On November 5, 2008 the first "YouCan-Talk" event took place in the Duesseldorf Barco-Lounge
Wilfried Ifland opened the evening of presentations with the words "tonight everything may go wrong since it is the first evening of our YouCan-Talk event-series". Well, as stated, Murphy´s law held true: If anything can go wrong, it will. But in spite of some technical problems and the somewhat poor acoustics, the audience was listening attentively and engaged in lively discussions.

The topics of the evening:

What will the future offer?

Siggi Becker presented possible future scenarios. What "future" will become reality? Was everything we consider today as reality at one time "future"? A subject which leaves us with many open questions.

Changing Communication

Wilfried Ifland presented the diversity of modern communication methods. Unfortunately the internet connection failed and many interesting features could not be demonstrated. One example, the lady on the left is the result of multimedia research at the Frauenhofer Institute, a speaking avatar. How does it work?  > Webseite (only works with Internet Explorer)

Self-fullfillment meets diet!

Bigga Rodeck showed the opportunities but also the risks of a (western) society in which self-fulfillment is at the top of the agenda. This is in stark contrast to Far East believes, in these cultures, the community is in the foreground.
The presentation in format for download   >hier (in German)

An inspiring evening with interesting and lively discussions.

We thank TB Computer for the technical support and also

thank you Tim for keeping us on schedule - watching out that our presentations don´t get too long (ten minutes!).

A big THANK YOU to all participants, guests and speakers for making our first YouCan-Talk event a successful one.

The next YouCan-Talk event will be on February 12, 2009.