“Injustice it’s not rooted in computing. It’s been happening for hundreds of years and it’s still...

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...
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...
“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...
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...
Johanna Koljonen closes 2023's The Conference with a recap how we as participators have tried to...
Examining the creativity of generative artificial intelligence tools brings up interesting...
BITOI stands for Bass is the original instrument. BITOI are exploring the boundaries of the voice...
QA from the sessions Tending To Transformation – For Creative Leaders Who Stay With The Trouble...

Holley M. Kholi-Murchison – Towards Satiety: Charting New Paths for the Work of Our Lives
Holley M. Kholi-Murchison
Cultural Geographer, Oratory Glory
“Are you willing to dig deep and choose what your heart wants in the face of fear?” How can we...

Lydia Slaby – Soft Leadership Learned the Hard Way
Lydia Slaby
Community Leader and Author
“Take time to pay attention. Not everything can be solved in 15 minutes, let it take the time it...

Pernilla Glaser – Heart Matters
Pernilla Glaser
Salong Krångel, Academy of Dramatic Art, FutureMaking Academy
“We all start out as artists”, Pernilla Glaser explains. After all, most of us know how the snow...
QA from the session Creative Assemblages – Emerging Alliances to Augment Human Creativity with...

Kristoffer Ørum – Even Images That You Know To Be False Affect You
Kristoffer Ørum
Artist
Kristoffer Ørum finds satisfaction in taking a particular technology that is meant for something...
“We all deserve to be seen in visual languages. We already have the tool, now it’s about taking...
QA from the session Humanity, (AI)mplified – The AI Tools We Use to Be More Human with Laura...

Charlotte Högberg - The Doctor is In: Assistive Intelligence in Healthcare
Charlotte Högberg
Lund University
How can AI be used for the common good or more precisely in healthcare? Charlotte’s work explores...
"Data is the love language of machine learning, but we must remember that it is not true." We...

Laura Herman - The Human Creative Director: Remixing, Seeing, Curating
Laura Herman
The Oxford Internet Institute
“What would you make if you did not have to generate it?” Global platforms like Instagram and...
QA from the session Doing Equity – Tools for Making Diversity, Equity and Inclusion...
“What happens when you don’t have the words to describe the symptoms?” In the last installment...
“Empathy is the balance between identification and differentiation” In this session ‘Doing...
“I wish there were governments who paid for this” Peter Bil'ak is a well-known name within the...
QA from the session Setting Stories Free – How We Tell The Tales That Move Us with Priyanka...

Bjarke Calvin, Sophia Jörgensen, Iben Völund – Building a Legacy for 21st-century Journalists
Bjarke Calvin, Sophia Jörgensen, Iben Völund
Duckling
“Our world is connected by stories” says Bjarke Calvin. For him stories are not just a way to...

Marie Kilg - Collaborating with More-Than-Human Columnists
Marie Kilg
Deutsche Welle Media Lab
Anic is not like any other writer. Anic is the first non-human columnist and while Anic is not a...
“In every conflict the first thing to go is truth, and the first killed victim is the messenger.”...
QA from the session Memory in The Machine – The Tools We Use to Archive Us with Carl Öhman...

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 data of the dead is more than individual user history, it is the heritage of the 21st...
BITOI stands for Bass is the original instrument. BITOI are exploring the boundaries of the voice...
QA from the keynote session with Michael Slaby (Avens, Harmony Labs)
Returning moderator extraordinaire, Johanna Koljonen, opens The Conference 2023 and extends a...
QA from the session Enacting Care – Putting Sustainability Into Practice with Deb Chachra (Olin...

Ledama Masidza – Weaving a Tapestry of Community for Ecological Care | The Conference 2023]
Ledama Masidza
Oceans Alive
“We can only manage what we know.” Ubuntu is a concept that embraces the interconnectedness...
“Energy is general purpose freedom.” “The earth is in a void, every atom has to come from some...

Becky Lyon – A Carrier Bag for Care-Full, and Co-flourishing Decision Making
Becky Lyon
Artist
“The master's house cannot be rebuilt with master's tools.“ “A physical shift with our bodies can...

Dr. Eduardo Castello Ferrer – Blockchain, Robotics and Economic Autonomy
Dr. Eduardo Castello Ferrer
MIT
Have you ever met a self-employed autonomous robot artist? Introducing Gaka-chu ("painter" in...
With severe catastrophes happening around us constantly - ecologically, economically, as well as...
“People don’t change behaviour just because you tell them too. People need innovation in a public...
“Work with people who disagree with you and with each other and still work together. This is...

Arnaud Grignard – Tangible Interfaces For Urban Spaces
Arnaud Grignard
Université de Lyon / MIT Media Lab
“The goal is to share knowledge through open-sourced tools, and for people to use them as much as...