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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

Rogier Creemers: Digital China’s unexpected competitive advantage

By Adam Tinworth

How is China innovating so fast? The government has restrained its authoritarian impulses and let the digital industries thrive - and they may be best placed to capture the next billion people to go online.

Viveca Chan: what marketers can learn from digital China

By Adam Tinworth

Forget China being a country of copycats. It's now leading the way on digitally-integrated living, and Viveca Chan explains what we must learn from it.

TL Taylor: live-streaming is building a new creative culture

By Adam Tinworth

Why do people watch others play games? Why do people make their private play public? TL Taylor's answers to those questions hint at a profound cultural shift.