The internet abbreviation ASAP stands for “as soon as possible” - and explains the state of urgency that our global and digital society is in. This discussion tackles the overall sentiment of As Soon As Possible from a social, economic and political standpoint.

In the age of automation, customer service and human touch will become increasingly important. Machines shouldn’t act like humans, and humans shouldn’t act like machines. How can we design technology at human scale?

Can we stop global warming in the next 30 years? According to the team at Project Drawdown, the answer is yes. We can keep the temperature of the Earth from rising past the critical mark of 1.5 degrees Celsius, by drawing down carbon out of the atmosphere and beginning the process of reversing global warming.

How does our food get from the field to our fork? Along the distribution chain, what are the social forces that make people hungry? And where does food injustice, in the form of food insecurity, intersect with other forms of inequalities? This panel will tackle efforts to transform our future food supply chains, and to make our food system more equitable.

The gap between activism on the streets and online debate seems to become bigger in between the last years: Whilst the biggest street demonstrations were held by progressive activists, the debating culture online suffered from hatred through alt-rights and trolls. We want to look at strategies that use online communities to mobilize people for activism, how those strategies differ in different political directions and which strategies actually work best.