About you (not us)

You may be surprised, but I don't have an "About Us" page on this conference website. I have only this "About you" page, because my Eureka Conference is not about me or us, but about you.

My Eureka Conference has already been described as a new and original type of conference, and I am happy to confirm that it is. After attending and organizing numerous conferences for over a decade, I sat down and created this new concept for you.

Scientific research and philosophical questions always aim at the understanding, improvement, progress and upliftment of our entire humanity, our natural world and our spatial environment. When a human being makes groundbreaking discoveries at any time in history, they affect us all. This is even more imporant, when we remember that not all scientific discoveries lead to positive outcomes. Historically they have often unfolded grave dangers, increasing our destructive potential. And today, we live in a time, in which there is so much research going on and in which simultaneously there are so many other things happening, that there is often simply not enough time for "outsiders" to research field to engage properly with it and with its interesting and promising new discoveries. At the Eureka Conference you will find precisely that opportunity, since this conference is about you, about bringing you up to speed with what has happend and what is happening in a specific scientific field and how you, the groups of people you belong to and the groups of people you represent can profit from new findings and insights in your individual and social life. Most importantly my Eureka Conference simultanoeusly gives you the opportunity to critically engage with leading researchers, that is insiders of a specific scientific field.

At the Eureka Conference, three philosophers, nine scientists and an interested audience critically delve into the essence of a selected scientific field for the duration of three days. Together. During the conference, the nine scientists share with the three philosophers and the audience their own personal eureka moments that fired their imagination and gave them the motivation for their scientific work. The scientists also give a brief overview of their most important discoveries. The philosophers thereby critically evaluate the discoveries, place them in a historical, political, social and cultural context, and discuss with the scientists the actual and potential consequences for humanity that have already resulted and could result from their discoveries and future research. At each step of the way the audience is invited to actively participate and enrich the exchange, through critical questions and comments shared directly via microphone or digitally via mobile phone.

It is also you who will choose each year the scientific field that we will deal with in the following year. You will not only be able to vote, but also to make suggestions. The suggestion that receives the most votes will become the topic of the conference next year, and my fellow philosophers and I will start preparing the next year's conference, networking with leading researchers inside that field and inviting them to come and share their eureka moments with you.