Welcome Reception
Tuesday, September 16, 17:00–19:00 EEST (Sief + Capitolium Common)
All conference attendees are warmly welcome!
Join a merry event with drinks and hors d’oeuvres, interactive exhibits and installations, and a room full of wonderful people! It’s also a special opportunity to meet researchers, strategists, and business leaders at sponsoring organizations that provide crucial support to EPIC2025 and our non-profit organization.
As part of our “not your average, awkward cocktail party” philosophy, EPIC Ambassadors will be there throughout the reception and they’re keen to get to know you. If you want some connecting, head over to the table with the ‘EPIC Ambassador’ sign.
Sponsor Exhibits & Activities
Gemic
Get the inside scoop on “Gemic After Dark: Un-intelligences” – a speakeasy-style gathering on Thursday.
Gemic is a studio of social scientists and strategists helping organizations unlock growth by addressing three types of problems — building foundations, adapting to change, and taking on the unknown.
Miro
Contribute to a shared mural for understanding intelligences, send a postcard to your future self, or learn how Miro’s innovation workspace is advancing research workflows.
Miro is a collaborative innovation workspace loved by 90 million people. Many EPIC Members use Miro for feedback, sprints and workshops, user journey mapping, and co-design.
MBZUAI
Take the AI & Society Quiz to reflect on foundational AI capabilities and global social and environmental impacts.
The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence is dedicated to advancing AI as a global force for humanity. The university in Abu Dhabi attracts world-class thinkers and doers in computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing, human computer interaction, and beyond.
Solita
Contribute to the Multiple Intelligences Matrix, a collective exploration of successful practices and emerging possibilities.
Solita brings together strategic consulting, service design, and software development that leverages the world-changing power of human insight, data, and AI.
Stripe Partners
Talk to our friendly team and, if you’re quick (limited supply!) grab a SP tote bag or a signed copy of the book The Power of Not Thinking by SP co-founder Simon Roberts.
Stripe Partners is a multidisciplinary consultancy of social scientists, data scientists and designers that helps tech-led businesses answer three questions: Where should we play? What should we build? How should we scale?
IS IT A BIRD
Learn about IIAB’s approach to understanding and activating intelligences.
IAAB helps businesses create more value for more people. Using a human-centered approach, it changes markets, transforms companies, and shapes the products of tomorrow.
Nation
Engage with a short film featuring Indonesian and Brazilian makers, thinkers, and practitioners who embody intelligences shaped by environment, spirituality, and relationships.
Nation is a qualitative research agency delivering fresh, authentic perspectives on Asia and the emerging world to help clients create strategically groundbreaking ideas.
ReD Associates
Stop by to learn how ReD applies the humanities and social sciences to business-critical decisions.
ReD Associates is a strategy consultancy rooted in the humanities and social sciences that helps leaders create original strategies to unlock growth in their core business and beyond.
Arts & Experiences
AI, Astrology and the Corporate Occult: The New Age of Decision-Making
Cameron Wu (ReD Associates) & Ariel Abonizio (Meta/Tundra)
Play with an AI-powered Tarot oracle and interactive Tarot deck for corporate strategy and celestial business horoscopes – a speculative decision-making system – and reconsider what counts as legitimate intelligence in corporate strategy.
More-than-Human Intelligences Cards
Meghan McGrath (IBM) & Sarah Brooks (Apple)
These cards prompt engagement with non-human beings in EPIC2025 conversations. Bringing in the qualities and capabilities of plants, animals, and ecosystems, they are a mechanism to de-center humans as the sole planetary intelligence. We’ll engage with slime molds, bioluminescent algae, the Mariana Trench, and others to enrich our conversations.
How Many EPIC People Does It Take?
An Experiment in Building Collective Intelligence
Michael Hallam & Carolina Sarmiento (IS IT A BIRD)
Watch collective intelligence grow and change over generations of puzzle-players during EPIC2025. Work on a fun, 5-minute puzzle and leave clues for those to come. Join Generation 1 tonight!
IC-98
Patrik Söderlund & Visa Suonpää
We have a special chance to engage with the art of renowned Finnish artists IC-98 during EPIC2025. IC-98’s award-winning work takes on the troubled boundaries of society and nature, time and space, and power and technology. Experience the following pieces: A View from the Other Side; House of Khronos; and Memory & Matter.