Program 2024

Monday (2024-09-09)

Discovering what is going on in ICT and getting to know each other

Where do we (ourselves, our fellow researchers, ICT people) stand in the move towards sustainability?

Afternoon
Keynote13:00 - 14:00
Against extractivisms: technology in the anti-extractivist movement through a decolonial feminist lens, Sofija Stefanovic
Afternoon
Icebreaker 14:00 - 18:00
SEnS Workshop, Matteo Barsuglia, Eric Tannier, Sophie Quinton
Afternoon
Evening
Atelier
19:00
Between body and object. Kris Verdonck
Rue Adolphe Lavalee 41
Evening
Morning

Understanding the current state of our sustainability goals.

Can ICT be sustainable?

Morning
Breakfast8:30 - 9:15
Morning
Keynote 9:30 - 10:30
The right kind of tech solutionism for the Global South?!, Stefanie Kunkel
Morning
Short talks by organizers10:30 - 11:30
Morning
Keynote 12:00 - 13:00
Ecocide Law – a trojan horse for paradigmatic shift, also for computing, Elina Eriksson

Morning
Morning

Afternoon
Keynote 14:00 - 15:00
Much more than data centres’ energy demands: exploring an Eco-Political Economy of AI to Understand its environmental toll, Benedetta Brevini
Afternoon
Panel
15:30 - 17:00
Sustainable ICT: crossroads of critical perspectives
Stefanie Kunkel, Benedetta Brevini, Amelia Andersdotter, Benjamin Gaulon
Afternoon
Morning

Exploring the current effects of those impacted by the ICT industry and how.

How are you, as a researcher, navigating the changing labour conditions in the ICT playing field?

Morning
Breakfast08:30 - 9:15
Morning
Keynote 09:30 - 10:30
How EU's techno-solutionism helped militarise the green agenda, Andreea Belu
Morning
Keynote 10:30 - 11:30
Greening network equipment and standardisation, Amelia Andersdotter
Morning
Keynote 12:00 - 13:00
Repairing AI for Environmental Justice, Aimee Van Wynsberghe
Morning
Morning

Afternoon
Elevator pitches14:00 - 15:00
Afternoon
Keynote
15:30 - 16:30
Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice, Ben Green
Afternoon
Nature walk
16:30 - 18:00
Through the course of the nature walk - we will have the chance to pause, present, and reflect on each other's research.
Afternoon
Morning

Exploring official stances on sustainability.

If you are the next Ursula von der Leyen (president of the European Commission) what would your key priorities be in the EC digitalization agenda ?

Morning
Breakfast08:30 - 9:15
Morning
Keynote
09:30 - 10:30
ERC Frontier Science for Sustainability – Pioneering Solutions for a Sustainable Future, Eleni Zika
Morning
Keynote10:30 - 11:30
Geopolitics of Digitalization - The Imperialism of Big Tech, Ophélie Coelho
Morning
Keynote12:00 - 13:00
The future of Europe's extractivism in a multipolar world, Nick Meynen
Morning
Morning

Afternoon
Keynote
14:00 - 15:00
A Congolese perspective on infrastructure and extractivism, David Maenda Kithoko
Afternoon
Panel
15:30 - 17:00
Exploring policy stances on sustainable ICT
Nick Meynen, Ophelie Coelho, David Maenda Kithoko
Afternoon
Evening
Gala Dinner 18:45
Evening
Morning

Exploring unofficial stances and approaches to sustainability.

How could we as a collective/community raise awareness and act for alternative systems? And what would you need to be a part of this?

Morning
Breakfast10:00 - 10:45
Morning
Keynote11:00 - 12:00
The Digital Dilemma: Climate Threat or Enabler for Net Zero?, Jan Bieser
Morning
Keynote 12:00 - 13:00
Decolonisation, Laurence Meyer
Morning
Morning

Afternoon
Performing Infrastructure 14:00 - 15:00
Of Death and Disuse: Laying to Waste and to Rest, Jamie Allen

Afternoon
Plenary15:00 - 15:30
Closing remarks
Afternoon
Morning