Ruben Schilt is a 23 year old member of the Dutch Labour Party born and raised in Dordrecht where he was a member of the local city council. He resigned after leaking secret documents about multinational chemical company Dupont/Chemours and four municipalities negotiating a settlement out of court for a lawsuit about the company poisoning the city. Ruben is currently working as a social worker specialising in energy poverty.

Ruben will talk about his personal experience as a “whistleblower”, in the way big corporations use their influence on local governments and how institutions that are supposed to check and balance these companies are often dependent on activists and journalists instead of their own expertise.

Huib Modderkolk is an investigative journalist at the Volkskrant, covering intelligenceagencies, privacy, and the downsides of modern technology. He has won several prestigiousjournalism awards and was honored with the 'Prijs van het Vrije Woord' in 2022. Additionally,in 2024, he appeared in the documentary series 'Hidden,' which explores covert warfare. Hehas authored two books, both of which became bestsellers.

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Nick Foster RDI is a designer, creative leader and futurist based in California. He has worked at the intersection of technology and design within globally recognized organizations including Google, Sony, Nokia, and Dyson, and has established himself as a pioneering figure in the field of Futures Design. In 2021, he was awarded the title ‘Royal Designer for Industry' in recognition of his significant contributions to this field– the highest accolade for a British Designer.

Most recently Nick served as the Head of Design at Google X, where he led a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, strategists and designers in the development of world-changing technology projects. He is known for his approachable, down-to-earth and occasionally irreverent vision work, which explores everyday moments from emergent futures. For over a decade Nick was a partner at The Near Future Laboratory, the seminal futures collective which developed the practice of Design Fiction, and published 'The Manual of Design Fiction' in 2022.

In addition to his professional pursuits, Nick dedicates significant time to education and advising. In 2020 he accepted an honorary role as Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art in London, he is an advisor to the United Nations Development Program, and he frequently lectures and tutors students at colleges and universities across Europe, Asia and the USA.

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We're super excited she's back with us for the 10th edition of Dutch Digital Day!

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.

Besides being our brilliant host, LJ will bring us something special this year: She's Finding Mozart in the Machine..

Explore the surprising links between creativity and technology trends in this talk and live piano performance from AI and Music expert LJ Rich. Learn how to harness the best of technology while retaining what makes us human, and discover your own journey in uncovering the art of inspiration.

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Robin Pocornie is experienced in and has a passion for everything within the fields of neuroscience and computer science. She serves as a creative producer at various organizations in Amsterdam, and founded ASSEMBLE: a nerd and fandom talk show with workshops for and by BPOC. Robin is a born and raised Amsterdammer. She lived and worked in Costa Rica, the US, and Australia and currently lives in Amsterdam again.

Robin's background in computer science makes her hyperaware of how societal inequalities manifest in the rapidly evolving AI world. She is the first person within the Dutch legal system to have proven discrimination in algorithms, as detailed in the WIRED article 'This Student Is Taking On ‘Biased’ Exam Software'.

She also provides lectures and workshops on a wide range of topics within her diverse expertise, from creative programming and production to AI developments and data science.

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Behind the scenes of award-winning films

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It's quite possible that Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, the production designer and set decorator of Barbie, will bring their Oscars with them..

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We're excited to see whether their art will be honored again - the successful British duo has their seventh nomination for best production design in their bag, as they did for Sherlock Holmes and Anna Karenina. Sarah and Katie were spontaneously able to do much more with the classics than with Barbie - until director Greta Gerwig convinced them both of her feminist masterpiece.

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Sarah and Katie will take us into Barbie's world: from the first sketch to the completion of the film set, from a hundred different shades of pink and the fun of playing with the standards in Barbieland.

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