SIDE EVENTS

To kick The Conference off and to welcome our international guests, we cordially invite everybody that wants to come to a big family dinner.

The venue is a hidden Malmö treasure. It’s undoubtedly the best way to get into the whole conference groove. You’ll get to meet the speakers and hang out with the local community before the real deal kicks off the next day.

Anyone is welcome to register – The Conference participant or not. Participation is free, but seats are limited.

In this workshop, we will imagine alternative futures of work as a result of a changing climate. With this, we will explore and uncover possibilities for new ways of value creation and collaboration. The workshop will use the "We work, we share, we care" art installation and futures prototype as a starting point and tap into the special characteristics of the Varvsstaden neighbourhood in Malmö as a central place for work in the city.

The art installation is part of Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova initiative to establish tools and processes to become better at understanding and visualizing a possible future.

Are you staying in Malmö after The Conference? Then why not join a bike ride to get that dopamine refill, enjoy Malmö sights and get to know the community with various company visits?

We start the tour by the Klaffbron, where those without a bike can rent one and then pedal. We will take you on a bike ride full of good views, new friends, tasty knowledge and snacks. The community involved will share stories about their Malmö experience, tell you how to make a difference in a city, what kind of business they are working with and why.

Psst, one of the companies we’ll visit has an amazing terrace where we’ll gaze out on the city towards the ocean, the new part as well as the old town of Malmö.

We will visit White Arkitekter, which is fully employee-owned as well as one of Scandinavia’s leading architectural practices. By 2030 all White architecture will be climate neutral, through design excellence.

We will also meet Aktarr, the first and largest Arabic news platform in Sweden with the vision to build a multicultural and more inclusive society. Aktarr believes that media is a powerful tool to engage and solve political and socio-economic issues.

And, of course, Minc. It's the Startup House of Malmö that was established as one of Scandinavia's first startup incubator programs, already in 2002. Minc guides entrepreneurs to success in a faster and smarter way and offer business development, a co-working space in a creative and network based environment.

Stay tuned for more surprises along the way. The ride will end at 2PM-ish.

Tip: If you do not have a bike, make sure to register and get a subscription at Malmö by bike before the tour.

Current imaginaries of AI are pulled in opposing directions. On the utopian side, AI is being projected as the better half of humankind, evening out the fallibility of human bias and our inability to “know it all”. On the dystopian side, AI will make humans either obsolete or turn humans into overly optimized cogs in a machine.

The reality will most likely lie somewhere in between, in an uncomfortable grey zone of compromises, trade offs and negotiations of values and desired futures. In these negotiations, moral values can be interpreted and actualized in many different ways.

Tradeoffs and compromises can lead to scenarios in which the difference between utopia and dystopia is more one of perspective and individual interpretation, rather than factual reality. This workshop will explore how we can work with the nuances between dystopian and utopian thinking, and balance hopeful envisioning and critical reflection.

Who’s organising? Sonja Rattay, PhD fellow in Human-Centered Computing, Copenhagen University

This event is made possible by DigIT Hub AI, which is part of the EU's commitment to using digital technology to stimulate and green and sustainable post-pandemic recovery. DigIT Hub AI is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.

During this two-hour seminar, we will dive into multiple ways in which artificial intelligence connects with sustainability. We will tap into different futures and discuss the possibilities and challenges resulting from the planetary health crisis and rapid advancements in AI technologies.

The seminar is a culmination of Media Evolution’s collaborative foresight cycle on Futures of AI for Sustainability and will see the launch of a book capturing insights and ideas that emerged during the exploration.

SPEAKERS

Tega Brain is an artist and environmental engineer whose work examines issues of ecology, data systems and infrastructure. She is also an Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media at New York University. Her first book, Code as Creative Medium, is co-authored with Golan Levin and published with MIT Press.

Giovanni Leoni is the Global Head of Algorithmic and AI Ethics at Inter IKEA Group. He is responsible for embedding digital ethics knowledge, competence and ways of working while leading the operationalisation of algorithmic and AI ethics across Inter IKEA Group.

Michael Strange is a radically interdisciplinary researcher in emerging political structures and new forms of actorness with empirical research that includes trade, migration, health, and artificial intelligence. Strange directs the STINT-funded project ‘Precision Health & Everyday Democracy’, in which, together with others at Malmö University, he is working on the everyday political economy of AI and global health with external funding from WASP-HS. He also co-coordinates the Collaborative Future-Making and Rethinking Democracy research platforms at Malmö University.

This event is made possible by DigIT Hub AI, which is part of the EU's commitment to using digital technology to stimulate green and sustainable post-pandemic recovery. DigIT Hub AI is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.