Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution

Joanna Peña-Bickley - Empowered by wearable tech

Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:11:44 GMT

"Wearable tech is reshaping industries with global impact."

In this talk, Joanna Peña-Bickley, Chief Creative Officer at IBM Interactive Experience gives us an odyssey of the current state of the field and how humans are adapting it.

With the wearables technique that exists today, we have the opportunity to create enchanting human experiences. Wearables have transformed industries like entertainment, health, security, financial services, fashion and retail and will continue to transform and reshape the industries.

Senongo Akpem - How to create culturally responsive projects

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:14:08 GMT

"In an increasingly global world we need design that is culturally responsive."

Senongo Akpem, Senior Designer at Cambridge University Press, talks about culturally responsive design. Senongo discuss how cultural variables can affect our perception, and how to build visual and cultural diversity into design in a thoughtful (and occasionally subversive) way.

Nicholas Felton - Creating meaningful stories out of data

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:56:07 GMT

“When you combine life with long exposure photography you get stories”.

Nicholas Felton is a designer, entrepreneur and artist whose work focuses on translating quotidian data into meaningful objects and experiences.

Data has become creative material; it’s the new wood of which we can make beautiful objects from. In a world flooded with photographs, what new forms of communication become possible when photography and data visualization techniques are merged to tell complex stories.

ROBOTS AND HUMANS

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:05:21 GMT

“Robot ethics is about humans.”

Kate Darling is a Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center and the Yale Information Society Project. Robots are likely to take an increasingly bigger part of our lives. To understand what it means for humans and how we are going to interact with our new friends Kate will talk about her research on people's instinctual and emotional perception of robots.

A change from robots being present behind the scenes in manufacturing spaces etc. to being present in all areas of our lives is becoming a reality, whether you like it or not. Emotional affections to human alike robots are the new evolving thing. Kate takes us on the journey of anthropomorphism and what the future holds.

FINDING AND USING STORIES

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:36:34 GMT

“This is not a museum tour, this is a museum adventure.”

Nick Gray, Museum Hack founder and CEO, talks about how we can find stories in any material we might have at hand. He’s a guy who loves museums but hates how most museum tours are given and founded Museum Hack to offer unconventional stories from museums as an answer.

Nick tells about how the guests are encouraged to play games and take selfies during the tours. In the end, it’s all about enabling and inspiring people to become better creators.

Sabrina Majeed - Methods to get through the noise

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:03:46 GMT

"Start to use data as a way to power personalization."

Sabrina Majeed is a product design manager at BuzzFeed, where she spends her time thinking about how people consume news and entertainment in a more mobile world.

In this talk Sabrina accounts different ways of visualizing and working with data. Data can be used as an objective source of truth and bring certain opportunities as well as problems to our attention. By provocative visualization of data people tend to ingest the data in a wider sense. Working closely with data will help reveal the right questions to ask in the right context and as so create meaningful content.

Farrah Bostic - Knowledge as a product

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:59:36 GMT

"Think about marketing as a service instead of push messages."

Farrah Bostic, Head of Strategy at The Difference Engine, talks about “Brands as APIs”. What happens when brands use, create, and become software, specifically APIs? They open up a world of collaboration, co-invention, and value creation.

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.

Adam Pruden - Drones in everyday life

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:59:11 GMT

"We are entering a post-smartphone era."

Senior Interaction Designer Adam Pruden, Frog Design and his co-workers examined if drones could be the next big smart device and concluded that it is very possible.

In this talk, Adam explains how drones will enter our everyday lives and not only work as smart devices but also as wearables. He gives us a glimpse of a future forecast of how drones will interact with us at a very intimate scale.

Brian Reed - How to construct a compelling story

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:44:19 GMT

"A story should make a larger point about human experience and the world."

Brian Reed is a producer at This American Life, the creators of the recent mega hit podcast Serial. He gives an insight about important basic elements to be able to craft a good story.

In This American Life, he and his colleagues focus on three things: action, reflection and stakes. Put together, these become really powerful. But you also need to think about motion when telling a story, as this will pull people forward and make them actually listen.

Jill Nussbaum - Design fiction - imagine the future

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:44:05 GMT

"Let's tattoo design fiction on our arms... or legs!"

Designer Jill Nussbaum takes a closer look at storytelling from a design perspective and discusses how stories can be a framework to help imagine the future of products and services.

Good stories have the ability to take new ideas and put them in a context that everybody understands. But today's designers are envisioning a future of how things can potentially be, and need to be able to communicate this to their clients.

Design fiction, as a kind of idea prototyping, will help to inspire and image the future.

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.

Stephanie Pereira - How to build a community online

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:36:27 GMT

"Kickstarter is a place where people come to be a part of something."

Kickstarter is a place where people can make things that might otherwise not exist. In her talk, International Partnership Lead Stephanie Pereira shares inspiring community stories from people with creative ideas, who want to bring a community together, and their methods for achieving this.

In its core, Kickstarter is a true ecosystem of ideas and projects, that brings together different people that care about the same thing, and make them collectively own it.

Evan Sandhaus - How to archive content

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:45:54 GMT

"Our relationship with the past has started to change."

Evan Sandhaus presents the future of the past told through the lens of the New York Times archive. He talks about the challenges of how to digitally manage the 46,595 issues that New York Times has produced since 1851.

Let's face it: users don't have the time and inclination to find their way through the 163 year-old archive. Hence, the New York Times has found a way to successful digital archiving, based on three pillars: distribution, discovery and curation.

Kevin Allocca - Anatomy of Virality

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:30:29 GMT

"The ones that are really good are the ones that are rewriting the rules."

Kevin Allocca, Head of Culture and Trends at YouTube, breaks down the concept of virality with the help of phenomenons such as the Harlem Shake and the Ice Bucket Challenge.

Kevin describes how technology has brought a more open form of distribution, resulting in decentralization and participation. But is there a secret to what works? Or can it be so, that the things that make it work actually cannot be measured at all?

Molly Crabapple - Art and the network

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:02:19 GMT

"A sketchpad can go places cameras cannot look."

For Molly Crabapple, art is the discipline of seeing. Together with her sketchpad, she has been able to see things cameras couldn't - portraying Guantanamo Bay prisoners, Occupy Wall Street protesters and Syrian refugees.

Molly talks of the importance of drawing in a networked world, where there are more images than ever before. She also challenges us as listeners to draw. Because even though it can't change the world, it might make us see it a bit differently.

Alexis Ohanian - Lagom is not enough

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:08:31 GMT

Alexis Ohanian is an entrepreneur and investor from Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder of the social news site reddit.

With a proven record of making something people love as the model for success, he will come to The Conference to talk about the importance of giving a damn about the people who are about to use and consume what you create.

Giorgia Lupi - Big Data - Understand and Visualize

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:35:26 GMT

Giorgia Lupi shares her approach to data-visualization, which can be described as an attempt to make aesthetically beautiful compositions of data, every time, without losing scientific accuracy. In an increasingly complex and networked world, tools for recording, filtering and visualizing data is powering a new breed of storytelling.

Giorgia Lupi is the founder and Design Director at Accurat, an information design agency based in Milan and New York. Accurat analyzes data and contexts and designs analytical tools and visual narratives that provide awareness, comprehension and engagement.

Mike Dewar - Big Data - Understand and Visualize

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:35:11 GMT

Mike Dewar, Data Scientist at The New York Times R&D Lab, will talk about how we can build tools to let us see behavioral phenomena from a heady new perspective with big data and data science.

In an increasingly complex and networked world, tools for recording, filtering and visualising data is powering a new breed of storytelling.

Tricia Wang - How Visual Media Affect Culture and Identity Globally

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:28:09 GMT

Tricia Wang is a global tech ethnographer who researches how technology makes us human. She advises organizations, corporations, and students on utilizing Digital Age ethnographic research methods to improve strategy, policy, services, and products.

The shift to imagery and animation as a primary mode of communication on the web is a fun, creative shift from the primacy of text online. It is also having numerous effects on identity, civic engagement and creative expression. In this session we want to look at the broader implications of this shift, and what it can mean for brands, governments, organizations and anyone else working in this space.

Kenyatta Cheese - How Visual Media Affect Culture and Identity Globally

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:23:06 GMT

Prepare to fall in love with .gif!

The shift to imagery and animation as a primary mode of communication on the web is a fun, creative shift from the primacy of text online. It is also having numerous effects on identity, civic engagement and creative expression. In this session we want to look at the broader implications of this shift, and what it can mean for brands, governments, organizations and anyone else working in this space.

Kenyatta Cheese is a professional internet enthusiast. He studies the ways that ideas spread through culture. Kenyatta is also the co-founder of Everybody at Once which develops audiences for television, media, and sports. In a past life Kenyatta co-created the internet meme database Know Your Meme.

Cindy Gallop

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:55:33 GMT

Cindy Gallop, the founder & CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn, offers some provocative, challenging and highly subjective views on how to redesign the future of business; the power shift from the old world order model to the new; the lies we tell ourselves around the most fundamental aspect of human behavior, our sexuality; and why disruption is so critically important in the only gigantic billion-dollar sector nobody in the tech world ever encourages you to disrupt.

You can change the world in more profound ways than you ever thought possible, by changing what you do in the office, and what you do in bed. Cindy Gallop will talk about changing the world through business and sex.

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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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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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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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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

Britta Riley - Funding creativity with the crowd

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:22:53 GMT

Britta Riley is an artist and entrepreneur. Two years ago, she launched the Windowfarms Project, an experiment in mass collaboration to reduce the environmental cost of fresh food production in cities. The Windowfarms Project uses a process called R&D-I-Y, or research and develop it yourself, wherein thousands of people openly help design low power vertical hydroponic gardens to grow food in their apartment windows without soil. In this presentation Britta talks about how she raised $28,000 on Kickstarter to fund development of Windowfarms kits that now support the project through sales.

Naveen Selvadurai - New business opportunities with disruptive thinking

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:53:59 GMT

Naveen is Co-founder of Foursquare, a location-based mobile platform that helps you explore the world around you, meet up with friends, discover new places, and save money using your phone. In this presentation Naveen talks about how Foursquare went from 0 to 10 million users, how the service evolved and what they’ve learnt from it.

Luke Williams - New business opportunities with disruptive thinking

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:53:53 GMT

Luke Williams is a leading consultant and speaker on design and innovation strategy, and the author of Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business. Luke speaks about how to spark business transformation with Disruptive Thinking. A way of thinking that will help business leaders to produce and implement ideas that alter the trajectory of a business and revive stagnant markets.

Paola Antonelli

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:22:09 GMT

Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design of The Museum of Modern Art, where she has worked since 1994. Paola’s goal is to insistently promote design’s understanding, until its positive influence on the world is fully acknowledged and exploited.