Fidèles et toujours fasciné par le networking et le côté hétéroclite des conférences, nous y serons présents une fois de plus cette année. Pas moyen de me rater d'ailleurs, mes cheveux rouges seront bien repérables ;-)

Je serais en particulier attentive aux conférences suivantes :

  1. 26th feb - 09:15 - Change (1/2) -What can we learn from the predictions that did not happen to better imagine the future? Why did some "futures" fail to happen? What remains constant over time in people's desire for the future? How can this help us to design for the future? With Patrick J. Gyger and Nicolas Nova.
  2. 26th feb - 14:15 Open stage talk - Olivier Glassey - “Is there such a thing as Government 2.0?”
  3. 27th feb - 09:00 Stories - Our traditional session dedicated to inspiring stories from people with extraordinary projects and lives. Designer Matt Webb will talk about the relationship between science-fiction and design, followed by Jörg Jelden, a trend analyst from Trend Büro who will address the importance of fake products and services in the near future. Finally, Web veteran James Gillies will tell us his perspective on the history of the Web.
  4. 27th feb - 11:00 - Design thinking for the future - Beyond the engineers and business' discourse about the future, what is it designers can propose? What sort of alternatives are they envisioning? What's the role of design thinking in creating more meaningful futures? With Fabio Sergio, James Auger and Anab Jain.
  5. 27th feb - 11:00 - Open stage talks - Bill Thompson - “The Death of Privacy and Why We Should Welcome It”
  6. 27th feb - 16:00 - New frontiers - Meet those who are pushing the envelope, and reinventing their fields in the process. Melanie Rieback will discuss the evolution of security with regards to RFIDs. Creating the future is also a matter of methodology, Clive van Heerden from Philips Design will show how they employ past technological failures to develop disruptive futures. And finally, Vinton Cerf will show us his perspective about the Internet of the future
  7. 27th feb - Open stage talk - Frédéric Kaplan - “Reinventing the Personal Computer”