Videos

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  Thomas Webb – Facing the Future of Society

  Thomas Webb talks about the next 5 years of society and how the face filter has changed everything – using real-time data and his theory of art to make the magic happen.

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  Ben Sauer – Slow Down to Speed up: How Efficiency is Killing True Innovation

  In this talk, Ben Sauer examines the problems of the modern production process, recaps how some of our most important innovations really happened, and proposes a way forward.

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  Payal Arora – The Next Billion Users

  Payal Arora assesses real patterns of internet usage in India, China, South Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East.

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  Marcello Schermer – The Africa I Know

  A tour of the buzzing entrepreneurship scene across the African continent highlighting incredible innovations that are fundamentally transforming the reality on the ground.

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  Efosa Ojomo – The Power of Market-Creating Innovation

  Efosa Ojomo, co-author of the groundbreaking book, The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty, explains the three different types of innovation.

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  César Rodríguez-Rosario – Understanding the Multiverse of Quantum Computing

  Where the quantum power comes from, where it will take us, and why it is important to you.

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  David Mattin – Again, with Feeling: Two Possible Futures for the 21st-Century

  David Mattin conjures a vision of a very different future. A future in which we ensure that technologies are there to serve humans, and not vice versa.

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  Melissa Chan & Olinga Ta’eed – What will China do and how will this influence us?

  The main strategies of the Chinese government and their effects on the world markets

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  T.L. Taylor – Watch me Play! The Rise of Game Live Streaming

  Real-time broadcasting has risen in the last five years to be a site of profound creative activity. This talk will take a closer look at this new form of entertainment.

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  Scott Smith & Sophie Howe – Building Speculative Leadership

  The challenges and opportunities of equipping young leaders to use experiential futures as a tool to prepare a society for critical transitions ahead.

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  Brian Whipple – Why Purpose Beats Marketing

  Technology and commerce need to serve humanity — and the journey begins at the intersection of purpose and innovation.

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  Rogier Creemers – China’s Information Society: Creating a Network Power

  How China’s leadership sees the world and the role of technology in it, how the ambition of plans has met with reality thus far, and what can be learned from China’s digital drive.

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  James Bridle – New Dark Age: Is Technology Making the World Harder to Understand?

  Instead of a utopian future in which technological advancement casts a dazzling, emancipatory light on the world, we seem to be entering a new dark age.

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  Viveca Chan – Reshaping Marketing – Digital Innovation from China

  The key digital marketing trends and successful business applications in China.

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  Christian Mio Loclair – How Art Will Help to Understand AI and Humanity

  Christian Mio Loclair talks about the intersection of art and technology.

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  James Beacham – What’s Outside the Universe?

  How the future of science, technology, and innovation will be much wilder – and much more collaborative – than we can imagine.

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