Speakers
Citizen vs consumer
22 april 2016Jon Alexander founded the ‘New Citizenship Project’ in 2014. He is fascinated by the shift in society in which we go from being ‘Consumers’, to being ‘Citizens’, and thereby participating more actively in society. The biggest difference between the two … Read More
Bots: What is behind the curtain?
21 april 2016Scott Smith is Media Future Week’s favorite trend watcher. Wednesday morning on April 20th, he took us to a future where bots are part of our daily lives. What are bots? What do they do? And what topics are important … Read More
Robert Overweg: Technology and Empathy
20 april 2016Robert Overweg is an artist and expert on virtual worlds; he believes, and brought the research to back up, that technology needs to provide an emotional experience to users. He shared some compelling examples of how people are already connecting on … Read More
Alexa Clay: 5 Lessons from Misfits
19 april 2016Alexa Clay is an expert on misfits, having grown up a self proclaimed child of misfits, her mother traveled the world studying people who believed they had been up-ducted by aliens. She has spent her life researching misfits and … Read More
Nell Watson Opens Day 2: Smart, Wise, and Kind Machines
19 april 2016Day 2 was kicked off with an eye opening talk from Nell Watson, an engineer and futurist who specialises in artificial intelligence. She believes with confidence that human intelligence level AI will ‘certainly happen in your lifetime’ and dove into: … Read More