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Marten Mickos - Data in the Cloud

A fascinating look into the future of big data. As parallel computing enables massive scaling & instant availability, the need for cloud computing is mandatory. During this keynote, Marten Mickos...

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James Enck - Post Financial Trauma - How is the Telecom Value Chain Now...

During the dot com bubble of the 1990s European bankers went to telecom company CEOs and said you can be as sexy as the American dot coms. This is the basis of what went wrong for the telecom industry...

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Steve Yegge - What Would You Do With Your Own Google?

According to Steve Yegge, Google is trying to change the world, but the problem is scale. The problems are also every social, technological, and mathematical problem imaginable. Yegge advocates for the...

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Mark Kramer - Shared Value- Future of Green

This audio interview from the Environmental Defense Fund's Future of Green Calls covers complex interactions of the philanthropy sector, socially conscientious nonprofit organizations, and for-profit...

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David Messenger - Business Perspective on Technology Advances

David Messenger, EVP at American Express, discusses the drivers, or central forces, behind the changing technological world. He names four that he considers to be the most important, as follows: cell...

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Michael Jackson - Finding Disruption

The disruption of innovation has yielded as many opportunities for those prepared to take advantage as it has brought disruption for those unprepared to adjust. New businesses have been able to profit...

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Kevin Kelly - Trends and Social Consequences of Technology

Our long-term interaction with the web will be defined by six trends. These trends will will involve dramatic changes that will make computing more like what we are used to seeing in many of today's...

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Ariel Waldman - Hacking Space Exploration

She had no professional background or experience, but was fully inspired when she sent her shot-in-the-dark email to NASA asking to volunteer. Their receptiveness launched Ariel Waldman into her...

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Kelly Goto - Context and Connection: New Approaches to Mobile Ethnography

A primary goal for developers has been to attract eyeballs and create "addictive" experiences. Kelly Goto advises against encouraging addictive behavior in development and innovation. According to Goto...

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James Enck - Investing in the Telecom Value Chain for a Post-Meltdown World -...

Leading a panel of several investing experts, James Enck points out several challenges the telecommunications value chain faces after the recent recession. Several problems might mirror the dot-com...

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Johnny Lee - Myth of the Dying Mouse: Why There is No Such Thing as...

If Moore's Law is the basis of your religion, Johnny Lee of Google warns that you might find what he has to say heresy: Convergence won't happen in consumer electronics. In fact, he says the darwinism...

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John Hagel - Measuring the Forces of Long-term Change

Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the death of the five-year plan and performance indicators now being used to chart a course for successful businesses with John Hagel, Co-Director from the Deloitte Center...

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Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Eric Bakkan, Sandra Sassow, Christophe Williams - Need,...

In these segments, Moira first speaks with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, author of Need, Spped, and Greed, on how the new rules of innovation can transform businesses, propel Nations to greatness, and tame the...

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Will Marshall - Android in Space

Can a phone function as a satellite? This is the thoughtfully revolutionary question expounded upon by Will Marshall. Cell phone technology seems to have everything necessary to function successfully...

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Cindy Finnecy - Go Inside the Minds of Over 1,700 CMOs

The position of CMO - Chief Marketing Officer - is a relatively new C-level position that until recently had a reputation as the "hired gun" with a brief tenure. Lately, more rationality and analytics...

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Stefan Agamanolis - Slowing Down Communication: Designs Inspired by Quality,...

Through the extended metaphor of the current 'Slow Food' movement, Stefan Agamanolis presents Distance Lab's ideas for the future of telecommunications. He discusses future and more personalized...

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David Merrill - Sifteo cubes: Hands-on Interactions, Intelligent Play, and SDK!

Humanity has been playing games such as chess, Mahjong, dominoes, and various card games, in some cases for thousands of years. These games are fundamentally social and tactile and have stood the test...

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Kelly Fitzsimmons - Voice 3.0: Emergence of Relevant Voice Platforms (RVPs)

How would you do an SQL query on a binary audio file? Kelly Fitzsimmons, founder of HarQen, explains how that is being done now, and that specially crafted systems can actually organize conversations...

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Tom Larkworthy - Efficiency Through Gender, Simplicity and Limits

For robotics to become ubiquitous, the key is a simple efficient connector. Organic chemistry is a simple self-reconfiguring process which inspired Tom Larkworthy to emulate it in self-reconfigurable...

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Jan Dawson - Telecoms in 2020: a Vision of the Future

Apple and Google are both big enough to buy AT&T. So, would they want their own carrier? Jan Dawson of Ovum Telecoms makes a ten-year projection for the telecom industry. He predicts two trends. A...

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Robert McLay - The Virtual Reality of PTSD

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author Robert McLay about how virtual reality is helping those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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Michael Calabrese - The Myth of Spectrum Scarcity

Spectrum, according to Michael Calabrese, is an infinitely renewable resource. However, exclusive use, auctions, and large corporations lead to a massively inefficient use of that spectrum for...

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Mary Meeker - Internet Trends

Hold on to your smartphones -- she's been criticized for talking too fast with too many ideas before and she intends to do it again now. Mary Meeker, formerly managing director at Morgan Stanley and...

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Michael Roth - Transmedia Campaigns in the Social Age

Twentieth century advertising is caricatured as hucksters selling the 30-second TV commercial as a panacea for market obscurity. These days, advertising, experiential marketing, and public relations...

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James Pearce - The Reality of HTML5 and How it Affects Mobile

The web revolution is happening in mobile. So says James Pearce, in his talk at eComm when he was Senior Director of Developer Relations, Sencha. HTML 5 and the mobile web might provide a way to...

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Tim O'Reilly - USRio+2.0 Conference

Collective intelligence, man-machine symbiosis, real time feedback loops from sensors… Such concepts are harbingers of a new cooperation between humans and machines. In this university podcast, media...

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Jeremie Miller - Data Is Not Primary

In the last decade, social media has changed the way we live our lives. We have all become high producers and consumers of social data. The data we generate is not just data, though. It tells our...

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Alan Duric - Advances in Real Time communications as Kernel for Nobler Social...

The ideal social network of the future, for Alan Duric, co-founder of Telio, will be one that leverages real-time communication, provides data privacy and is based on a peer-to-peer governance system....

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Pamela Rutledge - How Emerging Technologies are Increasing Intrinsic Motivation

What are the hidden motivations in all the decisions we make about technology? Pamela Rutledge, Co-Founder/Director, A Think Lab/Media Psychology Research Center, spells out why our intrinsic ability...

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Albert Wenger - Political and Commercial Threats and Opportunities for a...

The very standards and conditions that made the Web a permissive, open environment have come under an attack from an onslaught of legal regulations and the monopolistic aspirations of bandwidth and...

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