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SUMMARY:Quantum Frames: Community Day
DESCRIPTION:Transformative technologies are reshaping how we move\, decide\, and make sense of the world\, and nothing is settled yet. Come think\, question\, and imagine with us while the future is still open. One day\, many perspectives. \nQuantum Frames will take place on October 29\, 2026\, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM at the TUM Think Tank in Munich. \nThis event is organized by the TUM Quantum Social Lab in collaboration with Ben Nott\, the Munich Design Institute and the TUM Center for Culture and Arts. Quantum Frames – Community Day is part of and supported by QuantWorld and TransforM. \nThis day is a starting point\, not a one-off. What we create together will grow into new projects and lasting collaborations\, shaped by everyone who takes part. \nWhat to Expect\nA day that moves between thinking and doing. \n\nTalks on transformative technologies and their place in culture\nWorkshops that make quantum topics tangible and explore themes in architecture and mobility\nHands-on sessions to dig into the questions transformative technologies raise for how we build\, move\, and think\nTime to connect and network with people from different fields\n\nWho should attend\nThis event is for researchers\, creatives\, and anyone working on or curious about transformative technologies\, quantum\, architecture\, and consciousness. \nAbout the event \nThe full day event will take place in person and the full program will be shared soon. \nParticipation is free of charge. Registration is required. \nRegister here.
URL:https://transform-cluster.de/event/quantum-frames-community-day/
LOCATION:TUM ThinkTank\, Richard-Wagner-Straße 1\, München\, 80333
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SUMMARY:Tech. When Silicon Valley Remakes the World
DESCRIPTION:TransforM invites you to our Seminar Series where sociologist Olivier Alexandre will take us on a revealing tour of Silicon Valley to show how an industry works\, and how that industry works upon the world.   \nBased on extensive ethnographic research on this industry’s singular milieu\, its prominent personalities and vibrant networks\, his research captures the way its denizens live\, think\, relate\, and innovate\, and how they shape the very code and conduct of business itself.   \nEmbedded deep within the community\, he reports back on the motivations\, ambitions\, and radical vision guiding tech companies. From the conquest of space to quantum computing\, engineers have recast the infinitely large and small. Some scientists predict the end of death and the replacement of human beings with machines. But at what cost? Alexandre sees a shadow hanging over the Valley\, jeopardizing its future and the economy made in its image. Critical yet fair\, Tech illuminates a new world of perpetual revolution.  \nAbout the speaker \nProf. Dr. Olivier Alexandre is associate research professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)\, and Deputy Director and founding member its Center for Internet and Society. He is also a former visiting scholar of Northwestern and Stanford Universities. He published Tech. When Silicon Valley Remakes the World\, in September 2025 (Univ. of California Press).  \nAbout the event \nThis is an in-person event. No registration is needed.  \nTransforM’s Seminar Series is a space for cross-disciplinary conversation on transformative technologies and their socio-economic impact. It brings leading academics and international experts for open\, research-driven discussions on the technologies reshaping our economies\, institutions and everyday lives. 
URL:https://transform-cluster.de/event/tech-when-silicon-valley-remakes-the-world/
LOCATION:TUM ThinkTank\, Richard-Wagner-Straße 1\, München\, 80333
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SUMMARY:A Moment of Choice: Knowledge Production in an Age of Computation
DESCRIPTION:In a time of relentless pursuit of artificial intelligence\, this TransforM Seminar Series seeks to temper the glittering promises of computation and take seriously the promise of contingency as an analytical virtue. “It could be otherwise” has long been a rallying cry for those who seek to resist technological determinism and articulate other stories about technology\, progress\, and modernity.  \nHow\, then\, can the social sciences help articulate stories other than those of impending (AI) salvation or doom? How can we help articulate a space for reflection and choice in a world drenched in stories of the extreme?  \nThis talk explores how the social sciences can attend to – and help articulate – moments of choice in computational knowledge infrastructures. Through three vignettes focusing on agency\, absences\, and thresholds\, the talk explores how the social sciences can help open up possibilities for caring computation. In doing so\, it takes seriously the possibilities for creating a reflexive ontological politics of computation.  \nAbout the speaker \nFrancis Lee is Professor of Science & Technology Studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm\, Sweden. His research examines how digital technologies—such as algorithms\, artificial intelligence\, and big data infrastructures—shape our understanding of the world.  \nHe currently co-directs the research platform on Synthetic Data in WASP-HS and the InterSynth Lab\, where his work explores how synthetic data are made credible and trustworthy through practical chains of reference between models\, data\, and the worlds they represent. He is engaged in several research projects that you can find more information about here.  \nAbout the event \nThis is an in-person event. No registration is needed.  \nTransforM’s Seminar Series is a space for cross-disciplinary conversation on transformative technologies and their socio-economic impact. It brings leading academics and international experts for open\, research-driven discussions on the technologies reshaping our economies\, institutions and everyday lives. 
URL:https://transform-cluster.de/event/a-moment-of-choice-knowledge-production-in-an-age-of-computation/
LOCATION:TUM ThinkTank\, Richard-Wagner-Straße 1\, München\, 80333
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SUMMARY:From Chip War to AI Race: Power\, Profit and the Geoeconomics of Transformative Technology
DESCRIPTION:The intensifying rivalry between the US and China is unfolding on new terrain. In the late 2010s\, the rivalry centered on the US’s attempts to limit China’s access to advanced chips as well as the supply chains required to make them. Now the focus of this struggle is shifting to the related area of the development of AI models to achieve international technological and industrial leadership.   \nJoseph Baines\, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London\, will join the TransforM Seminar Series to talk about the geoeconomics of AI and what it means for Europe.  \nThis talk follows the global production networks that link advanced chips\, cloud infrastructure\, AI models\, and their deployment across industrial sectors. Where is value created and ultimately captured in AI-centered production networks? Which companies are positioned to benefit from geoeconomic conflict over these networks? And who bears the social and ecological costs?   \nIn illuminating the emergent winners and losers of the AI race\, this talk also offers insights into what space remains for Europe to shape AI development in ways that serve public needs.    \n\nAbout the event \nThis is an in-person event. No registration is needed.  \nTransforM’s Seminar Series is a space for cross-disciplinary conversation on transformative technologies and their socio-economic impact. It brings leading academics and international experts for open\, research-driven discussions on the technologies reshaping our economies\, institutions and everyday lives. 
URL:https://transform-cluster.de/event/from-chip-war-to-ai-race-power-profit-and-the-geoeconomics-of-transformative-technology/
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SUMMARY:Wild AI: Tracking Animals and Datafication in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:Quantities and kinds of wildlife everywhere are decreasing rapidly. This global decline of wildlife populations has been accompanied by a radical acceleration in the quantity and types of data being collected about animals. Wildlife are increasingly datafied (that is\, subject to data gathering and surveillance\, made measurable and quantifiable) through new technology such as AI\, machine learning\, and tracking devices.   \nEmily M. Wanderer\, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh\, will join the TransforM Seminar Series to talk about the datafication of wildlife and its consequences.  \nDrawing on ethnographic research with ecologists\, computer scientists\, and wildlife managers\, Wanderer follows what practitioners often call “the data pipeline”: data about wildlife\, from its production by ecologists in the field to its consumption and use by scientists and computer engineers in machine learning and AI programs.  \nWhile this metaphorical pipeline is often represented as the means by which data extracted from the activities and bodies of wild animals may seamlessly transition to computational analysis and prediction\, Wanderer analyzes the messy materiality of this transfer: to extend the pipeline metaphor\, she shows how the demands of pipeline construction are reshaping scientific practice as well as the leakages\, intrusions\, and unexpected twists and turns that data takes as people\, technology\, and wildlife come together to craft and analyze it.   \nShe considers what it means for AI to be produced outside of the for-profit world of big tech\, and investigate the ideas\, cultural categories\, and histories that shape machine learning and AI about non-human animals and their consequences for humans and wildlife.   \nAbout the event \nThis is an in-person event. No registration is needed.  \nTransforM’s Seminar Series is a space for cross-disciplinary conversation on transformative technologies and their socio-economic impact. It brings leading academics and international experts for open\, research-driven discussions on the technologies reshaping our economies\, institutions and everyday lives. 
URL:https://transform-cluster.de/event/wild-ai-tracking-animals-and-datafication-in-the-anthropocene/
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