Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution

Tricia Wang - China and Africa

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:21:13 GMT

Tricia Wang is Cultural Sociologist based in China. She is using immersive ethnography to create commercially relevant insights about how people use digital tools in their everyday lives.

We know pretty well what is going on in our own part of the world. But there is a lot we can learn about future consumer behavior by looking at other parts of the world. In this session we’ll examine the different cultures of innovation and human behavior in parts of China and Africa.

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Simon Kyaga - Origins of Creativity

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:16:09 GMT

Simon Kyaga is an attending physician in psychiatry and researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm that has studied the relation between genius and madness.

Many things have been said about where ideas come from. Pablo Picasso said that ”the chief enemy of creativity is good sense” and Tomas Edison insisted that ”genius is 1% talent and 99% perspiration”. Seems that being a bit crazy and working hard is the way forward. This session will explore factors for being creative.

Sahar El-Nadi

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:41:30 GMT

Sahar El-Nadi is a writer, photographer and an eyewitness to the Egyptian revolution. She will talk about the incredible lies of the state controlled media outlets in Egypt and what activists are doing to combat this by sharing what’s actually going on with the rest of the world.

Anna Haupt - Origins of Creativity

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:02:33 GMT

Anna Haupt is one of two founders of the Swedish company and invention Hövding – the invisible bicycle helmet.

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Kate Miltner - Collaborative Innovation

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:02:28 GMT

Kate Miltner is the Lead Planner for Jam @ Engine. She made her master dissertation on LOLCats and will talk about the underlying factors behind when memes grow strong on the internet.

Sometimes it feels like we don’t have enough time to do things. But on the other hand it seems like a lot of people have some time to spare. And many small periods of time are potentially a lot of time. If you create a framework for people to work in, people might use it to help you with your venture. In this session you’ll learn how.

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Caroline McCarthy - Collaborative Innovation

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:02:24 GMT

Caroline McCarthy is a marketer and editor at Google, working with industry thought leaders on the Google+ project and Google’s Think Quarterly marketing publication.

Sometimes it feels like we don’t have enought time to do things. But on the other hand it seems like a lot of people have some time to spare. And many small periods of time are potentially a lot of time. If you create a framework for people to work in, people might use it to help you with your venture. In this session you’ll learn how.

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Nikolaj Nyholm - From Local To Global

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:02:11 GMT

Nikolaj Nyholm is Partner at Sunstone Capital. He will talk aboutventure capitalist’s role in growing a company.

Scandinavia is a part of the world where pretty few people live, ie. our domestic market is small. That’s probably why we have a history of being good at exporting our innovations. But how do you do that in our competitive world? This session is about taking your business and idea from a local operation to a global company.

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Ole Ruch - From Local To Global

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:01:37 GMT

Ole Ruch is the Managing Director for Airbnb in Northern Europe. He will speak about setting up local offices around the world to grow a product.

Mai-Li Hammargren - From Local To Global

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:01:34 GMT

Mai-Li Hammargren is the founder and CEO of the Swedish company Mutewatch. She will focus her presentation on how they communicated the product so successfully on a global scale.

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Lucy Küng - Making Money On Media

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:59:41 GMT

Lucy Küng is a professor, researcher and advisor on strategy and leadership in the media, creative and tech industries.

This session will discuss how media producers make money in a world where people increasingly want to have access to content rather than owning it. How do streams of music make up for CD’s and what about newspapers and magazines?

Öjje Holt - Making Money On Media

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:59:37 GMT

Öjje Holt is the Managing Director Nordics at Spotify, responsible for the growth and development of Spotify across the Nordics.

Rebecca Miskin - Making Money On Media

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:59:34 GMT

Rebecca Miskin is the Digital Strategy Director at Hearst Magazines UK, publisher of titles such us Elle and Esquire.

Alexander Kjerulf - Origins of Creativity

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:37:08 GMT

Alexander Kjerulf is The Chief Happiness Officer at Woohoo Inc. and one of the world’s leading experts on happiness at work.

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Jeremy Fisher - Collaborative Innovation

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:29:27 GMT

Jeremy Fisher, Co-founder & CEO of Wander, developing technology to facilitate exploration, discovery and imagination.

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Hojun Song

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:34:34 GMT

Hojun Song is a South Korean artist and engineer that is making narratives and raising questions by creating absurd objects like radiation jewelry and the strongest weapon in the world. Currently he’s working to launch his own small satellite.

Sofia Svanteson - The Future of Interaction Design

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:46:22 GMT

Sofia Svanteson is an award winning Swedish entrepreneur, designer and inventor who is dedicated to coming up with strategies and design for meaningful digital services and products.

Technology is useless if we aren’t able to interact with it in a meaningful and useful way. In this session we let two thought leaders in the field present their visions for the years to come.

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Sriram Peruvemba - Public Computing and the Screens World

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:34:17 GMT

Sriram Peruvemba, Chief Marketing Officer at E Ink, the leader in ePaper displays.

What if all surfaces are potential screens?! This session will present some visionary ideas of what new possibilities media producers will have at their hands in a near future for showing there work in public spaces.

Clive Grinyer - The Future of Interaction Design

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:15:18 GMT

Clive Grinyer is Director of Customer Experience for the European Innovations Team of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), designing customer experiences, improving usability and creating technology innovations.

Technology is useless if we aren’t able to interact with it in a meaningful and useful way. In this session we let two thought leaders in the field present their visions for the years to come.

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Venkatesh Rao - Public Computing and the Screens World

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:01:17 GMT

Venkatesh Rao, consultant, independent researcher and blogger at ribbonfarm.com

Henric Trotzig - Move Into the Cloud

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:52 GMT

Henric Trotzig is Lead Developer at Kanal 5 Play, an ambitious attempt at bringing the TV experience to the web.

We are increasingly turning to the cloud for storage and processing power, increased flexibility, real time access, seamless collaboration, and convenience in our private and professional lifes. But what is the cloud and how does it all work? What’s in it for me and is it always the way to go?

Vinay Gupta - Access over ownership

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:38 GMT

Vinay Gupta is co-founder of WhipCar.com. It’s the world’s first service that enables car owners to rent out their vehicles whenever they are not in use.

Increasingly, we prioritize access over ownership in our lives. We subscribe to a car service instead of owning a car and we prefer to have access to 15 million songs on Spotify over buying CDs or mp3s. This trend is dubbed collaborative consumption. It was named by TIME as one of the “10 Ideas That Will Change The World” and is the new human behavior we will explore in this session.

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Danya Cheskis-Gold - Access over ownership

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:09 GMT

Danya Cheskis-Gold is the community director at Skillshare.com, a community marketplace for learning anything from anyone.

Lauren Anderson - Access over ownership

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:59:40 GMT

Lauren Anderson is the Community Director for Collaborative Consumption, working with organizations to deliver socially game-changing and profitable solutions in the Collaborative Consumption space.

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Geraldine de Bastion - China and Africa

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:57:41 GMT

Geraldine de Bastion is an international consultant with a multicultural background based in Berlin, Germany.

Dan Gärdenfors - Public Computing and the Screens World

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:17:05 GMT

Dan Gärdenfors, Senior Concept Designer, spends his time inventing, designing and communicating futuristic user interfaces at Research In Motion TAT.

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Tine Thygesen - The Interest Graph

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:47:59 GMT

Tine Thygesen is the founder of Everplaces, a tech company that lets you keep track of wonderful places you’ve discovered.

We’ve had the social graph for some years, letting us use the relation between people. Now we are increasingly benefiting from understanding the relationships between ourselves and the things around us, with the building of interest graphs. Here we will dig deeper into it by looking at it from both a consumers and brands perspective.

Christiane Vejlø - The Interest Graph

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:46:12 GMT

Christiane Vejlø is a leading digital trend expert, strategic adviser and founder of the digital lifestyle magazine Elektronista.dk.

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Kate Hartman

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:45:37 GMT

Kate Hartman is an artist, wearable design technologist, and Assistant Professor of Wearable & Mobile Technology and Director of the Social Body Lab at OCAD University in Toronto. Her work spans the fields of physical computing, wearable electronics, and conceptual art.

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Noah Brier - The Interest Graph

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:40:23 GMT

Noah Brier is co-founder of Percolate, a technology company based in New York. Percolate helps brands create content at social scale

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Anton Johansson - Move Into the Cloud

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:25:57 GMT

Anton Johansson is CMO at Twingly, he will give an intro to the possibilities with the tools for the cloud and how it makes product development faster than ever.

Maria Åkerlund - The Brain and the Cell

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:57:44 GMT

Maria Åkerlund, Senior Advisor Consumer Insights at Ericsson ConsumerLab, with 10 years of experience in researching consumer behavior.

We are all experiencing it from time to time, the paralysing feeling of the being overloaded with information. Feelings are one thing, but how is our brain coping with the vast amount of information that we’re bombarded with and how intimate is our relationship with the cellphone in reality?

Ben Hammersley - Keynote

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:46:02 GMT

Ben Hammersley is a British writer and technologist, specializing in the effects of the internet and the ubiquitous digital network on the worldʼs political, cultural and social spheres.

Jens D. Mikkelsen - The Brain and the Cell

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:16:09 GMT

Jens D. Mikkelsen, Brain Scientist at Neurobiology Research Unit at Rigshospitalet Copenhagen and director at NeuroSearch.

Michal Migurski - The City Says Hi

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:15:53 GMT

Michal Migurski is the Technical Director at Stamen Design, specializing in building service on open data.

Cities are becoming increasingly human when the streams of data they generate are being opened up for entrepreneurs and startups to develop cool and useful services on. But how is this changing our understanding of the space in which we spend our life and why is it important for data owners to make their data accessible thru APIs?

Jake Barton - The City Says Hi

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:15:53 GMT

Jake Barton is principal and Founder of Local Projects, who is creating the media design for the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

Maria Popova - The City Says Hi

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:15:45 GMT

Maria Popova is the founder and editor of Brain Pickings. She writes for Wired UK, The Atlantic, Nieman Journalism Lab, and Design Observer.

Cities are becoming increasingly human when the streams of data they generate are being opened up for entrepreneurs and startups to develop cool and useful services on. But how is this changing our understanding of the space in which we spend our life and why is it important for data owners to make their data accessible thru APIs?