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

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 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...

“Design is an agent of change which can help us make sense of what is happening and turn it to...

“Oceans - I am sorry to say this - are covered from top to bottom in slime.” Life Is Slimey....

“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...

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...

“Are you willing to dig deep and choose what your heart wants in the face of fear?” How can we...

“Take time to pay attention. Not everything can be solved in 15 minutes, let it take the time it...

“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 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...

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...

“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...

“Our world is connected by stories” says Bjarke Calvin. For him stories are not just a way to...

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...

“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...

“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...

“The master's house cannot be rebuilt with master's tools.“ “A physical shift with our bodies can...

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...

“The goal is to share knowledge through open-sourced tools, and for people to use them as much as...