Categories
news publications

CfP: 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 reality, but perhaps the year where progressive deterioration and the introduction of this term, Surveillance Capitalism, by economist Shoshana Zuboff, has made it clear […]

Categories
news

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 technologists who work in the public interest,” security researcher Bruce Schneier famously said. And we couldn’t agree more. But while the notion of public interest technology […]

Categories
Events news

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 five years after the very first ThingsCon took place in Berlin in 2014, we gathered a small […]

Categories
Events news

ThingsCon 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 sustainability, circular economy, and green energy for digital services. Enjoy! A big thank you to our speakers as well as Mozilla Berlin for […]

Categories
Events news

Salon 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 with three experts in their fields we’ll tackle two of the more tricky aspects of IoT: The ethics […]

Categories
Events news

Resurrecting IoT darlings

What happens when the digital service that powers your favourite smart product stops working? You are often left with a beautiful but lifeless pobject. But in special cases communities form that bring your smart darling back to life. In this Thingscon Salon on May 16th we want to learn from these IoT voodoo-masters.

Categories
Events news

An Unconf with peers

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. […]

Categories
news

Reporting on ThingsCon 2018

We look back at a great edition of ThingsCon in Rotterdam last December. We taped all plenary talks and made a bunch of pictures. Please check them out. Some impressions of the first day. See more at our Flickr. We have a great after-movie, and all talks at our YouTube. In the media Before the […]

Categories
news

First Names for 2018

6 & 7 December our yearly conference is planned. We will be in Rotterdam this year, at BlueCity, a venue that really fits ThingsCon we think. We will have about 10 keynote talks and more than 20 sessions planned. Next to that we will have an even more interactive demo-market with not only companies showing […]