Tag: liveblogging

Pamela Pavliscak: How Generation Z will reinvent technology

By Adam Tinworth

Everyone worried about the kids. Gen Z are being destroyed by phone addiction, right? Well, maybe not…
Jamie Bartlett: The outsiders changing the world

By Adam Tinworth

Radicals and insurgents are often laughted at or ignored. But their narratives can be compelling - and change the way poltics operates.
Jamie Bartlett: The Dark Net – the market economy we can’t control

By Adam Tinworth

How pervasive is the Dark Net? it's used more than you think, it's better quality than you think - and we can't shut it down.
NEXT16: Brian Solis on experience, feelings and innovation

By Adam Tinworth

Design is not how it looks. Design is how it feels. Brian Solis wants us to create great feelings - and escape the 70 button trap.
NEXT16: How to design products people love

By Adam Tinworth

How do you build greta product that really connect with people emotionally? You have to challenge how you think about design and its role in product development.
NEXT16: Tariq Krim on the need for a slow internet

By Adam Tinworth

Are we too addicted to the internet. Are we moving too fast? Are companies making the right tech decision for us? Tariq Krim has some thoughts on that…
[Liveblog] Selling to the Children of Uber

By Adam Tinworth

Today's generation are used to instant satisfaction via their phone. How can we sell to them in physical spaces? Two speakers explore the challenges.
[Liveblog] Adrian Hon gets you fit – with a zombie apocalypse

By Adam Tinworth

Fitness apps with "gamification" aren't fun. Games which have health benefits. Adrian Hon is using a Zombie Apocalypse to get you fit.
[Liveblog] eSports is mainstream entertainment – says Michael Bister

By Adam Tinworth

There's a sport - actually, many sports - that attract millions of viewers online and which you have probably never watch: eSports are here to stay.
Cory Doctorow: tyranny, freedom and cargo cult security

By Adam Tinworth

We're sleep walking into a surveillance state in the name of protecting creators' rights. We must fight this as a matter of principle - or we will be enslaved, warns Cory Doctorow.
Thomas de Maizière: making Germany the centre of digital Europe

By Adam Tinworth

Thomas de Maizière, Federal Minister of the Interior in Germany outline's the government's vision of digital Germany in the post-Snowdon world.
NEXT14: Future interfaces

By Adam Tinworth

Can machines learn multi-channel interfaces? Where is VR going? Is eye tracking the future? And is the cyborg dream coming true? NEXT14 explores the interface…
Fabian Hemmert: curing the phone zombie plague

By Adam Tinworth

Our phones can aid us - or remove our sense of our surroundings. Can we take conscious control of them, reconnect with those around us, and slay our inner phone zombie?
Aza Raskin: behaviour change is the new blockbuster drug

By Adam Tinworth

We kill ourselves more than external factors do. How to we fix that? By understanding what people are doing, and intervening in helpful ways.
Louisa Heinrich: design for people, not objects

By Adam Tinworth

Louisa Heinrich predict your home becoming a battle ground of connect objects, and has great ideas for superpowers in a bar. This is the internet of things - in the new normal.
The Future of branding and companies

By Adam Tinworth

Is aspirational marketing dead? Can your business foster innovation - or does it crush it? Have you got stuck between two business models? NEXT14 explores the new normal for business
Peter Hinssen: the network always wins

By Adam Tinworth

Our marketplaces are becoming networks, and so our companies need to become networks to survive, argues New Normal author Peter Hinssen
Sarah Willis: Google Glass and Horn Nerds

By Adam Tinworth

Can you use Google Glass to bring more attention to Classical music? Sarah Willis thinks so…
Mobility and the connected car

By Adam Tinworth

How could connected cars change our future - in fact, could we rethink urban transport completely? Four speakers explore this topic at NEXT14
iBeacons and supply chains: making the physical digital

By Adam Tinworth

Two talks exploring the interface between the digital and the physical, from supply chains to the last few feet.
Scott Smith: the internet knows us better than we do

By Adam Tinworth

We've only just started thinking about the implications of the tech we've developed, says Scott Smith. How intelligent will monitor tech get - and how comfortable are we with that?
Mikko Hypponen: better digital security needs more European startups

By Adam Tinworth

We've handed over our data to American companies, and given up our privacy with it. We need to understand what the threats are - and to build an European online world that keeps our data safe, says Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure.
TV to come, TV to go

By Adam Tinworth

Franziska von Lewinski explores the future of TV, in the multi-screen, on-demand, social TV world of the future.