One day media researcher Joy Buolamwini of MIT finds out that facial recognition programs have difficulty in recognizing her dark face. This leads to further research on racial identity and artificial intelligence.

Picture a scientist. What do you see? Most people don’t imagine a woman. An important reason is that women in general didn’t have the same chances or gotten the same amount of respect as men got in science.

How do you talk about climate change and the science behind it when nobody wants to listen? This is how they do it at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Klimaatzuster.nl

What will happen to public debate and to democracy if we let ourselves be influenced and steered by for-profit multinational tech-giants?

Come see the tools, the challenges, and the highs and lows of fact checking the worst and the silliest BS that humans can come up with.

We’re entering an era in which our enemies can make anyone say anything at any point in time. What will happen to society when we can’t trust our eyes and ears anymore?

Artificially intelligent ‘bot’ accounts, junk news sites and fake online profiles: they’re all troll armies. Can we arm ourselves against fake news?

Joris will critique the core of Western culture: namely, the freedom we hold so dear, but that lets us make such bad decisions.