”Climate change is hard to sense but we can try to rewild ourselves by reconnecting our senses to...

The QA from session Rewilding Us with Giulia Testa, Michael Kibedi and Seowoo Nam

Moderator Johanna Koljonen speaks to a packed Theatre stage before the closing keynote on...

Beloved The Conference moderator Johanna Koljonen opens the 2024 edition with restating the...

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

”We need to move from transaction to relationship.” Nipun Mehta brings us on a transcendental...

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...

QA from the session Imagining Institutions – (Re)making the Pillars of a Liquid Society with Dan...

How can we think about institutions differently? In a world of competing fictions, imaginaries...

Reimagining public infrastructures and systems has the potential to enhance accessibility and...

What if the cracks in our social and civic institutions are not signs of collapse but the first...

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

QA from the session Entangled Economies - Creating Value with Generosity and Interdependence with...