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...
View ArticleJames 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...
View ArticleSteve 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...
View ArticleMark 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...
View ArticleDavid 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...
View ArticleMichael 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...
View ArticleKevin 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...
View ArticleAriel 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...
View ArticleKelly 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...
View ArticleJames 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...
View ArticleJohnny 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...
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleVijay 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...
View ArticleWill 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...
View ArticleCindy 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...
View ArticleStefan 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...
View ArticleDavid 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...
View ArticleKelly 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...
View ArticleTom 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...
View ArticleJan 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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