Lara Houston, researcher at City, University of London,lifts the importance of maintenance and repair in the digital age. Can we have a right to repair? In the lack of information and access, we tend to upgrade to new things, instead of value the things.

Giorgio Patriniis CEO and Chief Scientist atDeeptrace, an Amsterdam-based startup building deep learning technology for detecting and understanding fake videos. An anti-virus system for deep fakes, kind of. Video manipulation is getting more refined and whilst a fake Obama speech might be fairly easy to unravel, the danger lies in the subtleties and details.

Natalie and Kumar are both video journalists at VGTV, a Norwegian TV-channel connected to the Verdens gang news outlet. At The Conference 2019,they showcased their work behind”The Tinder Swindler”story that has gained a lot of attention wide and far for it’s format as well as content.

At the Guardian, Amanda Michel is Global Director and senior product manager of Contributions, a core part of the Guardian’s expanding reader revenue model. In 2018 the Guardian announced the support of more than one million readers around the globe and in 2019 that it had broken even.While subscriptions and paywalls have been the preferred solution of many renowned news outlets, The Guardian has chosen the route of voluntary donations. At The Conference 2019,Amanda shared the story of this decision and its quite interesting effects.

"I am in hugefavorof low tech data journalism"Dr. Bahareh Heravi is a Data and Computational Journalism researcher, trainer, practitioner and innovator who will share how news rooms of all sizes can work with data to construct stories, and that not only being big data but small data sets.

Bits and pieces from The Conference The Festival 2018.

How can we design an internet that works for and not against us?

"There is a lot of profit to be gained from all this diversity. The problem right now is that we're not really good at it."

The notion of "play" is changing. Let's look at the potentials and possible pitfalls of the new playful technologies.

"I want to change the education in Sweden."