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Cryptoeconomic incentive mechanisms create a novel solution space that goes beyond what currencies were traditionally been designed and used for. We will kick off the discussion with a brief introduction to cryptoeconomics as a "science that focuses on the design and characterization" of "protocols that govern the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services in a decentralized digital economy" (Zamfir, 2015). Key to our discussion will be the role of quantitative incentive mechanisms. Touching on Campbell's law stating that "the more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor", this roundtable aims to discuss how cryptoeconomic principles may facilitate social structures that are sustainable and, finally, give an outlook on the notion of post-incentive design.

In the professional world, interactions take place predominantly on the verbal and intellectual level. An assumption underlying this circumstance seems to be that language and intellectual exchange is somehow objective and universal while physical or emotional exchange is not. The notion of Somatic Intelligence suggests that even subtle physical exchange can serve as a much more direct tool to communicate and to identify unconscious behaviours, patterns, and projections affecting verbal discourse. In this roundtable we want to discuss ideas around the supposed objectivity of language and how insights from body work and movement can help establish a more complex, truthful, and clear exchange and understanding within a group. Naturally, the session will begin with a handful of playful physical exercises to illustrate this argument and to create a common point of departure.

Our current efforts to change the way we organize work are driven by much larger underlying cultural dynamics that are challenging long-standing paradigms and belief systems. Reimagining our relationships to, with and within work offers a unique chance to transform our organisations into places that support evolutionary personal and organizational growth. This panel aims to explore and share a new set of values, principles, skills, tools and processes that help us shape healthy organizational cultures and a more desirable future.

Moving towards a more human-centric digital age also involves focusing on diversity and equality. The empowerment of women remains an integral component of social change. This roundtable will focus on the issues women face on a daily basis, and what actionable paths are possible to bring about safety, power and equality for women. This is a topic that should be approached from an intersectional lens, considering how secondary and tertiary marginalized identities, such as race and sexuality, create additional prejudices for women. Defining feminism itself is also an integral part of the process, and to understand how feminist thought and action have a direct benefit to all of humanity, regardless of gender. Amongst talking about women’s empowerment, we also want to explore gender itself - to understand the characteristics associated with women (or men) as cultural and internalized qualities, rather than natural or biological aspects. From issues such as privatized as domestic violence, to the structural rigidity that continues to detract power from women, we hope to set in motion conversations and actions that will accelerate the feminist agenda.

Technology pushes us towards times of massive changes. Social Media once considered as mere nudging, has already shown its potential for full-blown social engineering. In comparison, how will Neurotechnology impact humanity? Alongside artificial intelligence, brain computer interfaces imminently mark an emerging revolutionary technology of the next decades. Whereas the two fields seem like a marriage of convenience, an ocean of implications and possible dangers arises, through misuse by both human or artificial intelligent parties. Meanwhile statistics and findings that are utilized to determine future policy-making are usually provided by research groups of universities and research institutes, both non-profit or for-profit, whereas in both cases we are potentially facing funding and publication bias. Further there is a trend of AI scientists being attracted by large companies, leaving it to the company to decide what findings to publish and which not.Aspolitics usually lack behind in effective decision-making, it is now time to apprehend the complete spectrum of our responsibilities. We propose and would like to discuss a global hub that connects experts from various fields, such as politicians, economists, computer scientists with socialists, psychologists and neuroscientists: integrating existing think tanks based on transparency and impact, embrace data science and modeling of information, predictive analytics identify synergetic potentials, elaborate on systematic approaches and strategies to minimize cognitive biases place incentives for collaboration increase integrity and validity in scientific findings, by embracing blockchain technology streamline science policies, knowledge distribution define and serve common goals, identify limits retreat as think tank (exemplarily tracing the path of the Esalen Institute, construe chances to establish the blueprint of a modern cosmopolitical place to reflect, synergize and expand consciousness in times of fragmented focus. the development of cognitive architectures (AI), i.e. flexible expert systems to support data analysis and thus decision-making - over time reach towards a global metamind supporting us to further understand where we think we want to go as human kind This round table is an attempt to stimulate discussions on neurotechnology, transhumanism and global collaboration strategies, as well as exploring the founding of a novel think tank.

Digitization impacts every aspect and stage of relationships. While we’ve never been more connected, some argue we’ve never been more alone. How can we use technology to create more meaningful and satisfying relationships?

What is organizational design? This roundtable immerses into a discussion around how the design and structure of an organization can immensely contribute to it's positive impact on society. Moreover, it addresses how different societal structures offer new perspectives on our most pressing problems today.

This conversation focuses on understanding climate change from two perspectives: The stakeholders - so who is involved, which organizations try to influence the discussion and more importantly: what constitutes this challenge exactly, what does it look like if you try to break it down into it's different parts? Based on this analysis, it tries to draw a conclusion on who is the most apt to address the challenges ahead.

Everything, all the time, intersectional What is gender anyway? This round table will be a point of departure to address inequality and disproportionately distributed power in the tech scene (and most likely the world). We will start by looking at government and Policy makers with Ines, exploring her work in this area and then we will open up the conversation to absolutely EVERYTHING intersectional. Gender has been used as a tool to oppress and suppress the power of the feminine. In this case we will call that womyn (this is not a typo, but a proposition to omit men from womin - however else we can spell it phonetically so it reads the same). It is important in theses spaces to look at and acknowledge privilege and create a discourse that focuses on shifting the paradigm of representation and equality. Together, we will unpack these ideas and actively engage in discourse centered around equality, which means that we will look at diversity and how we can create new systems that are more inclusive, shifting the paradigm and creating a new vision for working in tech and the world.

Emotions are a vital source of energy and clarity. Particularly empathy, the human capacity to sense what others feel, is indispensable if we want to collaborate. Yet, rather than honoring and nurturing emotions and empathy, we often try to suppress or manipulate them, following a numb and emotionless „rational machine“ ideal - at work, in relationships or in politics. How can we make space for open, candid emotions as a source of energy in life and work, rather than trying to suppress or manipulate them? There’s so much to gain if we create space for them. Expert guest in this roundtable included: Christine Wank and Moni Brandis

In todays world, it often seems difficult to find something to believe in, with new technologies and societal trends focusing the individual ever more on optimization and the material. Many especially in the western world are longing for certainty away from certainty, something that comforts in times of uncertainty and was traditionally offered by religion. This session explores the what we communicate today about the unseen, the world of spirits, ancient wisdom and supernatural and how these things merge with the world we currently inhabit. Expert guest in this roundtable included: Rachel Uwa, Jennifer Geacone-Cruz, Joriam Philipe, Jazmin Medrano, Chaveli Sifre Riestra

This roundtable will consider why democracy continues to exist, and why it is the model most countries strive to emulate despite its flaws. We want to consider how we can collaboratively harness our knowledge of game-changing technologies and global systems to burst out of the bubbles we have become trapped in, in order to co-create and update our democratic structures for the 21st century.

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How can we create good governance in cooperativesin the blockchain space? And maybe beyond? This is the leading question guiding through this roundtable, which takes a look at real life examples of tech cooperatives (Rchain) and engages into a discussion on how to improve, expand and share the knowledge of alternative governance models enhanced by technology beyond the confining boundaries of the crypto-space.

Blockchain - or Distributed Ledger Technology - has the ability to serve as the backbone for the cognification of the global value chains. In doing so, the gatekeepers of the current flows of sourcing, refinement and distribution around the globe will become obsolete in large parts. Currently we are lacking a coherent concept of how the power and ownership structures of this new world will look like.

Fundamental changes in design are necessary in a world that is experiencing changes at an exponential level. In this topic, we will explore how we can redesign systems to move past just sustainability and begin to design holistically. We will tackle the history of sustainability in design philosophy, what role we play at an individual and systemic level and explore our imagination for the future. We will explore themes around design philosophy, sustainability, our economy and technology.

The proposed Social Sculpture Academy sees the human being as a social artist at the centre of the work to shape a humane and ecologically viable future in which all human and other-than-human beings are respected and valued and connective ways of living and knowing are explored. Drawing on 4 decades of social sculpture and connective practice work in formal institutions and with communities around the world, the Social Sculpture Academy integrates the radical 'education for liberation' work of Paulo Freire, mindfulness work, approaches to ecological justice and sustainability, and Joseph Beuys' 'expanded understanding of art'.The round table will outline how the Social Sculpture Academy will be the hub for a series of globally accessible on and off-line programmes for change-makers round the world and the significance of its roots in social sculpture and connective practice. It will also consider the importance of an intergenerational faculty of creative practitioners, activists and pedagogic enablers with global cross sector experience and the value of it having a base in Berlin.By enabling the development of our capacities for envisioning, thinking together and empathy; by engaging with different ways of knowing, including indigenous knowledge systems such as Ubuntu in Africa, and through exploring connective political, economic and eco-social forms, the Social Sculpture Academy will contribute to the global movement striving to overcome unnecessary suffering and to reconfigure a just, non-exploitative and life enhancing relationship to each other and all life forms.The Social Sculpture Academy seeks social investment as a new start up - working from a base in Berlin - to develop forms of support for its programmes to be scaled out as a commons, and to maximise the substantial experiential and knowledge 'capital' that its faculty can contribute.Social Sculpture practitioners linked to this initiative have been working with projects and people in many countries, including Brazil, India, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Australia, South Africa, Mexico, Senegal, Palestine, Portugal, Germany and Holland.We look forward to your participation and support in the scaling out and on going development of this rich resource and of creating a base here in Berlin, for what Joseph Beuys described as the 'permanent conference'.