SPEAKERS
Andrew Keen
Bio
Named as one of the hundred most-connected men by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best-known and most controversial commentators on the digital revolution. He has written five books including the best-selling Cult of the Amateur, The Internet Is Not The Answer and How To Fix The Future. He directed and wrote the movie How To Fix Democracy and is the host of the popular podcast Keen On Capitalism. Andrew's interests include the future of work, the future of the earth and the future of humanity.
26/OCT
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a new social contract in a digital world
Bahare Haghshenas
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Bahare Haghshenas is a partner and Executive Director of acacia, Deloitte's sustainable development hub. She is a pioneer by heart and excels in finding innovative sustainable solutions to the new and complex challenges that we face as a society. Bahare is the main mastermind behind several large flagship projects using the SDGs as a lever for growth, innovation and new solutions. These include the Copenhagen Business Hub SDG Business Booster program; UNLEASH, the world’s greatest innovation lab; and the UNDP's SDG Accelerator, which has been selected as one of three global programs within the UN.
26/OCT
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the green business opportunity
carla cammilla hjort
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Carla Cammilla Hjort is an entrepreneur, changemaker and cultural activist. She is the woman behind multiple culture and design companies, including ArtRebels, Trailerpark Festival, SPACE10 and Social Service Club. Driven by her passion for people, society and culture, she initiates concepts, projects and communities that focus on delivering positive change in society. Her personal journey has been fuelled by an urge to find the deeper meaning in life and her approach is always rooted in bridging the worlds of philosophy, design and storytelling.
26/OCT
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DESIGNING CITIES WITH AND FOR PEOPLE
Christian Felber
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Christian Felber is a writer, university lecturer and contemporary dancer based in Vienna. He is the initiator of the Economy for the Common Good, a comprehensive and coherent economic model that provides an alternative to the major historical narratives of capitalism and communism, and the Cooperative for the Common Good. He has written several bestsellers, including Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good and Money: The New Rules of the Game, which was awarded the Best Abstract International Book Award in 2014.
26/OCT
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rebooting the capitalist system
Helle Søholt
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Helle is Founding Partner and CEO of Gehl. She started the company together with Professor Jan Gehl in 2000. Through her leadership and strategic and organizational talent, the office has developed a knowledge base and experience portfolio that is respected internationally in the field of urban design and urban development. Gehl is a global leader in people-centered urban design. With studios in Copenhagen, New York and San Francisco, it is known for making "cities for people." The company has been awarded multiple prizes and recognitions for its contribution to making cities more liveable and sustainable around the world.
26/OCT
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DESIGNING CITIES WITH AND FOR PEOPLE
Indy Johar
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Indy Johar is an architect and co-founder of Project00, a collaborative studio of architects, strategic designers, programmers, social scientists, economists and urban designers practicing design beyond its traditional borders. He is also a co-founder and Executive Director of Dark Matter Laboratories, a field laboratory that aims to radically redesign the institutional infrastructure of our cities, regions and towns and transition society in response to technological revolution and climate breakdown. Indy is an advisor to the Mayor of London on good growth.
26/OCT
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DESIGNING CITIES WITH AND FOR PEOPLE
John Elkington
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John Elkington is the founder and Chief Pollinator of Volans, a London-based change agency. He is one of the founders of the global sustainability movement, an experienced advisor to business and a highly regarded keynote speaker and contributor. In 2008, the Evening Standard named John among the thousand most-influential people in London, describing him as “a true green business guru” and “an evangelist for corporate social and environmental responsibility long before it was fashionable.” In 2009, a CSR International survey of the Top 100 CSR leaders placed John fourth. He has addressed over a thousand conferences around the world, and was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002–2008. He has served on over 70 boards and advisory boards, and won numerous awards. John is also the author or co-author of 20 books, including Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism, which was published in April 2020.
26/OCT
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REBOOTING THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM
Lars Maaløe
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Lars Maaløe is a co-founder and the CTO of Corti, a voice-based digital medical assistant powered by cutting-edge artificial intelligence. He holds a PhD in machine learning from the Technical University of Denmark, and his primary research is in understanding highly complex data sources, such as audio and images, using deep neural networks for semi-supervized and unsupervized machine learning. Lars has worked with several tech companies, including Issuu and Apple.
26/OCT
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a new social contract in a digital world
Lars Pehrson
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Lahs Pehrson is the founder, former CEO and advisor to the executive board of Merkur Cooperative Bank. He is also the co-founder of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values. Merkur Cooperative Bank is a Danish values-based bank that combines classical banking with a vision of a sustainable society. It has been a forerunner in sustainable development and social responsibility in the Danish banking sector since 1982.
26/OCT
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the green business opportunity
Jens Martin Skibsted
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Jens Martin Skibsted founded Biomega, a Danish bicycle company, and helped to found a host of design consultancies including Skibsted Ideation, KiBiSi and Manyone. He is on the board of the Danfoss Foundation, Biomega and Manyone, and is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Mobility. Jens was previously chairman of the Danish Design Council, co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Entrepreneurship and has served on numerous boards. He is also a published author and has contributed to the Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, Børsen and Fast Company.
26/OCT
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the green business opportunity
Kjeld Stærk
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Kjeld has worked with Danfoss for more than 36 years in various positions around the World. He currently holds the position as Vice President, Executive Projects based out of the HQ in Denmark. Kjeld came from a position as President, Danfoss China and before that he held a position as President, Danfoss Global Services. Kjeld is a board member of both the ProjectZero Foundation and the board of ProjectZero.
26/OCT
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the green business opportunity
Michael Møller
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Michael Møller has over 40 years of experience as an international civil servant in the United Nations. He began his career in 1979 with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and worked for the United Nations in different capacities in New York, Mexico, Iran, Haiti, Cyprus and Geneva. He served as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva as well as Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament and Personal Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General to the Conference of Disarmament from September 2013 to July 2019. Prior to that, Mr Møller served as Executive Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation from 2008 to 2011.
26/OCT
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a new social contract in a digital world
natasha friis saxberg
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Natasha Friis Saxberg is a digital strategist, entrepreneur and author. She has worked with technology, innovation and entrepreneurship for more than two decades and holds several nominations as one of the most influential women in tech in Europe. She has also been recognised as one of the 100 most influential women in Denmark. Natasha has worked with corporate venture since 2015, developing new digital growth opportunities and discovered future profit pools, most recently as Head of Technology and Venture Development at Maersk Growth. Today Natasha works with venture, innovation and digital transformation through impact and growth at The Danish ICT Industry Association.
26/OCT
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a new social contract in a digital world
pardis shafafi
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Dr Pardis Shafafi is a British Iranian anthropologist, a former nursing student and conflict zone advisor based in Oslo, Norway. These days you will find her writing and publishing with think tanks and journals, advising on the European Union Off-Site project, stress-baking, or at the Designit studio where she is a resident design researcher.
26/OCT
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REBOOTING THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM
Allan Pilgaard-Jensen
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Allan Pilgaard-Jensen is a business developer focusing on creating growth and jobs in Sonderborg based on the sustainable transition. He has a marketing and business development background from enterprises with such a business potential.
26/OCT
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How to transform the city of Sønderborg towards a sustainable future
Anders lykke
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Anders Lykke is COO of Precis, a digital markerting agency. He met the founder, Christopher Brixen at Google's EMEA headquarters in Dublin, and quickly joined Precis. Precis' vision is to be a world-class marketing agency and an active force for good. Anders Lykke use to be an opera singer and a comedian, but is now the Communications and B2B specialist at Precis.
26/OCT
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How to create radical change by setting the new standard for who we do business with
Christopher brixen
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Christopher Brixen (CEO) Christopher Brixen is the CEO of Precis. He left his job at Google to start Precis Copenhagen. Precis is a digital marketing agency, who's vision is to be a world-class marketing agency and an active force for good. Christopher Brixen has previously founded a Sword eCommerce-shop and used to be a gaming journalist.
26/OCT
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How to create radical change by setting the new standard for who we do business with
Christoph nagel
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Christoph Nagel is the International Manager Europe at Kickstarter. Christoph has been crafting sustainable communities for as long as he can remember. First by launching his own sneaker company “Jojo Project” at the age of 23, then by launching the recommendation website Yelp in his hometown Brussels. Today, as International Manager Europe for Kickstarter, Christoph is on a mission: Meet and support people that have an idea and want to share it with the world through his position at Kickstarter.
26/OCT
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How to unleash the power of business to engage citizens and drive systemic change
Clara Halvorsen
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Clara Halvorsen holds a bachelor's degree in political science and an international master's in global development. She believes that young people are central actors in achieving the SDGs and that they deserve a voice. Clara is engagement lead at World's Best News, a journalistic awareness campaign and media outlet that publishes news about progress in developing countries and the SDGs, and was the Danish UN Youth Delegate to the United Nations in 2017. In addition, she is on the board of The Danish Youth Council, whom she also represents in The 2030-Panel, an advisory board to the all-party coalition the 2030-Network in the Danish Parliament. From 2014 to 2016, Clara was vice-president for the Danish Social Liberal Youth. She has also been an active member of the Social Liberal Party in Denmark for many years and represents them on the board of The Women’s Council in Denmark.
26/OCT
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How to create an inclusive innovation culture within your organization
Marie Louise Gørvild
Cosmina popa
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Over the past 15 years, Cosmina has worked with entrepreneurs and teams from around the world, assisting them to identify their Higher Purpose, as well as the unconscious mental and emotional patterns that directly affect their performance and ability to fulfill their purpose.
In 2013, she co-founded the Conscious Venture Lab in Maryland, DC. A startup accelerator and investment vehicle focused on developing conscious entrepreneurs, it was included in the Unikorn 10 annual ranking of the World’s Ten Greatest Accelerators (and Incubators) Churning out Impact. From 2016–2018 she served as CEO of Rainmaker Foundation, a London-based charity accelerator.
Today, Cosmina is a co-founder of Heartful, a group of initiatives dedicated to awakening love in the heart of business: love for people and love for our planet. She is also the co-author of the book How to Be a Leader, and holds an MSc in sustainability from King's College, London.
26/OCT
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How to define new leadership standards for the 2030 agenda
Ida Faldbakken
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Ida is co-founder of Katapult Future Fest and Katapult Cloud, a conference and community platform focused on the combination of exponential technologies, impact investing, new forms of collaboration and the future society. Ida is a public speaker and writer on technology, urbanity and gender equality, and she is actively engaged in social impact communities and projects around the world. A former partner at Nordic Impact and the Katapult group, she has worked with impact investing and supported the development of solutions, conversations around technology and businesses for good. Ida has an education and training in philosophy, history and pedagogics, which supports her robust human-driven approach to technologies and how to apply them to solve society's complicated issues
26/OCT
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How to define new leadership standards for the 2030 agenda
John Knudsen
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John Knudsen has many years of experience with Bitten & Mads Clausens Foundation, where he has handled all of the major construction activities at Sønderborg Harbor and is helping to drive the city's green transition.
26/OCT
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How to transform the city of Sønderborg towards a sustainable future
Louise Kjellerup Roper
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Louise Kjellerup Roper, is the CEO of Volans, a London-based change agency, and an experienced leader and passionate advocate for business as instrumental in driving positive change. Louise has always worked at the bleeding edge of innovation. She started her career in the tech industry with leaders such as Cisco, Logitech, IBM and Check Point Software Technologies. Since then, she has been successfully launching, running and advising cradle-to-cradle and circular economy brands across Europe. Louise was European Managing Director at gDiapers, the first cradle-to-cradle certified FMCG product, among other ground-breaking initiatives. She has represented gDiapers and ENSO Tyres as Emerging Innovator members of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s CE100 network, where she works on accelerating the circular economy with other innovators including Nike, HP, H&M, Veolia and WRAP.
26/OCT
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How to define new leadership standards for the 2030 agenda
lykke Jeppesen
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Lykke Jeppesen is dedicated to creating inclusive workplaces that foster a diverse workforce fit for the future. As the Diveristy & Inclusion Lead at TDC Group, Lykke works to improve gender balance in leadership, make room for minorities, and create a culture where everyone can come to work and be their true selves.
26/OCT
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How to create an inclusive innovation culture within your organization
Marie Louise Gørvild
MARIE-LOUISE Gørvild
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Marie Louise Gørvild is a sociologist, journalist and independent advisor who has worked in tech and innovation in both the US and Europe. Her past roles include working as a communications associate in San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom’s office, serving as a curator and board member at the local Danish TED chapter and being a founding member and CEO of Copenhagen-based Techfestival, which gathered an international audience to discuss the societal impacts of new technologies. Today, she is an independent advisor, the founder of the agency Stories I Heard and a Commission Member of TechDK, which publishes policy recommendations related to tech disruptions, new digital business models and the digitalization of our lives.
26/OCT
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How can the pandemic crisis make our cities more resilient and liveable?
Nicola Tollin
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Dr. Nicola Tollin is Professor with special responsibilities in Urban Resilience at the University of Southern Denmark, with a mandate to form and coordinate a research group on urban resilience, a key research area within SDU Civil and Architectural Engineering. He has over 20 years of international experience in research, capacity-building, education on sustainable development, resilience, climate change, the circular economy and innovation focusing on cities and regions. Dr. Tollin has coordinated or participated in over 100 research, education and urban development projects worldwide, authored over 100 scientific publications, delivered over 100 presentations and co-organized over 30 international conferences and official side events at UN conferences. He also serves as an expert for numerous private and public organizations, including local authorities and European Commission and United Nations programs and agencies, such as UN-Habitat and UNFCCC.
26/OCT
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HOW TO USE THE PANDEMIC CRISIS TO MAKE OUR CITIES MORE RESILIENT AND LIVEABLE
nicoline olesen
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Nicoline is a corporate activist and strategic adviser with a passion for inspiring and advising companies to be more meaningful and sustainable. She is involved in and partly responsible for driving the B Corp movement in Denmark. Nicoline has more than 15 years of experience with branding, marketing and communication.
26/OCT
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How to unleash the power of business to engage citizens and drive systemic change
Peter Rathje
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Peter Rathje has since 2007 managed Sønderborg´s ProjectZero, a public private partnership focused on achieving Sønderborgs ambitious climate goals. During 2007-2009 Peter was also responsible for the “Gehry harbour” Sonderborg masterplan creation. Peters background is business.
26/OCT
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How to transform the city of Sønderborg towards a sustainable future
Sofie Winge-Petersen
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Sofie Winge-Petersen is a member of the Danish Youth Climate Council, which brings new thinking into Danish climate policy and advises the government on climate solutions. She studied process and innovation engineering at the Technical University of Denmark and is a co-founder of Paint'R, a startup that is rethinking paint packaging. Sofie is also a member of Global Shapers, a network of young people driving dialogue, action and change that is supported by the World Economic Forum.
26/OCT
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How to create an inclusive innovation culture within your organization
Marie Louise Gørvild
Tharald Nustad
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Tharald is a serial entrepreneur and investor in the tech sector. He is the founder of Nordic Impact, a company that incubates and invests in social and environmental impact tech startups and impact funds. He is also co-founder of Katapult Future Fest, Katapult Accelerator and Katapult Ocean.
26/OCT
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How to define new leadership standards for the 2030 agenda
tim logan
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Tim Logan is a generalist designer and facilitator, who co-created the Waterkant programme and supported the Waterkant team to each take action at their highest points of contribution.
26/OCT
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How to tear down obstacles and build a dynamic framework for collaboration between startups and corporates
Uffe Elbæk
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Uffe Elbæk is a politician, climate change advocate and entrepreneur. He founded the cultural youth network The Frontrunners and is the founder and former principal of Kaospilot, an international school of new business design and social innovation. A former member of the Danish Social Liberal Party, Uffe established The Alternative in 2013. Today, he represents the Independent Greens, but his mission continues to be to save the world from ecological disaster, economic inequality and growing fascism.
26/OCT
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How to define new leadership standards for the 2030 agenda
Christian Erfurt
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Christian Erfurt is the CEO of Be My Eyes, a company dedicated to making the world more accessible and inclusive for people with visual impairments. His work at Be My Eyes focuses on enabling people with low vision to lead more independent lives through innovative business models and strategic corporate partnerships. Be My Eyes has supported hundreds of thousands of blind and low-vision users by connecting them to over four million sighted volunteers and industry leading companies, all at no cost to the users. Christian is passionate about the interplay between social inclusion, technology and human connection, and is thrilled to have the opportunity to share his learnings with the global community.
26/OCT
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John Ankjær
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John Ankjær holds over 30 years of experience within the service and experience industry. He has provided leadership and been responsible for financial management, operations and innovation in a wide range of companies within the hospitality sector, and is currently CEO of Alsik Hotel & Spa, located in Sønderborg.
26/OCT
7 pm
Søren Stig
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Søren Stig is an experienced impact investor, board member, mentor and social entrepreneur. He’s also a founding partner of The Shared Value Company, Ashoka Denmark, Nordic Impact and Katapult. Søren has been with A.P. Møller – Maersk A/S for almost 20 years, where he has held various senior positions. Most recently, he has served as Chief Sustainability Officer for Maersk Line, where he repositioned the company as an industry leader. He has received KPMG’s Global Strategy Prize (2011) and the European Business Award (2010) in recognition of his sustainability efforts and industry leadership. Recently, Søren co-founded Lifeline Robotics, the world’s first automatic swab robot, which is being used to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
26/OCT
7 pm
Marie Louise Gørvild
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Marie Louise Gørvild is a sociologist, journalist and independent advisor who has worked in tech and innovation in both the US and Europe. Her past roles include working as a communications associate in San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom’s office, serving as a curator and board member at the local Danish TED chapter and being a founding member and CEO of Copenhagen-based Techfestival, which gathered an international audience to discuss the societal impacts of new technologies. Today, she is an independent advisor, the founder of the agency Stories I Heard and a Commission Member of TechDK, which publishes policy recommendations related to tech disruptions, new digital business models and the digitalization of our lives.