The Salons

The Copernicus Salons are intimate spaces for conversation and exchange. Here, creative thinkers gather to have conversations on experiments with AI, virtual worlds and blockchains.

By bringing different disciplines together, the Salons spark cross-pollination and fresh perspectives on the opportunities and risks of exponential technologies.

Open, curious and reflective, the Salons explore both the bright and dark sides of innovation, always in search of ideas that are bold, responsible and sustainable.

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‘When Decentralized’

‘Stretching legal frameworks for exponentiallity’

  • In times with exploding possibilities of exponential technologies, many questions have yet to be answered. One of the most important ones: how to stretch legal frameworks of nation states for this global, digital reality.

‘The Do Nothing Club’

  • In a rapidly automating world, The Do Nothing Club (TDNC) transports us into a post-work future. If AI and machines handle life’s routines, what values, roles and ways of being will shape our lives and communities?

    Together, we’ll question ingrained ideas of productivity, rediscover the potential of meaningful rest and explore what it means to live a “successful” life when fulfillment may take on entirely new forms.

    What could the future of work look like if doing is no longer the highest measure of worth? Welcome to The Do Nothing Club! In this salon that is curated by Lisanne Buik.

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‘REFI. Regenerative Whut?!’

  • The emergence of a parallel (digital) financial system offers a unique opportunity to redesign the business models in the financial world. More inclusive, collaborative and focused on the long term.

    Under the banner of Regenerative Finance, there is already plenty of experimentation going on. But what exactly is REFI? What do the organizational models look like? What is the role of tokens in this? And tokenized incentives? And is there a specific human image behind it?

    Welcome in our REFI Salon, curated by Ella Gordon-Latty.

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‘Who am I in the Metaverse?’

  • With everything going digital, one of the most important nuts hasn’t been cracked (yet). Our identity.

    In this salon that is curated by Aragorn Meulendijks we navigate the space of the missing I in Metaverse.

‘Who owns AI?’

  • In times with exploding possibilities in Artificial Intelligence, many questions have yet to be answered. One of the most important ones: who owns AI?

    Jeroen is a honoured artist working with AI since 2010 and thus was the designated person to open the discussion in a Copernicus Salon on this topic.