The DEN Conference was an absolutely wonderful experience, and one of the highlights of my first year at university. I hope to keep attending in the years to come.
What I valued most was the chance to meet likeminded people from beyond Westminster. I had a long conversation with a guest from Poland that continued well after the conference itself had ended — the kind of connection that happens because everyone in the room is genuinely interested in the same questions. That has stayed with me.
The conference also gave me the chance to develop my public speaking and networking skills in a real setting. Presenting in front of an international audience was something I had never done before. It pushed me, but more than anything it was fun — and that is what I had not expected.
I learned a great deal from the other presentations too. Bahar’s talk on AI and its effect on the way we learn introduced me to ideas I had not come across before, and I have been thinking about them since. That is what DEN does well: it brings together so many different angles on a question that you leave with more than you arrived with.
I had been looking forward to this conference for some time, and it lived up to every expectation. I will be looking forward to the next one already.
Konrad Leutert