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CES 2024: AI Inside

By Adam Tinworth

Beyond the normal raft of product announcements, there’s a clear trend this year: AI is coming for your hardware, from cars to pillows…
The most popular NEXT Insights of 2023

By Adam Tinworth

What themes caught people’s eyes in 2023? And what digital insights are they seeking?
Deconstruction is the seed of opportunity

By Adam Tinworth

Our lifepaths, plans and societal assumptions are all under deconstruction. The next decade is going to be a period of adapt or die for businesses — and societies.
Health: from mitochondria to agriculture

By Adam Tinworth

Mitochondria are the microchips of our bodies. But too many of us are pushing them beyond their limits, leading to poor health — and poor decision making. Petra Seipp and Parneet Pal talk us back from the brink.
Parneet Pal: Explore the Fascinating Intersection of Biology and Business

Let's explore the intersection of environmental awareness and personal health - because when we protect our mitochondria, we not only improve ourselves, but also contribute to a healthier planet!
COP28: the need for innovation

By Martin Recke

COP28 showed that we know what to do. We have the technology we need, but upscaling still requires innovation.
Beyond optimisation: Coco Krumme and the need to plan for consequences

By Adam Tinworth

Optimise all the things has been the motto of Silicon Valley culture for two decades. Coco Krumme and Martin Gassner discuss the consequences of this philosophy.
Coco Krumme: A Discussion on Optimisation

In this era of over-optimisation, Coco and Martin talk about a nuanced approach that rejects optimising individual aspects of our lives rather than overhauling them from the ground up.
Why AI second selves will be your greatest mentor — and opponent

By Adam Tinworth

If you don’t want AI to replace you, you need to use it to make you better at what you do, argues artist Harry Yeff in conversation with Accenture Song’s Mette Stannow.
Harry Yeff: Exciting discussion about the power of AI

A conversation surrounds AI as a valuable tool for professionals in various fields, exploring the major fears and concerns surrounding AI and the significance of education and reshaping narratives to make AI more approachable and less intimidating.
Digital overload

By Martin Recke

People no longer welcome every new technology with open arms. Their sense of digital overload has consequences for businesses.
Escaping the Meh-diocracy trap

By Adam Tinworth

The tech and movie innovation of the 2010s seems to have lapsed into a dull morass of “me too” products. A downturn is the perfect time to re-ignite creativity.
Can AIs have consciousness?

By Adam Tinworth

To explore the idea of AI consciousness, we first have to understand the human version of it. And, as Anil Seth and Thomas Mueller explore, that’s more complicated than you think.
Anil Seth: Exploring the Mysteries of Consciousness with Anil Seth

Join Anil Seth and Thomas Müller as they discuss the brain as a prediction machine, shaping our conscious experiences and challenging our understanding of the world.
The next interface

By Martin Recke

Generative AI has triggered the great interface shift, changing the way we interact with digital systems. The implications for brands are huge.
Love and money: marketing through a downturn

By Adam Tinworth

The relationship between brands a consumer has been pitched as one of care and passion. But when an economic downturn bites, consumers find themselves asking “where’s the love?”
The AI/Human Interface: experiments in action

By Adam Tinworth

AI has come at us fast — faster than we’ve been able to figure out how to use it. Matt Webb and Petr Janda explain how playful experiments can fix that.
Matt Webb: Exploring AI personalities and poetic clocks

AI has reached us fast - faster than we could figure out how to use it. Explore the future of AI and its potential to revolutionise the way we interact with technology.
David Mattin: the trends that will define our future

By Adam Tinworth

Trends are tricky things: they rarely turn out how you expect. But David Mattin makes them work for businesses by focusing on the human tab the heart of them. Here's how.
David Mattin: Exploring the Intersection of Trends, Emerging Technologies, and Social Change

Trends are ever-evolving and understanding them can be a game-changer for your business. Join David Mattin and Isabelle Schnellbügel, as they discuss the profound impacts of societal and business transformations.
The Hives and the creative urge

By Adam Tinworth

On stage at NEXT, The Hives’s Pelle Almqvist talked to Fabian Frese about their creative process, and how drugs, money and AI impact it…
The digital-physical merger

By Martin Recke

The next big thing isn’t AI itself, but the interplay of intelligence, data, networks/computing and energy.
Augmented realities for lizard brains

By Adam Tinworth

NEXT23 gave us a roadmap to a blended physical and digital world but warned that our brains might not be ready for these new realities.
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Insights

CES 2024: AI Inside

The most popular NEXT Insights of 2023

Deconstruction is the seed of opportunity

Health: from mitochondria to agriculture

Parneet Pal: Explore the Fascinating Intersection of Biology and Business

COP28: the need for innovation

Beyond optimisation: Coco Krumme and the need to plan for consequences

Coco Krumme: A Discussion on Optimisation

Why AI second selves will be your greatest mentor — and opponent

Harry Yeff: Exciting discussion about the power of AI

Digital overload

Escaping the Meh-diocracy trap

Can AIs have consciousness?

Anil Seth: Exploring the Mysteries of Consciousness with Anil Seth

The next interface

Love and money: marketing through a downturn

The AI/Human Interface: experiments in action

Matt Webb: Exploring AI personalities and poetic clocks

David Mattin: the trends that will define our future

David Mattin: Exploring the Intersection of Trends, Emerging Technologies, and Social Change

The Hives and the creative urge

The digital-physical merger

Augmented realities for lizard brains

Stay up to date!