Collision 2017
2017-05-02..2017-05-04
New Orleans, United States
[Collision 2015, Collision 2016, Collision 2017, Collision 2018]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Dismantling About.com: A remarkable turnaround story | Neil Vogel | 13m |
About.com becomes Dotdash by ripping apart a general-interest portal and rebuilding five vertical publishers: health, personal finance, technology (The Flier)… | ||
| Activism and the online world | Sarah Kate Ellis, Tyler Oakley | 25m |
GLAAD describes shifting from a single watchdog voice to amplifying millions of individual platforms, using targeted petitions and rapid social pushes to… | ||
| Energy’s anti-fragile future | Andrew Beebe, Peter Shannon, Anup Jacob, John Carrington, Paul Leggett | 20m |
Argument that the grid is shifting from central plants to storage-as-virtual-power-plant on rooftops and in buildings, with utilities now issuing bids for… | ||
| The future of money | Jamie Moldafsky, Peter Smith, Rob Cox | 17m |
Claim that banks shrink as a role over 10–15 years while many convert into technology firms, backed by specifics: cardless ATM rollout, growth to 30 billion… | ||
| Outer space and earthly answers | Andrew Zolli | 15m |
Planet Labs is building what it claims is the largest constellation of Earth observing satellites — breadbox‑sized Doves in sun‑synchronous orbit — to image… | ||
| VR and Robots: Solving the future's problems | Michael Buckwald, Melonee Wise, Daniel Terdiman | 21m |
Fetch Robotics claims warehouse fleets cut handling time 30–50% efficiency gain and install as plug‑and‑play systems that deploy in eight hours with fleet… | ||
| Going public | Axel Hefer, Adam Kostyal | 20m |
Company goes public in five months to IPO, lists on Nasdaq after preparing US GAAP reporting, raises $300M+ and sees share price $11→$18 since the offering… | ||
| Winning on and off the field | Terrell Owens, Elena Bergeron | 25m |
15-year career across five teams—San Francisco, Philadelphia, Dallas, Buffalo and Cincinnati—creates brand equity that opens doors into fashion, supplements… | ||
| Regulation and the new administration | Bradley Tusk, Oisin Hanrahan, Jack Smith | 20m |
First hundred days produce more unpredictability than new rules: few major laws pass, courts block some orders, and uncertainty squeezes investment and hiring… | ||
| Can we solve the global e-waste problem? | Rich Kylberg | 15m |
Company claims 24 billion dollar revenue and says it is the largest e-waste recycler but industry remains fragmented. Global figures: about 12 pounds per… | ||
| Resisting climate catastrophism | Oren Cass | 14m |
Argues that accepting mainstream climate science yields specific but manageable projections: 3–4°C by 2100 and ~2 ft sea‑level rise, EPA estimates that… | ||
| Startups can save our oceans | Greg Stone, Loren Grush | 16m |
Conservation International connects field discoveries — fish boring into sea ice, garbage found 18,000 feet down — with tech fixes: satellite gravity mapping… | ||
| How IoT can tackle the planet's most severe problems | Matt Rogers, Brian Barrett | 16m |
Starts from Nest thermostats and describes a path to scale: cheaper hardware, New Orleans n2g thermostat subsidy and municipal rebate programs, plus mining… | ||
| Nasdaq closing bell ceremony | Patti cosgrove | 09m |
Ceremony documents ringing the Nasdaq closing bell remotely ring Nasdaq closing bell from Collision Conf in New Orleans, simulcast live to Nasdaq’s… | ||
| Reality and beyond | Ambarish Mitra | 18m |
Blippar demonstrates a real‑time visual AI engine that classifies objects with a 33,000‑word vocabulary and claims 70–80% accuracy on general scenes… | ||
| Spaceman: An astronaut's unlikely journey | Mike Massimino | 20m |
First astronaut to send a first tweet from space reports “launch was awesome” and describes surprising specifics: gaining weight on return, astronauts refusing… | ||
| Innocence | Wyclef Jean, Jason Flom | 31m |
Argues the U.S. locks up more people per capita than any nation and Louisiana and New Orleans top the states and counties, cites Japan (70,000 prisoners) for… | ||
| This is Live | Kevin Lin, Blaise Zerega | 27m |
Twitch positions itself as a creator-first live platform with 9.7 million daily users averaging 106 minutes and more than 2 million people streaming monthly… | ||
| Entertainment and shopping for all! | Alan Schaaf, Suzy Deering, JP Mangalindan | 23m |
eBay reports 60% of purchases are influenced by mobile and describes a mobile-first pivot across social platforms; Imgur shows promoted posts that mimic… | ||
| Leading from the C-suite | Karen Walker, Larry Quinlan, Pete Maulik | 26m |
Panelists argue that large incumbents survive disruption by changing operating models and funding external innovation: Cisco refocuses marketing on… | ||
| The evolution of communication | Ba Blackstock | 15m |
Spent 12 years on one cartoon then runs a one‑month experiment making 10 comics a day (ten 8‑panel strips = 80 panels daily) to force rapid iteration. Traces… | ||
| The entertainment kingdoms | Holly Liu, Jason Robins, Kurt Wagner | 19m |
Early-stage growth focuses on specific tactics: build an audience before launch by invite friends and family and seeding niche Facebook groups, buy performance… | ||
| An animated character comes to life | Boris Sofman | 13m |
Anki builds Cosmo as a physical animated character that actually expresses emotions and adapts to play and handling, claiming film-style animation maps… | ||
| The importance of immigration to Silicon Valley | Aydin Senkut, Theresia Gouw, Matt Mickiewicz, Matt Vella | 29m |
Covers concrete data and policy actions: over half of 87 unicorns were founded by immigrants and 71% had immigrant executives, 2011 Fortune 500 shows 40%… | ||
| PITCH Winner Announcement | Ben Ling, Paddy Cosgrave | 03m |
Collision runs a global PITCH with startups pared from hundreds to a final set: organizers report a field narrowed from 300 entries to 66 startups pitched over… | ||
| A conversation with | Walter Isaacson | 21m |
Argues that innovation rarely comes from lone inventors but from teams and historical continuity, using examples: the microchip, computer and Internet have no… | ||
| The new enterprise | Miguel McKelvey, Steven Bertoni | 20m |
WeWork reports 143 locations and over 100,000 members, opens about 10–15 sites a month, and treats space as a product with iterative rollouts, Uber-style… | ||
| What the world needs now: Community, conversation and | shitty_watercolour | 44m |
Reddit reaches about 280 million monthly users across roughly 150,000 communities and experiments with product changes: a new creator/content beta, native… | ||
| Feminism is not a liability | Sophia Bush, Alysia Reiner, Ashley Parish | 20m |
Makes the concrete claim that representation changes outcomes and shows how: produced the female‑driven film Equity (premiered at Sundance) and deliberately… | ||
| Is there a future for humans? | Stephen Wolfram, Irwin Gotlieb, Blaise Zerega | 25m |
Panel argues rapid advances in AI and computing — citing qubits at Intel and IBM — push problems forward by years, not decades, and corporations will drive… | ||
| Fake news and media literacy | Jared Grusd, John Avlon, Ana Kasparian | 28m |
Defines fake news as intentionally false stories aimed to deceive, links the epidemic to confirmation bias meets clickbait, and cites platforms (Facebook… | ||
| Mechanical planet: The future of industry, technology and the environment | Shane Wall | 19m |
HP argues the Fourth Industrial Revolution moves manufacturing from global shipping to regional, on‑demand production: design files sent digitally to localized… | ||
| The living room revolution | Neal Mohan, Mat Honan | 25m |
YouTube pushes hard into the living room with concrete moves: YouTube TV at $35/month includes cloud DVR, six household accounts and live local and national… | ||
| The CTO is dead, long live the CTO | Rebecca Parsons | 13m |
Argues that the old CTO who hides in a windowless office and optimizes efficiency is dead and replaced by a business-facing leader who prioritizes speed to… | ||
| The unexpected next stage of the cloud revolution | Sanjay Poonen | 13m |
Claims that 50% of IT workloads in cloud by 2021 (split ~30% public, 20% private; within public ~14% SaaS, 16% IaaS) reshape strategy: prioritize hybrid cloud… | ||
| Making the complex simple | William Gaybrick | 16m |
Claims that starting an e-commerce business now costs ~95% less: Stripe moves from weeks of bank paperwork to underwriting via web form so money flows in… | ||
| The IT revolution | Alan Boehme, William Murphy, Brian Barrett | 24m |
Large enterprises describe concrete practices: adopt multi-cloud by function (pick AWS for transactions, Azure for ERP, Google for AI), code for portability to… | ||
| The most dangerous man in the world | Ken Shamrock, Richard Forde | 20m |
Comes from a broken home and spends ages 13–18 in a boys home, then founds Lions Den, flies to Japan, passes a two‑hour tryout and fought in front of 17,000… | ||
| New sights | Gabriel Leydon, Rob Pegoraro | 21m |
A new platform called Satori platform networks and streams real-time data across millions of devices, claims to reduce messaging cost to near zero and lets… | ||
| On the startup line | Jager McConnell, Alex Konrad | 23m |
Crunchbase spun out in 2015 and positions itself as the master record of companies, serving about 30 million users and handling roughly half lookup and half… | ||
| Moonshots | Naveen Jain, Randy Glein, Loren Grush | 22m |
Private companies secure concrete wins: Moon Express receives first regulatory approval to land on the moon, SpaceX proves reused booster flight, and Planet… | ||
| Challenging the status quo in anti-doping | Travis Tygart, Allison Wagner | 17m |
Claims that Russia ran a coordinated, state-sponsored doping program are supported by whistleblowers who exposed test tampering and by investigations showing… | ||
| What enterprise needs to learn from political cyberhacking | Eric O'Neill | 11m |
Shows how Russians use phishing with shortened links to send a spoofed Google login that harvests credentials, then exploit failures like no two‑factor… | ||
| Playing to win | Marques Colston, Isaiah Kacyvenski, Ahmad Nassar, Kurt Wagner | 20m |
An accelerator called One Team Collective launches in December and builds an athlete advisory board, organizes sports tech into 30 market segments and says it… | ||
| The road less travelled | Matt Mazzeo, Erin Griffith, William Gaybrick | 21m |
Starts at CAA delivering mail, builds an internet-first division, signs Michelle Phan, helps launch Funny or Die, then raises and runs Lowercase Capital… | ||
| The VC future in 2017 | Mike Maples, Jeff Schumacher, Nicole Quinn, Alex Konrad | 25m |
Panel lays out concrete bets and playbooks: Floodgate targets extremely early “prime mover” founders and cites investments like twttr and Justin.tv; BCG… | ||
| Winning in the API economy | Ross Mason | 18m |
Argues that turning a company’s legacy core into composable services unlocks products and speed: Wells Fargo breaks monoliths into discoverable loan and FX… | ||
| Securing your enterprise | Ramin Sayar | 19m |
Sumo Logic claims a cloud-native analytics platform that already ingests 100–200 petabytes/day for 30,000 users and 1,500+ customers, using machine learning… | ||
| Workplace of the future | Taso Du Val, Stephane Kasriel, Marcus Sawyerr, Jack Smith | 19m |
Panelists argue that companies must build remote-first workplaces not remote-tolerant ones, with video in every room, rigorous online screening for soft and… | ||
| The Uber for... enterprise | Travis Bogard | 18m |
Uber for Business claims corporate uptake across 65,000 businesses and targets a $250 billion ground-transport market by solving billing, reporting and ride… | ||
| Facebook Messenger and bots | Stan Chudnovsky, Kurt Wagner | 20m |
Messenger claims 1.2 billion users and notes 20 million active businesses (60 million businesses on Facebook total), is testing a Discovery tab and inbox ads… | ||
| How will big data drive competitive intelligence? | Ann Johnson, Gaia Dempsey | 37m |
Interana provides an Excel-like interface that runs sub-second queries over massive event logs so product teams see patterns over time and decide features… | ||
| New realities in cybersecurity | Theresia Gouw, Chad Fulgham, Robert 'RSnake' Hansen, Edward Isaac Dovere | 17m |
Government inventories are often 10x underestimate of what is actually owned which leaves huge blind spots, procurement follows a two to three year sales cycle… | ||
| The truth about unicorns | Adam Singolda, Danny Fortson | 16m |
Company history: started as a content-recommendation startup, survives near-failure until a $1.5M lifeline in 2011 funds a marketplace for paid distribution… | ||
| Open JavaScript and the future of the IoT application platform | Jim Fletcher, Chris Aniszczyk, Kris Borchers | 26m |
Predicts JavaScript powering end-to-end IoT from microcontrollers to cloud, cites JerryScript for tiny devices and Node-RED for edge data flows, and names IBM… | ||
| Open-source has changed how you run infrastructure | Joshua Bernstein | 14m |
Run a production Siri platform from 0 to 100,000 servers in five years, migrate the whole stack from VMware to containers in nine months, and treat operations… | ||
| Why your next CEO will be a technologist | Rebecca Parsons | 13m |
Argues that CEOs will increasingly be technologists because technology now drives top-line revenue not just back-office costs and gives data: about 1,800 CEOs… | ||
| The journey towards corporate monopolies: The evolution of browsing | Jon von Tetzchner, Rob Pegoraro | 19m |
Argues the browser market is healthy but dominated by a few engines and that a competing product succeeds by building on Chromium while keeping the browser UI… | ||
| The anatomy of a malware attack: Past, present and future | Marcin Kleczynski | 12m |
Ransomware now encrypts whole drives with military grade ciphers and demands payments like €1,000 as seen with Cryptolocker and Jigsaw while hospitals and… | ||
| Laying the foundation for deep learning | Mike Curtis | 17m |
Airbnb describes building a production ML stack: an event pipeline called jitney on Kafka, a Hadoop data warehouse with Hive/Presto/Spark, and an open‑sourced… | ||
| Quantum computing: Yesterday, today and tomorrow | Robert 'Bo' Ewald | 18m |
D-Wave Systems builds a single-chip quantum annealer that runs at 12–15 milliKelvin, maps problems to an n‑dimensional energy landscape and uses superposition… | ||
| Intelligent by design: Can cybersecurity cope with AI? | Nicole Eagan | 16m |
Claims that an attacker used machine learning to blend into a corporate network in India as the first AI attack and that Darktrace’s AI outpaced the offensive… | ||
| First 100 days: How has Trump affected tech? | Cindy Cohn, Anna Palmer | 19m |
Reports show device searches and password demands at US borders and protests skyrocketing since Trump takes office, with phones returned only after passwords… | ||
| How can we truly arrive at "open-source everywhere"? | Danese Cooper | 13m |
Claim: only about 20% contribute to open source and inner source trains the other 80% to share. Companies set up an Inner Source Commons, open-source their… | ||
| We owe it to humanity to push boundaries | Jim Fletcher, Monique J. Morrow, Eamon Leonard | 24m |
Argument claims an ethical duty to keep pushing boundaries so humanity can adapt and survive, citing 200,000 years of Homo sapiens, the rise of civilization… | ||
| The hacker army protecting your data | Marten Mickos | 16m |
An ethical-hacking marketplace claims 100,000 registered hackers who report real flaws: Slack gets a report in 33 minutes and fixes it in five hours; customers… | ||
| The mobile platform war: How to be cohesive and coherent on mobile | Mada Seghete | 13m |
Branch built a deep linking platform and shows concrete tactics to survive mobile fragmentation: use deep linking plus user-agent detection to serve tailored… | ||
| How remote engineering teams stay agile | Bjorn Freeman-Benson | 13m |
InVision's Bjorn Freeman-Benson offers a unique perspective on building a better, stronger DevOps organization that fosters more transparency, greater… | ||
| Phishing hurts everyone: Hackers don't target by size | Oren Falkowitz | 06m |
Phishing causes the big losses: a $100 million fraudulent wire at Facebook and over 3,000 public schools that emailed W‑2s to attackers, because attackers use… | ||
| Inside the founder-investor relationship | Laura Behrens Wu, Andy McLoughlin | 17m |
After seed the advice is concrete: call portfolio founders who failed as well as succeeded, pick investors who answer urgently and benchmark SaaS metrics, and… | ||
| How to hire the best for your startup | Christina Sass, Vivek Ravisankar, Kristen Garcia Dumont, Alexis Sobel Fitts | 23m |
Advice focuses on concrete hiring actions not platitudes: use HackerRank style coding challenges to screen for real coding ability, widen the funnel beyond… | ||
| Getting your start-up message right | David Nihill, Ashley Bekton, Joe Lazauskas | 22m |
Practical rules: lead with the founder moment that made the company exist, not a list of metrics; show how a product makes a life easier — e.g. Omni records… | ||
| The worst pitch I've ever heard | Jonathan Teo, Christine Herron, Matt Mazzeo, Alex Konrad | 26m |
A series of concrete pitching failures and fixes: a founder frantically building a deck on a phone, a brown paper bag demo (app revealed from a bag in a park)… | ||
| Finding space to think in an always-on world | Layne Braunstein, Edith Harbaugh, Natan Edelsburg, Bas Wouterse | 23m |
Advice: use specific habits and rules that actually change behavior. Examples: using 100-mile runs or long trail runs to force offline thinking, enforcing no… | ||
| Upending workplace conventions? | Ryan Carson, Jodie Fox, Sankeev Vohra, Leah Hunter | 23m |
Three concrete experiments and their outcomes: a 32‑hour week lasted 10 years then ended after scaling problems; a no‑manager experiment ran 18 months and… | ||
| The mobile-first strategies every startup needs to know | Mada Seghete, Ron Palmeri | 18m |
Branch and Layer describe concrete mobile-first tactics: measure that 75% of visits are mobile while mobile conversion lags, apps convert twice as well so use… | ||
| Three ways startups can get ahead on diversity | Telle Whitney | 13m |
Startups get better products and more innovation by following three concrete actions: attract diverse talent by recruiting where women are (examples: Grace… | ||
| In two worlds at once: Social AR and VR | Noah Kraft, Michael Buckwald, Danny Fortson | 22m |
Claims that audio AR is the most human next-step and that mobile phones stay for years while wearable audio scales now; demos show a working Here One ear… | ||
| Cars and beyond: Strides in personal mobility | Sasha Hoffman, Philipp Von Hagen, Steven Rosenbush | 22m |
Cities gain about 2.5 billion more residents by 2050 and global population climbs from 7 to 9.3 billion, straining infrastructure. Lightweight devices like the… | ||
| Are we ready to embrace robot coworkers? | Melonee Wise, Rodolphe Gelin, Tessa Lau, Evan Ackerman | 24m |
A humanoid Pepper greets customers with big eyes, a tablet and scripted gestures and is deployed in shops in Japan and Europe; a hotel courier robot Relay… | ||
| Part machine, part man | Rosanna Myers, Russ Angold, Daniel Terdiman | 18m |
A wearable XO vest cuts perceived load of a 15–20 lb backpack and aims for all‑day endurance rather than superhuman strength; the company reports over 77… | ||
| Artificial General Intelligence: Why aren't we there yet? | Gary Marcus | 13m |
Argues that modern AI, dominated by convolutional networks and deep learning, excels at narrow perception but fails on common-sense reasoning and safety. Gives… | ||
| The race to replace human drivers | Louay Eldada, Adam Kell | 21m |
Quanergy shows a solid-state LiDAR that fires about half a million pulses to build tight 3D envelopes at 10/100/1000 fps and detects to ~250 meters; claim is… | ||
| What's next for the voice-enabled smart home? | Steve Rabuchin, Stuart Lombard, Molly Wood | 30m |
Ecobee launches a Wi‑Fi thermostat and a smart light switch with Alexa built-in at the same $249 price point, each shipping room sensors, temperature and… | ||
| Is a smart transportation ecosystem on the way? | Jamie Miller, Evan Ackerman | 19m |
GE Transportation is turning locomotives into data platforms: about 200 sensors per locomotive, with 17,000 locomotives monitored across 23 countries from a… | ||
| Up in the air: The next frontier for drones and flying cars | Ben Marcus, Rodin Lyasoff, Hideaki Mukai | 19m |
Rakuten runs autonomous golf‑course deliveries using GPS navigation and image recognition that land and release packages, completing 100+ flights over a month… | ||
| Driving connected mobility forward | Zack Hicks, Jessica Scorpio | 21m |
Getaround and Toyota describe a real pilot that uses peer-to-peer car sharing with a phone-as-key system: custom, patented in-car hardware, encryption and… | ||
| Putting the truck before the car | Torbjörn Holmström, Alexander George | 18m |
An autonomous mining truck runs 1,300 meters below ground in active ore transport and already operates as a production vehicle using lidar, radar, ultrasonic… | ||
| Crafting the first mile of product experience | Scott Belsky | 16m |
Argues that the crucial win happens in the first 15 seconds: users are lazy, vain and selfish, so show not tell, use templates and presumptuous defaults (the… | ||
| Building a winning brand: FanDuel in conversation | Nigel Eccles, Kurt Wagner | 18m |
FanDuel announces a pending merger with DraftKings to combine engineering teams—each with ~150 people—so about 150 engineers shift from plumbing (payments… | ||
| I want you to want me | Kirsten Ward, Mark Krolick, Matt Staneff, Jamie Gutfruend | 19m |
Research argues wantedness beats loyalty and shows how: a co-creation method that nets over 10 million Windows Insiders and 70 million feedback items, a… | ||
| Ad-blocking does more harm than good | Matt Maier, Steve Kovach | 28m |
AdBlock argues hundreds of millions of installs send a market signal, claims Google makes 20 billion dollars a quarter and is considering browser-level… | ||
| What brand design can learn from software developments | Howard Pyle | 15m |
Argues that brand teams should adopt three developer practices — design patterns, continuous delivery, open source governance — and shows one applied outcome… | ||
| You just don't get me: Understanding millennials | Kathryn Minshew | 13m |
Claims that Millennials leave jobs when roles don’t match core career values and that hiring must be treated as marketing; research uses user surveys… | ||
| Opponent or teammate: How to approach new consumers | Peter Nelson | 17m |
HBO Sports treats live events as narrative engines, claiming live sports resists cord cutting and week-by-week releases build communal buzz. Shows like 24/7… | ||
| Chatbots and the future of online learning | Severin Hacker, Jason Abbruzzese | 18m |
Duolingo builds conversation practice as scripted chatbots inside the app, unlocked at higher levels, improving by collecting user interactions and applying… | ||
| The humanized internet | Monique J. Morrow | 13m |
Claims a workable path to give 1.5 billion people a persistent, privacy-controlled digital identity using phone-first credentials and cryptographic digital… | ||
| A data-centric approach to the tech talent war | Doug Grey | 18m |
Indeed uses measured experiments and products to win tech hires: the site runs 516 A/B tests at once with ~70% failing and 30% succeeding, and Indeed Prime… | ||
| Using big data to inspire consumer confidence | Ryan Graciano, Blaise Zerega | 17m |
Credit Karma claims data on 20% of America's household debt, about 40% of U.S. Millennials and roughly one in three people who use credit, and it built a free… | ||
| A world of data | Raghu Ramakrishnan | 19m |
Argues that observational data at web scale enables fast learn-and-refine cycles: news pages move from editor curation to algorithmic selection using… | ||
| How data science can make your genome actionable | Riley Ennis | 12m |
Company Freenome shows data pipelines that transform whole‑genome reads into image‑like representations and train neural nets to classify cancer vs non‑cancer… | ||
| Is the internet a destabilizing force in our politics? | Emily Ekins, Teddy Goff, Molly Wood | 23m |
The internet short-circuits traditional gatekeepers, enabling movements like Black Lives Matter, the Tea Party and the women's marches to push issues into the… | ||
| When ransomware strikes | Paula Long | 20m |
A firsthand account describes a 2013 breach that encrypts every accessible file, spreads into synced Dropbox copies, and is resolved only after buying 500… | ||
| Quantifying fear: How investor anxiety moves markets | David Siegel | 13m |
Investopedia uses 27 million monthly users and 80 million pageviews to build the Investopedia Anxiety Index from searches on 12 fear-related terms; the index… | ||
| Political polls do more harm than good | Charlie Spies, Bradley Tusk, Edward Isaac Dovere | 23m |
Argues public polls miss reality: only 4 of 61 aggregated pre‑election polls showed Trump winning, national head‑to‑head tracking misleads about the Electoral… | ||
| Real-world applications of machine learning: Beyond the hype | Fred Sadaghinani, Ilia Papas, William Fong, Ron Miller | 22m |
Covers concrete systems: Sift Science trains online fraud models across 6,000 websites, starting from a naive Bayes prototype and scaling to thousands of… | ||
| How to change the world with computation | Stephen Wolfram | 22m |
Claims a single integrated, knowledge-rich language lets developers go from idea to working web app in minutes not months, using Wolfram Language plus cloud… | ||
| The quick and the dead: Leadership in the age of digital complexity | Guo Xiao | 16m |
Claims that competitive advantage is now transient and survival depends on speed not scale with four concrete moves: use cloud, containers and DevOps to cut… | ||
| The dark side of IoT | Vince Steckler | 13m |
Live demo shows a simple brute-force password crack and scripted infection that reflashes router ROM, then scans the LAN and commandeers a TV to stream video… | ||
| Who are entrepreneurs? The myth and the reality | John Suh | 19m |
Uses LegalZoom database and an Experian match to show entrepreneurship is in long decline: new company formation falls 40 years and small-business births fell… | ||
| What Nirvana can teach us about music's influence | Michael Azerrad, Bruce Pavitt | 19m |
Nirvana proves that a grassroots band can topple corporate pop: on Jan 11 1991 Nirvana is #1 over Garth Brooks Michael Jackson Guns N Roses Metallica Michael… | ||
| Taking streaming to the next stage | Kevin McGurn, Gady Epstein | 18m |
VEVO shifts from per-video buys to audience-based sales, selling sight‑sound‑motion as 15‑second spots transacted on TV-style GRP/cost‑per‑point, while keeping… | ||
| Festival of life | Rick Farman, Chris Kaskie, Nathan Mattise | 18m |
Festival planning centers on concrete choices: build a coherent community-driven identity, not just chase headliners; use RFID access control and attendee data… | ||
| Experiencing advertising: VR, experiential and more | Layne Braunstein, Natalie Monbiot, Jason Abbruzzese | 20m |
Argues that experience marketing beats ad networks by getting brands direct to consumers via platforms like Airbnb and Alfred, and shows concrete builds: 360°… | ||
| Data driven marketing: getting the balance right | Chip Paucek, Alicia Hatch, Joe Lazauskas, Jeremy Goldman | 19m |
Panelists describe a working program selection algorithm that produces an enrollment prediction the moment a prospect visits, and that prediction now powers… | ||
| Authenticity, trust and emotion: More than buzzwords? | Pamela Pavliscak, Damian Bradfield, Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Jason Abbruzzese | 22m |
Panel argues companies replace hard user research and product fit with data chasing and growth hacks, causing authenticity gaps. Global research across seven… | ||
| Why we don't need marketing...at least not all the time | Max Mullen | 15m |
Claim: marketing isn't always the first expense — building a product that markets itself proves cheaper and stickier. Instacart focuses on product-as-marketing… | ||
| Fake News and the trust problem. Sad! | Adam Singolda, John Avlon, Mat Honan | 18m |
Defines fake news as fundamentally false stories written to deceive, cites Macedonian farms and Pizzagate, and names economics and scale as causes: some sites… | ||
| Startups! This is what you need to know | Winston Binch, Kiel Berry, Susan Credle, Erin Griffith | 19m |
Startups must pair early performance tactics with a clear purpose or the initial feature becomes a commodity. Examples given: a $5,000 viral video launches… | ||
| Where is the ROI? | Sameer Dholakia, David May, Steve Kovach | 19m |
TV is not dead but its audience is aging, so channel choice depends on product and demographic; digital wins when tracking can close the loop. Email claims a… | ||
| Kobalt's plan to regrow the music industry | Willard Ahdritz, Gady Epstein | 18m |
Argues Kobalt built an end-to-end global monetization platform that ingests Spotify, Apple and YouTube usage files, cuts leaking transaction costs (claims… | ||
| The artist's changing entourage | Kelli Turner, Natalia Nastaskin, Chris Kaskie, Bruce Pavitt | 18m |
Panel argues indie artists now keep more revenue and control, citing Chance the Rapper Macklemore and Frank Ocean going independent, distribution via Bandcamp… | ||
| Audio is everywhere | Ian Geller, Geoff Snyder, Ben Shepherd, Nathan Mattise | 19m |
Voice interfaces now let people reach huge music catalogs with natural language: Alexa and Echo unlock search across 50 million tracks and drive high… | ||
| Sounding off: Altering our auditory experiences | Noah Kraft | 19m |
Doppler Labs describes a tiny "computer for the ears" called Hear One smart earbuds that streams music, offers a live mix with reverb and bass controls, and… | ||
| The empathy conundrum | Karen Walker, Mick McCabe, Steven Bertoni | 18m |
Claim: B2B buyers feel fear and risk more than consumers and when emotionally connected are 3x more likely to buy and 8x more likely to pay a premium. Concrete… | ||
| Making it personal: The new consumer experience | Suzy Deering | 13m |
eBay claims it personalizes shopping by surfacing over a billion items through data and algorithms turned from prescriptive to predictive, rolling out a… | ||
| Using tech to get tickets to true fans | Jody Mulkey, Mario Ciabarra, Jonathan Teo | 20m |
Ticketing teams describe a system that registers fans with email and phone, checks those entries against a billion past transactions and third‑party signals… | ||
| Fan engagement 2.0 | Brittany Hodak, Ted Chung, Rebecca Milzoff | 21m |
ZinePak builds collectible, artist-curated packages with AR/VR overlays and refuses projects unless artists fully participate, saying it declines ~40% of… | ||
| Video didn’t kill the radio star: The creative world of music videos | Darren Craig, Jonathan Craven | 17m |
The Uprising Creative's Darren Craig and Jonathan Craven give their unique perspective on the world of music videos. From Justin Timberlake to Kanye West… | ||
| Rediscovering music | Richard Averitt, Scott Cherkin, Dick Wingate | 20m |
Conference panel explains that streaming pushes catalogue to over 50% of music consumption (video ~60%) and that discovery depends on metadata and AI not just… | ||
| What does tomorrow sound like? | Steve Martocci, Jared Lindzon | 24m |
A startup builds a searchable sample library that catalogs terabytes of sounds and offers royalty-free stems, letting creators pull a tambourine or the most… | ||
| Music investing: Tales from the trenches | Jeremy Sirota, Darryl Ballantyne, Larry Marcus, Matt Vella | 19m |
Market power concentrates in the top four or five streaming services while Spotify Pandora Deezer are losing large amounts of money, making pure-play music… | ||
| Putting her records and messages on | Corinne Bailey Rae, Rebecca Milzoff | 19m |
Describes joining the World Citizen campaign that photographs a wide range of bodies and ethnicities and helping normalize diversity, and explains work with… | ||
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