ThingsCon9 April is IoT Day, an initiative started by Rob van Kranenburg years ago. Longtime ThingsCon partner Creating010, a research center part of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences had planned to organize another edition of IoT Rotterdam and we planned to organize a masterclass on Responsible Design for IoT. The conference was canceled for the obvious reasons and […]
One of the ThingsCon Salons in the works for this year, is planned for mid June in Eindhoven or online. We are partnering with IoT Eindhoven to organize this Salon with the working title: “Don’t be Evil: Building a Trustmark for Responsible Technology Business” In the next newsletter we will be able to share more details, but expect an […]
Were you not able to attend our ThingsCon 2019 conference on 12 & 13 December and taste the atmosphere? Or do you want to (re)watch a talk and share it with others? Enjoy our talks playlist and extended photo collection. ThingsCon 2019 talks You can also watch all talks on our ThingsCon Youtube channel. ThingsCon […]
ThingsCon 2019 is just 2 weeks away (12 & 13 December)! We are stoked with how our program is shaping up! The sessions and talks offer a diverse look on responsible IoT and promise to deliver inspiration and actionable knowledge! Thursday’s program has a new setup with four parallel unconference inspired tracks. Want to actively […]
On 19 November 2019, ThingsCon Salon Colorado is going into round 2: Energy, Environment and the Internet of Things Details: Time: November 19, 2019 – 6:00 – 8:00 pm Location: CSU Energy Institute – Powerhouse Campus – Room 104 Event host: Donald Dulchinos & the CSU Energy Institute, Powerhouse Campus Speakers: Brad Davids (Google Nest): […]
First speakers announced for ThingsCon 2019
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 first ThingsCon event in Colorado. ThingsCon Colorado Salon #1 At our inaugural ThingsCon Colorado Salon, held in Denver and hosted by partner Colorado State […]
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 […]
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 […]