This year has seen huge leaps in the development of AI and technology, with governments investing millions of pounds in to big tech companies under the guise of making our lives easier and propel us into the future.
Meanwhile, most of us are feeling the threat to our privacy, our jobs and the strain this will put our environment under for land and water resources.
Last year, with a tech oligarchy standing next to Trump for his second term, our conference theme responded by looking at “How can we move beyond corporate power?”
One year on from then and consumers are now enthusiastically looking for tech alternatives and resistance is growing.
Long trusted tools produced by google are being abandoned by people looking for alternatives in the millions.
And almost half of the data centres planned in the US are facing delays or cancellation because of infrastructure, power grid and supply chain problems.
Come and join us at our annual conference in London, where we’ll be taking an in-depth look at the ethical alternatives to big tech and AI.
Building on our research publishing in the July 2026 issue of Ethical Consumer magazine, we’ll be asking how we can look after ourselves, come together to resist tech corporate power, and put people and planet at the top of the agenda.
This year’s conference will be held on Friday, 23rd October 2026, at Rich Mix in Shoreditch, London with a day of discussions, talks and workshops.
Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
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Here is what attendees said about our conference in previous years:
“I enjoyed hearing the stories about people taking positive action. Always so inspiring and helps me to stay focused on my own work. It is easy to fall into despair about the state of the world but we have to look the problems straight in the eye and move over, around or under them.”
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“Extremely positive and reassuring atmosphere – necessary when we are facing such daunting challenges. I learned about some initiatives I hadn’t even dreamed of, including a few that I might be able to support in a small way. All attendees whom I met were also approachable, thoughtful and sane people, not at all how the right-wing media like to portray the whole ecology movement.”
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“The content was ambitious and intersectional. I liked the challenge to the status quo, hearing from your researchers and also introducing more diversity and youth to the conversation. The venue was great and the food was excellent.”
