THE PROGRAM

Lunch is very much included in your The Conference ticket. So is coffee. And snacks. And breakfast. You shall not go hungry!

All food and snacks at The Conference are vegan and prepared by the great chefs at Slagthuset. If you have any special diet requirements or allergies make sure to let us know -> theconference@mediaevolution.se.

During lunch time you'll have plenty of time to mingle, and try out the different installments and experiences around the venue. It will be a universe of its own.

If you're in for more content, there will be speaker interviews too.

You will all get lunch! It's included in your The Conference ticket and it will be both delicious and vegan. So you don't have to register for having lunch.

BUT if you feel like spicing up the lunch hour and enjoy your meal with a bunch of other conference goers you haven’t met before, then sign up for lunch with new friends and we will mix and match and decide with whom you be eating :)

That’s that, you won’t know with whom you’ll be having lunch with until it’s lunch time. A soft take on Russian roulette and a much appreciated The Conference classic.

While “artificial intelligence”, with its novelty, scale and efficiency is on everyone’s mind, could “natural inteIligence”, with its unprecedented long record of successful R&D, offer an additional perspective on innovation – one of longevity and true regeneration?

While we tend to computers to amplify our intelligence and capacity, it’s easy to ignore the very intelligent ways of life itself. Following both the logic and irrationality of nature itself instead of trying to map it into common technological narratives of innovation, provides new answers to old problems.

What would nature say if it had a vote in your next board meeting? How is it that something so seemingly simple as slime, has proven so hard to mimic artificially?

SPEAKING

SUSANNE WEDLICH Journalist & Writer, Slime – A natural history

Susanne Wedlich's fascination for slime dates back some 20 years to when she first heard a story about two snails in love. Ever since she’s been building up an extensive bank of knowledge around slime and its omnipresence, its cultural and emotional significance and its importance to life on earth. Her book Slime – A natural history was recently labeled BBC Radio 4 ”Book of the week”.

CHRISTINA AGAPAKIS Creative Director, Gingko Bioworks

Christina Agapakis is a Greek-American synthetic biologist and artist whose work brings together biologists, engineers, designers, artists, and social scientists to imagine different futures and cultures of biotechnology. She has made cheese using starter cultures collected from the human body, resurrected the smell of extinct flowers, and photosynthetic animals.

In approaching a complex system, metaphors and mental models are useful tools for acquiring entry points and seeing the scope of the system. For this session we are exploring methods for understanding planetary systems, corporate collaboration to address grand challenges and so on. It’s fascinating how circles, layered cakes and charts can be enlightening at the level of epiphany.

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VICTOR GALAZ Deputy Director of Stockholm Resilience Centre

Victor Galaz will elaborate on the Planetary boundaries concept, a framework for measuring human actions impact on Earth's systems and enabling humanity to continue to develop and thrive for generations to come.

KAROL GOBCZYŃSKI Head of Climate, Ingka Group | IKEA

Karol will talk about how net zero has become a powerful framework to align organisations and sectors in solving a system scale problem, and what we can we learn from this journey when it comes to other large-scale, systemic crisis.

One more speaker to be announced

Lunch is very much included in your The Conference ticket. So is coffee. And snacks. And breakfast. You shall not go hungry!

All food and snacks at The Conference are vegan and prepared by the great chefs at Slagthuset. If you have any special diet requirements or allergies make sure to let us know -> theconference@mediaevolution.se.

During lunch time you'll have plenty of time to mingle, and try out the different installments and experiences around the venue. It will be a universe of its own.

If you're in for more content, there will be speaker interviews too.

You will all get lunch! It's included in your The Conference ticket and it's both delicious and vegan. So you don't have to register for having lunch.

BUT if you feel like spicing up the lunch hour and enjoy your meal with a bunch of other conference goers you haven’t met before, then sign up for lunch with new friends and we will mix and match and decide with whom you be eating :)

That’s that, you won’t know with whom you’ll be having lunch with until it’s lunch time. A soft take on Russian roulette and a much appreciated The Conference classic.

Whereas the idea of artificial general intelligence is speculative, AI systems are already shaping our lives and societies. Today, algorithms control the route we travel, decide what we listen to, organize our photos, analyze our medical records, and define the salary for contract workers paddling through the rain to deliver our evening pizza. It may still be a faint whisper of a possibility, but whispers can build into winds and take the world by storm.

In this session, we’ll listen to the whisper and let ourselves become the storm, as we acknowledge that artificial intelligence exists in a circular relationship with its human creators: so to understand machine intelligence, we must understand the people, systems, and cultures creating it. We aim to leave you with questions about human agency and individuality -- and allow for a billion intelligences to bloom.

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SIMONE REBAUDENGO Product designer and co-founder, oio.studio

Simone Rebaudengo is a product and interaction designer and co-founder of oio.studio. His works explore the implication of living and collaborating with other, not-so-human, intelligences.

NICK SEAVER Anthropologist of Technology, Tufts University

Nick Seaver is an anthropologist of technology who studies how technical experts think about cultural materials. He has published on topics ranging from the history of player pianos to the ethnography of algorithms. His forthcoming book, Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation, explores how the people who build music recommender systems make sense of music, listeners, and listening.

One more speaker to be announced

In a time when it feels like we are innovating for innovation’s sake, how we frame the question that needs to be answered, and the context for its outcome is of utmost importance.

This session will look into how nations (in this case Sweden) can scope problems more holistically, how companies can become an organism of continuous development, and how individuals can benefit from grouping with likeminded people.

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DARJA ISAKSSON Director General, Vinnova

Darja Isaksson is Director General of Vinnova, Sweden’s national innovation agency, and serves as a member of the Swedish government’s National Digitalization Council. In this session she’ll talk about large-scale mission-driven innovation.

YANCEY STRICKLER Co-founder, Metalabel

Yancey is the co-founder of Kickstarter, Metalabel and a lot more. In this session he will talk about how to take innovation and other creative efforts from being an individual's activity to multiplayer mode.

One more speaker to be announced

Few topics divide the waters as much as blockchain technologies. On one side, we have hordes of true believers, spanning from the ultra-left to the extreme right. And on the other side, we have the critics who shake their heads from the computational incapabilities, financial speculation, and rising environmental cost.

In this session, we get together to talk about web3, not to pick sides but to reflect on the thinking behind the technologies. We start the session with a layman’s introduction, aiming to demystify the jargon we hear thrown around. From there, we explore how web3 thinking inspires new ways of organizing innovation and communities online through radical experiments with decision making, governance, and finance.

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MIKKEL MALMBERG Artist and independent builder More information coming

Two more speakers to be announced soon

Storytelling and speculation bears tremendous power in influencing our imageries and actions towards the future. Who's shaping how we perceive the future, what does history (who’s history?) have to do with it – and how does one go about to write and tell stories that shape our understanding of the future, or futures? This session will be an hour on speculation, futurism and its unexpected side effects.

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JOANNE MCNEIL Author of Too Early For The Future

Joanne is interested in the ways that technology shapes culture and society. In her upcoming book “Too early for the future” she takes a deep dive into the people and organisations that in the process of speculating on the future have ended up influencing and controlling it.

ADRIAN HON CEO & Founder Six to start

Game designer Adrian Hon is the author of “A history of the future in 100 objects” in which he imagines the history of the twenty-first century through its artefacts. What role does history and artefacts play when writing and imagining possible futures?

One more speaker to be announced