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Kübra Gümüşay: Language & Future

Kübra Gümüsay explored the power of language, how it shapes the way we think and perceive the world – and its implication on our culture and political discourse.
The NEXT Level CMO is a multi-skilled team player

By Adam Tinworth

If you want to get your marketing career to the next level, you need to master conflicting skill sets — and build a team that can support you.
Why the link of brand and performance marketing is broken

By Martin Recke

The schism between brand and performance marketing has deep roots in the history of the craft, and it’s a systemic issue.
Tools for systemic survival: NEXT22 in retrospect

By Adam Tinworth

We live in the after times: after the pandemic, post-energy security and amongst war in Europe. We need new paths out of these crises, and NEXT22 speakers showed the way.
Benedict Evans: Three Steps to the Future

The most exciting themes in technology today are transformative visions for 2025 or 2030: crypto, web3, VR, metaverse… and then everything else.
Loretta Tioiela: TechBio – The Coming Age of Life that We Can Engineer

Biology is a code. Loretta Tioiela believes that the future will be shaped by the convergence of life science and computing technologies.
An Expert Conversation on War and Peace

Shifting geopolitical relationships, latest technologies and global events mean we need a new form of defence.
Jessica Berlin: War & Biz: What current global crises mean for you, your business, & our world

Right now, war is raging in Europe. These are the after times. When Russia invaded Ukraine, things would never be the same again.
Trevor McFedries & Monique van Dusseldorp: How DAOs Could Shape Culture and the Way We Work

What will the future of decentralized media look like? Trevor McFedries shares the story of Friends with Benefits, Web3’s premier Social DAO.
Pa Sinyan: How Strengths-Based Leadership Drives Creativity, Performance & Wellbeing

We are living through a profound transformation of the world of work. Work might be the most broken system there is. It’s making people miserable.
James Bridle: A Crab Computer the Size of the World

Biological, non-binary, and relational computing offer a vision of a cybernetic future which learns from the animals, plants and other organisms around us, while contributing to global regeneration.
David Mattin: Hug the System

NEXT keynoter-in-residence David Mattin delves into our theme of 2022: HUG THE SYSTEM.
Ana Andjelic: How Brands are Experimenting with Web3

Could the blockchain change the relationship between brands and consumers, reshape supply and demand — and revolutionise how we think about ownership?
NEXT Level CMO

If you want to get your marketing career to the next level, you need to master conflicting skill sets — and build a team that can support you.
Nick Law: Deep Simplicity – Designing our Way Out of Complexity

While the internet has created infinite opportunities, it has also created chaos. Solving this complexity crisis is a design problem.
Mikko Hypponen: If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable

Mikko Hypponen delivers an eye-opening exploration of the best – and worst – things the internet has given us.
Francesca Bria: How Data May Help Cities to Become More Democratic and Sustainable

The Covid-19 crisis has accentuated some of the most pressing urban challenges. What role can technological humanism play here?
Kate Stone: 6 Reasons Why the Future Will Look More Like the Past

Combining meaning, resilience, mindfulness and community with shrinking technology, we have the ingredients for a potentially brighter and more sustainable future.
Systemic change ahead

By Martin Recke

We’re facing a polycrisis that affects multiple systems, spurring a lot of systemic change. We will not always like the results.
War’s digital future is here

By Adam Tinworth

There is war in Europe. The battle for Ukraine highlights an unpleasant truth: our way of life needs protecting, and everybody in the digital world needs to play their part.
Liveblog: Benedict Evans on three steps to the future

By Adam Tinworth

The digital revolution has left us with a multi-speed economy, with some business charging ahead into Web3, and some businesses still struggling with the cloud. Benedict Evans is our pathfinder to the future…
Liveblog: Loretta Tioiela on bioengineering

By Adam Tinworth

The price of DNA sequencing has dropped dramatically, as our ability to synthesise it has grown. The new field of tech bio is booming as a result, as Loretta told NEXT22.
Liveblog: Trevor McFedries on how DAOs could shape culture and the way we work

By Adam Tinworth

How does a DJ and musician end up creating the future of creativity, and building a new way of running media businesses? By being as interested in the possible as Trevor McFedries is…