Talks

Keynote speeches, talks and lectures include topics like critical making, grassroots movements, social innovation, social business models, openness and inclusion in tech and social entrepreneurship.

2019

• HubIT Berlin Workshop at the Technical University (April, Berlin):
  The Origins of Critical Making and Two Examples: Critical Making by Garnet Hertz and Wilderness Wireless by Brett Balogh
• Autotopia (May, Leipzig):
  Interaktiver Workshop Kritische Maker-Kultur
• Communities and Technologies Conference (June, Vienna):
  Critical Making with and for Communities Workshop

2018

• Chaos Communication Congress (December, Leipzig):
  The Critical Making Movement. How using critical thinking in technological practice can make a difference.
• Prototype Fund (November, Berlin):
  Jury member for round 5 topic “Maschinen lernen lassen / Technologien für die Zukunft”. Initiative by Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e. V. and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF).
• Entrepreneurship Summit (October, Berlin):
  Social Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
• CyFy Conference (October, Delhi):
  Women and the Gig Economy
• Hive Europe (June, Berlin):
  Tech as a Vehicle for Economic Development
• re:publica (May, Berlin):
  Activating Local Networks
• #AttractYouth (April, Trieste, Italy):
  CERN Imaging and Detection Technology Transfer Youth Event, Anti-Personnel Landmine Detection coach
• Persist* Summit (April, Berlin):
  Open Source for Non-Profits
• Nesta (March, remote):
  A Theoretical Framework for the Digital Social Innovation Index for the European Commission
• FOSDEM (February, Brussels):
  Cooperative Communities

2017

• Hungarian Social Impact Day (December, Budapest):
  Hungarian Social Impact Ecosystem
• Ars Electronica Festival (September, Linz, Austria):
  Future Innovators Summit, Facilitator of Future Work
• ‘Hofgespräch’ Starke Frauen, Starke Wirtschaft (June, Berlin):
  Digitalisierung: Chance für Frauen oder Dreifachbelastung?
• Prototype Fund (June, Berlin):
  Jury member for round 2 topic “Tools for an Empowered Civil Society”. Initiative by Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e. V. and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF).
• LinuxWochen (May, Linz, Austria):
  Closing Keynote: Beyond the Next Unicorn
• Re:publica (May, Berlin):
  Can I be Social, Digital and Not Starve?

2016

• ITU Telecom World (November, remote):
  Jury Member for the ITU Telecom Innovation Awards
• #neuLand (October, Berlin):
  Jury Member
• QtCon (September, Berlin):
  Building a Sustainable, Impactful and Open Social Business
• AngelHack (June, Berlin):
  Jury Member

2015

• Creative Economy Lecture Series, Eötvös Loránd University (November, Budapest):
  Why Become a Social Entrepreneur?
• Youth and ICTs, ITU (June, Geneva, Switzerland):
  Inauguration of the New Patron, President Luis Guillermo Solís
• Re:publica (May, Berlin, Germany):
  Fighting Chronic Disease with Digital Innovation
• ITU Girls in ICT Day (April, Geneva, Switzerland):
  How Can STEM be Social?

2014

• Ars Electronica Festival (September, Linz, Austria):
  Young Innovators Competition and Future Innovators Summit