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

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

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

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

"Data is the love language of machine learning, but we must remember that it is not true." We...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Kevin Allocca, Youtube, interviewed by Andreas Ekström from Sydsvenskan

Kirby Ferguson, Hanna Sköld, Unni Drougge.

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

Johanna Koljonen's opening words for The Conference 2014.

With the nuclear bombs detonating in 1945, Pandora’s box was unlocked. For Audrey Tang, Minister...

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...

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

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

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

Daniel Daboczy, Simon Klose and Britta Riley.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Martin Bryant, Jonas Lennermo Chirdeep Singh Chhabra.

THE ANATOMY OF VIRALITY We see it over and over again. Brands that go to a crazy length to be...

Eva Hoffman interviewed by Andreas Ekström from Sydsvenskan.