Programme | Impact Conference

The conference will offer different workshops and panels that emphasise interaction with attendees. There will also be three keynotes by Payal Arora, Minna Ruckenstein and Rob Kitchin. The goal is to learn more about how to practice collaborative research that bridges academia and the professional field.

April 7

9.00	Walk-in with coffee
9.15	“Welcome: Collaborative Research in a Datafied Society” – Data School
9.45	*“Performing Critical Data Studies from the Inside: Working with Government to Change Data Regimes” – Rob Kitchin* (keynote)
10.45	Break
11.15	Panel on stage: Impact & Education
12.30	Lunch
13.30	Workshops Advancing Recommender Systems through Academia-Industry Collaboration	Beyond Superficial Impact Narratives	Team Science: How to Build and Run Transdisciplinary Research Teams	ESDiT: Co-creating Approaches to the Responsible Use of Emerging Disruptive Technologies
15.00	Break
15.15	cont’d	cont’d	cont’d	cont’d
16.45	Drinks

April 8

9.00	Walk-in with coffee
9.15	“Building Inclusive Tech with the Global South” – Payal Arora (keynote)
10.15	“Collaborative Explorations as ‘Breathing Spaces for Digital Futures’” – Minna Ruckenstein (keynote)
11.45	Break
11.15	Panel on stage: Measuring Impact
12.30	Lunch
13.30	Workshops Gen(der)AI Safety	Enhancing Collaborative Research Through Design Thinking Methodologies	Multiple-Stakeholder Workshop as a Research Method for Policy-Making	Navigating AI Ethics in Media: A Hands-On Workshop with DEDA
15.00	Break
15.15	cont’d	cont’d	cont’d	cont’d
16.45	Drinks & Matchmaking Impact Projects