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Tim: Unsere Wirtschaft antwortet nicht angemessen auf die Herausforderungen, die aktuell anstehen.
(interviewt von einer Frau von LinkedIn)
Andrew Stern (Columbia University), Natalie Foster (The Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative | Open Society Foundations), Elizabeth Rhodes (Y Combinator Research)
Jack Conte (Patreon)
James Nord (Fohr Card )
Rachel Holt (Uber)
There’s been a great deal of conversation about the tech industry’s role in gentrification, but I haven’t read anything as thoughtful as Douglas Rushkoff’s new book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus. Rather than just lamenting the problem, Douglas outlines a way forward to a local, circular economy, where money stays in a community and helps us build a more human-centered society.
After Tom Kartsotis left Fossil, the watch company that he’d taken public, he decided to do something about the blight in Detroit by locating a new watch company there, retraining unemployed auto workers, and investing in the future of the city. Tom turns the traditional thinking on its head: rather than treating workers as a disposable means to create profit for a company, he thinks of profit as a means to put people to work. The Shinola story is also a great illustration of the way that brand values that distinguish products and services with a human touch can command a premium even in an economy dominated by low-cost manufacturing.
Marco Zappacosta (Thumbtack)
John Hanke (Niantic, Inc.)
Brian Chesky (Airbnb)
Mustafa Suleyman (Google DeepMind)
Jeffrey Smith (IBM)
Sara Holoubek (Luminary Labs)
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Laura Baldwin (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Jake Schwartz (General Assembly)
Peter Skomoroch (Skipflag), Ellen Choi (CareerLark)
Hilarie Koplow-McAdams (New Relic)
Rana Foroohar (Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business | CNN)
Rana Foroohar (Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business | CNN), Robert Johnson (Institute for New Economic Thinking )
John Bassett, III (Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company)
Kevin Busque (Guideline)
Matt Jorgensen (Josephine)
Bryce Roberts (O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures)
Jessica Lessin (The Information)
Paul English (Lola)
Paul English’s last startup, Kayak, used search technology to commoditize travel; his new one, Lola, bets that people will pay a premium for a better experience. Paul’s vision of pairing up AI and human expertise to create a far better user experience than either could do alone is at the very heart of the Next Economy story and has so much to teach us about how to do business in the future. How can we not feature a guy who says that he wants his new startup to “make humans cool again”?
Becky Bond (Bernie 2016), Zack Exley (Brand New Congress)
Joshua Browder (DoNotPay)
Auszug Website: DoNotPay has launched the UK's first robot lawyer as an experiment. It can talk to you, generate documents and answer questions. It is just like a real lawyer, but is completely free and doesn't charge any commission.
Hello, I am the first robot lawyer. I can answer questions, draft documents and send appeals. At the moment, I can help with parking tickets (New York and UK), delayed flights/late trains (EU) and claiming PPI. Talk to me by typing in the message box below or ask "what can you do" for a list of some examples.
David Kenny (IBM Watson)
There’s been a predictable pattern in AI news: machine beats human—a computer demonstrating a skill that was once thought to be impossible for an AI. In IBM Watson’s case, it was first a game of chess, then Jeopardy. Since then, Watson has turned to more prosaic pursuits: helping doctors with diagnoses, insurance companies with customer service, accountants with auditing, and lawyers with legal research. And in each of these cases, it is an assistant—a powerful assistant, but an assistant nonetheless—not an opponent.
Urs Hölzle (Google)
There are many who fear that AI will take away human jobs. I believe that it will be a key component in the infrastructure of prosperity in the 21st century, allowing us to tackle some of our hardest problems—climate change, disease, and inequality—while creating services and products that are unimaginable today. Google’s recent use of DeepMind to cut energy usage in its data centers is just the barest taste of what is possible. Urs Hölzle has been at the forefront of building 21st-century infrastructure since Google’s inception. Who better to talk with us about how technology will shape our future?
Conversational interfaces will revolutionize the way we interact with computers, bringing artificial intelligence into everyday conversations and transactions. In the enterprise, AI-enabled bots are the new apps. We’ll hear from entrepreneurs who are harnessing bots to perform a variety of tasks from customer service to employee feedback and even to sales. How will bots change your business?
As Mary Gray, one of our panelists argues, technology doesn’t deskill human labor. Technological innovation forces us, collectively, to redefine what we see as our uniquely human capabilities. As technology advances and people working with technology deliver more services, businesses and governments alike struggle to understand how to keep employees’ skills relevant. Whether using bots to enhance productivity or deliver services to customers, both the private and public sectors have a vested interest in ensuring that humans remain front and center as technology rapidly advances.
We can mitigate the anxiety generated by the future of work by supporting workers on both sides of the bot, augmenting their skills as their jobs change. What do we want our working worlds to look like? How do we ensure everyone can participate in the Next Economy? Starting with the concept of human-centered design, we can help ensure tools and technology focus on both the customer and the humans building and delivering technological services. The Next Economy won’t replace humans in the workplace but will instead keep them in the loop delivering these services to increase productivity and generate new forms of work. This session will examine how humans and technology will cocreate the future of work.
Keeping up with the pace of change in the on-demand, digital economy requires companies to rethink how they get work done. Many companies realize that traditional rigid workforce structures and business processes need to change to reflect the levels of agility, productivity, and quality results that customers, partners, and workers now expect. But how will companies rethink their enterprise processes and structure to accomplish these changes? The panelists will discuss three distinct approaches—workforce virtualization, workforce augmentation, and work automation—along with real-life examples of how each of these approaches has been used, the results of implementation, and the implications for the workforce of the future.
What do the Sanders campaign and other recent advances in grassroots political organizing, online activism, labor organizing in a world without collective bargaining, and crowdsourced reporting of everything from potholes to wage theft have in common? They are all using new tools for digital organizing—tools for organizing people around shared goals and turning their energy into action. What can grassroots organizers of all kinds learn from each other, and what can businesses learn from their cutting-edge practices? In this unique interactive panel, Carmen Rojas of the Workers Lab, Becky Bond and Zack Exley, who led digital organizing for the Sanders campaign and are now working on an organization they call Brand New Congress, Christie George of New Media Ventures (which funded, among others Change.org), and Ben Berkowitz of SeeClickFix will interview each other about their best practices and lessons learned and answer questions from the audience about how to use the power of the Internet to vastly increase the size and impact of your organization and its message.
As the way we live, play, shop, and learn changes, so does the way we work. Whether you’re talking about a cutting-edge application like Uber, an outsourced call center, or a distributed software development team including not just remote employees but also temporary human resources like Upworkers, the way you hire and build a dedicated local team of employees has changed. Not only may the people who create value for your enterprise not be in the same location; many of them may not even work for you. This session takes a close look at Next Economy employees. What expectations do future and current employees have? As you build a company that lasts, how can you encourage innovation and retention? We’ll also ask ourselves, “What does the face of the employee look like in the Next Economy?”