Conference Track Programme

Locations:

All talks will be held at Freihaus, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Wiedner Hauptstraße 8–10, 1040 Wien. The room of each talk is indicated in the schedule below. For more information about conference venue, please see the main conference page.

June 5, 2015:

Time Speaker Title Video available? Location
09:30 - 10:00 Francis Heylighen
(Keynote)
The Global Brain: a Self-organizing, Distributed Intelligence Emerging from the Web No Lecture Hall FH6
10:00 - 10:30 Dirk Helbing
(Keynote)
Creating a Planetary Nervous System as a Citizen Web No Lecture Hall FH6
Location change        
11:00 - 11:45 Francis Heylighen
(Extended)
The Global Brain: a Self-organizing, Distributed Intelligence Emerging from the Web Yes Lecture Hall FH7
11:45 - 12:30 Dirk Helbing
(Extended)
Creating a Planetary Nervous System as a Citizen Web Yes Lecture Hall FH7
Lunch        
14:00 - 14:45 Viktoras Veitas Living Cognitive Society: a “digital” World of Views Yes Lecture Hall FH7
14:45 - 15:30 Marta Lenartowicz Mere impediments? A second thought on the role of social boundaries in self-organisation of the global collective intelligence on the Earth Yes Lecture Hall FH7
Coffee break        
16:00 – 16:45 Evo Busseniers Let’s interPlay! Does co-evolution enable or constrain? Yes Lecture Hall FH7
16:45 – 17:30 Roman Batko Panopticon: cybercontrol in liquid modernity: what does control really mean in contemporary management? No Lecture Hall FH7

June 6, 2015:

Time Speaker Title Video available? Location
9:30 – 10:00 Arora Payal
(Invited)
Big data Commons and the global South No Lecture Hall FH6
10:00 – 10:30 Stefania Milan
(Invited)
Big Data and the understanding of the political stream No Lecture Hall FH6
Coffee break        
11:00 – 11:45 Cadell Last Self-actualization in the Commons Yes Lecture Hall FH7
11:45 - 12:15 Howard Bloom Turning everything on its head Yes Lecture Hall FH7
12:15 - 12:30 Øyvind Vada Hierarchies and networks Yes Lecture Hall FH7
Lunch        
16:00 – 16:45 Dana Klisanin Choice Words: An Integral Exploration of Signifiers Being Used to Reference Global Interconnectedness No Lecture Hall FH7
16:45 – 17:30 Michael E. Arth UNICE global brain project No Lecture Hall FH7