ThingsCon 2022 Summer Edition consists of talks, in-depth sessions, and hands-on workshops. We also invite inspiring cases from practice and academia to the stage and exhibition floor. But since it has been a long time since we were able to meet in real-life we kick off with a fun and playful social evening.
Thursday 9 June
An evening to catch up and meet the community (and build funky robots)
It has been over two years since we had the opportunity to come together and see each other face to face. So on Thursday evening, we provide you with plenty of time and a wonderful setting to catch up and get to know new friendly people from the community. We will serve nice food & drinks and have funky robots for you to build and play with. So whether you are with us for the first time or looking forward to meeting old friends, feel welcome and join us!
| 17:30-18:00 | Opening and welcome by the team |
| 18:00-19:00 | Build funky robots and play with them |
| 19:00-22:00 | Drinks & food |
Get yourself one of the – diner ticket – options
Friday 10 June
a full day of inspiring keynotes, sessions, workshops and more
| 9:30-9:45 | Welcome |
| 9:45-10:15 | Keynote Justyna Zubrycka Teenage Engineering |
| 10:15-10:30 | Introductions of workshops |
| 10:30-12:30 | Workshops and sessions – round 1 |
Workshops and sessions – round 1:
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| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch and visit the exhibition |
| 13:30-14:00 | Short presentations on exhibited work |
| 14:00-16:00 | Workshops and sessions – round 2 |
Workshops and sessions – round 2:
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| 16:00-16:30 | Break, visit the exhibition |
| 16:30-17:15 | Open stage & workshop recaps |
| 17:15-17:45 | Keynote Kris Vanherle (Telraam) |
| 17:45-18:00 | Closing by ThingsCon team |
| 18:00-20:00 | Drinks |
Exhibition
| AMBY | A new autonomous mobility concept – TU Delft graduation project by Jael Lorenzo Sprinkhuizen |
| animistic prototypes | Selection of prototypes made by the students of TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering |
| Argo Design | Protoype animism in design |
| City of Things LAB010 | Prototypes made with the research platform for smart urban things |
| Clouds above us | Project by Annelie Berner that inspires others to pursue questions of complex climate data expression further |
| Conversations with robots | Prototypes made in the workshop |
| Digital city twin | Prototype projects using Rotterdam Digital Twin by students of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences |
| Dodeda | An AI-driven lighting controller for the smart home of the future, made by students of TU/e. |
| OB-4 | Play digital music made physical with the Teenage Engineering device |
| OneThird | Critical design installation confronting users with their privileges around drinking water by students Lina Rieck and Anne Merkle of UAS Magdeburg-Stendal |
| Smartibots | Results of Thursday’s Funky Robots workshop |
| Telraam | Check the device presented in the keynote closeby |
| Unintended smart things | Uncover and reflect on the (hidden) unintended, consequences living with autonomous smart things, project by TU/e student Gizing Khalandi |