Outriders Festiwal #1

Opening of Outriders Festiwal #1

Anna Górnicka and Jakub Górnicki

Challenges of conscious travel – Simon Usborne

■ What are the three biggest sins of the tourism industry before the pandemic?

■ From where overtourism comes from?

■ What changes Covid-19 will bring to the tourist industry?

Simon Usborne – Q&A session

Challenges and the future of urban space design – Joanna Kusiak

■ Where does the urban planning chaos in Warsaw come from?

■ Where people decide to rent apartments and why?

■ What innovations can we introduce to fight for our city and tenant rights?

■ How the pandemic affects the tenant future?

Joanna Kusiak – Q&A session

Social engagement in comics – Ram Devineni

■ How does he create a female superhero?

■ Why has he decided to include the technology in the comic?

■ What were the roles in the comic production team?

■ What was the most positive outcome of the process of creating the comics?

Ram Devineni – Q&A session

Cooking LIVE and @dinner

with Alfonso “Choji Itosu” Romero

The way to change people is through their stomach – Jarmiła Rybicka

■ Why was Conflict Kitchen needed?

■ What was the journey of people who work with Jarmiła?

■ How do Poles react to the Conflict Kitchen team?

■ How did a restaurant become a community?

Creating games with vision – Aleksander Kauch (11 bit studios)

■ What is the vision for a game, where does it come from?

■ What are the first steps of going from an idea to a game?

■ What are creating mechanisms of the game world?

■ What is a narrative in a video game? How does it work?

Extinction Rebellion. Civil disobedience, technology and activism – Gully Bujak

■ What was the spark that led to the start of the movement?

■ What is financial disobedience – regarding the Money Rebellion project?

■ Is XR entering discussions with government agencies at local level?

■ What has XR managed to change?

Gully Bujak – Q&A session

Negotiating a better world – Lidia Wojtal

■ Why was the 2015 climate summit in Paris a “breakthrough”? What happened?

■ Which countries and which economy sectors are the biggest emitters?

■ What will the Polish process of departure from coal look like? What is the current state of relevant talks?

■ What agreements Poland is obliged to uphold in near future?

What to expect from robots? – Julie Shah

■ How much do the scenarios for the future of robots differ between those in pop culture and those Julie is working on?

■ How far along are we in the process of introducing robots to society?

■ In what fields we need the robots the most?

■ What are the benefits of introducing robots to society?

Julie Shah – Q&A session

Let’s talk about sex – Kasia Koczułap

■ We often mistake sex education with teaching how to have sex. What is the difference?

■ How we talk especially about sexual minorities, or “controversial” issues, for example, abortion.

■ Is there a right time to start talking with our young children about sex?

■ Is there anything that we can learn about sex education from other countries?

Kasia Koczułap – Q&A session

Joe Sacco – Q&A session

Roots of our morality – Julen Hernandez-Lallement

■ How can the acquired knowledge about rats be applied in society?

■ Can experiments on rats help to solve particular problems, such as bullying?

■ What is the moral and ethical perception of conducting such research on rats for the good of humans?

■ How does the work of a neurobiologist affect the perception of the world?

Technology and creation of multi-sensory experiences – Wiesław Bartkowski

■ How the “useless” art can respond to our needs?

■ What is the role of AI in creating interactions?