NEXT24: energising the future with AI as… plumbing?

By Adam Tinworth

We’re thinking too small and too pessimistically about AI. It’s our next level of digital infrastructure and the NEXT24 speakers gave us a glimpse of the creativity that could unleash.

How to move through uncertainty

By Adam Tinworth

The final session of NEXT24 on the main stage helped us process what we’ve learned — and put new energy in our management style.

About energy

By Wilhelm Rinke

This is an invitation to speculate about the future.

Timmy Ghiurãu: new technology, new energy, new futures

By Adam Tinworth

How do you incorparate emerging technlogy into your business? By rethinking the very narratives of the job your products are doing, says Volvo’s Timmy Ghiurãu.

The philosophy of tech

By Martin Recke

Some of the burning questions about tech, AI or robotics are actually questions of philosophy. What is our true goal here?

AI as new media

By Martin Recke

Generative AI will create new media forms where artists and creative technologists are both at the forefront and at risk of being put out of business.

Rethinking creativity

By Martin Recke

What’s the difference between human and machine creativity? Answering this questions leads to a rethinking of the concept.

For innovation, break the pattern

By Adam Tinworth

Patterned behaviour is the enemy of innovation. To put new energy into your business, break the pattern, and let the creativity free.

Why new energy is key to innovation

By Martin Recke

Today, a lot of energy is lost in complexity. New energy in all forms – physical, mental and creative – is the key to innovation.

Wanted: New Energy for everything

By Adam Tinworth

The productivity crisis. The climate crisis. The permacrisis. We face many challenges as a society — and we badly need to find new energy to find solutions.

NEXT24 theme: New Energy – Recharging our Systems

By NEXT Conference

We proudly present this year's motto for NEXT24: "New Energy - Recharging our Systems".

AI & Creativity: should we fight it — or embrace it?

By Adam Tinworth

AI can do creative work — depending on your definition of “create”. What does that mean for those of us who earn our living through creativity?

Re-energising your company with true hybrid work

By Adam Tinworth

Office work or home working is a false dichotomy. Smart companies need to make hybrid work deliver — and that means new skills are needed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.