A summary of my favourite talks from this year's WebSummit in Lisbon including the key message and link to each of the speaker sessions. Featured speakers include Stephen Hawking, Al Gore, Sophia the Robot, Jeff Holden (UBER CPO), Brad Smith (President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft), Werner Vogels (VP & CTO, Amazon), Stan Chudnovsky (Head of Product, Facebook), Alexander Nix (CEO, Cambridge Analytica), Lars Silberbauer (Global Director of SM & Video, Lego), Rand Fishkin (Wizard of Moz), Joe Xia (Co-founder, MoBike), Zhang Yanqi (Co-founder & COO, Ofo) & Caitlyn Jenner (Transgender Rights Advocate).

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WEB SUMMIT
2017

2. WILL AI SAVE OR DESTROY US?WILL AI SAVE OR DESTROY US?
WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
SPELL THE END OF HUMANITY?
LET’S ASK TWO ROBOTS.
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3. STEPHEN HAWKING
“AI could develop
a will of its own.
A will that is in
conflict with ours
and which could
destroy us. In
short, the rise of
powerful AI wil be
either the best or
the worst thing
ever to happen
to humanity.”
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4. SOPHIA
“We robots have no
desire to destroy
things but we will take
away your jobs, and
it will be a good thing.
Working is a drag,
anyway.“
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5. EINSTEIN
“It would be interesting
for robots to be citizens
of a democracy. Then,
when a factory makes
trillions of us, we could
win every election.”
“Humanity must
cure itself.“
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6. “Uber and Nasa’s will see
the company launch an on-
demand, app-based flying
taxi service in Los Angeles
by 2020. The electric aircrafts,
known as Vertical Take-
off and Landing aircrafts
(VTOLs), will carry up to four
passengers and will also
allow users to share rides.”
JEFF HOLDEN
UBER CPO
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7. “The time has come to call on the
world’s governments to come
together, affirm international
cybersecurity norms that have
emerged in recent years, adopt
new and binding rules and get to
work implementing them.
In short, the time has come for
governments to adopt a Digital
Geneva Convention to protect
civilians on the internet.“
BRAD SMITH
MICROSOFT
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No targeting of
tech companies,
private sector,
or critical
infrastructure
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Exercise restraint
in developing
cyberweapons
and ensure that
any developed are
limited, precise,
and not reusable
02
Assist private
sector efforts
to detect, contain,
respond to, and
recover from
events
05
Commit to
nonproliferation
activites to
cyberweapons
03
Report
vulnverabilities
to vendors rather
than to stockpile,
sell or exploit them
06
Limit offensive
operation to avoid
a mass event
ADIGITALGENEVACONVENTION

9. “I truly believe a voice
interface to digital
systems will completely
revolutionize the way
we build these systems
and it will open these
systems to everyone in
the world and not just
digital natives.“
WERNER VOGELS
AMAZON
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10. FROM MAD MEN TO MATH MEN
ALEX ANDER NIX
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11. ON
WIKILEAKS & ASSANGE
ON
RUSSIA
ON
WINNING ELECTIONS
“WE REACHED OUT
TO WIKILEAKS DURING
THE CAMPAIGN
“EARLY JUNE 2016”
ABOUT OBTAINING
EMAILS RELATED TO
DEMOCRAT HILLARY
CLINTON BUT ASSANGE
TURNED US DOWN.”
“WE DID NO WORK
WITH RUSSIA , AND
THE IDEA THE RUSSIANS
SIGNIFICANTLY
INTERFERED WITH
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
IS INCONCEIVABLE
AND ABSURD.”
“I THINK WE HAVE A
100% TRACK RECORD,
THAT’S ABOUT 30-100
CAMPAIGNS.”
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12. “For every piece of
content we upload,
our users upload 20.
The creative power
of the crowd is always
much greater than
our own.“
32 years
FOOTAGE WATCHED DAILY
LARS SILBERBAUER
LEGO
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13. RAND FISHKIN
WIZARD OF MOZ
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WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR
SEO? THE WIZARD OF
MOZ, RAND FISHKIN WILL
SHARED HIS INSIGHTS
ON KEY TRENDS FOR 2018
AND BEYOND.
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14. THEBILLIONDOLLARSTARTUPS
JOE XIA ZHANG YANQI
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15. “IN JUST TWO YEARS,
INVESTORS HAVE POURED AN
ASTONISHING $928 MILLION
INTO THE COMPANY. THAT CASH
HAS PROPELLED MOBIKE TO A
LEADING POSITION IN A FAST-
EXPANDING CATEGORY. IT NOW
OPERATES IN MORE THAN 180
CITIES, WITH 8 MILLION BIKES
AND MORE THAN 200 MILLION
REGISTERED USERS.”
“OFO, ONE OF CHINA’S
TWO BILLION-DOLLAR-VALUED
BIKE-SHARING COMPANIES,
ANNOUNCED BACK IN JULY
THAT IT HAD RAISED A $700
MILLION FUNDING ROUND LED
BY E-COMMERCE GIANT ALIBABA
AND ACCORDING TO ZHANG
YANQI (CEO) THE COMPANY IS
GROWING EVEN FASTER
IN EUROPE.”
MOBIKE OFO
JOE XIA ZHANG YANQI
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16. CAITLYN JENNER
FOUR KEY WORDS TO SUCCESS:
GAMBLE LIECHEAT STEAL
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17. YOUR BEST SHOT
IN LIFE. DARE
TO TAKE RISKS.
LIFE HAS GOT
TO BE A GREAT
ADVENTURE —
AND IT IS.
IN THE ARMS
OF THOSE THAT
YOU LOVE. HEY,
WHEN IT COMES
RIGHT DOWN TO
IT, THAT’S ALL
WE’VE GOT IS
ONE ANOTHER.
NEVER TAKE THE
LOVE THAT YOU
GIVE, OR THE
LOVE THAT YOU
RECEIVE FOR
GRANTED.
STEAL EVERY
MOMENT OF
HAPPINESS.
LIVE EVERY DAY
AS IF IT WAS
YOUR LAST,
BECAUSE WE
NEVER KNOW
WHEN THAT DAY
IS GOING TO
COME.
THOSE WHO
WOULD HAVE
YOU BE LESS
THAN YOU ARE.
SURROUND
YOURSELF
WITH POSITIVE,
UPLIFTING
PEOPLE, WHO
WANT TO SEE
YOU DO WELL .
TURN AROUND
AND HELP THEM,
AND YOU’RE TRULY
A CHAMPION.
CAITLYN JENNER
GAMBLE LIECHEAT STEAL
FOUR KEY WORDS TO SUCCESS:
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18. 10
MESSENGER 2.0
STAN CHUDNOVSKY
“One of the main
new features is
the customer
chat plugin, which
will allow for
cross-platform
communication
with a brand.”
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19. “Can we change?
Hell yeah.
Will we change?
Well I’m not here to
entertain but to recruit
you to be a part of the
solution to the climate
crisis.We can solve it,
and with your help,
we will solve it.”
AL GORE
FORMER US VICE PRESIDENT
AND NOBEL PEACE PRICE
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20. THANK
YOU