This will be our 32nd Brave Conversations event and our 3rd in Germany.
Our first ever Brave Conversations was held in Canberra, Australia, in 2017. Since that time the world has changed, but the conversation remains the same:
How can we help Humans become Smarter in a world where the machine is becoming rapidly smarter?
“A revolution doesn’t happen when a society adopts new tools, but when a society adopts new behaviours.” — Clay Shirky
Brave Conversations Braunschweig 2026 unfolds within a European context shaped by rapid digital transformation, geopolitical shifts, and growing debates about the role of technology in democratic societies.
Within all of these themes, the most important is perhaps not the technological advances, but what the implications are for humans and the human systems within which we live.
Brave Conversations invites minds to get curious and explore selected questions about how emerging technologies shape our daily lives, and most importantly to reflect on how we can preserve both our humanity and our agency in the Age of Smart Machines.
We will be guided in our conversations by the use of Mark Moore’s Strategic Triangle asking:
"We assumed people were going to do good things with it. We really didn’t have any idea of what bad things people would do with it. Everything that is bad within society is writ large within the Internet. They lose their moral compass in a way."
At Brave Conversations, our purpose is to invite everyone -no matter their background, skills, or expertise- to pause and reflect on the deep entanglement between people, our societies, and the technologies we create.
We want to encourage participants to think critically about the choices we make every day: how we live our lives, how we engage in the economy, and how we act as digital citizens exercising our rights. True empowerment comes when we strip away the mystery around data and information, and begin to see how they shape even the smallest decisions that, collectively, build our shared future.
Every choice starts at a personal level -with our bodies, our minds, and the way we interact with the world. From there, the ripple spreads outward: to families, communities, societies, and nations. Each of us plays a role in shaping what comes next, and never before have we had such power to influence the changes unfolding around us.
But to do this well, we need space: space for honest debate, respectful curiosity, and playful exploration. Brave Conversations is that space -a place where we can ask hard questions, wrestle with uncomfortable truths, and learn from each other as we navigate this complex age together.
The best way to learn is through experience and the act of playing with ideas, to imagine, to challenge, and to be creative. The things that humans do best.
WHEN: Friday 29th May, 2026 | 16:00 to 19:30
WHERE: Haus der Wissenschaft, Pockelsstraße 11, 38106 Braunschweig
5th floor, Weitblick and Ideenraum.
Friday, May 29th 2026 | 16:00 to 19:30
Haus der Wissenschaft, Pockelsstraße 11. It will be held on the 5th floor, in the rooms Weitblick and Ideenraum.
Anni Rowland-Campbell
Lead Facilitator
Hannah Stewart
Co-Facilitator
Ghada Ibrahim
Facilitator
