Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution

Q&A: The Future of Work

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:27:45 GMT

The Q&A for the "The Future of Work" session at The Conference 2015. Speakers: Nina Åkestam (Stockholm School of Economics), Malou Adler (ustwo) and Roland Paulsen (Lund University).

Q&A: How To End Online Harassment

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:26:13 GMT

Q&A: Speed and timing

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:22:04 GMT

The Q&A for the Speed and timing session at The Conference 2015. Speakers: Joanna Lord (Porch), Nicklas Bergman (Futurist) and Bud Caddell (NOBL).

Q&A: Finding and using stories

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:18:15 GMT

The Q&A for the Finding and using stories session at The Conference 2015. Speakers: Nick Gray (Museum Hack), Nicholas Felton and Bjarke Myrthu (Blind spot).

Q&A: Responsiveness - Being a Chameleon

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:16:18 GMT

The Q&A for the Responsiveness - Being a chameleon session at The Conference 2015. Speakers: Senongo Akpem (Cambridge University Press), Elliott Hedman (mPath) and Isaac Pinnock (Made by Many).

Michael Pawlyn - Biology - A powerful source of innovation

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:54:49 GMT

"We can learn from the way nature solve problems to develop much better solutions that suits humans needs."

Michael Pawlyn is an architect that established Exploration Architecture in 2007 to focus on the emerging discipline of biomimicry – one of the most powerful sources of solutions to designing buildings that are more efficient and better tuned to people’s needs.

In this session on biology Michael presents a case for how biomimicry can help us address some of the key challenges of our age. Biomimicry offers a synthesis of the best that human ingenuity can deliver coupled with the 3.8 billion years of research and development that biological organisms represent.

Heather Barnett - Biology, learning from nature

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:49:51 GMT

"Visual representation is an inherent part of who we are."

Heather Barnett is working in the intersection of art, science and technology, often in collaboration with scientists, artists, participants and organisms. At The Conference 2015 she demonstrated how we humans can observe, adapt and co-create with nature.

Building the underground railway of Tokyo took humans over hundred years, a slime mold managed to replicate it within less than 26 hours. Through her experiment with slime mold, Heather proves what incredible intelligence and ability to communicate these cute little creatures have. This opens up new ways of thinking about design, and this might just be the beginning.

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.

Elliott Hedman - Emotional sensors to uncover user needs

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:18:01 GMT

“We need to bring love and science together.”

Elliott Hedman, Design Scientist and creator of mPath shows how emotional sensors can help uncover users unmet needs and lead to great experience design. Many companies further themselves from their customers and focus on the wrong things. How can they care about their customers if they don’t know them?

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.

Roland Paulsen - Work takes meaning from life

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:10:40 GMT

”In general, work takes meaning from life.”

Roland Paulsen has a PhD in sociology and is an author. The Wall Street Journal recently described him as "one of the world’s foremost experts on how people shirk on the job".

Here, Roland talks about the ever-decreasing need for human labour and how it affect humans and the society we live in. He poses the question why humans work so much with the answer that it's not because we want to guarantee our material survival but rather because we want to secure the survival of capitalism.

Isaac Pinnock - Responsive organizations

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:08:14 GMT

"The organization which make the fastest decisions will always win."

Isaac Pinnock talks about the art of being responsive and what this means to you, your clients and your organisation. We are moving from a world which is built on control and demand to a world where we need to be more responsive. Responsiveness has to be embedded in all levels of an organization. Through evidence and data-based decision making you can shorter the time process of decision making.

Isaac Pinnock is a founding partner of Made by Many, a product innovation company and accelerator. As well as leading their design team, he uses his experience of customer insight gathering, rapid prototyping and interaction design to transform business requirements into viable and desirable products.

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.

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.

Bjarke Myrthu - Life after the printing press

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:49:36 GMT

”The new campfire is this amazing grid created by little pieces that all merge together to our own individual stories.”

Bjarke Myrthu is CEO & founder of BLIND SPOT an interactive storytelling app for social media. In this talk he takes on a storytelling perspective and speaks about life after the printing press and how it’s changing the way we socialize, the way you work and the way you learn.

There is a fundamental change in the way that we tell stories and that change is due to the growing use of social media. The history behind storytelling began as a linear process with stories being told in front of a campfire as a social activity. Today storytelling online involve collective stories that humans share with each other and pass around the Internet. Time and space is no longer a limit for communication to flourish.

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.

Nina Åkestam - How to cope with your dream job

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:35:52 GMT

“I did not ask you what you do, I asked you who you are.”

Nina Åkestam, Researcher at Stockholm School of Economics and Marketing Expert shares her experiences of burning out. She puts an end to the myth that burn outs are people who hate their jobs and reveal her theories on how burn out appears.

Nina also shares her best pieces of advice on how to avoid burning out with one clear vision; finding strategies to be what you do without falling apart completely.

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.

Malou Adler - The organization is dead!

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:18:24 GMT

“The organization is dead.”

In a session on the different aspects of work, Malou talks about how she transformed the way one of Sweden's most innovative companies (ustwo) organize to work more efficient, healthy and at the same time make more money.

Malou propose a shift going from designing the blueprint of how people should organize themselves to instead develop better people skills in order to organize in different ways.

Interview with Bud Caddell

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:43:43 GMT

Interview with Bud Caddell, Nobl, by Andreas Ekström, HD-Sydsvenskan.

Mike Hearn - Fight for the right to be ruled by machines

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:17:50 GMT

"New infrastructures are being designed to remove power from the people who designed them."

In this keynote session, Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn talks on the topic ”Fighting for the right to be ruled by machines”. He outlines a possible scenario over the next 50 years, in which an ever worsening political situation results in some people deciding that only computers/robots can be trusted to control the critical infrastructure of society (cars, planes, mobile networks, legal systems etc) and therefore that the people currently in charge of them need to be evicted from those positions of power.

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.

Interview with Juliette Melton

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:33:47 GMT

Interview with Juliette Melton, The New York Times, by Andreas Ekström, HD-Sydsvenskan.

Eleanor Saitta - How To End Online Harassment

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:27:40 GMT

"Designers can reduce online harassment."

Eleanor Saitta is a hacker, designer, artist, writer, and barbarian. She makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex, transdisciplinary systems and stories fail and redesigning them to fail better.

In this talk Eleanor speaks about online harassment from a practical systems design perspective -- harassment isn't the same everywhere online and that means we can build systems that let people help themselves.

Katherine Cross - Causes of online harassment

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:23:10 GMT

"Anonymity is not the driving force to online harassment."

Sociologist and writer Katherine Cross talks about what actually causes and enflames online harassment and what is being done to combat this problem at its source. We cannot end online harassment unless we understand what causes it. We have to think on smarter solutions - our virtual future depends upon it.

Anita Sarkeesian - Hate and heroism

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:22:19 GMT

“The cultural norms of male-dominated spaces can be changed.”

2013 Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency, spoke at The Conference about online harassment and more specifically the threats she is receiving for her work. It hasn’t gotten better. Therefore Anita came back for a keynote presentation about the bigger picture and why baby steps isn’t enough to achieve goals we believe are fundamental for society. This is it.

HATE AND HEROISM

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:17:03 GMT

"Everything begins with a story."

Suleiman Bakhit is a terrorism prevention & heroism expert. His work focuses on terrorism prevention for high risk youth in Jordan, countering violent extremism narratives & mythology, and developing heroism as an antidote to extremism.

In this keynote session Suleiman talk about the relationship between terrorism and heroism. He speaks about the importance of role models in children’s lives and the unfortunate absence of good ones. By changing the stories and the heroes within them you can change the quest to righteousness.

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.

Hanna Larsson - Online harassment in public broadcasting

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:55:08 GMT

“A third of Swedish journalists are exposed to threats.”

Hanna Larsson is Communications Manager for social media at SVT. In this session on ending online harassment she talks about how Sweden's public broadcasting company is approaching and countering harassment on their platforms.

To solve the raising challenge with online harassment SVT practice moderation and active editorship. SVT assess the risk and help their participants in their programs to understand what they are getting into by teaching practical tips on how to use social media in a more secure way. At the same time the editors needs to balance relevant important stories and considerate when individuals are at risk.