Dr. James Beacham is a particle physicist searching for answers to the biggest open questions of...

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

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

“Cash allows everybody to use it, it doesn’t care who you are.” At The Conference 2019, author...

Anyone who’s seen AMC’s series Halt and Catch Fire knows the importance of representation. Two...

"Measurement is the beautiful act when humans get involved and take facts to data" At The...

"We’re all going to fucking die" Green house emission, climate change. Big words with a scary...

Who is the every day person? What is your identity? And more importantly, is there such a thing?...

"Voice technology is the gap between what AI actually is and what people believe it is" Nicole...

With help from Amazon’s Alexa, Anthony Onumonu, Principal software engineer from BBC RD, talks...

We’re entering the beginning of a technological shift where machines get more and more humanized....

Journalist Kris De Decker writes about low tech solutions to high tech problems. At The...

”it’s a profoundly human act to give feedback to each other on our creative work” Mark d’Inverno...

Poet, composer and musician Vincent Bahar has quickly made a name for herself at the cultural...

”An inferno of will and intentions, all suppressed feelings, two dogs and a speed lane. Things...

“I find it incredibly odd that our world has changed but our vision of the built environment...

Curiositi is the musical project of Matilda Berggren and Emil Johansson. Being veterans of the...

Industrial designer and co-founder of non-agency Petra Lilja speaks about the weight of human...

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

Abie Philbin Bowman is an Irish comedian, broadcaster, podcast host and also quite the expert on...

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

Sam Gregory is an award-winning technologist and advocate who is currently the Program Director...

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

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

Lara Houston, researcher at City, University of London, lifts the importance of maintenance and...

Xiaowei Wang is a designer, engineer and researcher who focuses on the centrality of landscape...

“You can have weird and dangerous features in a platform if the core is that you are never gonna...

At The Conference 2019, Lisa Ding, product designer at Twitter's “Design for Conversation”...

“If you think of your most favorite or least favorite social network, and then try and imagine...

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

Natalie and Kumar are both video journalists at VGTV, a Norwegian TV-channel connected to the...

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

At the Guardian, Amanda Michel is Global Director and senior product manager of Contributions, a...

Bits and pieces from The Conference The Festival 2018.

How can we design an internet that works for and not against us?

"There is a lot of profit to be gained from all this diversity. The problem right now is that...

The notion of "play" is changing. Let's look at the potentials and possible pitfalls of the new...

"The Malmö model is quite flat, you don't feel much hierarchy here."

Let’s unleash the joy of co-creation. Featuring: Tendayi Viki (Benneli Jacobs), Charlotta Ahlberg...

What happens to realness when everything can be remixed or repurposed by anyone?

“If you could see the future, what would you have for dinner?” Dr. Lisa Mosconi, one of the...

D. Fox Harrell is Professor of Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence at MIT. His research...

“Better is not the same as good, better hasn't an agenda.” What is better? Who’s better? Who...

“We believe we all should have a say in how we make our society.” TaiwanPDIS co-founder Shu Yang...

“You don't really know who you are until you're forced to defend it.” Journalism today is under...

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