Quick report on the ThingsCon Salon in Rotterdam a week ago. This time the launch of ‘The State of Responsible IoT Report’, was the best excuse to listen to some of their contributers. And I was one of them. The Salon was gracefully hosted by the folks of Sociaal AI Lab Rotterdam.
Really the report is well worth your time to check out! A lot of original research, but also practices and tools to reflect on how we intertwine tech in our day to day lives, not to mention how to do it smart. Link in the comments. Oh, and I was the official photographer this time! Which is also time to experiment and hone my skills to capture events.
Like Richard Ayoade says: we give you the goods and have a little fun. This time the speakers got their physical copy of the report, which smelled wonderful according to publisher and designer Andrea Krajewski and chief editor and coauthor Iskander Smit. That’s why some of the participants look like they are smelling the pages of the report 😅.
I love my contribution on the ThingsCon.org RIOT 2026 Report, because I teased out quotes from you, the visitors and speakers at the ThingsCon event ‘Resize, Remix, Regen’ last year. I used a very informal and quick witted interview format I called ‘hot takes’. So my crontributions are actually your contributions (link to the Youtube playlist in the comments).
The talks were quite interesting. Iskander Smit had a very complete write up, so please check out that.