1. The document summarizes the key themes from the 2014 SXSW conference, including the prominence of wearable technologies and healthcare startups, but also a focus on developing for the Internet of Things and issues around privacy and security.
2. Major brands leveraged social media insights to predict future trends and engage with audiences about their visions of the future.
3. 3D printing became more mainstream with applications like 3D printed food, while privacy and personal security were emphasized by speakers like Edward Snowden.
We suddenly live in a strange and wonderful nexus of digital and physical. Touchscreens let us hold information in our hands, and we touch, stretch, crumple, drag, and flick data itself. Our sensor-packed phones even reach beyond the screen to interact directly with the world around us. While these digital interfaces are becoming physical, the physical world is becoming digital, too. Objects, places, and even our bodies are lighting up with with sensors and connectivity. We’re not just clicking links anymore; we’re creating physical interfaces to digital systems. This requires new perspective and technique for web and product designers. The good news: it’s all within your reach. With a rich trove of examples, Designing for Touch author Josh Clark explores the practical, meaningful design opportunities for the web’s newly physical interfaces.
The Digital Social Contract
The Millennials and generation Z together comprise the most engaged, mobile, and enticing consumers of our time, but brands and agencies have largely misunderstood how these coveted digital natives interact.
We have missed a fundamental truth: There is a new social contract emerging—a digital social contract—that, like Rousseau’s original, has been proposed, ratified, and enforced by those it governs—most especially online video creators and their legions of fans who together stand at the apex of the digital revolution.
In Ogilvy & Mather's latest Red Paper, "The Digital Social Contract", Ogilvy's Jeremy Katz and Robert John Davis join with Alta Sparling and Bing Chen from Victorious to uncover the unspoken social rules governing the digital world and explain to brands how to thrive in it.
http://blogs.sap.com/innovation/ - Business Innovation is the key ingredient for growth in the future of business. Changes in technology, new customer expectations, a re-defined contract between employees and employers, strained resources, and business and social networks are requiring businesses to become insight-driven businesses.
In this presentation, we have gathered 99 facts that represent the changes taking place in the world today. Each facts represents a key insight and suggests where we need to focus and change to become viable, sustainable and growing future businesses.
We suddenly live in a strange and wonderful nexus of digital and physical. Touchscreens let us hold information in our hands, and we touch, stretch, crumple, drag, and flick data itself. Our sensor-packed phones even reach beyond the screen to interact directly with the world around us. While these digital interfaces are becoming physical, the physical world is becoming digital, too. Objects, places, and even our bodies are lighting up with with sensors and connectivity. We’re not just clicking links anymore; we’re creating physical interfaces to digital systems. This requires new perspective and technique for web and product designers. The good news: it’s all within your reach. With a rich trove of examples, Designing for Touch author Josh Clark explores the practical, meaningful design opportunities for the web’s newly physical interfaces.
The Digital Social Contract
The Millennials and generation Z together comprise the most engaged, mobile, and enticing consumers of our time, but brands and agencies have largely misunderstood how these coveted digital natives interact.
We have missed a fundamental truth: There is a new social contract emerging—a digital social contract—that, like Rousseau’s original, has been proposed, ratified, and enforced by those it governs—most especially online video creators and their legions of fans who together stand at the apex of the digital revolution.
In Ogilvy & Mather's latest Red Paper, "The Digital Social Contract", Ogilvy's Jeremy Katz and Robert John Davis join with Alta Sparling and Bing Chen from Victorious to uncover the unspoken social rules governing the digital world and explain to brands how to thrive in it.
http://blogs.sap.com/innovation/ - Business Innovation is the key ingredient for growth in the future of business. Changes in technology, new customer expectations, a re-defined contract between employees and employers, strained resources, and business and social networks are requiring businesses to become insight-driven businesses.
In this presentation, we have gathered 99 facts that represent the changes taking place in the world today. Each facts represents a key insight and suggests where we need to focus and change to become viable, sustainable and growing future businesses.
Our Guide to Digital disruption Update 2019John Ashcroft
A collection of our articles on Digital Disruption and Change Management updated for 2019.
Don't thumb your nose at Digital Disruption
So what do we mean by digital disruption
The six forces shaping digital disruption
Digital Disruption Industries of the future
Which jobs will be at risk in the years ahead
Digital Disruption and the UK Banking System
This year VCCP once again attended SXSW in Austin looking to keep our finger on the pulse of the changing digital spaces and be inspired to the latest Interactive trends and technologies that will be shaping 2015!
We have pulled together the 6 Key trends we spotted at this years show and written up a bite size trend report on what you need to know!
Having participated in both SXSW and Cannes Lions Innovation festival this year, we've uncovered lots of insights on the current communications climate and have put together 9 trends which should serve as guidance for the areas to focus on in 2016.
Creators, innovators, futurists and blockchain enthusiasts all descended on Austin for the annual SXSW Interactive Conference. The mash-up of industries, technologies and eyeopening presentations makes for an event that is ripe with insights and inspiration.
This year, we were joined by team members from New York, Austin, Singapore and San Juan to learn about what’s on the horizon, what’s here already and why it matters to brands and marketers. Read on for our 2018 takeaways from SXSW.
EMEA Digital CD Jiri Bures talks SXSW 2017 PechaChuka style
3 key takeouts by Jiri from SXSW 2017
1. Brain computer interfaces.
2. Expect multiple personality marketing to become a thing.
3. Identities will be redefined.
Governments have made good progress in delivering digital services, but many are still overwhelmed by complexity and slowed by bureaucratic skepticism and lack of skills. Users – accustomed to innovation in such sectors as retailing, media, and financial services – wish their governments would get on with it: http://on.bcg.com/1jESqYx.
TrustUX: balancing personalisation and privacy to create understanding and tr...Ann Wuyts
Sources list: http://www.keek.be/2015/trustux-sources/ (Stats, Quotes, ..)
A talk about ux, trust and privacy - and how these are becoming increasing important in human-computer interaction. This connection we have with our smart-everythings, it is no longer merely about exchanging data back and forth. Our connection with computers now does revolve around values which we normally find in human-to-human relationships: understanding and trust.
We humans expect that these machines do the computing effort to understand us; smart personalisation.We also expect that we can trust these machines – and the companies behind them - to keep what they learn about us to themselves. We expect them to respect our privacy. Our security.
And as designers, we need to deliver great, personal experiences. We also need to deliver trustworthy products. We owe it to both our users and the people who hire us to actively think about privacy, and to implement privacy in the flows and designs we deliver.
Each year, art meets technology at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Celebrating the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries, this year's conference featured panels, seminars, parties and live music. Topics ranged from artificial intelligence and chat bots to female leadership and social purpose, revealing future trends for brands and agencies to keep in mind this upcoming year. Here are Y&R's key takeaways from SXSW 2017.
Enterprise Intelligence: Putting the Pieces Together
http://enterpriserelevance.com/kdd2016/keynote.html
These slides are for a keynote presentation delivered at the Workshop on Enterprise Intelligence, held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2016).
About the author:
Daniel Tunkelang is a data science and engineering executive who has built and led some of the strongest teams in the software industry. He studied computer science and math at MIT and has a PhD in computer science from CMU. He was a founding employee and chief scientist of Endeca, a search pioneer that Oracle acquired for $1.1B. He led a local search team at Google. He was a director of data science and engineering at LinkedIn, and he established their query understanding team. Daniel is a widely recognized writer and speaker. He is frequently invited to speak at academic and industry conferences, particularly in the areas of information retrieval, web science, and data science. He has written the definitive textbook on faceted search (now a standard for ecommerce sites), established an annual symposium on human-computer interaction and information retrieval, and authored 24 US patents. His social media posts have attracted over a million page views. Daniel advises and consults for companies that can benefit strategically from his expertise. His clients range from early-stage startups to "unicorn" technology companies like Etsy and Pinterest. He helps companies make decisions around algorithms, technology, product strategy, hiring, and organizational structure.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
CES 2016 Recap: The Autonomous 4K VR 3D IoT Drone AwakensDavid Berkowitz
What were the most important trends, themes, and technologies at CES 2016? The Consumer Electronics Show this year featured massive partnership announcements from car brands, fast drones, immersive virtual reality experiences, and much more. See what matters most for technologists, marketers, and others in this roundup.
Digital Influence is one of the hottest trends in social media, yet is largely misunderstood. "The Rise of Digital Influence," the new report by Altimeter Group Principal Analyst Brian Solis, is a 'how-to' guide for businesses to spark desirable effects and outcomes through social media influence. The report helps companies understand how influence spreads, and includes case studies in which brands partnered with vendors to recruit connected consumers for digital influence campaigns. Brian evaluates the offerings of 14 Influence vendors, organizing them by Reach, Resonance, and Relevance: the Three Pillars that make up the foundation for Digital Influence as defined in the report. Also included are an Influence Framework and an Influence Action Plan to help brands identify connected consumers and to define and measure strategic digital influence initiatives.
In April 2015, Luminary Labs gathered convened Lab Session #2 to discuss The Human Company. Over the past 12 months, multiple corporations have radically rethought how they do business by establishing livable wages, developing creative equity plans, offering paid parental leave policies, and even pulling out of an entire state in protest of discrimination. In addition to sending a strong signal that people come first, these organizations are also making an economic argument to investors that employee-favorable policies pay dividends in reduced turnover and improved business outcome.
About #LabSessions
A place and time for founders, designers, developers, data mavens, and innovators of all stripes to help solve for society's most pressing issues.
Each gathering involves a facilitated strategy session, networking, and synthesis, resulting in a tangible plan and new connections for our featured innovator team.
Good eats and drinks are always served.
The Human Company Playbook, Version 1.0Luminary Labs
Recently, major corporations have radically rethought how they do business by establishing livable wages, developing creative equity plans, offering paid parental leave policies, and even pulling out of an entire state in protest of discrimination. In addition
to sending a strong signal that people come first, these organizations are also making
an economic argument to investors that employee-friendly policies pay dividends in reduced turnover and improved business outcome.
But what about small companies, and what about startups? The playbook aims to answer just that.
Read more: https://medium.com/@sarita/we-don-t-need-more-woman-friendly-companies-27a533b1fb9f#.p5iskl75j
Our Guide to Digital disruption Update 2019John Ashcroft
A collection of our articles on Digital Disruption and Change Management updated for 2019.
Don't thumb your nose at Digital Disruption
So what do we mean by digital disruption
The six forces shaping digital disruption
Digital Disruption Industries of the future
Which jobs will be at risk in the years ahead
Digital Disruption and the UK Banking System
This year VCCP once again attended SXSW in Austin looking to keep our finger on the pulse of the changing digital spaces and be inspired to the latest Interactive trends and technologies that will be shaping 2015!
We have pulled together the 6 Key trends we spotted at this years show and written up a bite size trend report on what you need to know!
Having participated in both SXSW and Cannes Lions Innovation festival this year, we've uncovered lots of insights on the current communications climate and have put together 9 trends which should serve as guidance for the areas to focus on in 2016.
Creators, innovators, futurists and blockchain enthusiasts all descended on Austin for the annual SXSW Interactive Conference. The mash-up of industries, technologies and eyeopening presentations makes for an event that is ripe with insights and inspiration.
This year, we were joined by team members from New York, Austin, Singapore and San Juan to learn about what’s on the horizon, what’s here already and why it matters to brands and marketers. Read on for our 2018 takeaways from SXSW.
EMEA Digital CD Jiri Bures talks SXSW 2017 PechaChuka style
3 key takeouts by Jiri from SXSW 2017
1. Brain computer interfaces.
2. Expect multiple personality marketing to become a thing.
3. Identities will be redefined.
Governments have made good progress in delivering digital services, but many are still overwhelmed by complexity and slowed by bureaucratic skepticism and lack of skills. Users – accustomed to innovation in such sectors as retailing, media, and financial services – wish their governments would get on with it: http://on.bcg.com/1jESqYx.
TrustUX: balancing personalisation and privacy to create understanding and tr...Ann Wuyts
Sources list: http://www.keek.be/2015/trustux-sources/ (Stats, Quotes, ..)
A talk about ux, trust and privacy - and how these are becoming increasing important in human-computer interaction. This connection we have with our smart-everythings, it is no longer merely about exchanging data back and forth. Our connection with computers now does revolve around values which we normally find in human-to-human relationships: understanding and trust.
We humans expect that these machines do the computing effort to understand us; smart personalisation.We also expect that we can trust these machines – and the companies behind them - to keep what they learn about us to themselves. We expect them to respect our privacy. Our security.
And as designers, we need to deliver great, personal experiences. We also need to deliver trustworthy products. We owe it to both our users and the people who hire us to actively think about privacy, and to implement privacy in the flows and designs we deliver.
Each year, art meets technology at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Celebrating the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries, this year's conference featured panels, seminars, parties and live music. Topics ranged from artificial intelligence and chat bots to female leadership and social purpose, revealing future trends for brands and agencies to keep in mind this upcoming year. Here are Y&R's key takeaways from SXSW 2017.
Enterprise Intelligence: Putting the Pieces Together
http://enterpriserelevance.com/kdd2016/keynote.html
These slides are for a keynote presentation delivered at the Workshop on Enterprise Intelligence, held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2016).
About the author:
Daniel Tunkelang is a data science and engineering executive who has built and led some of the strongest teams in the software industry. He studied computer science and math at MIT and has a PhD in computer science from CMU. He was a founding employee and chief scientist of Endeca, a search pioneer that Oracle acquired for $1.1B. He led a local search team at Google. He was a director of data science and engineering at LinkedIn, and he established their query understanding team. Daniel is a widely recognized writer and speaker. He is frequently invited to speak at academic and industry conferences, particularly in the areas of information retrieval, web science, and data science. He has written the definitive textbook on faceted search (now a standard for ecommerce sites), established an annual symposium on human-computer interaction and information retrieval, and authored 24 US patents. His social media posts have attracted over a million page views. Daniel advises and consults for companies that can benefit strategically from his expertise. His clients range from early-stage startups to "unicorn" technology companies like Etsy and Pinterest. He helps companies make decisions around algorithms, technology, product strategy, hiring, and organizational structure.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
CES 2016 Recap: The Autonomous 4K VR 3D IoT Drone AwakensDavid Berkowitz
What were the most important trends, themes, and technologies at CES 2016? The Consumer Electronics Show this year featured massive partnership announcements from car brands, fast drones, immersive virtual reality experiences, and much more. See what matters most for technologists, marketers, and others in this roundup.
Digital Influence is one of the hottest trends in social media, yet is largely misunderstood. "The Rise of Digital Influence," the new report by Altimeter Group Principal Analyst Brian Solis, is a 'how-to' guide for businesses to spark desirable effects and outcomes through social media influence. The report helps companies understand how influence spreads, and includes case studies in which brands partnered with vendors to recruit connected consumers for digital influence campaigns. Brian evaluates the offerings of 14 Influence vendors, organizing them by Reach, Resonance, and Relevance: the Three Pillars that make up the foundation for Digital Influence as defined in the report. Also included are an Influence Framework and an Influence Action Plan to help brands identify connected consumers and to define and measure strategic digital influence initiatives.
In April 2015, Luminary Labs gathered convened Lab Session #2 to discuss The Human Company. Over the past 12 months, multiple corporations have radically rethought how they do business by establishing livable wages, developing creative equity plans, offering paid parental leave policies, and even pulling out of an entire state in protest of discrimination. In addition to sending a strong signal that people come first, these organizations are also making an economic argument to investors that employee-favorable policies pay dividends in reduced turnover and improved business outcome.
About #LabSessions
A place and time for founders, designers, developers, data mavens, and innovators of all stripes to help solve for society's most pressing issues.
Each gathering involves a facilitated strategy session, networking, and synthesis, resulting in a tangible plan and new connections for our featured innovator team.
Good eats and drinks are always served.
The Human Company Playbook, Version 1.0Luminary Labs
Recently, major corporations have radically rethought how they do business by establishing livable wages, developing creative equity plans, offering paid parental leave policies, and even pulling out of an entire state in protest of discrimination. In addition
to sending a strong signal that people come first, these organizations are also making
an economic argument to investors that employee-friendly policies pay dividends in reduced turnover and improved business outcome.
But what about small companies, and what about startups? The playbook aims to answer just that.
Read more: https://medium.com/@sarita/we-don-t-need-more-woman-friendly-companies-27a533b1fb9f#.p5iskl75j
What does the future look like? Is it a dark space where we’re suffering from varying degrees of techamphetamine or are we heading towards a Utopian fantasy of abundance and harmony?
Understanding that our basic human needs and wants barely change, we explore the future state of a range of topics; from our need for physical sustenance through to our age-long fascination of transcending the limitations of our biology.
Looking at the future from a human perspective, our potential for greatness is teetering on a fine line between darkness and hope. We’re banking on the latter.
WTF - Why the Future Is Up to Us - pptx versionTim O'Reilly
This is the talk I gave January 12, 2017 at the G20/OECD Conference on the Digital Future in Berlin. I talk about fitness landscapes as applied to technology and business, the role of unchecked financialization in the state of our politics and economy, and why technology really wants to create jobs, not destroy them. (There is a separate PDF version, but some readers said the notes were too fuzzy to read.)
My books- Hacking Digital Learning Strategies http://hackingdls.com & Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/emoji
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, promising self-driving cars, medical breakthroughs, and new ways of working. But how do you separate hype from reality? How can your company apply AI to solve real business problems?
Here’s what AI learnings your business should keep in mind for 2017.
The Product Design team at NASDAQ OMX leads the design of web-based products that serve communications, public relations, and investor relations professionals.
Our portfolio of publicly available work represents just a fraction of what we do and how we do it.
If you're interested in working within an international design team in a corporate environment that respects and enables the design process, email us your resume and portfolio to hi@prodaqo.mx.
Things I've Learned (& Am Still Learning) from Leading (UX Designers)Russ U
I've worked for a lot of idiot managers in my career. And then, one day, after I had become a manager, it dawned on me: Now I'm the idiot! Most of my career has been an exercise in “trial by fire” and this process worked well when I was a designer and was trying to master the art of the site map, wireframe, personas, and so on. In leadership, the option to start over or iterate hasn't always been readily available--nor as painless to my pride and my pocketbook.
Many of these lessons haven’t been easy for me to learn. It’s been tough to simultaneously remove obstacles without becoming one, or learning how to say “no” (and the flavors of yes and no!) when I've also wanted people to be satisfied with me and the work I'm doing. However, these lessons have all helped me become better at managing to some degree, while instilling a strong sense of empathy for those people who either report to me, or bless their souls, manage me in one way or another.
Talk about the need for design in government, and the opportunity for UX and design professionals to make a difference by helping the public sector work better for people.
Great Talks Start with Great Proposals: An IA Summit Virtual WebinarRuss U
The IA Summit and User Interface Engineering (UIE) are teaming up to present a free webinar about creating great presentation proposals.
Learn how to organize proposals in the way the most successful conference creators like to see. Our experts will discuss how to generate presentation ideas, choose a topic, and write a compelling abstract. They’ll also have tips specific to submitting a session proposal for the 2014 IA Summit.
First-hand insight from experienced speakers
UIE’s Adam Churchill will be our webinar host. He’ll be joined by two people with deep experience in both public speaking and organizing events:
Samantha Starmer
Samantha Starmer is Vice President of Customer Experience for Razorfish’s national Commerce and Content practice. Prior to Razorfish, Samantha was Director of Customer Experience at REI, a leading national outdoor retail co-op.
Samantha has led both workshops and presentations at the IA Summit, including full-day workshops on design for cross-channel experiences in 2011 and 2012. She is the coauthor of the forthcoming “Speaker Camp.”
Russ Unger
Russ is the Experience Design Director for GE Capital Americas. He’s also the coauthor of “A Project Guide to UX Design”, “Designing the Conversation”, and the upcoming “Speaker Camp”.
Russ’s name has been on a great many IA Summit programs, including the popular career workshop he has led for the last several years.
Presented by User Interface Engineering
User Interface Engineering is a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in web site and product usability. With in-depth research findings based on user observation, UIE empowers development teams to create usable web sites that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. UIE was founded 25 years ago by Jared M. Spool and has developed into the largest organization of its kind in the world.
The State of Sales & Marketing at the 50 Fastest-Growing B2B CompaniesMattermark
There’s a lot of information out there for sales and marketing professionals. In fact, as our friend Erik Devaney at Drift.com points out, a quick search of the term “sales and marketing advice” yields more than 90 million results on Google.
What’s more, there are tons of industry influencers who, on a regular basis, share their views on everything from content marketing and sales, to pricing and customer success. It’s a noisy conversation, and for many, a confusing one.
So, how do you make sense of it all?
By focusing on the sales and marketing efforts that actually produce results, not flash-in-the-pan engagement. But finding those results is a little challenging. That’s why we decided to put together our latest report with Drift.com, The State of Sales and Marketing at the 50 Fastest-Growing B2B Companies.
Using Mattermark data, we were able to identify the fifty high-growth companies in the U.S. and evaluate their marketing activities to understand which practices really moved the needle. In order to make the qualitative portion of our research more tangible, we evaluated each company on the list in light of how they approached content, customer communication, path to purchase, and pricing.
What we and the team at Drift.com discovered was surprising, to say the least.
SaaSFest 2015: Improve Your Retention With This One ChangeDavid Cancel
The key to sustainable growth comes down to aligning your internal and external incentives with your customers.
These slides show you how to align your companies incentives and increase customer retention and satisfaction. Lessons learned from Compete, Performable, Ghostery, HubSpot and now Driftt.
Video version: https://youtu.be/OY-HebjR-bA
Learn how to create a culture of design at work, the signs of a design averse culture, and how anyone, even the intern, can become a design culture change agent.
Presented by Chris Avore at Webvisions NYC on April 4 2014
The Great State of Design with CSS Grid Layout and FriendsStacy Kvernmo
For far too long we've been forced to reuse layout patterns that have worked in the past, creating a web full of sites that all look the same. Narrow timelines, browser support restrictions and lack of a true grid system have led us to create work that is "good enough".
I've spent years exploring how we can make the web a more unique space. With some of the newer CSS techniques available, we can start to make more creative designs. CSS Grid Layout is on the horizon and will play a major role in the design of our sites. Finally having a true, 2 dimensional grid will give our layouts much more flexibility and it is on us to explore the possibilities.
This talk was presented at CSS Day 2016.
Zuora CEO, Tien Tzuo, kicks off Subscribed 2015 with a powerful keynote addressing the global impact Subscriptions are making on businesses, consumers and technology. He sites leaders in the industry as Disruptors (Box), Mavericks (Xplornet), Change-Agents (Fairfax Media), and Reinventors (Adobe). And lastly, a focus on the Industry that is the poster-child for digital transformation, IoT.
There was a time when SXSW set the agenda, but now it seems to reflect it.
Once a focal point of the digital design industry, the event has grown in size and ambition to become a forum for a wide variety of contemporary issues, seemingly random in nature and curated around no clear principles.
Havas has summarized some of the common key themes on display at SXSW, which were reflected more generally as societal trends.
There was a time when SXSW set the agenda, but now it seems to reflect it.
Once a focal point of the digital design industry, the event has grown in size and ambition to become a forum for a wide variety of contemporary issues, seemingly random in nature and curated around no clear principles.
Havas has summarized some of the common key themes on display at SXSW, which were reflected more generally as societal trends.
SxSW observations. Privacy comes out of the closet. Digital manufacturing gets accessible. Social responsibility emerges as a cool thing to do. Actions beat advertising when it comes to marketing. And more.
Every March, thousands of thinkers, futurists, and creative people from nearly every industry flock to Austin, Texas to take in the trends and innovations shaping the future of film, technology, and music. We were among them, taking it all in through a health focused lens, and SXSW 2018 left us exhausted and inspired. The growing ubiquity of health was evidenced by the surge of the festival’s health track, including its first ever Wellness Expo. Patient centricity, health data, social responsibility, and women in tech dominated the conversation. We’ve curated the all hot health topics, along with our POV on implications in this comprehensive recap. Hope you enjoy reading this report as much as we did curating it!
Don’t let the breakfast tacos, parties, brand houses, and activations fool you. SXSW is growing up.
The festival has shifted from a place of discovering the next big digital innovation to a place for reflecting on how technology (e.g., AI, AR vs.VR, and Blockchain) can impact society, along with focusing on social responsibility and ethics.
Five days and hundreds of panels later, here’s a look at the trends and emerging tech that’ll be shaping the future.
Don’t let the breakfast tacos, parties, brand houses, and activations fool you. SXSW is growing up.
The festival has shifted from a place of discovering the next big digital innovation to a place for reflecting on how technology (e.g., AI, AR vs.VR, and Blockchain) can impact society, along with focusing on social responsibility and ethics.
Five days and hundreds of panels later, here’s a look at the trends and emerging tech that’ll be shaping the future.
Top 10 Health Trends at CES 2016 - Havas HealthGary Monk
The Top 10 health related trends at CES 2016. The trends are wide ranging from Fitness to Automotive This deck gives you the health trends to watch, with some specific future use cases and some that are very relevant now. For questions, more information or discussion please get in touch!
Open innovation: Making it real, in their own wordsLuminary Labs
Prize recipients reflect on how participating in an open innovation challenge impacted the development of their products. See more from Luminary Labs' survey of prize recipients: http://www.luminary-labs.com/insight/open-innovation-outcomes-prize-recipient-survey/
Going voice first: What executives should know about the next digital disruptionLuminary Labs
The voice-first paradigm shift requires rethinking everything. But the challenge isn’t new — we’ve been through this before. We look at the current state of voice technology, what we can learn from previous digital disruptions, and how companies can move forward.
By 2016, VR was the definitive tech media darling, promising the ability to not just replicate an experience, but to convince people of the validity of alternate realities. Venture funding flowed, content studios proliferated, and hardware launch dates were eagerly anticipated. Fast forward to 2017 and the equipment is still bulky and expensive, UX issues like nausea persist, and key immersive elements like haptic feedback and social interaction are still primitive. While some experiences are transformative, others underwhelm; market reports vary wildly on future investment and revenue projections.
So where exactly are we in the simulated reality hype cycle? Read the full article here: http://www.luminary-labs.com/insight/in-pursuit-of-reality/
Women in Tech: How to Build A Human CompanyLuminary Labs
We often think about design in terms of product or service strategy, but what about the design of companies? In the words of Phin Barnes of First Round Capital: “Entrepreneurs are the designers of companies. Great startup CEOs recognize very early that their job is not to build a product, but to build a company — defined by mission, values, and culture.”
Recently, organizations large and small have radically rethought company design by embracing employee-favorable policies such as establishing livable wages, developing creative equity plans, offering paid parental leave policies, and even pulling out of an entire state in protest of discrimination. In addition to sending a strong signal that people come first, these organizations are also making an economic argument to investors that employee-friendly policies pay dividends in reduced turnover and improved business outcome.
In this talk, Sara Holoubek, CEO of Luminary Labs, shares the forces behind this sea change as well as practical examples from companies featured in The Human Company Playbook, including Plated, Etsy, Pinterest, and General Assembly.
At TEDMED 2014, speakers upended conventional wisdom, embraced intellectual humility, and made us laugh. See what some of the most innovative and creative minds in health and medicine had to say in our conference recap.
From September 10-12th 2014, nearly 2,000 delegates convened in both Washington D.C. and San Francisco for TEDMED, to hear from some of the most innovative and creative minds in health and medicine today.
Their words, offered as a gift from the stage, were truly those to live by – providing a vision for a better future, driven by imagination, ingenuity, and a deep belief in the power of the human spirit to conquer all.
In June 2014, Luminary Labs held its inaugural Rube Goldberg-a-thon.
Following a tutorial from a subject matter expert, we challenged our staff to build Rube Goldberg-inspired machines that would launch Ping-Pong balls into a trash can.
With just one hour to complete the task, the team with the most complex and functional machine would be awarded a prize.
Here is what we learned.
Strata Ignite 2013 | A Tale of Two Kinds of StartupsLuminary Labs
In this Strata Ignite presentation, Jen van der Meer of Luminary Labs explores the difference between two kinds of startups: the Badass and the Superbadass.
Strata RX 2013 | Designing for Dignity in Health TechLuminary Labs
In this Strata RX presentation, Jen van der Meer of Luminary Labs challenges health tech startups to design for a higher aim, offering 8 design principals to enhance the lives of the patients they serve.
Strata Santa Clara 2014 | Open Data: It's Not Just for GovernmentsLuminary Labs
At Strata Santa Clara 2014, Jen van der Meer of Luminary Labs looks at examples from startups to Fortune 500s and successful public-private partnerships, demonstrating that the movement for open data is moving beyond just government to the realm of business.
Health Tech: Here Come the Internet Kids!Luminary Labs
60+ designers, developers, data mavens, and innovators transforming health and healthcare.
Because someone else can go out and design the better internet ad.
Five Reasons to Visit the Health & Wellness Hub During Social Media Week NYCLuminary Labs
In 2012, Social Media Week New York introduces the first Health & Wellness Hub to serve as a platform to empower change in health through collaboration. Hosted by Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness and curated by Luminary Labs, the Health & Wellness Hub will take place at Saatchi & Saatchi’s ground floor auditorium, and offers seating for 400 guests. The event runs from February 13-17, 2012.
Each December, the world’s most popular websites offer up a sampling of the year’s data, revealing what the online population thought, said, and did.
And while these “top 10” lists are just the tip of the consumer data iceberg, the connective patterns offer a glimpse of who we are as a people.
For companies in a post-recession rebuilding phase, it is easy to fall prey to the innovation myth.
About Luminary Labs:
Luminary Labs is a strategy and innovation consultancy working with organizations in transition to become more resilient in the face of change.
We have have deep roots in business planning, technology, innovation, and design, and we partner with our clients to help them use these tools, mindsets, and methodologies to their best advantage.
Jerusha Klemperer's Health | Tech | Food Speaking pointsLuminary Labs
Jerusha Klemperer, of Slow Food, provided these speaking points to stimulate discussion at the Health | Tech | Food event on February 8, 2011 in New York City.
This reel of infographics was looped on February 8, 2011 at Health | Tech | Food, an open innovation exercise produced by Luminary Labs.
All infographics are sourced in the notes section, or on the infographic itself.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
2. SXSW: 10 KEY THEMES
1. Wearables, But Not Really About Health
2. Healthcare Heats Up
3. Developing for the Internet of Things
4. Startups are Officially Priced Out
5. From the Big Brands: The Future!
6. 3D Printed Everything
7. The Personalization of Security
8. Lines
9. Science is Cool
10. Design Affirms its Seat at the Table
4. Lots of wearables. Lots of tacos. Lots
of wearable tacos.
Ok, so there were no wearable tacos.
As Adweek wrote, "wearables are the new
social” and the 2014 SXSW was no exception.
And while health applications were the most
frequently touted, attendees gravitated more
towards this harbinger of the singularity than
they did on the potential to deliver health
outcomes.
6. r
Healthcare Takes Mainstage
Health, once siloed, entered the mainstream
conversation. Anne Wojicki spoke about a new
paradigm for healthcare, Shaq envisions a
wearable that reads for insulin levels, and Marc
Cuban advised young graduates to look to careers
in personalized medicine.
8. What’s new in digital is no longer
about the Web.
With the rise of wearables comes a
heightened awareness that digital
extends far beyond the Web. What was
once concept is now becoming reality,
and the reality of that reality, such as
issues concerning privacy and security,
were widely discussed.
10. Start-ups can no longer afford lodging,
and agencies are taking their place.
We met more ad people than ever, and not
a single interesting startup. With the big
brands spending more money than ever, all
major events were sponsored by known
companies.
12. r
Everyone's (trying to be) in the future.
Major brands, from Oreo to Miller Light to IBM are leveraging social media science to know what
is going to happen...before you do. The concepts of "the future" and "trending" are less about
certainty and more about how their brands are engaging with social media science to divine what
is next. Note that where social media science was applied to the brand itself (what are people
saying about us), today it's about the brand having the pulse on society as a whole.
14. 3D printing is no
longer for geeks.
From wedding cakes to
designer sugar cubes,
3D printing is going
mainstream.
In addition to a strong
presence by
Shapeways, Deloitte
showed off a Maker
Van, partnering with the
Sugar Lab to offer 3D
printed goodies. Oreo
took “what’s hot” to a
whole new level,
delivering 3D printed
cookies based on
twitter trends.
16. Everyone is talking about privacy and security.
Snowden’s video presence highlighted a strong undercurrent around security of information, and
one's personal information. Rather than encouraging people to stop using the Internet, Snowden
advised that everyone should encrypt their data.
18. In the past, parties ruled.
In 2014, it was about content, with the longest lines we’d ever seen to hear from 23 and me,
Snowden, and other keynote speakers.
20. r Scientists were the new celebs this year.
Thousands packed into the convention center
to Neil Degrasse Tyson talk about our place in
the universe, and Adam Savage of
Mythbusters makes the case that “science is
for everybody”.
22. Last year everyone was talking about
the “Chief Experience Officer”.
This year the focus was on the “Design
Executive Officer”. In a related panel,
attendees largely felt that their
organizations aren’t equipped to deal with
the current fast pace of change, and are
looking to leadership for a new approach
to business challenges.
Anne Wojicki admitted she should have handled things differently but she still claims she is building a company that will profit by keeping customers healthy, rather than sick.
Expert storyteller Neil Degrasse Tyson captivated audiences with his talk about our place in the universe
While in 2013, everyone was buzzing about the “Chief Experience Officer”, this year the focus was on design, with discussion around the “Design Executive Officer”. Attendees largely feel their organizations aren’t equipped to deal with the current fast pace of change, and are looking to leadership for a new approach to business challenges.