TNW Conference: Recent Episodes
TNW Conference
TNW Conference is an annual tech festival in Amsterdam. Experts on machine learning, blockchain, marketing, design, and more take the stage and shared their insights with over 15,000 attendees. The talks are both available on TNW's YouTube channel and here, in this podcast.
Premiere of 2019 Startup Genome’s Global Report, including a world’s first: the rankings of deep tech startup ecosystems along the subsectors of life sciences, AI and blockchain.
Learn the latest insights that crack the code of scaleups. With the mission of multiplying startup success in every city worldwide, Startup Genome conducts the only global research on startups and their ecosystems. Startup Genome is the leading innovation policy advisor, working with more than 35 governments across 25 countries.
Nike's keynote will give an overview of the Nike Direct strategy and how Nike is innovating to completely transform digital/physical retail and create unbreakable relationships with its customers. Nike will also showcase a new example of how they're doing this via breakthrough technology and capabilities that will solve for a 100-year-old problem in the footwear industry. Ultimately this development will have far reaching impacts for consumers, the industry and for Nike itself.
We are all passengers on a spaceship with limited resources: our planet. An astronaut’s journey into space bolsters this realization through ‘the overview effect’ — yet unfortunately we cannot all experience this transformative moment. SpaceBuzz, a brand new concept from ESA astronaut André Kuipers, uses this as a premise to educate the world’s children, creating a generation of earth ambassadors in the process.
Big Spam, if you don’t know, is a sassy love/hate letter to technology that Georgina started in 2018 and handwrites daily. Besides delivering the most important tech news of the day, Big Spam has polls, disgusting GIFs, puzzles, puns, and, artist takeovers.
Basically, it's an experiment on how far we can twist what a newsletter is supposed to be, and in this talk Georgina will discuss all the horrific things we learned along the way. And also how you, our readers, are our cute, furry, and, probably diseased guinea pigs.
As a product leader at Google, Facebook, Strava, and more, Stephanie has dedicated her career to creating products and advancing technologies that drive social impact forward. She’ll share her lessons learned from building tools to aid in natural disaster response, expanding Google Maps across 80 cities, and launching over 100 voter engagement tools as CTO for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
Our universe is bizarre. Why is most of the cosmos composed of mysterious dark matter? Why is the Higgs boson so strange? Why do atoms exist? The hottest-and-latest in physics suggests that the biggest puzzles of science could be elegantly solved if our universe were one of a possibly infinite number of universes. But is this a testable scientific idea, or eternally speculative? How do we talk about what's outside our universe? Join Dr. James Beacham, of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, as he explores the edges of knowledge -- including CERN's plans for a colossal Future Circular Collider -- and how the future of science, technology, and innovation will be much wilder than we can imagine.
Instead of a utopian future in which technological advancement casts a dazzling, emancipatory light on the world, we seem to be entering a new dark age characterised by ever more bizarre and unforeseen events. The Enlightenment ideal of distributing more information ever more widely has not led us to greater understanding and growing peace, but instead seems to be fostering social divisions, distrust, conspiracy theories and post-factual politics. How have we come to this point – and has utopia gone forever?
Tech companies based in Europe are faced with challenges. With a heavy emphasis on regulation and lack of funding, the EU should place higher priority on incentivizing talent and startup growth. In order for Europe to gain notoriety as an innovative ecosystem, the tech industry should improve recruitment and tackle diversity issues.
Kicking off the TNW2019 Conference in Amsterdam, tech evangelist Guy Kawasaki shared a number of unforgettable pieces of wisdom from his life in the industry over the past few decades.
If you are creating a work of art in any area of your life, you are not going from a known point A to a known point B but you will invent point B along the way. Whether your “art project” is a business strategy, a crisis response, or a new technology, this all starts with asking the right questions.
Drawing on her book Art Thinking, Amy will leave us with better tools to explore all questions on how to integrate the practical and creative parts of ourselves.
BuzzFeed publishes content across the largest digital media network in the world, fueled by world-class tech stack, and a number of innovative applications of machine learning and AI. With that, the advent of data has brought up important questions around ethics, manipulation, and potential harm. In this session, Gilad will highlight the multi-faceted nature of working on data science in an age of information warfare, manipulation, and mass propaganda.
NY Times bestselling author and serial entrepreneur Dave Kerpen shares key lessons learned on how to build successful relationships with other people that will get you far in social media, in business, and in life. Technology is changing fast - but people skills are more valuable than ever before. Don't miss this session - you will walk away with tips that will impact your life right away.
Des launched Intercom in 2011 as the first to bring messaging for sales, marketing, and customer service to one platform – helping companies of all sizes build personal relationships with customers.
Before Intercom, Des was co-founder of Exceptional (now a part of Rackspace), the first error tracking company. Before Exceptional, he was a UX designer for web apps. He’s based in Dublin.
Raj is Chief Scientist and McAfee Fellow for cybersecurity firm, McAfee. He has assisted multiple law enforcement agencies in cybercrime cases, and is a Special Advisor to the European Cybercrime Centre.
In a world of gigs, frequent job changes and geographical moves, it's more imperative than ever to build your network for life. Having a personal "brain trust" to call on is key to your work future. Karen Wickre has spent 30 years in fast-moving Silicon Valley, where your network is your currency. She will talk about how to make authentic contacts and stay in touch with them online — without crowding your diary.
This session will take you through the Bumble story - from fighting misogyny to launching disruptive creative campaigns whilst highlighting how Bumble successfully launched in multiple markets with one core message - women go first. Bumble took a problem in society and utilised tech function and creative innovative marketing to spread this message like wildfire. Troen has been critical to the expansion and consistency of this and will walk us through her thinking behind this. This keynote aims to showcase marketeers that focusing on mission first as a brand, whilst leading with kindness as a business, is key to building a thriving company in today’s modern world.
Students learn a lot in school - but are they learning the skills they need to be productive people at work, in their community, and their own lives? Are they learning how to effectively learn and follow their passions and curiosity to achieve greatness - or simply happiness?
What if schools gave students more ownership over their learning the way an entrepreneur owns her own business success? This talk will be a panel session with students from a unique school in the Netherlands which does just that. A School with no classes, no teachers (ok, they have "coaches") where students own their own learning.
At TNW2018, Jack Constantine, CDO of Lush Cosmetics, took the stage with a rallying cry for other organizations to get their hands dirty and produce their own fresh, handmade technology. This year, Jack returns with a reflective view on the ethical tech that Lush Digital have produced that is changing the game for the tech x retail experience. From AI and ML technologies that are reducing the necessity for single use plastic packaging, to the open source till system boosting company profits, to opening the world’s first signage-free store, Jack will show you the future of retail technology, today.
Ever get the feeling you’re bombarded with too many pings, dings, and rings? You’re not alone. In an age of ever-increasing distraction, technological and otherwise, how can knowledge workers do their best work? Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, wrote the book on the secret psychology of technology. However, in this talk, Nir provides the antidote to the current distraction crisis. Nir shares the findings of his five years of research into how to master what he calls, "the skill of the century," the power to be "Indistractable." Nir's entertaining, research-backed talk provides practical advice and memorable strategies for managing distraction in business and life.
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5 years of salary transparency, what it's like to take salaries public and what we've learned since then. This talk is about how Buffer took our salaries public almost 5 years ago and how we’ve since pushed for transparency across all areas of the company. We will also talk about how transparency encourage constant change and how we keep learning about ourselves to set a better example for the industry.
Full video: https://youtu.be/9n6ZLV_SHUI All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Making a career out of a niche sport is hard – even when you’re the best kitesurfer in the world. As social media began to skyrocket, Kevin Langeree saw an opportunity to bring his passions to the world. He shares how technology enabled him to support himself in his athletic pursuits, so that he can do what he loves every day.
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Reddit has 330 million monthly visitors, ranking as the #4 most-visited website in U.S., and growing fast. It has tripled in size to keep up with such tremendous traffic. Hypergrowth is no easy feat and can put a startup at risk of losing control of culture, team cohesion, and organization trust. Join Reddit CTO, Chris Slowe, and VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell, as they discuss Reddit’s growth journey from 40 to 300 employees, and explore the communication tactics and must-have cultural elements that work at every point of scale.
Full video: https://youtu.be/Fv6ncah1xCQ All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Join the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative in designing our Sci-Fi Space Future! Learn about our latest research and how we are working to make Space accessible and engaging for millions—and someday billions—of people. Space will be hackable. Space will be playful. Our goal is to invent, create, and deploy ideas that seem exotic and impossible today, but could be commonplace in 10 years. Humanity stands at the cusp of interplanetary civilization and space is our next, grand frontier—this opportunity to design our interplanetary lives beckons to us all.
Full video: https://youtu.be/u2XBFQnMY0E All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
What would it be like if we could see our voice? How can we paint with code? Zach Lieberman writes software to make art and in this talk, he'll discuss his practice, which includes daily sketching, as well as recent explorations with AR. He will also talk about the School for Poetic Computation, a school he helped found in New York City that explores how we can make poetry with code and electronics.
Full video: https://youtu.be/7qGqd19fz24 All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Voice interfaces like Alexa and Google Home are limited by their own technology. We can choose to be frustrated with AI, or we can work with their constraints to create something new and exciting. Nicky Birch explains how pushing the envelope and creating prototypes is what will enable us to improve voice interfaces in the future.
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As digital product creators, we are problem solvers. As a part of the product development process, we ever more focus on metrics. This talk covers the interplay between vision, research and metrics, and how to make sure that the numbers you seek to improve are meaningfully aligned with mission of your team, and the goals of your customers.
Full video: https://youtu.be/tO4A-F0R1CA All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
We’re moving into brave new world where conversation is the new interface. Designed correctly, chatbots and voice apps can engage and delight customers. Poor user experiences on the other hand can alienate customers in droves. What are the secrets to creating effective conversational experiences? Attend this research-based session to find out.
Full video: https://youtu.be/nCH8b1pUyG4 All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
At Happn we are convinced that AI is the opportunity that can radically augment and enhance people interactions, and doing so could improve life experience, opening up the field of real life possibilities for each and every one of our users.
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A good idea can carry a company through one cycle of tech innovation, but building a company that lasts and thrives in a fast-growth environment is another thing entirely. In this talk, Des will outline how innovators should be thinking about building a product when scaling a company, and the importance of connecting the teams who make products with the teams who make revenue.
Full video: https://youtu.be/msKFWXKVfQI All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Why are we now in what Doc Searls calls the largest boycott in human history with 1.7 billion people blocking ads? Tricia Wang reveals how marketing sold its soul to ad tech by believing that it would be the magical big data solution to understanding customers. She shows us how we can get our souls back and get the full ROI out of big data by integrating what she calls, “thick data”-- precious data that captures people’s emotions and stories.
Full video: https://youtu.be/tuUISDoGxWI All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Designing Uber’s global app is one thing. Tailoring it for Amsterdam is quite another. As one of the first employees at Uber, Jelle Prins explains his journey to creating the first design for the company. Starting off as a student who stumbled into a meeting with Uber’s founder, Prins describes his initial skepticism and how he left the company after a year. Returning to Amsterdam, his company was acquired by Uber and he hasn’t looked back since. He explores how he continues to develop local designs for Uber’s global product.
Full video: https://youtu.be/p5sddE9A0y0 All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Wearable cameras and AI are causing radical shifts in how we sense, see, and work. It’s changing transportation with self-driving, disrupting retail with self-checkout, automating agriculture, and remaking how we design future cities. But the change in seeing becomes more profound when these vision technologies jump into glasses to bring new layers of real time information via augmented reality. Beyond playing Pokemon and recalling names, your new eyes enable remote collaboration, contextual learning, and new tools for creativity.
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Designing a smart and sustainable mobility: economy autonomous vehicles, multi-modal transportation, and the ever-changing technology that fuels mobility. Expect to hear how cutting edge technology, 5G Biometrics and ultralight materials have the ability to transform the mobility system by enabling new business models and mobility services for new and changing customers.
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Great innovation and design starts with core human needs and wants. In this fast-paced session TrendWatching's Global Head of Trends and Insights, David Mattin explores that truth with reference to one of 2018's most powerful, and most radical, emerging consumer trends. AI-fueled virtual entities – think chatbots, smart devices and more – are making the leap from transactional assistants to true companions that serve deep human needs for wellness, happiness, and even companionship. Learn why the Virtual Companions trend offers huge opportunities for any brand, innovator, or designer in 2018. And along the way hear about TrendWatching's simple but powerful trend spotting methodology, and how it aligns with design thinking principles you already use. Leave ready to start spotting and using powerful trends of your own!
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The traditional design workflow is getting a turbo boost from algorithms (don’t worry. The robots aren’t taking over…yet). With new types of generative design processes like genetic algorithms, the designer’s role is changing from the traditional, top down approach of drawing ideas on paper, into a systems approach. Designers traditionally sketch and develop ideas intuitively. With a genetic algorithm, instead of imagining a design solution, the designer develops a fitness criteria and coaxes the algorithm towards a final design.
Full video: https://youtu.be/rj4uIW7uUNo All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
With the rise of competition around the globe, it is becoming increasingly more difficult for startups to differentiate from competitors. As tempting as it is to dive into a potentially exciting new market, it’s important to research its local demographic, language, and culture beforehand. A sure way of keeping ahead of competition is by offering localized user experiences – tailored to each market a company serves. Learn how personalization leads to better customer relationships, an increase in customer acquisitions, and the potential for exponential growth across international markets.
Full video: https://youtu.be/tIH-Fy3Vm80 All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
In a world in which we speak 7,000 different languages and we have 44 billion connected devices creating a constant flood of data, we need help to understand each other and our ever-changing world. A new field of translators has emerged that promises to help us solve some of the biggest problems of our time: data scientists. We need a new literacy around data and facts. And we need to commit to lifelong learning. When we discover our shared reality, we can build trust and find more common ground.
Full video: https://youtu.be/L2I4_sdUEr8 All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
The 21st century is calling us to move beyond the era of the monomath. Automation, economic uncertainty, rising complexity & a growing desire for greater professional fulfillment will see more and more of us taking a plural approach to our working lives. In this session, Ella will explore the power of being plural and show how we can all learn from the craft of the polymath.
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The world's most valuable business, such as Apple, Google and Amazon, have created powerfully Connected Brands. And they win with a disruptive, new playbook. Join Mike Rigby VP, ECD at R/GA New York as he unpacks this playbook, and shares R/GAs unique approach to building Connected Brands. Mike will explain how by combining branding, storytelling, and technology together, brands can create incredible network effects that shape culture. He will share how R/GA has helped brands like Nike, Pepsi, the Ad council, and a whole bunch of start-ups, create meaningful, Connected Brands that move the world forward.
Full video: https://youtu.be/X_KOIt3TbPs All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Machine learning is often associated with Silicon Valley and expensive, cutting-edge technology. Samasource provides the poorest communities with jobs in the industry to enable local growth in their countries. Leila Janah takes us on a visual journey to Kenya and North Uganda to explain this pressing need to create opportunities. As a non-profit, they aim to lower the global poverty rate while understanding the potential for AI.
Full video: https://youtu.be/Re-myC3Iv0M All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Slack, Dropbox, Pluralsight. Ever wonder how these companies achieve high-growth rates? Pluralsight CMO Heather Zynczak reveals her secrets on how to create a marketing model that optimizes digital and direct sales, a customer experience that maximizes ROI and a defensible moat to protect — and help you gain — market share.
Full video: https://youtu.be/lHr7BC1Ht_M All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
The first time HubSpot’s CMO, Kipp Bodnar, was fooled by AI hype he was in the 6th grade on an awe inspiring field trip to a local science museum, but it wouldn’t be the last time. In this session, Kipp will walk through a simple framework for separating AI hype from reality, share the lessons he learned the hard way about spotting AI hype, and make a few predictions about where the biggest AI opportunity is right now and what business leaders should be looking for next.
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Drawing on over 20 years of work in the consumer market, both through brand marketing and hands-on product design – and using case studies including robotics, AI, medical devices and health and retail – you’ll gain a new set of tools and techniques to help create connected experiences for understanding the functional, experiential, and emotional aspects of user needs.
Full video: https://youtu.be/k3_nEshBmmY All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Acquiring users for your platform is a never ending challenge. Lupina Iturriaga explains how her company Fintonic has leveraged marketing to achieve their goals. She explains how pushing sales and profit can be balanced with customer support and empathy, and how the future of handling money lies in understanding the data and providing the best solutions to end users.
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With an ROI of $38 of return for every $1 of investment email is unmatched in its ability to not only connect companies to customers, but also to deliver meaningful results. However, email is not without it's challenges—from technical, to creative to legal, email can be more complex than you realize. Learn how to scale your email program and achieve unparalleled growth and connection with your customers.
Full video: https://youtu.be/Lnfuy7PQfWw All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Building smarter spaces requires more than just technology. It means focusing on sustainable solutions to make your experience better. Coen van Oostrom describes how we can make energy-efficient and fun buildings, for smarter future cities. Through exploring the affordances of sustainable technology, companies like EDGE are radically changing the way we interact, explore, and work in the buildings of the future.
Full video: https://youtu.be/QC3VtvBq_48 All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
John is going to do a keynote on empowering small businesses. This is a follow-up on his keynote as well as a more intimate interview on his vision for tech in general.
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What are the characteristics of a successful entrepreneurial tech team? This is the leading question of Eva’s talk. Eva collected data of 800+ entrepreneurs to find out why some entrepreneurial teams are more successful than others. Questioning entrepreneurs from the USA and the Netherlands yielded surprising results. For example, did you know that smarter teams do not perform better? That too much passion in teams can lead to bad performance? Or that entrepreneurs who are obsessively passionate are more likely to burnout? Next to elaborating on her research, Eva will also shed light on some of the practical tools that entrepreneurs and investors can use to improve team performance.
Full video: https://youtu.be/jXRx3r4hO6M All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Conversational AI should entail more than a rigid structure – it needs to allow for the flow of human interaction. The best way to do that is to involve storytellers and game designers in the process. Khandaker discusses how her background in gaming has taught her how to immerse the player into a world of fiction. Similarly, we should immerse humans into a conversation with AI.
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In this session, Axel Bard Bringéus, International Expansion Partner at EQT Ventures, will discuss how to decide if international expansion is worth it - and is it worth it now?
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What is it like to take over the role of CEO from the company’s founder? When start-ups grow into scale-ups, most founders step down as CEO at some point in time. That has its ups and downs, for the founder, for the one taking over, and for the company as a whole. What is it like letting go and what is it like stepping in? Gordon Willoughby became WeTransfer's CEO in 2016, taking over from Bas Beerens. How did the transition phase go? Hear what it’s like to move from a corporate to a scale-up, and what the growing pains are from scaling the company internationally. We’ll explore the balance after his first year at WeTransfer and discuss what lies ahead.
Full video: https://youtu.be/zJi2uCPWB2A All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Every industry and software technology seems to be infatuated by artificial intelligence while simultaneously fearing the possibility of machines replacing human jobs. But there's a softer side to AI. The future is proactive. Companies need to analyze data to anticipate problems before you even know you have one. Relying on Artificial Intelligence to solve mundane problems leaves room for companies to have authentic, connected conversations and to deliver in the ways customers desire.
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Contextualizing it's larger call to action within today's ever-precarious sociopolitical climate, Become Who You Are is a talk encouraging a future-focused audience to actively articulate and own their purpose, mission, and usefulness; see and create a world where people not only feel comfortable sharing and learning from the richness found within and around their communities; and then use this power to drive personal and societal transformation.
Full video: https://youtu.be/re1afGiUYe8 All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
With blockchain, digital art can now be personalized, interactive, and extendable. It can truly be owned, digitally scarce, and even a cultural following can be defined in tractable financial terms. From creation to consumption, blockchain unlocks numerous possibilities that will redefine our relationship and understanding of art.
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In this session we will cover the basics and key concepts of machine learning, as well as the latest advances. The emphasis will be on how they are shaping the future, through real-world examples of applications from the fields of genomics, healthcare and tech startups.
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Funny As Tech is a podcast where a tech ethicist & and comedian tackle the thorniest issues in tech! Tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar and comedian Joe Leonardo invite three creative thought leaders on the TNW stage for a rapid-fire panel show! Our relationship with tech is messy... let's discuss!
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Oliver Weingarten (Virtually Live) , Bill Martens (BAMTECH Media), Shireen Hamdan (Populous Architecture) & Andy Miah (Author).
Expect to hear how immersive technology holds the key to fan engagement- bridging the gap between the physical environment and digital spheres. Here speakers discuss shifts in viewing consumption habits, ever-changing media rights landscape and proliferation of digital media, as well as the emergence of new technologies and how this can be applied to the physical, stadium viewing experience. Any Miah interviews Virtually's Director of Content Development, BamTech's Managing Director & Populous Architecture's Principle.
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Ubiquitous information and communication has dramatically changed how we work. Yet we still like to work together, in teams, in shared spaces. We have an opportunity to rethink the workplace by making the environment smart -- from an inert space to an active participant in how we work with others. In an AI-driven economy, ordinary and forgotten moments of human interaction can be reeled in and made a useful part of the digital workplace. We call these "Dark Interactions," and with new computing interfaces like conversational AIs and interactive light, we can harness them for our benefit.
Full video: https://youtu.be/g1WgmjjMZrI All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
Technology is increasingly shaping the way we experience cities and our workspaces. As makers of our future environment, we mainly focus on the objective performance of these environments but often neglect how we subjectively experience them. I will investigate how to link perception and technology. This talk presents how perception can be a powerful tool to connect with our increasingly technological environment and how technology can be a powerful tool to understand our perceptions and navigate our existing and future spaces of living and working.
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There are some products like the iPhone and Facebook that revolutionized the tech industry and changed the way we live our everyday lives.. We won't talk about any of those. Hosts of the Funny As Tech Podcast, tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar and comedian Joe Leonardo, discuss the big blunders from big tech companies that didn't quite make a splash.
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We are moving at light speed toward a smart society where almost all of our decisions are supported or taken over by systems and algorithms. It is more important for us than ever to be able to trust the data analysis taking place under the hood. How are we going to ensure that algorithms comply with the norms and values we treasure as a society? Prof. Klous addresses how trust concepts are changing due to digitalization and the dominating role of algorithms in a smart society. He will explain what organizations can do to turn this potential threat into a defining opportunity.
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In this keynote we will show how a unique combination of IoT, AI, Drones and autonomous vehicles is forming the next generation of commerce. From mobile to voice interfaces, from manual to autonomous warehouses, from human operated to self-driving cars. The technology is there, pilots are in operation, and broad adoption is not far away. We will show how Picnic and other retailers are building logistic platforms that unlock the next generation of commerce experience.
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Thomas Lantzsch (Intel), Phil Skipper (Vodafone), Juanita Devis (MIT) & Linda Martinez (St. Louis)
Cities are set to take advantage of the latest in infrastructural technologies to make our lives easier, simpler, and richer. How do you build a smart city that does all that? TNW Reporter Abhimanyu Ghoshal talks to 4 key thought leaders in IoT and Smart Cities to find out: Intel Corporation's SVP of IoT, MIT Media Lab's CityScience Advisor, Vodafone's Head of IoT Business Development and St. Louis' Deputy Mayor.
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Most founders are big-picture problem solvers. So why are we still struggling with the same endemic societal problems that we have for decades? Let's explore the tension that exists when you're running a business but also want to do good.
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Ryan Sturgill (Gaza Sky Geeks), Thor Muller (Off Grid Electric) & Judith Walker (African Clean Energy).
Difficult environments attract the most inventive, stubborn of entrepreneurs. Limiting recourses, economical, cultural and political barriers make it harder to grow your business but easier to drive real innovation and pioneer-ship. Moreover, it drives a social impact in areas that most need it. This special will discuss the pro's, con's and power of doing business in challenging regions with entrepreneurs who don't shy away from a good challenge.
Full video: https://youtu.be/midE3wZBEYE All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
As technology has advanced, so has science fiction, painting more and more realistic portraits of what life in space could look like. Science and Sci-Fi are slowly coming together forming a new reality where the craziest dreams have started to become true. By providing free distribution of artistic content through film, press, and exhibitions, artists and cinematographers are promoting innovation by inspiring the scientific community to make fantasy a reality.
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Alex Wills (R/GA), Amanda Feve (Anomaly), Blake Harrop (Wieden+Kennedy) and Emily Hinks (Mischief Makers).
For an industry that prides itself on creativity and innovation, advertising isn't always great at predicting the future. With major tech companies entering the space, many brands taking their creative in-house, and consultancies building out their own creative arms, agencies are facing unexpected competition from all sides. Then again, challenges come with great opportunities. How are three leading agencies taking this on and adapting to a new industry climate? What are the building blocks of the agency of the future, and how does one stay relevant for clients, consumers, and creative talent?
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As a social media pioneer, Maddie weighs in on how she keeps a clear head while she scrolls chaotic newsfeeds on the daily. With the pressures of social media on perfectionism only intensifying, Maddie and her 75-man millennial team are living by a company culture and creating campaigns that help tackle this.
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Reddit's popularity has surged to 330 million monthly active users in spite of a UX largely unchanged for a decade. Since users have created, moderated and grown their communities with passion, any redesign is high stakes. In this talk, Reddit’s head of product, Alex Le, will share the process and philosophy of Reddit’s highly-anticipated redesign, reflect on the community’s feedback and offer advice from designing hand-in-hand with arguably the internet’s most vocal, opinionated users.
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Henrik Landgren (EQT Ventures), Meindert Kennis (Digital Marketing Strategist) , Sulinna Ong (Deezer) and Georgia Meyer (Boiler Room).
Digital Democratisation has come in stages, each with its own evolving dynamic for the role of labels and behaviour of consumers. Piracy versus downloads, from the first experiments in streaming to legitimised streaming, and profitability for many labels once more. Now we’re at the permanence of the streaming landscape via increasing competition with radio and the dominance of playlists. This conversation will look at the current impact of the industry on artists, consumers, streaming services and labels alike and ponder what the most significant further developments might be.
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The Brave New Digital world of Sport will see augmented reality, artificial intelligence, gamification and playable arenas transform the experience and meaning of sports. Expanding into the world of immersive storytelling, future sports will find themselves closer to other creative Industries, which will expand the sports industry far beyond its present parameters. How will sports ready themselves for the new expectations of athletes, spectators, and a radically different vision for what playing sport will mean to Generation Z?
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Giedo van der Garde (Professional Racing Driver), Koen Schobbers (Esports Expert) & Charmaine Crooks (Five Time Olympian).
Extraordinary changes and advancements in technology have presented many opportunities for sports but is true of F1 perhaps more than most. The future of F1 racing lies at the crossroad between virtual and real worlds- Esports and simulators are changing the racing league, opening the doors to a wider and more diverse audience. Charmaine Crooks, CEO of NGU Consultants interviews Giedo van der Garde and Koen Schrobbers.
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Ancient Greece introduced us to the idea of sports and athletic excellence and continuous self-improvement. Modern Olympics introduced us to the methodologies and principles of specialized training for sports. High-tech sensor products and performance analytics tools previously accessible to elite athletes are now part of the consumer IOT revolution. The new tools of quantifying human performance enable more efficient forms of knowledge transfer. Computer aided training equipments empower self-improvement and encourage new forms of indirect competitive behavior, emerging on generalized or specialized apps and social platforms. Charmaine Crooks, CEO of NGU Consultants interviews the Co-founder of Notch Interfaces, Eszter Ozsvald, about these developments.
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ESport. VSport. TSport. There’s a revolution of technology-enabled sports -- and no shortage of new catchy sports-category titles. Join Nicholas Horbaczewski, CEO & Founder of The Drone Racing League (DRL), the pro-drone racing circuit, as he examines the disruptive paradigm of tech-enabled sports and why robotics sports are next.
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Our world is changing at a rapid pace, and companies need to adapt quickly if they want to remain viable in the future. How can businesses and brands change with the times while maintaining a connection to their heritage and the values that made them great in the first place? Ciara Byrne talks to Pernod Ricard’s Alexandre Ricard – the youngest CEO of the Top 40 French companies, and head of a family company that traces its roots back over 200 years – about mindset, entrepreneurship, driving positive impact, and consumer-centricity in a digital age.
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Within her first 90 days in office, Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud led the video platform's transition from consumer destination to software-as-a-service business that will exceed $100 million in revenue this year. From redefining the company's vision, organization and product strategy to making the biggest acquisition in its history, Anjali and her team successfully pivoted Vimeo from content company to one-stop technology platform in a matter of months, all while remaining true to Vimeo's founding mission: to empower video creators to tell incredible stories. Join Anjali in a discussion about her experience navigating change in a rapidly evolving industry, her view on scaling growth while preserving company culture, and why - when it comes to creators - she's all in.
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On May 25, 2018 the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will begin to be enforced. This presentation will note the new requirements that companies collecting, processing and storing data from the EU will need to do to comply with this new regulation. Houser also explains why she believes this will level the playing field for tech companies wanting to compete with U.S. tech companies who have operated with few legal restrictions on their data use up until now.
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China is an enticing growth market, particularly for tech companies. But according to 9Gag CEO Ray Chan, it’s also the place where Western tech companies are failing. With China being a highly affluent market, we need to understand Chinese consumption patterns. Here, Chan explores how Chinese companies scale quickly, and innovate at a pace far beyond that of their Western counterpart - so how do we keep up? According to Chan, you’ll probably need to get a Chinese boyfriend or girlfriend.
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Gallup’s State of the Workplace reveals that two-thirds of the American workforce feels disengaged and 75% of this group are actively looking for new jobs, while on the job. How can leaders retain top talent in the midst of intense disruption, innovation, and even layoffs and market fluctuations? Stories. Employees need to feel connected to a higher purpose beyond the 9-5 and leaders must offer that larger cause to inspire, not just manage, their teams.
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The Chinese internet remains an abstraction to many outsiders due to technical, cultural, and linguistic barriers, but the stakes of misreading the terrain are rising as China becomes an increasingly important market force. Behind the Great Firewall, China's social platforms have evolved into an ecosystem that is significantly different from what we are familiar with in the West. How do we dig past both the novelty factor and our own assumptions towards a deeper understanding of these fantastic beasts?
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Heike Riel (IBM), Jason Williamson (Oracle), Bernhard Schambeck (BMW) and Bindi Karia (Boutique Advisory Firm).
Innovation is key for corporations looking to stay relevant in the long term. But how should they go about transforming their businesses to pave the way for the future? Startup garages, startup accelerator programs and corporate VCs are popping up everywhere, but to what extend are these the answer? Decide what is the most effective approach for your company by hearing experiences from 3 leading corporate innovators, Oracle's VP of Global Startup Ecosystem, IBM's Executive Director Research & Innovation Expert Bindi, how each are approaching business transformation in a different way.
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Logitech CEO, Bracken Darrell, had a vision of Design as transformative for business since the early days of Design Thinking when he was working for Braun. He gave his first talk about what a design thinking company is at Braun in 2007. He joined Logitech in 2012 with this vision to help turnaround the business and has since worked relentlessly to make it a reality. Logitech's growth has accelerated 15 to 20 points, profitability has quadrupled, and the company has won over 100 Design awards since the company began to embrace this concept.
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In late 2017, the world’s second-largest blockchain was brought to its knees by a game featuring digital cats, underlining the obstacles blockchain needs to overcome before the technology can realize its potential. This talk explores the main technical limitations—stability, scalability, obsoletion, computational power—and the unique people-created problems that emerge when excitement and ignorance for emerging technology intersect.
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Yoni Assia, CEO and founder of eToro, explains how crypto assets are becoming the preceded asset class for millennials, and what it means for the prices of cryptocurrencies. Yoni will explore the evolution of financial markets, expose false doom-prophets and their missed market predictions, and illustrate how each new generation creates its own technology. Will millennials embrace cryptocurrencies as the currency of the future?
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The crypto community has run out of anarchists, libertarians and almost absorbed all the speculators it can handle, the next 100m users to join crypto need a world class application to use. What will it be? Alex Mashinsky, a 7X founder & CEO of Celsius Network will discuss his view of the future of crypto.
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As someone who's been in venture capital for a long time now, Tim Draper has seen the industry struggle with & adapt to technological innovation. The birth of the Blockchain and ICO's has changed the world of investments forever. During this conversation, we will learn more about his vision on the current crypto landscape and the way forward for venture capitalism.
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Panel with Kavita Gupta (ConsenSys), Margarita Khartanovich (Binary District) & Marloes Pomp (the Dutch Blockchain Initiative).
What are the barriers to educating the masses on blockchain technologies? Listen here as industry professionals discuss the several challenges associated with blockchain adoption and how they must first be mitigated before widespread integration can happen. Here speakers explore how cross sectoral, mass education will allow the technology to reach the next steps and allow for real decentralised market places.
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Panel with Justina Lee (Bloomberg), Nick Grossman (Union Square Venture), Toni Lane Casserly (CULTU.RE) and Katrina Arden (Blockchain Law Group).
The debate to ramp up crypto regulations is ramping up. Like everything, their are pros and cons as to why cryptocurrencies should be subject to increased scrutiny- are cryptocurrencies going to be able to preserve their original democratic, accessible, open nature?
Will the dominant players in traditional finance also come to dominate crypto? Listen as three industry professionals discuss the importance of balanced regulation, how you’ll be impacted and how to prepare for the first wave of regulations.
The dangers of investing in coins instead of equity- and how to avoid them.
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As the blockchain space continues to deal with increasing fragmentation, achieving interoperability between different platforms has become ever more important. After a brief overview of the current state of things in blockchain technology, we will explore some of the biggest challenges ahead of building ecosystems that facilitate exchanges between different infrastructures without sacrificing security and decentralization – and how Ripple plans to address them.
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The blockchain ecosystem is in its infancy, its real use is still misunderstood. Both traditional and innovative VC firms still need to understand the use for blockchain in investment opportunities, such as how and when to raise money with coin offerings. Listen as ConsenSys expert, Kavita Gupta and Dimitar Mihov discuss how to avoid the dangers of investing in coin.
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Current speculation of token prices led to poor capital allocation with sources stating that 10% of ICOs were scams and that 46% were failures. As there is no standard model to measure the value of a token, investors are forced to use retro-fitted stock valuation models which are unsuited to the task. But recent advances in research are now providing us with a better was to gauge the intrinsic value of a token.
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Live performance art is valuable to technological innovation in emerging media where real-time audience engagement is often missing. ‘ An artistic experience in Mixed Reality immerses audience inside the experience of the media, rather than the media inside the audience. Instead of layering content (visual, kinetic, audio); the focus is on creating content, native to the media opera format, as well as on offering a sensory experience (sonic, kinetic, visual) which is digitally manipulated and enhanced for a live audience. The inspiration for my work comes from the idea that we inhabit an endlessly rich environment where matter is information under constant transformation, bringing human connection, wonder, and innovation.
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Can we experience the world beyond our senses by using technology? It is a close look into collective’s thought process of generating digital fossils to use for virtual reality and exploration of real-time applications that employs in-organic sensing techniques to evoke organic sensations.
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The next phase of virtual and augmented reality will be the emergence of a new network or ‘cloud’ to facilitate this digital twin; underpinned by artificial intelligence and allowing the development of truly personalized digital assistants to connect consumers across a variety of devices to brands and experiences. Companies utilize these newly developed channels to better engage and interface with their customers. Join Alex Wills Managing Director at R/GA Studios as he unpacks how R/GA has partnered with brands such as Guinness, Nike, Siemens and McDonalds to create immersive brand experiences through emerging technologies.
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This speech explores ideation and experimentation in a mixed experience, through the eyes of the documentary director Alice Tomassini and thanks to her work-in-progress VR-touch documentary: Soundtouch.
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What are the opportunities for an independent artist in the 21ste century? With the power of social media on your side, they’re endless. You just gotta learn the tricks of the trades. During this conversation, we will hear how Andrew Huang capitalized the potential YouTube offers for musicians and artists, and how he stopped caring about self-imposed boundaries. His innovative mindset has brought him many partnerships, one of which we’ll explore in more detail. Composing with Artificial Intelligence and the team at Google Magenta.
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To address the unique challenges facing artists releasing their work in the digital economy, Rogers also co-founded the Dot Blockchain Music Project, an attempt to create a decentralized global registry of music rights using blockchain technology that will overhaul the commercialization and movement of music online. A dedicated patron of arts and creativity in all its forms, Rogers’ work is rooted in a belief in the democratizing power of the internet; he will always be “loving your work.”
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Gilles Peterson has been one of the world's top DJs for three decades, but his fascination with the craft remains as bright as ever. So in The Psychology of DJing, Gilles interviews one of his favorite DJs Young Marco to explore his life behind the turntables. How did he get into it and what drives him? How does he handle the pressure? How has technology changed the role of the DJ, does he think about the future that lies ahead? What’s it like to build a profession out of a passion? Young Marco plied his trade in the Amsterdam underground scene for over a decade before world domination. This Amsterdam based DJ and producer also runs his own label Safe Trip - after learning the tricks of that trade as a key part of the Rush Hour family.
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There's been a democratization in tools & approaches to machine learning that we haven't seen in other fields, which allows smaller companies to punch above their weight class -- we're seeing this across the Initialized portfolio at the seed and pre-seed stages. We bet on the speedboats against the aircraft carriers: how Paperspace, Standard Cognition, and Voyage are letting their customers punch above their weight using ML.
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The first network platform is the web, gated by Google. The second network platform is the social graph, gated by Facebook and WeChat. The third network platform is about to emerge: the virtual reality cloud, or V-Cloud.
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As we turn more of the interactive experience away from humans and over to machines, it's important to consider the implications. In this session, we'll walk through how to improve the user experience through smart, but thoughtful, technology, and how to ensure that users feel like you're talking to, and not at, them.
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Consumers are demanding that companies take a more hands-on approach to making the world a better place. In response to this cultural shift, how should companies leverage their internal resources in order to support the needs of their customers and communities both locally and at large? Kodi Foster, Senior Vice President of Data Strategy at Viacom, and Sashka Rothchild, Founder and CEO of Stnd.by, will discuss their recent technology partnership in which technology was aligned with a corporate initiative and embodies the possibilities when innovation and humanity come together with the singular purpose of helping others.
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AI rapidly increases the speed of innovation. This unlocks an unlimited amount of possibilities for consumers all over the world. Can you imagine how effective and creative you would be if AI could support you with the 35.000 decisions you make each day? And, what do we want to know about this technology before we invite it into our daily lives?
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A new type of computing is needed to solve exponentially difficult problems we cannot solve today: quantum computers. This technology exploits the mind-bending phenomena of quantum physics. Instead of the classical bits of today's computers, quantum bits possess remarkably unique properties that enable an exponential increase of compute power by adding extra qubits. Many experts believe that quantum computing has the potential to make certain facets of artificial intelligence much more powerful.
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Lurking beneath the surface of enterprises today are in-progress cyber-threats, ranging from new vulnerabilities to advanced attackers that have taken hold of critical information. Emily will highlight some of the most significant trends in the cyber-threat landscape, and real-world threats that would have gone unnoticed without the use of artificial intelligence cyber defense.
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We are the first human generation smart enough to build artificially intelligent machines and stupid enough to actually build them. In as little as a single generation from now, we will coexist with machines smarter than ourselves and live a life that is bereft of labor and responsibility. How will this technology evolve? What impact will it have on our social structures and economic institutions? Join distinguished engineer James Whittaker as he takes us on an educational and inspiring romp through the near-term future, using examples from everyday life as they edge closer to the science fiction world of tomorrow. Come ready to be challenged and most of all, brace for impact.
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Artificial intelligence seems poised to remake what it means to be human. We struggle with how human to make our machines, at the same time as we struggle with how to maintain our own humanity. Without emotion, we won’t even get close. The convergence of affective computing and AI will bring us toward an era of emotionally intelligent machines. And, even more important, may lead us to a more humane future for humans, too.
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How Artificial Intelligence will Digitally Transform the Purpose, Transparency and Skills of the Knowledge Worker and will disrupt Business Processes as we know them.
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The pace of transformative change is accelerating. Disruption has become the new normal. Exponential technologies have become the defining engines upending the world. Biotechnology, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence could potentiate a ‘Cambrian Explosion of Mind’ that some refer to as a Singularity. Should we be afraid? Enthralled? What are the philosophical implications of such change? How might humanity be transformed? Jason Silva, the Emmy-nominated host of National Geographic’s BrainGames TV series, creator of Shots of Awe, and international keynote speaker offers an awe-inspiring vision of what’s to come.
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Headspace is committed to improving the health and happiness of the world, one meditation at a time. How do you convince an impatient, distraction-seeking (Western) society to expect nothing and be comfortable with discomfort? We will hear about the journey from Rich’s personal meditation practice to building the most comprehensive guide to health and happiness, together with Andy Puddicombe. Hear insights from Headspace's research to better understand our human relationship with mindfulness, meditation, and mental health.
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Professor Danielle Wood leads the new Space Enabled Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, which advances justice by improving designs for complex systems using technology enabled by space. Join this talk to get a sense of how space technologies have developed in the past year and what is already possible with those technologies, right here on earth. Six space technologies already contribute to sustainable development: earth observation, communication, positioning, microgravity research, space spinoff technology, and the inspiration that space brings via astronomy, education and capability building.
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The original idea of the internet was all about decentralization. Today’s online economy, however, is mostly thriving on a single business model - advertising. It is no wonder it’s characterized by a very limited number of big companies. Enabling new business models and empowering entrepreneurs everywhere will be key to a more distributed and diverse digital economy.
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In the mid 90's email completely changed the speed at which we could communicate. Along with that change came many advantages and a litany of challenges. As we approach the widespread availability of 5G, even more advancements in the speed of communication will be realized. Ryan's talk will center around how we maximize that opportunity and optimize for an even newer set of challenges to truly achieve success at the speed of connectivity.
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At TNW, the Willy Wonka of Design and Science, Critical explorer and fearless and passionate provocateur, Wired Innovation Fellow, designer Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun will create a space for thoughts, debate and provocation around the new commodities of knowledge, the act of thinking, and the critical impact of new technologies in design education. She will define her design work and research through practice as a Designer of Experiences and founder of the tuition-free transnational University of the Underground. She will pledge for Greek Tragedy and the Human Condition and remind members of the public that innovation often comes from 'multidisciplinary conflicts'. She will explain the challenges she faces, trying to defy conventional research and educative methods and exploring how to support the freedom of learning.
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How to fix the future and stay human in the digital age? Solutions to economic inequality, the looming crisis of joblessness caused by AI, the cultural corrosiveness of social media and Silicon Valley's surveillance capitalist business model. Focus on solutions driven by regulation, innovation, social responsibility, worker and consumer choice and education. Examples taken from Estonia, Singapore, India, Germany and many other parts of the world outside Silicon Valley.
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Retail is developing a growing fascination for automation, intent on pioneering slick, staff-free customer experiences. But while Amazon Go may have held the spotlight, the real momentum has been with China, where a succession of staff-free formats have been trading with the public for over a year. What they lack in polish, they make up for in potential, getting in on the ground floor of a retail revolution that will eventually change much more than how we pay for a late night snack.
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With all the turbulence in traditional retail these days, there isn’t a more opportune time to try new things. Learn the unique approach from the GM of Nike’s new mobile innovation studio, S23NYC, as he lays out the foundation for a possible future of digital retail through the eyes of fanatical community.
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As the great Fashion data generator gets closer to us, the only thing that will change is who owns the data and what control we have over it. As humans we all own data and therefor we should understand the value, function and purpose of (our) data. By opening the black box of data we can help people to think outside of the box. Until now the internet is built based on monetizing audiences and commoditize us people like Facebook and Google are doing to make money opposed to the beautiful sharing space for knowledge. The expense and ethics of AI are currently holding us back. To move forward we need to strike a balance, and inject HUMANITY into the machines we’re developing.
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There is so much talk about re-inventing retail; same optimising strategies, lack of innovation, and declining results. Richard proposes that we need new questions, new focus on context not content, how the futures of production and retail meet and where to look for inspiration. Using examples from china, we see marketplace innovation happen and how an emerging operational approach that embeds creative commercial learning can build brand value over time.
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The first commerce transaction on the internet happened 24 years ago. In the years since, e-commerce has evolved from a scary proposition for non-digitally native companies to a requirement for all retailers. Several models have emerged as a result: marketplaces, third party e-tailers, and direct to consumer companies. However, all of these models are focused on leveraging the internet as a distribution channel. But the internet offers so much more than that. The future of e-commerce will be companies who realize that the internet is the value proposition, not just the channel. The winners will use technology to engage people in new ways that redefine the paradigm of the customer / brand relationship. Join Henry Davis, President and COO of Glossier, in a discussion about how brands of the future will leverage technology to change what it means to be a customer of a brand.
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Is the future of retail really online? Whilst some retailers are closing high street shops and investing in digital store fronts, Lush is doing things a little differently. This is a company investing in a converged retail and digital experience with innovation where the customer is still at the heart of everything, and a ‘tech for good’ approach means the digital and physical worlds can work hand in hand. It’s a small leap from fresh handmade cosmetics, to fresh handmade technology.
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