How To Make It Happen

Nicole Yershon - Becoming a change agent

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:28:24 GMT

”Help the ecosystem grow, you are all in it together.”

Nicole Yershon, Director of Innovative solutions at Ogilvy Lab, talks about the role of an intrapreneur. How everybody at a company can take the lead and be in power of the change needed and how to be a disruptive force within an organization with an aim to build new relationships that make exciting, effective ideas a reality, no matter what.

So, what is an intrapreneur exactly? You can say that it is a human with an entrepreneural spirit working within a huge organization. By experimenting with innovations Nicole and her team at the Ogilvy Lab creates opportunities for the company to see from new perspectives and handle the daily work activities with more efficiency.

Derek Sivers - How to stop being rich and happy

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:25:23 GMT

Derek Sivers shares his lessons of life. How to stop being rich and happy.

Nicklas Bergman - Timing in times of technological uncertainty

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:04:51 GMT

”Always relate to technology from a business perspective.”

Futurist Nicklas Bergman talks about how to survive the ongoing tech storm in times of great uncertainty. Phenomenon like robots entering the job market and data commercialization will revolutionize our world. We need to be prepared.

Nicklas Bergman has for more than 20 years worked as a serial entrepreneur, technology investor and futurist focusing mostly on investments and business development in emerging markets, web services, nanotechnology, computing, new materials and new media art, currently through roughly 20 direct and indirect technology investments.

Bud Caddell - Organizing for the unpredictable

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:38:11 GMT

"The world is swimming in shitty managers."

Bud Caddell is the Founding Member of NOBL Collective – a hybrid design studio and management consultancy. NOBL trains leaders, designs teams, and invents products to help organizations gain an Evolutionary Edge over their competition.

In this talk Bud speaks about how organizations need to reconfigure themselves for an unpredictable future. Through local rules concerning customer obsession, alignment, autonomy and simplicity, teams are more likely to double the digit engagement growth as well as produce more profitable results for their companies.

Joanna Lord - Value exchange beyond the product

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:32:13 GMT

"It's time to rethink the responsibility of a brand."

Joanna takes a brand's perspective in the Timing & Speed session and walk us through what is expected of the biggest and best brands today. She covers the many ways in which brands must adapt or become irrelevant as the landscape change so quickly around us.

Derek Sivers - How to thrive in an unknowable future

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 22:39:37 GMT

Derek Sivers shares his best lessons of life. Part 2: How to thrive in an unknowable future.

Kate Stone - Bringing everyday things to life

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:39:24 GMT

“The future will look more like the past than the present.”

In this talk Kate Stone, Creative Scientist at Novalia talks about how she strives for making everyday objects animated with a digital soul, and by creating experiences with everyday things.

The deeper she explore the space, people join her team and with the partnerships, the more she begin to see that the future looks & feels more like the past than the present, an analogue physical world with a digital soul.

Rosie von Lila - How to build participatory communities

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:36:05 GMT

”What is most satisfying in life is to contribute.”

In this talk Revolutionary organizer Rosie von Lila draw from her experiences from Burning Man and talks about how to build participatory communities. Rosie discusses what it takes to create an atmosphere of invitation, inspiration, and innovation that compels individuals to engage in a larger civic and social ecosystem for the betterment of their communities.

Shim Smilansky - The bottom-up design model

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:31:18 GMT

"As our society evolves, so does our government."

There's a transformation going on in British government. Inspired by agile web development and human centred design methods, policy makers are taking radically new approaches to how they tackle some of society's biggest problems.

In this talk Mayku co-founder Shim Smilansky shares the story of how this change came to life and discuss some examples of how policymakers are enabling citizens to impact their society.

Derek Sivers - How to like people

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:37:32 GMT

The utterly fabulous Derek Sivers, entrepreneur and programmer, shares his best advice on how to like people. Short but great!

Lisa Lindström - Rethink (work) life

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:24:59 GMT

"To be able to do better things, you need to invest in trust."

Lisa Lindström, CEO of Doberman and board member of several Swedish companies, wants us to think of each meeting as something beautifully important that we can invest in. But the more complex things we are working on, the deeper the relationships has to be.

With examples of tools, tips and tricks, Lisa is showing us ways to fast-forward trust - both with our colleagues and our costumers.

Jessica Lawrence - The way we work is no longer working

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:19:56 GMT

"The way we work is no longer working."

Many organisations, old and new, are facing challenges when it comes to company culture. Jessica Lawrence, Executive Director at NY Tech Meetup, argues that in order to help people flourish and innovations to take place, we need to change the way we work and date to defy unhealthy company cultures.

And that doesn't just mean offering a free lunch or putting up a ping-pong table.

Jenny Wilson - The Creative Process

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:28:54 GMT

"I'm drowning in a deep sea of ideas."

What does a creative process look like? Few things can be as personal and abstract as the creative process. Artist Jenny Wilson talk about her voyage going from a hollow shell to having a finished album.

How the initiating stages of a shut down intellect and vacant space slowly fills up with elusive signals of inspiration. The fear of acting on these signals as they surely will lead to a long and heavy task of collecting material but at the same time the satisfaction of feeling alive and sparkling.

Erik Thorstensson - Prototyping Everything

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:44:58 GMT

"Trust immediacy - play!"

Who would guess playing around with waste material from plastic industries could lead up to creating one of the most flexible prototyping tools around? Prototyping and experimenting with materials and using things in other way than they were intended can lead to amazing products.

Listen to co-founder Erik Thorstensson's story about how they work at Creatables.

Paul Adams - How to identify users problems

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:43:14 GMT

"Stop applying your ideas on how the world works today."

Throughout history we have consequently been applying new technology to fill needs in the existing world. As the VP of Intercom, Paul Adams aims to identify user problems.

Instead of obsessing about the technology itself, we should focus on what it can be used for. Just like the combustion engine and electricity came to be revolutionary for human networking, we should focus on how we can use the internet to change the world we live in.

Peter Siljerud - How to relate to future change

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:42:31 GMT

"If the world was static we wouldn't need to change."

Generations ago it would be hard to convince people that today we take pictures of our food, upload it to a network and have friends and strangers interact with them on a global level.

Interpreting and understanding what the future will look like is very hard, but fortunately there are ways and tools to analyse what might lie ahead. Peter Silvered, futurist at Futurewise, gives us his favourite tips and tricks.

Per Cromwell - Stories worth retelling

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:27:21 GMT

"Either you're part of the content or you're part of the disruption."

In the eyes of Per Cromwell, co-founder of Studio Total, storytelling means designing and crafting something that people will want to retell.

Today, you cannot buy attention, you have to deserve it, and to be perceived as innovative, you also have to be innovative.

With examples from various Studio Total campaigns, Per talks about the importance of standing out and getting everyone to look - not only your target audience.

Ed Cooke - Memory techniques for learning

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:44:13 GMT

"Memories need to be used."

Memory techniques teaches us how to use our imagination to store information more powerfully, making our memories last longer.

While explaining the basic foundations for Memrise, an online learning platform focusing on memory training, Ed Cooke - himself Grand Master of Memory - learns us how to become better at remembering with the help from a few essential tricks.

Mattan Griffel - Teach yourself to code

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:42:41 GMT

"Coders are the modern day artists."

The what, why and how of learning how to program. Like painting with a blank canvas, programming can help you make reality of the ideas in your head.

Mattan Griffel, co-founder of One Month, argues that by brute-force learning you can quickly pick up coding skills that allows you to manipulate the world around you, instead of being directed by the ones who can.

Ruth Daniel - Do it Together

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:26:23 GMT

Ruth Daniel, Co-founder of Un-Convention, will talk about how we can "Do It Together" and how alternative economies can be created without having economic gain as a key driver.

The "Do it Yourself" movement is one of the strongest cultural powers we have. It is becoming stronger as all sort of tools are becoming cheaper and more evenly distributed. But over the last decade these tools have been complemented by ways of accomplish great tasks together.

Ariel Waldman - Do it Together

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:25:06 GMT

Ariel Waldman, Founder of Spacehack.org and global instigator of Science Hack Day, will speak about what we can accomplish when we open tools that are available to everyone.

The "Do it Yourself" movement is one of the strongest cultural powers we have. It is becoming stronger as all sort of tools are becoming cheaper and more evenly distributed. But over the last decade these tools have been complemented by ways of accomplish great tasks together.

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.

Dave Asprey - How to live a hyperconnected life

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:00:32 GMT

Dave Asprey is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and computer security expert who spent 15 years and $250,000 to hack his own biology.

In this session Dave presents lessons learned from his process of self quantifying, the dangers of over quantifying, and emerging security and privacy issues as we share our most personal information in the cloud.