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How the police uses social media to keep us safe | Marcus da Gloria Martins

by organizer | Jan 22, 2020

What does the Munich police communicate? And how? They use social media for information and risk prevention purposes, as well as to help keep the city safe in a crisis. However, communicating online as a public authority is extremely challenging both on a political...

How patient innovation improves lives | Pedro Oliveira

by organizer | May 18, 2019

Sometimes the answer to medical problems comes from the people facing them. But how can their solutions made available for the benefit of everyone? This is Pedro Oliveira’s mission. He highlights the stories of outstanding people who discovered innovative ways...

A vision of the responsive city of the future | Gerhard Schmitt

by organizer | May 17, 2019

Cities are among the greatest accomplishments of mankind – but they have not quite learned to respond to the needs of their inhabitants yet. Gerhard Schmitt believes that the communication between the city of the future and its people should be bi-directional....

Why we need a human-scale energy system | Justus Schütze

by organizer | May 14, 2019

Are our supposedly ‘smart’ tools actually enslaving us? Justus Schütze takes us on a journey of how our relationship with energy has evolved, from the pyramids of Egypt to caretaker robots. He argues that humans have become hyper-consumers who need to...