DutchDigitalDay

2023

Friday 23rd of June

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AboutDDD 2023

Dutch Digital Day 2023 - 23rd of June

Digital Dutchies are a motley crew of ideators and builders, inventors and makers.

The annual Dutch Digital Day is an ode to all smartifiers. It's where we gather to learn, share, and progress together – as a collective community. With specialist speakers injecting new ideas into our binary consciousness, the event is designed to inspire the next industry unicorn(s) to make the world a better place through technology.

Screw virtual, let’s hang out together in the real world. Ready to be part of something big?

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Speakers

Ersin Han Ersin

Artist and director of Marshmallow Laser Feast

Ersin’s art practice combines a wide range of disciplines including sculpture, installation, live performance, and mixed reality. His work illuminates the hidden natural forces that surround us, inviting participants to navigate with a sensory perception beyond their daily experience. In these spaces, the known physical world is removed to reveal networks, processes and systems that are at once sublime, underpinned by research, and fundamental to life on Earth.

The Wong Janice

Cellist and composer

The Wong Janice is a cellist and composer of ambient cello meditation music. Taking cues from spirituality, neuroscience, and mysticism, the philosophy of her music as the player and for the listener is simply: to be free. By using the cello and other instruments processed through effect pedals and loop machines, she creates all her music ‘in the moment’ from an uncontrolled yet focused consciousness state, channeling the music through herself as the ‘vessel’. Listeners have reported benefits such as calming of the nervous system, helping to fall asleep, increased clarity, and transformation of mood. With 40 million Spotify streams and counting, The Wong Janice reaches her global audience through recorded music, music videos, online courses, and virtual/in-person concerts.

Jim Stolze

Pub Quiz for Nerds and Creatives

Jim Stolze is a renowned entrepreneur with an incredible track record when it comes to public speaking about tech and innovation. He is regarded as one of the most impactful AI educators, with an online course that has reached more than 300.000 people so far. During his keynotes Jim is able to inspire the audience with the opportunities of digital transformation, without losing sight of the human factor. This edition Jim will bring you the Pub Quiz for Nerds and Creatives!

Babusi Nyoni

Creative Technologist

Babusi Nyoni, born in 1988, is a Zimbabwean creative technologist who is committed to bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and the unique needs of underrepresented communities. His innovative spirit and visionary approach have led to groundbreaking accomplishments, such as the pioneering machine learning model for classifying black women's hair – a testament to his dedication to inclusivity and representation. Nyoni's work transcends the traditional boundaries of technology, as he consistently crafts interactive media experiences that challenge and expand our understanding of how new technologies can be harnessed to empower and uplift marginalized communities. By placing their needs at the forefront of his work, Babusi is actively reshaping the future of technological development.

Thomas Bollen

Dutch Investigative journalist at Follow the Money

Is a Dutch Investigative journalist, specialized in the workings of our monetary and financial system. After his MSc in financial economics he worked for several years as a business consultant before joining investigative platform Follow the Money. He writes about banking, financial fraud and the workings of our monetary system. In 2020 Bollen started a collaboration with artist Carlijn Kingma and scientist Martijn van der Linden to map the workings of our monetary system in a giant work of art titled ‘the waterworks of money’. They also developed several maps of possible alternative futures for the architecture of our monetary system.

Tega Brain

Australian-born artist and environmental engineer

Tega Brain is an Australian-born artist and environmental engineer whose work examines issues of ecology, data, automation and infrastructure. She has created digital networks that respond to environmental phenomena, systems for obfuscating fitness data, and an online smell-based dating service. Her work has been shown widely including in the Vienna Biennale for Change, the Smithsonian Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her first book, Code as Creative Medium, is co-authored with Golan Levin and published with MIT Press.

Noah Tucker

Chef and owner of Ladybird, Ser-vi and Yerba

Noah calls into question our ingrained relationship with food and drugs from an adult perspective. Challenging taboos and laws that have led us to a misguided journey of what’s a drug and what is food. Together with Anthony Joseph, he created High Cuisine to explore and challenge the way food and drugs are perceived and ingested. This combination is being explored at the highest level possible. Searching the globe for the best ingredients and the best drugs. They create bespoke dining experiences along with a tv show for you to take this journey with them.

Borre Akkersdijk

Dutch textile designer

Dutch textile designer, co-founder and creative director of textile innovation studio BYBORRE. Akkersdijk took fashion design courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC and graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2009 while also working at Paris-based design and trend consultancy Studio Edelkoort. He started what became the foundation of BYBORRE in 2010, initially consulting for brands such as Nike and Louis Vuitton before deciding to focus solely on the development of his now signature 3D knitted fabrics. Researching into the future of fashion and integrated technology.

Carlijn Kingma

Cartographer of society

In collaboration with researchers and journalists she maps the invisible power structures and institutional lay-outs that steer our society. In 2017, her work was honored with the New Babylon Award, and displayed in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. In 2018, Kingma won the Architecture Drawing Prize, in the category hand-drawing. As a result, she got to exhibit her work in the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. At DDD she’ll talk about her most recent cartography: The Waterworks of Money, made in collaboration with Thomas Bollen, and Follow the Money.

Chagall

Puts a beating heart in music & technology

She sings, dances, programs, experiments her way through everything that is human. Captivating, playful and intimate; every performance is a spectacular audio-visual experience that inspires and connects. Joining the London music technology startup MiMU kicked off Chagall’s fascination for motion controllers in electronic music performance and stimulated her to learn more about computer programming. By 2017 she produced her first live show in which she controlled all digital elements in the music and visual projections with her MiMU Gloves.

LJ Rich (Moderator)

World-renowned musician and BBC TV broadcaster

LJ Rich presents on the international technology show, BBC Click and hosts the United Nations ITU AI for Good Summit. In the last year she's delivered lines at 75mph from the UK's tallest thrill ride, performed to a drone in the sea off the Welsh Coast and learned to rap on camera thanks to a mind-reading AI headset. She is also a highly accomplished pianist, she uses music to connect the emotional and rational minds of audiences, unlocking creative thinking and solving real-world problems.