2018 sessions are online.
If you couldn't make it, you can now watch and learn from some amazing speakers.
We started the day with Charlotte Dann. She showed off her jewellery making process — from digital drafting, to 3D printing, to lost-wax metal casting to a finished product.
Next we had a short talk from Benjamin Hennig who wowed us with some amazing cartographic displays. If you've never seen an animated map of monthly rainfall over a world map, then you've never witnessed the Earth's heartbeat.
Hjalmar Gislason gave us a little demo of what he's been up to. It's called GRID and it is a new look at spreadsheets. With more than 2% of all computer time spent in spreadsheets, we have to ask ourselves if the web is made of spreadsheets.
Fresh out of school, Dewi Gywn Uridge has started a new style of co-working space on his old family farm right outside of London. His new breed won't be sheep or cows, but digital professionals.
Dan Rubin comes back again to talk about being a multi-disciplinarian. We draw from so many different sources in our lives and the more rich sources of input allow us new ways of looking at what the Web really is made of and made for.
It is always a mind-bending trip with Matt Jones. His reflection of companion-AI, TPUs, machine learning and how we are organising and re-organising the structure of the web. Are we big centralised systems or small distributed objects or somewhere in between?
Björn Steinar recounts some of his past projects. From the origin of some of the foods we eat to finding a new use for our societies food waste problem. By taking a low-value, perishable product and converting it to a high-value, luxury product he's stemming the tide of waste. What can we learn from this in respect for the Web?
Our final speaker of the day was Debbie Chachra. After an amazing day of talks, she rounded it out with her knowledge of material science. With examples of spider milk goats and bees that make polyester, it was a great session to tie the day together.
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