Our ThingsCon Salon Berlin for May is a wrap. Below, you’ll find the presentations by Ester Fritsch, Dr. Isabel Ordoñez and Chris Adams. The topics covered range from IoT design ethics to sustainability, circular economy, and green energy for digital services. Enjoy!
A big thank you to our speakers as well as Mozilla Berlin for kindly hosting us and recording the talks.
Together with three experts in their fields we’ll tackle two of the more tricky aspects of IoT: The ethics involved in making connected products, and the lifecycle of these electronic products.
The speakers:
Ester Fritsch is a PhD Fellow at the VIRT-EU research project. Based on her PhD research she will explore what ethics mean in relation to IoT development. Ester holds an M.A. in Anthropology from The University of Copenhagen. Her research engages with complex ethical configurations that embrace laws, policy, humans, plants, technologies, data and other influences. She is curious towards how ethics emerges through relational practices unfolding in such hazy intertwinements indicating that ethics might not solely be a human affair, but a more than human matter. For the past five years Ester has explored this through empirical and conceptual inquiries into climate change, energy and agriculture in Denmark and Italy. As a PhD fellow in VIRT-EU she now seeks to understand how ethics is cultivated and circulated in European IoT ecologies and delves into how ethics is enacted among IoT developers as ethical subjects in continuous becoming.
Dr. Isabel Ordonez & Chris Adams will be digging into some juicy issues of the circular economy and look at the life cycle from a material and industrial design point of view. Follow Isabel and Chris on Twitter.
>>> Doors open 6:00 with drinks & time for mingling, program kicks off at 6:30. Should you get lost, ping us on Twitter (@thingscon). We’ll wrap up by around 8pm.<<<
You might have followed the journey of ThingsCon over the past five years: from a two-day conference on hardware entrepreneurship in 2014, to a series of community-driven events all over the globe, from a small group of friends in Berlin to a broad and global community of peers that work toward ethical and connected technologies. This year we would like to take this a step further.
We believe this is a special point in time, where we have the chance to peek at the future impact not only of connected technologies – but also of platforms, business models, and urban spaces, and help shape it for the better.
We believe there are is a new economic model that contemporary technologies makes possible. And we feel it’s essential to take a stand on where we would like to see things evolving.
To do so, we would like to try something new:
On May 24, we’re hosting a small, intimate, invitation-only forum of peers, thought leaders, innovators, and researchers from the ThingsCon community and beyond.
Think an unconference-style one-day event with a few high-level lightning talks, inspiring workshops and prototyping sessions – and lots of time to dive deep. A day by peers, of peers, for peers. Specifically, we’re interested in comparing notes about some of the opportunities and tensions that exist when developing new types of economic models in the IoT – as well as hands-on discussions around specific projects and ideas in cities and homes, in Europe and the US and in emerging markets.
Since this is a trusted community event our space is quite limited. Our focus is on bringing people together with interesting takes on this topic to develop their own network, perspectives, and projects. That being said, we would warmly welcome application to join in! We set up a little form that you are welcome to fill out.Alternatively, fell free to shoot us an email and share why you’d like to be part of this. We would love to hear from you!
ThingsCon Unconf19 is taking place May 24 in Berlin. A fee of 50 EUR (net plus VAT) helps us cover food, venue, coffee – everything else is a community effort.
This is the full ThingsCon 2019 program overview. Student are welcome to join the general program but maybe you want join our special student program.
Continue reading “Program”We are happy to announce our keynote speakers and hosts for sessions and workshops. These include:
Marleen Stikker
Tracy Rolling
Heather Wiltse
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Klasien van de Zandschulp
Mirena Papadimitriou
Davide Gomba
Wouter Reeskamp
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