“It is not about who owns what, but how to give access to everyone” Maria Malho (M.Soc.Sc.) is an...

“Code is the new lingua franca.” Linda Liukas, author of the popular “Hello Ruby” book series,...

“Some things are too fucking good to be real.” Product and interaction designer Simone...

Michal Migurski is the Technical Director at Stamen Design, specializing in building service on...

“The data of the dead is more than individual user history, it is the heritage of the 21st...

Michaela Schmied is an augmented reality-marketeer at Augmented Event and SweetAR. Michaela will...

"If the world was static we wouldn't need to change." Generations ago it would be hard to...

Jake Barton is principal and Founder of Local Projects, who is creating the media design for the...

Geraldine de Bastion is an international consultant with a multi-cultural background. Currently,...

"We are not the ones consuming information, information is consuming us." We live in a world...

Giorgio Patrini is CEO and Chief Scientist at Deeptrace, an Amsterdam-based startup building deep...

Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, will share is thoughts on how he and file sharing site...

David Cuartielles is an Electronics engineer by training and researcher at Malmö University for...

Suw Charman-Anderson about how email is a cornerstone of business communications yet the majority...

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

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

Paul Soulellis is an artist and educator based in Providence, RI. His practice includes teaching,...

Katarina Graffman holds a PhD in Anthropology and is an experienced Mass Media Anthropologist. In...

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

Thomas Johansson is professor of education at the Department of Education, communication and...

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

"I am in huge favor of low tech data journalism" Dr. Bahareh Heravi is a Data and Computational...

“What is money? In my meaning it’s the best innovation ever. It’s a trust system, we put more...

“The anthropomorphisation of AI is not the way to go. It is more interesting to look at how that...

Johanna Koljonen closes 2023's The Conference with a recap how we as participators have tried to...

BITOI stands for Bass is the original instrument. BITOI are exploring the boundaries of the voice...

Denise Jacobs and Teresa Belton discuss conditions for creative work. When were you last bored?...

"If we don't allow ourselves to waste some of it, time can turn on us." Author Eva Hoffman...

Kevin Allocca, Youtube, interviewed by Andreas Ekström from Sydsvenskan

Kirby Ferguson, Hanna Sköld, Unni Drougge.

Henrik Berggren is a Swedish entrepreneur that relocated to Berlin to build Readmill – a digital...

"The ultimate power is decision." Sport psychologist and former football player Caroline...

Johanna Koljonen's opening words for The Conference 2014.

“We have been designing nature for tens of thousands of years and more.” Charles Darwin said that...

Jacopo is an interaction designer at frog, a global design and strategy firm. He works on design...

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

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

Cyrus Clarke is storing holiday pictures in his plants. Yes, you read that right. This talk is...

We grow up exploring ourselves and our surroundings. We learn how to interact with the community...

Alex Dale, Henrik Berggren and Will Page discuss media consumption online. We all listen, read,...

Daniel Daboczy, Simon Klose and Britta Riley.

Open source investigator Gabi Ivens works as a human rights researcher focusing largely on visual...

Examining the creativity of generative artificial intelligence tools brings up interesting...

“This is all feels like a dream now, but technology and society went along really great some...

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

Ariel Waldman and Ruth Daniel discuss ways of working together to solve big problems. The "Do it...

Only when we understand human properties are we able to communicate with humans properly and give...

Martin Bryant, Jonas Lennermo Chirdeep Singh Chhabra.