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  Purpose and profit are the twin hearts of sustainable business

  By Adam Tinworth

  Today's digital workers crave more that position and profit - they want purpose in their work. And building your strategy around business with purpose may just be a competitive advantage in the battle for talent.

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  Different types of innovation

  By Martin Recke

  There are different types of innovation, depending on the product lifecycle. But Apple remains the exception that proves the rule.

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  What’s the purpose of business?

  By Martin Recke

  In a world of overwhelming complexity, it isn't easy to find the purpose of business. We shouldn't veil our confusion.

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  The digital is inescapably political: it’s time to accept that

  By Adam Tinworth

  The digital evangelists of the 1990s saw cyberspace as a haven safe from the politics of the "real" world. They could not have been more wrong — and we're still paying for their mistake.

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  Democratising digital

  By Martin Recke

  We are in deep need of digital democracy. But it's not about digitising democracy, but democratising digital.

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  Complexity will continue to drive change

  By Martin Recke

  Complexity can be both a blessing and a curse. Together with its VUCA siblings, it will continue to drive change.

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  Reclaim the future by embracing complexity: the core message of NEXT19

  By Adam Tinworth

  "We can fix this! Simple!" is the most dangerous lie we can tell ourselves. In an era of increasing technological and environmental risk, we'll only solve our problems by embracing complexity. This was one of the core messages of #NEXT19

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  NEXT19 Recap: embracing complexity and rethinking humanity

  By Adam Tinworth

  It was implicit in the theme of parallel worlds, but it was explicit on stage: we need to embrace complexity and reject simplistic thinking to navigate the societal storms ahead. Was this the most challenging NEXT to date?

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  How Connected Living unifies digital parallel worlds

  By Georg R. Rötzer, VP Corporate Marketing Samsung Electronics

  NEXT19 was all about 'Parallelwelten' (= parallel worlds). One of the most important technology trends of 2019, 'Connected Living' - also seems to be a sort of parallel world.

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  The right things to do

  By Martin Recke

  Doing the right things implies that we know what the right things are. Overwhelming complexity makes this a challenge.

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  Thomas Webb: VR and the future of society

  By Adam Tinworth

  Technology is very close to magic, if you do it right. But who is the magician behind the curtain of today's technology?

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  Ben Sauer: making the case for slower digital decisions

  By Adam Tinworth

  The digital world has become obsessed by speed. But sometimes, when you move fast you break things…

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  Marcello Schermer: why the future is being built in Africa

  By Adam Tinworth

  Africa is fixing its own problems - and the products it is creating have the potential to achieve global scale.

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  Efosa Ojomo: understanding the cycle of innovation

  By Adam Tinworth

  You build a very different style of innovation when your factor in access as a key goal. Africa is producing democratised products that will change the digital world.

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  Payal Arora: dispelling the myths about the next billion

  By Adam Tinworth

  The next billion internet users are not the people we think they are. Let's bust the myths about them so we can understand the coming world.

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  Christian Mio Loclair: how art helps us understand AI and our own humanity

  By Adam Tinworth

  As AI gets better and better at more things, and deep learning starts creating art - what still makes us human? Does the answer lie in a child’s artwork?

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  Building speculative leadership to protect future generations

  By Adam Tinworth

  We’re trapped by short term, siloed thinking - and it’s going to kill us all. Two NEXT19 speakers show us the way out of the trap we’ve built for ourselves.

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  Eliza Filby: Generational intelligence and how it shapes society

  By Adam Tinworth

  Social and economic conditions help define the characteristics of each generation. What can we learn about them - and what does that teach us about how we raise Generation Alpha?

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  NEXT19 and the climate strike

  By Adam Tinworth

  Today is the beginning of the Climate Strike and, while we're not shutting the conference, we are making sure that the climate crisis is on the agenda.

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  Generation Z in China and Germany – bridging the Parallelwelten

  By Adam Tinworth

  The digital worlds of Generation Z in China and Germany are worlds apart. A NEXT19 panel chaired by Accenture Ventures' Mei Wang dug deep into the cultural and historic factors that create the difference.

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  Söhnke Christiansen: building compelling new realities

  By Adam Tinworth

  We have the technology now to create compelling, immersive digital worlds. But how do you do it right? Here's three lessons from market leaders Mackevision.

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  David Mattin: addressing complexity with a new model of humanity

  By Adam Tinworth

  We are being overwhelmed by complexity - and it's fracturing our societies. We need to update our model of humanity if we're to have any chance of reversing this.

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  James Bridle: Manoeuvers for a New Dark Age

  By Adam Tinworth

  We're entering a new dark age, where technology obscures, rather than clarifies. How do we cope — and survive?

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