Podcasts by 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.
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Panel on the disruption of music consumption from 2022-05-04T01:55:50.116124
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...
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JF Gauthier (Startup Genome) on Insights from 2019 Global Startup Ecosystem Report | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-24T13:22:48
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.
Michael Martin (Nike) on The Power of Digital Transformation | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T14:14:07
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 customer...
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André Kuipers (Astronaut) on Educating a generation of earth ambassadors | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T14:12:08
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 a...
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Georgina Ustik (TNW) on The big spam on the big stage | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:40:02
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 ha...
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Stephanie Hannon (Strava) on Building products for a better world | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:36:46
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 l...
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James Beacham (CERN) on Solving the mysteries of time and space | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:35:58
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 ...
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James Bridle (Author) on The New Dark Age | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:35:10
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 unf...
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Gillian Tans & Lauren Valbert (Booking.com & Edelman) on Future of tech in Europe | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:30:42
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....
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Guy Kawasaki (Author) on Lessons from a Life in Technology | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:27:32
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.
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Amy Whitaker (Author) on Vulnerability, creativity, and leading from questions | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:22:32
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 b...
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Gilad Lotan (BuzzFeed) on How machine learning and AI are transforming media | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:20:58
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,...
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David Kerpen (Author) on The art of people: Skills in a technology-driven world | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:18:53
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 bu...
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Des Traynor (Intercom) on What happens after product market fit | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:14:05
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 custom...
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Raj Samani (McAfee) on Cybercrime: The biggest threat in the digital age | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:11:38
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 Cybercrim...
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Karen Wickre (Author) on Building your network for life | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:10:48
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 fut...
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Louise Troen (Bumble) on The power of kindness in brand building | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:09:42
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 w...
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Jonathan Rochelle (Google) on Changing school to help students become entrepreneurs | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:08:22
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 effecti...
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Jack Constantine (LUSH) on The future of retail: What Amazon can’t do | #TNW2019 from 2019-05-22T12:01:53
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 technol...
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Nir Eyal (Hooked) on mastering the skill of the century from 2018-07-19T15:59:04
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 th...
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Åsa Nyström (Buffer) on five years of salary transparency from 2018-07-19T15:58:15
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 sin...
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Kevin Langeree on kitesurfing into the future from 2018-07-19T15:57:48
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 ...
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Nick Caldwell (Reddit) on high stakes of hyper growth at Reddit from 2018-07-19T15:57:18
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 fea...
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Ariel Ekblaw (MIT) on designing our sci-fi space future from 2018-07-19T15:56:41
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...
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Zach Lieberman (Artist and Educator) on Poetic computation from 2018-07-19T15:56:18
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,...
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Nicky Birch (BBC) on designing voice-first experiences from 2018-07-19T15:43
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. ...
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Maykel Loomans (Facebook) on meaningful numbers from 2018-07-19T15:41:33
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...
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Purna Virji (Microsoft) on designing conversational AI from 2018-07-19T15:41:15
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 ...
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Didier Rappaport (Happn) on data, AI & human relations from 2018-07-19T15:40:34
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 possib...
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Des Traynor (Intercom) on product strategy when scaling a company from 2018-07-19T15:39:54
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 ou...
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Tricia Wang on using 'thick data' in marketing from 2018-07-19T15:38:44
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 wo...
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Jelle Prins (Uber) on global design for local audiences from 2018-07-19T15:38:26
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 c...
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David Rose (Warby Parker) on the history and future of eyes from 2018-07-19T15:38:04
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 ...
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Lex Hoefsloot on a smart and sustainable mobility economy from 2018-07-19T15:37:47
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...
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David Mattin (Trendwatching) on AI and core human needs from 2018-07-19T15:37:26
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...
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Che-Wei Wang (CW&T) on designing within generative design from 2018-07-19T15:36:40
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...
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Adolfo Fernández (Google) on international expansion for startups from 2018-07-19T15:36:05
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 ne...
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Clarissa Shen (Udacity) on translating data into global good from 2018-07-19T15:35:52
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....
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Ella Saltmarshe (The Comms Lab) on how to be plural from 2018-07-19T15:35:22
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 ...
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Mike Rigby on R/GA’s guide to connected brands from 2018-07-19T15:33:49
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 Yor...
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Leila Janah (Samasource) on transforming the workplace from 2018-07-19T15:33:17
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 thei...
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Heather Zynczak (Pluralsight) on secrets of a growth marketer from 2018-07-19T15:33:07
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...
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Kipp Bodnar (Hubspot) on spotting AI hype from 2018-07-19T13:30:53
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,...
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Elisa Jagerson on experience engineering for healthcare from 2018-07-19T13:30:35
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 ret...
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Lupina Iturriaga & Sofia Benjumea on user acquisition after the first 100K from 2018-07-19T13:30:13
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 ...
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Len Shneyder (Sendgrid) on why email wins in a crowded market from 2018-07-19T13:29:55
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 w...
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Coen van Oostrom & Mark Rolston on the future of cities from 2018-07-19T13:29:19
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 an...
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Roxanne Varza (Station F) interviews John Collison (Stripe) from 2018-07-19T13:28:52
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. Full video: https://youtu.b...
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Eva de Mol (De Mol Ventures) on building a stellar tech team from 2018-07-19T13:26:46
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 tea...
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Mitu Khandaker on why conversational AI needs storytellers from 2018-07-19T13:07:41
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 proce...
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Axel Bard Bringeus & Robert Gaal on international expansion from 2018-07-19T13:06:40
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? Full video: https:...
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Gordon Willoughby & Boris on taking over the CEO-steering wheel from 2018-07-19T13:06:30
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 th...
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Adrian McDermott (Zendesk) on future customer experiences from 2018-07-19T13:06:15
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 ...
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Holley Murchison (Oratory Glory) on becoming who you are from 2018-07-19T13:05:59
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 t...
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Bryce Bladon (CryptoKitties) on blockchain and the future of art from 2018-07-19T13:05:43
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...
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Maria Chatzou & Max Kelly on how advances in AI are shaping the future from 2018-07-19T13:04:41
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 o...
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David Ryan Polgar & Joe Leonardo do Funny as Tech Show from 2018-07-19T13:04:27
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 ...
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Panel on how technology holds the key to fan engagement from 2018-07-11T09:14:56
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 engagem...
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Mark Rolston (Argo Design) on dark interactions from 2018-07-11T09:14:49
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 mak...
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Juanita Devis on shaping spaces through tech & perception from 2018-07-11T09:13:21
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...
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David Polgar & Joe Leonardo do Throwback Thursday from 2018-07-11T09:13:13
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 T...
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Sander Klous (KPMG) on trust in a smart society from 2018-07-11T09:13:06
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 trus...
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Daniel Gebler (Picnic) on everywhere commerce from 2018-07-11T09:12:42
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 autonomo...
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Panel on big questions for smart cities from 2018-07-11T09:12:27
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 ...
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David Goldberg on why we are so bad at doing good from 2018-07-11T09:11:04
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 run...
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Panel on big business in challenging regions from 2018-07-11T09:10:21
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 recou...
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Diana Wehmeier on inspiration toward the future from 2018-07-11T09:10:09
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 rea...
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Panel on disrupting the agency model from 2018-07-11T09:10
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...
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Maddie Raedts on your best self in the age of social media from 2018-07-11T09:09:49
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, Ma...
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Chris Slowe (Reddit) on design for the most vocal users from 2018-07-10T14:34:07
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...
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Andy Miah on the brave new digital world of sport from 2018-07-10T14:33:47
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 o...
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Panel on Formula 1 esports gaming revolution from 2018-07-10T14:33:37
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 ...
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Eszter Ozsvald & Charmaine Crooks on the consumer IOT revolution of sports from 2018-07-10T14:33:19
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...
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Nicholas Horbaczewski (DRL) the future of sports from 2018-07-10T12:39:44
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 Leag...
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Alexandre Ricard & Ciara Byrne on future-proof companies from 2018-07-10T12:39:35
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 conne...
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Anjali Sud (Vimeo) on changing the course of your company from 2018-07-10T12:39:25
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 thi...
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Kim Houser (Washington State University) on GDPR from 2018-07-10T12:39:17
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...
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Ray Chan (9GAG) on how to win China & make $$$ from 2018-07-10T12:39:07
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 affl...
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Susan Lindner on strategic storytelling to engage talent from 2018-07-10T12:38:55
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 ...
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Christina Xu on divergent evolution on the Chinese internet from 2018-07-10T12:38:45
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 increasing...
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Panel on debunking myths on corporate innovation from 2018-07-10T12:38:35
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 ho...
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Bracken Darrell (Logitech) on design companies from 2018-07-10T12:38:24
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 desig...
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Bryce Bladon on how to solve the problems of the blockchain from 2018-07-10T12:37:44
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 reali...
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Yoni Assia (eToro) on the rise of the crypto asset from 2018-07-10T12:37:34
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 e...
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Alex Mashinsky on how to bring 100 million users onto the blockchain from 2018-07-10T12:37:23
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 wi...
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Tim Draper & Justina Lee on investing in blockchain from 2018-07-10T12:37:09
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 t...
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Panel on the path towards mass adoption from 2018-07-10T12:36:59
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 technolo...
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Panel on ethical tokens: blockchain regulation & responsibility from 2018-07-10T12:36:46
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 rampin...
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David Schwartz (Ripple) on interoperability & decentralization from 2018-07-10T12:36:37
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...
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Kavita Gupta on the danger of investing in coins instead of equity from 2018-07-10T12:36:26
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...
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Kary Bheemaiah (The Blockchain Alternative) on measuring the value of a token from 2018-07-10T12:36:18
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...
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Vesna Petresin (AHK) on media opera and live performance art from 2018-07-10T12:35:27
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 insi...
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Marshmallow Laser Feast on making the invisible visible from 2018-07-10T12:35:15
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 r...
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Alex Wills (R/GA) on prototyping in VR, AR and AI from 2018-07-10T12:35:01
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 developmen...
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Alice Tomassini on discovering storytelling for VR from 2018-07-10T12:34:49
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: Soundt...
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Andrew Huang & Margarita Khartanovich on innovation for the independent from 2018-07-10T12:28:02
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 c...
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Benji Rogers (dotBlockchain Music) on music on the blockchain from 2018-07-10T12:27:49
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 reg...
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Gilles Peterson with Young Marco on the psychology of DJing from 2018-07-10T12:04:59
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 favo...
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Alexis Ohanian on initializing startup davids against tech goliaths from 2018-07-10T12:04:48
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 ...
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Kevin Kelly (Wired) on the emerging V-Cloud from 2018-07-10T12:04:39
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 rea...
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Carolyn Rodz (Hello Alice) on building compassionate machines from 2018-07-10T12:04:30
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 experie...
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Kodi Foster & Sashka Rothchild on tech for good from 2018-07-10T12:04:20
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 i...
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Andrew Garrihy (Huawei) on AI: unleashing a new renaissance from 2018-07-10T12:03:03
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...
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Heike Riel (IBM Research) on quantum computing from 2018-07-10T12:02:52
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...
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Emily Orton (Darktrace) on AI and the future of cyber defense from 2018-07-10T12:02:35
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 highl...
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James Whittaker (Microsoft) on our future with our robot overlords from 2018-07-10T12:02:21
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 wit...
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Pamela Pavliscak (Change Sciences) on emotionally intelligent machines from 2018-07-10T11:59:12
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. Wit...
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Marc Teerlink (SAP Leonardo) on AI: myths, facts and disruption from 2018-07-09T15:25:43
How Artificial Intelligence will Digitally Transform the Purpose, Transparency and Skills of the Knowledge Worker and will disrupt Business Processes as we know them. Full video: https://youtu.be/...
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Jason Silva on our transhuman future from 2018-07-09T15:25:21
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 ...
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Rich Pierson (Headspace) & Ciara Byrne (FastCompany) from 2018-07-09T15:24:59
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...
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Danielle Wood (MIT) on space tech enabling sustainable development from 2018-07-09T15:24:44
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...
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John Collison (Stripe) on the evolution of a new online economy from 2018-07-09T15:21:35
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...
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Ryan Leslie (Superphone) on success at the speed of connectivity from 2018-07-09T15:19:31
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 ...
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Nelly Ben Hayoun (United Nations) on designing the impossible from 2018-07-09T15:15:12
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, de...
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Andrew Keen (Author) on how to fix the future from 2018-07-09T15:14:53
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 Val...
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Katrina Dodd (Contagious Communications) on retail's reinvention from 2018-06-18T15:41:51
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 w...
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Ron Faris (Nike) on the future of retail & digital community from 2018-06-18T15:41:40
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, ...
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Jonna Fassbender (Stylescript) on fashion data from 2018-06-18T15:41:35
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 unders...
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Richard Kelly (Fung Group) on a new school of consumerism from 2018-06-18T15:41:28
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...
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Henry Davis (Glossier) on how tech can create a new paradigm for brands from 2018-06-18T15:41:08
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...
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Jack Constantine (Lush) on bursting the retail bubble with tech from 2018-06-18T15:40:49
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 invest...
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