2018 Speaker Highlights
“The human body as we know it is past its sell-by date.”
Floris Kaayk, digital artist and award-winning filmmaker, introduced us to Oscar, a bioengineered human, prototype of the Modular Man, and our potential artificially intelligent future.
“A client recently called us ‘the Google of technology’, which is in fact spot on”
Lucy Howie, CEO of Fuel Up shared how her team of tech-scouts are blending human intelligence with artificial intelligence, to find solutions for their clients in corners of the web even Google can't touch.
“We might consider this to be our frankenstein era”
More Human Than Human: film screening.
Straight from SXSW, this documentary showed us how long us humans will have a monopoly on creativity. In the film, the filmmaker builds a robot to replace him.
“Now, let’s be the blockchain!”
Dr Jeroen van Hoof, Chief Technologist at PwC’s Experience Center hosted The Blockchain Game, turning the audience into a living breathing human blockchain. For an audience of 400, this game was the biggest ever played.
“A.I. will do more of the mundane tasks so humans don't have to.”
Young and seasoned film and commercial makers discussed A.I. in film making: what’s the future of film production? Will film directors be replaced? What is the tension between human and automated creativity?
“we create a temporary,
no-trace city
of art”
Simon Westbroek, VP at Unified Streaming.
Adetola Okunlola, former Director of Afrika Burn explained how to build a radically inclusive gift economy and what she’s learned about the power of I.R.L. networks.
2018 Conference Gallery
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