Program of "Knowledge and Digital Technology"
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Friday, May 6, 2022
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Registration (08:30)
Welcome Address (09:00)
Johannes Glückler and Robert Panitz, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
Session 1: Technology, Governance and Markets
Chair: Johannes Glückler
The promise and prospects of blockchain-based decentralized business models (09:30 )
Andranik Tumasjan, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Personal AI to maximize the value of personal data while defending human rights and democracy (10:30)
Koiti Hasida, University of Tokyo, Japan
Coffee break (11:30)
Assembling the geographic information market in the United States (12:00)
Luis F. Alvarez León, Dartmouth College, USA
Lunch (13:00)
Session 2: Technology and Decision Making
Chair: Helinä Melkas
Boosting consumers: algorithm-supported decision making under uncertainty to (learn to) navigate algorithm-based decision environments (14:00 )
Felix G. Rebitschek, Harding Centre for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam, Germany
On the need to understand human behavior to do analytics of behavior
(15:00 )
Joachim Meyer, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Coffee break (16:00)
General discussion (16:30)
Visit of the Old University/Great Hall (Departure from the hotel) (18:30)
Dinner in the historic town of Heidelberg (Backmulde, free of charge for all speakers) (19:45)
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Session 3: Technology, Work and Space
Chair: Nancy Odendaal
The relational spaces of digital labour (09:00)
Ryan Burns, University of Calgary, Ireland
Coffee break (10:00)
Orientation to use of care robots in care services: the encounter of knowledge and technology (10:30)
Helinä Melkas, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland
The datafication of knowledge production and consequences for the pursuit of social justice (11:30)
Nancy Ettlinger, Ohio State University, USA
Lunch (12:30)
Chair: Nancy Ettlinger
Europe’s scaleup geography and the role of access to talent (13:30)
Zoltán Cséfalvay, Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), Hungary
General discussion (14:30)
Hotel transfer (15:30)
Dinner in the city district Handschuhsheim (at own expense)(19:30)
Friday, May 6, 2022
Session 4: Technology, Planning and Control
Chair: Robert Panitz
Rendering value from urban digital geographies: innovation, markets and slow AI (09:00)
Jeremy Crampton, Newcastle University, England
Coffee break (10:00)
Data-based frictions in civic action: trust, technology and participation (10:30)
Alison Powell, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, England
Big data without big brothers: the potential of gentle rule enforcement (11:30)
Ido Erev (and Kinneret Teodorescu) Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Lunch (12:30)
Thinking about cyborg activism (13:30)
Nancy Odendaal, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Coffee break (14:30)
General discussion (15:00)
Dinner (Strahlenburg Schriesheim, at own expense) (taxi departure from the hotel at 7 pm) (19:30)
