Collision 2016
2016-04-26..2016-04-28
New Orleans, United States
[Collision 2015, Collision 2016, Collision 2017, Collision 2018]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ten thousand words | Alex Chung, Jemima Kiss | 18m |
Company indexes and serves short animated clips as a visual language, having delivered 500 billion GIFs over three years and billions per day to about 150… | ||
| Operation Spark | Alon Robinson, Paddy Cosgrave, Chris Schultz | 04m |
Operation Spark runs an intensive JavaScript bootcamp that moves at-risk New Orleanians from beginner HTML/CSS confusion to building real web tools with… | ||
| What can we automate next? | Andra Keay, Jim Hunter, Linden Tibbets, Jack Smith IV | 20m |
Argues automation moves from gimmicky home bots to plumbing that actually does work: voice agents like Alexa win because they have permissions, simple UX fixes… | ||
| The fourth industrial revolution: robot ethics | Andra Keay | 18m |
Survey of four recurring ethical problems with robots names concrete examples and tradeoffs: slavery and servitude traced to the word robot and RUR, harm and… | ||
| How software is changing the next generation of TV | Anthony Wood, Nilay Patel | 19m |
Roku claims the TV market is shifting to streaming and backs it with numbers: 5.5 billion streaming hours last year (up 72%), roughly 10 million active… | ||
| Commercial applications of AI | Babak Hodjat, Douglas Merrill, Rana el Kaliouby, Natalie Monbiot | 18m |
Panel shows concrete commercial AI results: Slappy Messenger pilot creates strong emotional engagement (fans even asked it for chemo luck) and users report… | ||
| A capital markets view with Nasdaq | Bob McCooey, Eric Schurenberg | 11m |
Nasdaq explains that it bought SecondMarket and now runs the NASDAQ Private Market to let startups run liquidity programs for employees, handle cap table and… | ||
| Invention, reinvention and standing the test of time | Brad Smith, Jon Fortt | 17m |
A 33‑year company admits a product change forced on desktop users fails, posts a public apology, brought back last year's desktop product and then has its best… | ||
| Cannabis: a sacred plant and a growth industry | Brendan Kennedy, Donisha Prendergast, Jack Smith IV | 19m |
Privateer Holdings and partners present a concrete brand-and-investment play: launch Marley Natural lifestyle brand, build content and product businesses —… | ||
| Geo-politics, business decisions and your security | Chris Wysopal, Joseph Menn | 19m |
A detailed survey of recent incidents and policies links concrete failures to policy choices: a SWIFT compromise tries to transfer $980 million from Bangladesh… | ||
| Hollywood's next step | Clint Kisker, Gigi Pritzker, Molly Wood | 19m |
Madison Wells Media combines a production studio with investments (notably Wevr) to build VR content and solve distribution via Transport distribution so… | ||
| Nasdaq closing bell ceremony 2016 | Daire Hickey, Bob McCooey | 10m |
Collision remotely rings the Nasdaq closing bell from the convention center using a live feed tied into exchange systems and major networks, with the audience… | ||
| Data science, apps and civic responsibility | Dan Wagner, Tyrone Grandison, Matt Mahan, Rebecca Blumenstein | 24m |
Panel shows concrete projects and numbers: a federal Commerce Data Service pushes bureaus to open data; Civis Analytics builds models that revealed some… | ||
| VR storytelling | David Eun, Marc Mathieu, Jacques Methe, Steven Bertoni | 25m |
Samsung positions VR as both mass and personal storytelling with $99 Gear VR already on over a million headsets and a soon‑to‑ship 360 camera eyeball… | ||
| Using the creative mind to problem-solve | Harry West, Phil Gilbert, Chris Dannen | 19m |
Claim: design thinking improves digital experience and speed at scale; IBM says its goal is to make embed designers in the business across ~350,000 people and… | ||
| The biggest mistake I ever made | Jeff Lawson | 19m |
Starts with three failed startups: raised $10M at 21 then sold after hiring executives, builds the first StubHub prototype from first line of code to launch in… | ||
| Upload or die: apocalyptic visions in AI | Jerry Kaplan | 19m |
Argues that AI poses no imminent existential threat and that AlphaGo used deep learning on massive data while chess engines used heuristic search, so these are… | ||
| What it takes to be a modern media company | Jimmy Maymann, Steven Bertoni | 18m |
AOL has reshaped from a single portal into 15 brands reaching 400 million monthly users, shifts strategy to mobile-first content and says the banner ad model… | ||
| New frontiers and how to tackle them | John Suh, Jonathan Krim | 19m |
Company reinvents itself three times: from a document factory (2000–2010) to a $299/year unlimited legal subscription to a technology‑enabled… | ||
| Sustainable business: is growth the right metric? | Julia Hartz, Tina Sharkey | 21m |
Eventbrite recounts a bootstrapped decade that scales to 2.1 million events in 180 countries with ~500,000 active organizers and 40+ million buyers, and claims… | ||
| The fintech revolution: what's next? | Kathryn Petralia, Warren Mead | 19m |
Kabbage runs an automated lending platform that completes small‑business loan applications in 7 minutes average, issues $150,000 credit lines, and connects to… | ||
| Getting control back | Kenneth Lin, Dominic Rushe | 17m |
Founded in 2007 to replace paywall credit score scams, Credit Karma claims a radical model: 50 million American users, buys hundreds of millions of dollars of… | ||
| Financial fairness | Kristo Kaarmann, Dan 'Puzz' Aisen, Rebecca Blumenstein | 19m |
Company built a peer‑to‑peer money transfer system after noticing banks hide FX spreads that can be ~£500 on every £10,000, now moving 750 million dollars… | ||
| PITCH Competition Finalist | Kyle Henson | 08m |
Makes simple, easy-to-use water filters that use ionic charged media and 100x larger pores than typical membrane filters, yielding fountain-like flow and field… | ||
| The changing face of online media | Marty Moe, Chris Altchek, Jemima Kiss | 24m |
Digital publishers report concrete wins: branded content and premium mobile formats lift CPMs to multiples of the old $5 baseline, and publishers capture TV ad… | ||
| Getting hands on with VR | Michael Buckwald, Robert Scoble | 16m |
Leap Motion demonstrates hand-and-finger tracking that matches real motion using inexpensive embedded sensors: tiny VGA infrared cameras, a prototype strip… | ||
| Behind enemy lines | Mikko Hypponen | 18m |
Botnets and bank Trojans emerge from social problems where skilled programmers in poor towns turn to crime, not from technical gaps. Ransomware uses Bitcoin… | ||
| Welcome from Mayor of New Orleans | Mitchell Landrieu | 04m |
Welcome and city pitch for Collision moving from Las Vegas to New Orleans for three years, touting JazzFest as the largest musical festival in the world and… | ||
| The future of the final frontier | Naveen Jain, Jemima Kiss | 19m |
Argues a small private team can land on the moon and become a new space power, points to reusable rockets and weekend lunar trips as realistic near-term… | ||
| Personal privacy vs national security | Nico Sell, Steven Levy | 24m |
Describes Wickr as a messaging app with end-to-end encryption and no activity logs, used by millions across 200 countries including activists and intelligence… | ||
| Fantasy's future | Nigel Eccles, Steven Bertoni | 18m |
Regulation upends rapid growth: rolling attorney generals hit about 8–10 states, prompting a shift from pure growth to compliance and an advisory board… | ||
| Regulating the demand | Oisin Hanrahan, Brian O'Malley, Christina Bonnington | 19m |
Claims that 26 million Americans do part‑time gig work and that 700,000 work across the largest platforms anchor the debate; Handy reports 1.3 million… | ||
| A conversation with | PJ Morton, Chris Kaskie | 16m |
Leaves New Orleans after high school and spends about 14 years away then joins Maroon 5 before The Voice and returns to start Morton Records focused on artist… | ||
| Beyond mobile: life after smartphones | Robert Scoble, Lindsey Turrentine | 24m |
Predicts a migration of minutes from phones into VR headsets now (Facebook Minecraft on Gear VR) and AR glasses in 3–5 years, with concrete demos: ODG +… | ||
| The Darwinian nature of on-demand business | Ryan Sarver, Brian Solis, Ashley Parrish | 14m |
Argues that the on‑demand wave follows a Cambrian explosion into an on-demand winnowing where a few winners scale by changing underlying economics, with… | ||
| Here's to the table turners | Sam Halse, Ben Uretsky, Baiju Bhatt, Jonathan Krim | 18m |
Three startups explain how they beat incumbents with concrete bets: a cloud that promises a 55-second deploy and sells virtual servers called droplets, now… | ||
| Basic income | Scott Santens, Jack Smith IV | 16m |
Basic income is framed as raising the floor from zero to about $1,000 a month, replacing targeted welfare and cutting downstream costs like health and crime… | ||
| Distributed fintech | Shai Wininger, Jeff Schumacher, Molly Wood | 17m |
A venture approach that funds or builds zero-to-one fintechs and then hands them to corporates claims concrete wins: peer-to-peer insurance (Lemonade-style… | ||
| A conversation with | Scott Harrison, Jack Smith IV | 16m |
Charity: water (founded 2006) reports almost 20,000 projects in 24 countries and about six million people served, funded by roughly 1 million donors and ~$210M… | ||
| AI: Can we get all the pros with none of the cons? | Stephen Wolfram, Steven Levy | 19m |
Argues that intelligence is computation in nature and that machines have no intrinsic goals but follow human-defined objectives, proposes curating ethics by… | ||
| The computational future | Stephen Wolfram | 23m |
A 30‑year effort now merges Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha into the Wolfram Language and an open cloud launched about a month ago, claiming instant deployment… | ||
| Lean startup meets growth hacking: getting places fast | Steve Blank, Sean Ellis, Eric Schurenberg | 20m |
Argues that startups are not small corporations and replaces business plans with the business model canvas, customer interviews and iterative builds via a… | ||
| Using virtual to face reality | Steve Gleason, Dr. Omad Ahmad, Matthew Findley, Promit Roy, Michael Hecht | 20m |
Uses eye-tracking typing to control a Surface Pro and a wheelchair, citing work with Microsoft; Oculus reports shipping 156,000 dev kits as evidence of a… | ||
| At the heart of change | Tiki Barber, Mick Foley, Julian Maha, Jon Swartz | 23m |
A nonprofit called Culture City aims to convert celebrity reach and social media into repeat partnerships, new revenue streams and job creation for non‑verbal… | ||
| Who am I, and where do I come from? | Tim Sullivan, Ken Chahine, Jonathan Krim | 18m |
Company launches DNA arm as a separate “rebel” team, self-funds an initial ~$10M and turns the unit profitable faster than projected while keeping core records… | ||
| PITCH Winner announcement | 03m | |
A live on-stage startup competition narrows 16,000 applicants through rounds to 108 finalists, with judges and staff running head-to-head pitches; a final… | ||
| Unbounded ambition | Chris Sacca, Laurie Segall | 23m |
Talk gives concrete investor instincts and deal stories: explains why a founder calmly forecasting 50 million users convinces, how obsession with every pixel… | ||
| Waking from the dream: the realities today's world needs to face | Hayley Barna, Maria Klawe, Eamonn Store, Kara Sprague, Leah Hunter | 24m |
Companies that change hiring language, make interviews less adversarial and recruit at women’s engineering colleges see concrete gains — one firm moves from… | ||
| Home is where the CEO is | Dev Ittycheria, Adam Miller, Dominic Rushe | 14m |
Claims that databases must be redesigned for rich data, massive scale and always-on operation are paired with concrete practices for remote leadership: a dual… | ||
| The voice of the fan | Brett Favre, Brian Wilhite, Bryan Armen Graham | 19m |
Sqor Sports claims to be the first sports‑only social network and shows a working product: a fully integrated chat layered on a timeline, an in-game live… | ||
| PITCH Competition Finalist | Adam Markowitz | 07m |
Portfolium presents a verified e-portfolio platform that indexes student work samples so employers can search for skills rather than rely on GPA, claiming a… | ||
| PITCH Competition Finalist | Cian O'Sullivan | 07m |
Beagle claims it automates the contract “quick look” so nonlawyers get an instant analysis of who’s liable, exit rights, and cost drivers; it pairs natural… | ||
| Scaling Slack | Cal Henderson, Mat Honan | 19m |
Slack grew from a team chat built on IRC add ons into a platform adopted by tens of thousands of organizations and 80% of the Fortune 100, driven by… | ||
| Mobile's next evolution | Carl Pei, Randall Lane | 19m |
OnePlus grows by fusing hardware and software, selling direct with an invite model and a grassroots community that helped crowdfund product choices and forgive… | ||
| Communities of creators | Miguel McKelvey, Laurie Segall | 24m |
Company claims a $16 billion valuation while focusing on member experience and building sophisticated systems that let it scale from one monthly opening to… | ||
| Building the next generation of smart media brands | Shahrzad Rafati, Dominic Rushe | 19m |
Started as a set‑top box company and now runs a platform that builds media brands by combining video and audio fingerprinting technology with channel… | ||
| DIY VR | Ebbe Altberg | 15m |
Claims a democratized VR platform called Project Sansar that non-engineers can use, with 75 R&D staff and ~2.5 years of work aiming for general release by year… | ||
| nothing matches | ||