When Iranian...

"The happiness ideology has created vast amount of misery among humans." Renata Salecl is a...

"Visual representation is an inherent part of who we are." Heather Barnett is working in the...

Journalist Kris De Decker writes about low tech solutions to high tech problems. At The...

”The Islamic State are more pragmatic than previous groups” Extremist Groups are...

“A third of Swedish journalists are exposed to threats.” Hanna Larsson is Communications...

"We are at risk of engineering the romance out of our lives." Chief Marketing Officer at NJJB,...

”VR is one of the six technology innovation accelerators that will transform the way we...

”We can collect the cells and produce something like a hamburger or steak” Our current...

Suzannah Lipscomb is Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at New College of the Humanities....

”The new campfire is this amazing grid created by little pieces that all merge together to our...

Tricia Wang is a global tech ethnographer who researches how technology makes us human. She...

”I think people are allowed to be dicks on the internet, but people should have the choice to opt...

”You can teach a skill. You can't teach personality” The less you change, the less...

Derek Sivers shares his best lessons of life. Part 2: How to thrive in an unknowable future.

The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a...

"Let's tattoo design fiction on our arms... or legs!" Designer Jill Nussbaum takes a closer...

Interview with Bud Caddell, Nobl, by Andreas Ekström, HD-Sydsvenskan.

Simon Kyaga is an attending physician in psychiatry and researcher at the Karolinska Institute in...

”There is no magic way to get rid of all the internet trolls” What can you actually do...

"Start to use data as a way to power personalization." Sabrina Majeed is a product design...

"Half of the jobs in the future will be the combination of a human and a machine working...