Our events
Check out our upcoming events. Salons in Berlin and Rotterdam, Unconf with peers in Berlin. Learn more on our Events page
View ArticleSalon Berlin: Ethics and the Life Cycles of IoT
Join us for a ThingsCon Salon in Berlin on May 6th to explore two of the more tricky aspects of IoT: The ethics of how to make better products, and the lifecycle of these electronic products. Together...
View ArticleThingsCon Salon Berlin: Presentations
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...
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Recap: Unconf19
This was a special one. We’re just coming back from hosting the very first ThingsCon Unconf in Berlin – and just like it’s tag line, it truly was a System Reboot – on many levels. Pretty much exactly...
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Our annual conference will take place 12 & 13 December in Rotterdam. European’s most involved conference on the state of responsible technology for system with physical impact — the place where...
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Our annual conference is planned for 12 & 13 December. Keep track of this page for the latest news.
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Salon Berlin: Public Interest Tech
At the ThingsCon Salon in Berlin on 5 September, our speakers Katharina Meyer and Kasia Odrozek explored the burgeoning field of Public Interest Technology. Public Interest Technology “We need...
View ArticleCfP: Riot Report 2019
The Edge of Surveillance Capitalism 2019 is the year of surveillance capitalism. It is not necessarily the year where the dams broke and some dramatic event pronounced the arrival of dystopian...
View ArticleThingsCon Salon Denver, CO: The Future of IoT
The Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC) at Colorado State University held the first ThingsCon Salon – Colorado on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. Below, we share the team’s write-up of the...
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Klasien van de Zandschulp
Klasien van de Zandschulp designs story-based and participatory experiences, blending digital/physical and online/offline interactions. Her work explores sensory design, embodiment, rituals, human...
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Irini Mirena Papadimitriou
Irini Papadimitriou is a curator and cultural manager, working in the UK and internationally. Currently Creative Director at FutureEverything, an innovation lab and arts organisation in Manchester,...
View ArticleProgram Day 2
Our program on Friday the 13th Day 2 of Thingscon 2019 is about the current state of the responsible IoT. You can get inspiration from thought leaders and practitioners from the field, get hands-on...
View ArticleProgram Day 1
Our program on Thursday the 12th Day 1 of Thingscon 2019 we will shape the future narratives of the responsible IoT and beyond together. You can dive deep with peers, thought leaders, innovators, and...
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Marleen Stikker
Marleen Stikker is founder of Waag. Marleen Stikker (1962) is also founder of ‘De Digitale Stad’ (The Digital City) in 1993, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the Internet...
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Geke van Dijk
Geke is co-founder and Strategy Director of STBY in Amsterdam and London (www.stby.eu). She has a background in ethnographic research, user-centered design, and services strategy & innovation. She...
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Cayla Key
Cayla Key is a design researcher and OpenDoTT fellow currently pursuing a joint PhD with The University of Dundee and Mozilla Foundation. She is interested in the interplay between humans and...
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Heather Wiltse
Heather Wiltse (PhD) is currently Associate Professor at Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University (Sweden). Her transdisciplinary research centers around trying to understand, articulate, and...
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