Collision 2018
2018-04-30..2018-05-03
New Orleans, United States
[Collision 2015, Collision 2016, Collision 2017, Collision 2018]
| title | author | length |
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| Highlights from | 01m | |
Collision is “North America’s fastest growing tech conference,” created by the team behind Web Summit. In five years, Collision has grown to almost 25,000… | ||
| Opportunity in the AI era: Closing the technology gaps | Brad Smith | 17m |
Argues there are two specific barriers: the digital skills gap and the broadband gap, with concrete numbers — King County unemployment 3.4% versus Ferry County… | ||
| Reputation, trust, and safety online | Karuna Nain, Ian Bohen, Catherine Teitelbaum, Alex Holmes | 26m |
Companies report using PhotoDNA hashing tied to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, run cross‑industry efforts like a child safety… | ||
| The future of | Paddy Cosgrave, Sunil Sharma, Michael Thompson, Anna Hu | 09m |
Collision relocates to Toronto for three years and sells a practical case: Toronto claims 50.5% born outside Canada, is the fourth-largest North American city… | ||
| Investing in the transition to a sustainable economy | Al Gore | 30m |
Claims that global warming emissions total 110 million tons per day and trap heat equal to 400,000 Hiroshima bombs every 24 hours; roughly half of added… | ||
| When worlds collide | Ralph Echemendia, Saul Williams, Mary Aiken | 30m |
Argues that online influence is not vague but measurable: data brokers and up to 4,000 companies harvest and stitch profiles, using hacked databases, dark… | ||
| The future for America: Tech, politics, and civil rights | Andrew Yang, Susan Herman, Cenk Uygur | 19m |
Panel argues automation erased 4 million jobs in Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and will hollow out retail, trucking and call centers; a proposed… | ||
| In conversation | Mark Hurd | 19m |
Company market cap nears $200 billion and the talk lays out concrete moves: a capital policy that favors buybacks and dividends but filters acquisitions for… | ||
| How not to die | Dave Asprey, Mona Siddiqui, Naveen Jain, Jade Scipioni | 20m |
Panel opens with biohacking claims: people can live to 180 or at least push healthy lifespan by decades; aging is framed as a chronic disease solvable by AI… | ||
| Technology is responsible for increasing inequality | Rose Stuckey-Kirk, Babak Hodjat, Georgia Frances King | 25m |
Debate argues technology both creates and mitigates inequality with concrete examples: algorithms inherit training-data bias, deep learning reproduces past… | ||
| What you need to know about work and the future | Cenk Uygur, Allan Grant, Liz Shuler | 21m |
Panel argues that technology will disrupt jobs but policy and collective action can capture gains: unions represent 55 unions and private sector union… | ||
| Sustainability in big business | Suzanne DiBianca, Gillian Tans, Christiana Figueres, Philip Crowther | 19m |
Mission 2020: reverse emissions by 2020 argues the world must shift emissions from flat/up to a descent to protect the economy, and tech can speed that by… | ||
| The future is around the corner | Jeff Jordan, Nick Huzar, Lindsey Turrentine | 19m |
OfferUp builds a mobile-first marketplace that combines instant photo listings, built-in chat, maps, ratings and recommended meetup locations, and now launched… | ||
| Tech and toys | Sven Gerjets, Dylan Collins, Leah Hunter | 21m |
Mattel shows a shift to a platform mindset that reuses tech across products, using vision recognition, augmented reality and RFID to turn Hot Wheels tracks… | ||
| Data: The silent movie producer | Matt Marolda, Jason Abbruzzese | 19m |
Legendary starts with a 50,000-row spreadsheet and no formal data systems then builds analytics to inform casting, release dates and marketing. Marketing… | ||
| Your security is arriving Uber and data | John Flynn, Alyssa Newcomb | 17m |
Uber outlines concrete changes: privacy by design and security by design are integrated into product planning, accounts hide credit cards, and export/download… | ||
| Redesign for life | Jeremy King, Chris Slowe, Leah Hunter | 19m |
Walmart and Reddit describe concrete redesign moves: Walmart rebuilds its eight-year stack, adopts React and React Native, passes 80 million products, and uses… | ||
| What you still don't know about blockchain | Brian Behlendorf, Joseph Lubin, Steven Rosenbush | 21m |
Hyperledger is an open source collection of projects at the Linux Foundation providing Hyperledger tools for building private, permissioned ledgers; ConsenSys… | ||
| We can fight fake news | Sally Buzbee, James Goldston, Sabrina Siddiqui | 20m |
Panelists catalog real false headlines — pope endorses Trump, California legalizes child prostitution, Mike Pence insults Michelle Obama — and trace how social… | ||
| What you don't know about the car of the future | Carsten Breitfeld | 19m |
BYTON unveils a production-ready electric “smart device on wheels” with a 400 km range entry model (200 kW) and a 325-mile high variant (350 kW) priced from… | ||
| NASA: Our home with the robots | Terry Fong | 16m |
NASA demonstrates remote human-robot teams by running orbital-to-surface tests where three astronauts use a ThinkPad Java Eclipse interface to command a ground… | ||
| The secret to technical leadership | Rebecca Parsons, Joe Korngiebel | 16m |
Argues that technical leadership means investing time in people not just tech, backing passionate owners who can explain market fit, and celebrating sensible… | ||
| The future for America: Innovation and entrepreneurship | John Chambers, Tim Draper, Jade Scipioni | 21m |
U.S. innovation ranking falls to #11 (used to be #1), Nasdaq tech IPOs drop from ~250 a year to 138 then 98, and unicorn share slides from 61% to 41% since… | ||
| Where I'm putting my money this year | Rob Hayes, Christine Tsai, Mike Maples, Alex Konrad | 23m |
Venture money targets concrete shifts: agriculture robotics and computer vision for water- and yield-efficiency, fast LED-lit indoor farms, and sensor-driven… | ||
| How tech has us hooked | Tristan Harris, Jim Steyer, Alyssa Newcomb | 22m |
Argues that large platforms intentionally optimize for engagement — engineers design slot‑machine pull‑to‑refresh hooks — and gives concrete scope: 2 billion… | ||
| What's essential for taking on Apple and Samsung? | Niccolo De Masi, JP Mangalindan | 18m |
Essential's Niccolo De Masi and Yahoo Finance's JP Mangalindan at Collision Conf 2018.
After raising over $300 million dollars last year, Essential entered… | ||
| The power of the avatar | Ba Blackstock, Jon Kelly | 18m |
Bitmoji evolves over 11 years from comic-maker to an avatar system integrated into Snapchat that puts personalized cartoons into messaging AR maps and filters… | ||
| eSports will be bigger than traditional sports | Kevin Lin, Steve Arhancet, Jason Abbruzzese | 19m |
Claims that eSports already rival traditional sports rest on concrete numbers and business moves: Twitch draws 50 million daily viewers versus 7 million… | ||
| Does AI have more potential for good than harm? | Sairah Ashman, Hicham Oudghiri, John Avlon | 23m |
Panel debates claim that 83% of $20/hr jobs could be automated and that trucking may lose 2–3 million US jobs by 2030, then points to concrete mitigations… | ||
| How to create the next big thing | Jeff Raider, Tom Cortese, Zoe Henry | 20m |
Harry's buys a nearly 100‑year‑old German blade factory to control quality and iterates product designs from direct customer feedback, claiming vertical… | ||
| Creativity and diversity | Nina Jacobson, Allen Gannett | 19m |
MeToo triggers the fastest cultural shift seen in decades, pushing real consequences onto aggressors and changing hiring choices — e.g., a female-only director… | ||
| The new generation of sports entertainment | Michelle D. Wilson, Matt Kalish, JP Mangalindan | 19m |
WWE reports 900 million followers across platforms, pushes 600 hours of short-form content a year, runs a streaming service with 2 million subscribers, and… | ||
| LGBTQ: Has the internet helped? | Chris Mosier, Alex Holmes | 19m |
Personal story of coming out via YouTube and Facebook leads to concrete wins: first transgender man on Team USA (2015) and a challenged Olympic policy that IOC… | ||
| How does your philosophy shape your business strategy? | Josh Abramson, Justin Rosenstein, Jessi Hempel | 18m |
A founder who bootstraps a comedy and e‑commerce business describes building profitable companies without outside funding and scaling a platform that hosts 3… | ||
| Will blockchain and smart contracts change the world? | Stephen Wolfram, Bradley Tusk | 18m |
Claim: blockchains provide an untamperable ledger and enable computational contracts that run autonomously; demonstration-level examples include a snow-plowing… | ||
| The next big bet | Anjali Sud, Erin Griffith | 19m |
Vimeo pivots from original-content bets to a creator-focused SaaS platform claiming a pivot to SaaS and targeting a $10 billion creator market while projecting… | ||
| Inside Lyft's rising share of the ridesharing market | John Zimmer, Dylan Byers | 23m |
Claims Lyft now holds 35% U.S. market share, up from ~12% a few years ago, and hit 50 million rides in March while surpassing 375 million total rides; commits… | ||
| PITCH semi-final | Sunil Sharma | 01h 06m |
Twenty three-minute startup pitches run fast in sequence so expect crisp product claims not fluff. Companies show working prototypes and traction: graphene… | ||
| When Hollywood meets Silicon Valley | Damon Wayans Jr, Kristopher B. Jones, Georgia Francis King | 21m |
An app called Special Guest app creates an end-to-end marketplace that matches live entertainers with venues and consumers, launched in California, New York… | ||
| Time for action | Sophia Bush, Susan Herman | 20m |
Time’s Up raises over $20 million Legal Defense Fund and recruits 200 volunteer lawyers after 300 signatories popularize MeToo; presenters cite concrete… | ||
| Did tech save the music industry? | Wyclef Jean, Christopher Leacock, Dia Simms, Dylan Byers | 20m |
The panel argues that tech didn't kill music but transformed it: Napster/LimeWire/YouTube provoked collapse fears, then Spotify/Apple Music/Amazon Music and… | ||
| Inclusion: Getting everyone involved | Christopher Jackson, Julian Maha, Sabrina Siddiqui | 13m |
Culture City trains venue staff and builds quiet sensory rooms and playground areas so families with sensory needs can enter concerts, games, zoos and museums… | ||
| PITCH Final | Paddy Cosgrave | 25m |
Three startups compete with concrete claims and traction: a third‑party logistics service that says it runs half the cost vs competitors, grows from $3k to… | ||
| AI: The current state of play | Gary Marcus | 19m |
Press releases claim machines read like humans but the cited result is 82.6 vs 82.3 on Amazon Turk tasks, not human experts; deep learning excels at image… | ||
| Show me the funny: Tips for comedy on social | David Schneider | 20m |
Claims that short, sharply-edited social pieces reliably out-perform long ones, with Twitter as a training ground for trimming and timing; practical tools… | ||
| Net Positive | Alan Schaaf | 12m |
A nationally representative YPulse study of users age 13–35 finds two thirds want more positive social media, 61% say social platforms harm mental health, and… | ||
| Meet the FCC: Net Neutrality, media and technology | Jessica Rosenworcel, Jason Abbruzzese | 18m |
Explains that the FCC rollback of Title II ignites a national pushback with 50 Senate votes to restore net neutrality, 23 attorneys general suing, two states… | ||
| The long game | Brian Halligan, Pat Grady, Alex Konrad | 18m |
HubSpot chooses to double down on SMB rather than chase enterprise, builds a second product early as a freemium freemium magnet that acquires users virally… | ||
| PITCH winner announcement | 05m | |
Three finalists emerge from 15,000 applicants down to 600 exhibitors, 100 competitors, 20 semi‑finalists and three on stage; audience vote counts as one of… | ||
| Continuing to ignite a cultural revolution | Elie Seidman, JP Mangalindan | 33m |
Tinder claims a product-first advantage: the swipe gesture plus double opt-in and brand ambience scale real-world meetings more than copycat features. The… | ||
| Thank you New Orleans! | Paddy Cosgrave, Chris Schultz | 05m |
Closing remarks claim New Orleans becomes the fastest-growing tech market in the U.S. over three years and that Collision is the fastest-growing tech… | ||
| Tomorrow's biggest growth opportunities | Zachary Karabell, Paul Asel, SC Moatti, Af Malhotra | 19m |
Panel argues that biggest near-term bets are concrete: RPA + AI replacing rote tasks as demonstrated by WorkFusion automating complex back‑office work with… | ||
| Diving into digital currencies | Justas Pikelis, Noelle Acheson, Alex Frenkel, Adryenn Ashley | 19m |
Monetha builds a reputation platform on Ethereum that treats ratings as immutable, transferable records — a reputation passport for sellers — but hits Ethereum… | ||
| Consumer | Kris Naudts, Jesse Horowitz, Sean Kelly, Adryenn Ashley | 08m |
A startup reports 1 million app installs and growth from 5 to 17 million monthly uniques after hiring ex-Facebook and Google leaders and closing an $80 million… | ||
| Marketing tech | Brian Handly, Harry Glase, Jeremy Goldman | 18m |
Reveal Mobile reports 400% year-over-year growth, ingests location and Bluetooth beacon feeds from thousands of mobile apps, matches lat/long to points of… | ||
| Media tech | Keith Valory, David Erickson, Vini Letteri | 19m |
An app that organizes and streams personal libraries becomes a top-15 watched platform across Roku, Fire TV and Chromecast and converts 17–18% of active users… | ||
| Security | Nicole Eagan, Amit Shah | 13m |
Company reports total contract value above $300M and annual revenue over $100M while over 90% of customers buy a single-price SaaS plan that includes… | ||
| Going global in 30 days | Brendan Kane | 15m |
Built clickable tools that turn Facebook profiles into custom fan pages and fake album covers, scaling 30 fan sites to 35,000 and prompting shares that reach… | ||
| Growing | James Allgrove, Zachary Karabell | 15m |
Stripe outlines its platform strategy: a developer-friendly API that powers merchants, marketplaces and partners like Shopify and Lyft, and focuses on enabling… | ||
| Enterprise software | Boyan Tanchev, Kolton Andrus, Samar Birwadker, Adryenn Ashley | 17m |
TIMIFY offers online booking, a cross‑platform calendar, customizable CRM, new card payments and an invoicing/POS add‑on plus a developer platform and app… | ||
| The investor-startup relationship, part 1 | David Pakman, Adi Sideman, Alex Konrad | 19m |
A VC tracked a live-video startup for years, invested at Series A despite a lower valuation, and watches as a mobile relaunch — after the founder fired the web… | ||
| Healthtech | Zachariah Reitano, Nick Desai, Bradley Tusk | 18m |
Roman runs an end-to-end men’s health service that diagnoses online, ships medication and built its own pharmacy, targeting the ~30 million U.S. men with ED… | ||
| Fintech, Blockchain & Crypto | Justas Pikelis, Victor Santos, Catherine Yushina, Carlos Eduardo Espinal | 19m |
Panelists describe concrete products and metrics: Monetha builds a decentralized reputation system on Ethereum and raises 95,000 ETH in 18 minutes (roughly… | ||
| How to build a unicorn | Joseph DeSimone, Carlos Eduardo Espinal | 18m |
Dr. Joseph DeSimone of Carbon and Carlos Eduardo Espinal of Seedcamp at Collision Conf 2018.
Hear from the CEO of one of the worlds fastest growing unicorns… | ||
| From 0-$4bn: Building | Nichole Mustard, Rob Pegoraro | 20m |
Credit Karma grows from a startup in 2007 into a consumer platform with 80 million members, a recent $4 billion valuation after a $500M Silver Lake investment… | ||
| Opening remarks of day two | Paul Asel | 11m |
Recent mega-rounds and funds—one Series A north of $1 billion, a private valuation at about $150 billion, and SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund—frame a claim… | ||
| AI | Jean-François Gagné, Eamon Jubbawy, Vishal Chatrath, Paul Asel | 22m |
Element AI builds enterprise AI teams and soft‑deploys systems with 300 employees, 80 PhDs to automate core processes; Prowler.io ships multi‑agent decision… | ||
| SaaS | Mada Seghete, Russ Heddleston, Ryan Welsh, Sunil Sharma | 19m |
Tech startup growth stories focus on measurable wins: a mobile linking platform claims 30,000 apps and 2 billion users after raising about $100M to route users… | ||
| Inc top 30 under 30 | Joe Fasone, Suhail Doshi, Zoe Henry | 17m |
Startup builds a nontraditional ISP that now serves 400 buildings across New York, Philly, DC and Boston, covering about 100 million square feet of commercial… | ||
| Enterprise software, day 2 | David DeWolf, Brad Birnbaum, Bryan Schramm, Salil Pitroda | 19m |
Case studies of scale: a services firm that turns enterprises like PBS and Carfax into product companies and now runs 1,000 employees worldwide, recounting… | ||
| Cloud & security | Robert Zhang, Artur Bergman, Salil Pitroda | 19m |
CloudMinds describes a 3-year-old startup building three concrete pieces — cloud AI, a robot connector and a global network — to power household robots and… | ||
| The investor-startup relationship, part 2 | Tracy DiNunzio, Christine Tsai, Molly Wood | 18m |
Early-stage investors open doors and coach but rarely lead; one portfolio company has grown to 100+ employees after $85M raised, while a seed fund that runs… | ||
| Building a data driven brand | George Barrios, Peter Pham | 18m |
WWE says launching WWE Network in 2014 plus a built DTC platform, data engineering and a 40-person data science team drives growth: 2.1M paying subscribers, 6… | ||
| VC - Traditional V Corporate | Nagraj Kashyap, Elizabeth Cain, Steve Kovach | 13m |
Compares what each type actually does: deal size: $1M–$10M for early traditional checks vs strategic minority or balance-sheet bets by corporates, decision… | ||
| anxiety index: Predicting investor behavior | David Siegel | 17m |
Investopedia builds an investopedia anxiety index from lookup volumes for terms like short selling, bankruptcy, correction and inflation, normalized to 100… | ||
| Building a Unicorn | Michael Praeger, John Rampton | 13m |
AvidxChange automates accounts payable for middle‑market companies ($5M–$1B revenue) and scales through a combined software platform plus payment network that… | ||
| Healthtech, day 2 | Elli Kaplan, Ronald Brus, Nick Desai, Molly Wood | 21m |
Three startups: a digital cognitive platform using eye‑tracking diagnostic tests tied to a five‑year Emory longitudinal study that predicts Alzheimer symptoms… | ||
| Fast Scale | Falon Fatemi, Diego Oppenheimer, Murli Thirumale, TX Zhuo | 18m |
Four founders describe what actually changed after raising big growth rounds: NODE pitches proactive recommendations for your next customer, Algorithmia… | ||
| Consumer Fintech | Lily Liu, Nick Zhu, Jan Lytje-Hansen, Dee Choubey, TX Zhuo | 19m |
A fast sketch of what actually exists and what worked: a retail data aggregator that ships a browser extension plus serverless ML pipelines to surface… | ||
| Security | Michael Reitblat, Steve Shillingford, Sanjit Singh Dang | 19m |
Vendors describe a concrete playbook: one company replaces the entire fraud stack, ingesting all transactions and answering real-time yes/no so liability… | ||
| Hyper Growth, day 2 | Gary Beasley, George Arison, Patrick Bosworth, Sunil Sharma | 23m |
Roofstock launches a marketplace for single‑family rentals, certifies homes tenants and local managers and does $1B GMV in 2017 after $40M in year one while… | ||
| EdTech | Kaitlyn Trabucco, Andrew Sutherland, Sanjit Singh Dang | 19m |
A marketplace for DIY educational products sells curriculum, apps and ebooks and hits 45,000 signups on day one, specializes in special‑needs materials… | ||
| Opening remarks - The Human Issues Underneath your Business Issues | Judy Wade | 17m |
A McKinsey study with Loosen Research maps how social and emotional forces shape startup decisions, finding tight networks, worship of big exits, and… | ||
| Warning: Standing up too quickly can make you dizzy | Julia Austin, Matt Mickiewicz, Rene Yang, Jordan French | 18m |
Panelists warn that scaling without processes breaks things and give concrete fixes: an Akamai outage example where root access changes deliver the wrong site… | ||
| Consumer/eCommerce | Ernie Garcia, Vishal Makhijani, JD Ross, Ajay Chopra | 19m |
Carvana sells 10,000 cars online with delivery and financing, claims about $1,500 savings per buyer and drives traffic with ten-story car vending machines that… | ||
| Consumer, day 3 | Tracy DiNunzio, Oisin Hanrahan, Chris Webb, Ajay Chopra | 19m |
Three companies that scale marketplaces with hard numbers and tactics TradeZy starts by slicing the market with bridal gowns uses an SEO-driven growth strategy… | ||
| FastGrowth, day 3 | Kalon Gutierrez, Allan Grant, Eric Feng | 20m |
Company builds out-of-home tactile walkable VR experiences for malls and theaters, led by founders from ILM/Lucasfilm with ~20 years’ experience, raised a $6M… | ||
| AI, day 3 | Roy Pereira, Fahri Diner, Luca Verre, Jill Ford | 19m |
A neuromorphic event camera that sends only scene changes rather than frames claims to cut data and latency for autonomous driving and IoT and is already used… | ||
| Fast Growth, day 3 | Rami Essaid, Zac Bookman, Edith Harbaugh, Sunil Sharma | 18m |
Four founders describe concrete growth metrics, go-to-market moves and technical products: LaunchDarkly scales feature delivery and now manages 25 billion… | ||
| Hugging the 800lb Gorilla | Scott Campbell, Quinn Li, Doug Kaufman, James Mawson | 20m |
Panelists give concrete numbers and outcomes: corporate investors put about $109 billion into startups last year, accounting for roughly two-thirds of deal… | ||
| Health | Lea VonBidder, Shamil Hargovan, Bill Bryant | 19m |
U.S. healthcare costs hit about $3.3 trillion a year (roughly $10,000 per person) while outcomes lag; one company ships a sensor bracelet that measures nine… | ||
| Enterprise services | Josh Hug, Christina Sass, Matt Mickiewicz, Bill Bryant | 18m |
Remitly reports moving $5 billion a year in remittances and integrates with bank APIs worldwide; Andela says it is 1,000-people strong with ~700 remote… | ||
| Marketing/Communications | Ron Palmeri, Michael Mignano, Thomas Walle, Anne Driscoll | 19m |
A panel of startups explains what they built and what actually works: a conversational platform powering the Collision app that lands conversational marketing… | ||
| Rapid growth | Grace Chen, Scott Hempy, Ilan Twig, Anne Driscoll | 19m |
A panel describes concrete traction: a mesh ISP delivering 500 Mbps symmetric at roughly 10% of fiber cost, live in two markets with Net Promoter Scores near… | ||
| Opening remarks | Jamie Lewis | 02m |
Stage format explains that sessions are conversational and interactive with founders and investors from Khosla Ventures Intel Capital and Shazam on stage and… | ||
| Startup touchdown: NFL players tackle tech trends | Marques Colston, Isaiah Kacyvenski, Coby Fleener, Adam Zuckerman | 19m |
An NFLPA-backed accelerator called one team collective creates athlete-driven deals and targets fan engagement, analytics, wearables, AR/VR and UGC; teams and… | ||
| Silicon Valley vs. everywhere else | Nicolas Dessaigne, Tracy DiNunzio, Jill Ford, Anna Hensel | 19m |
Panel argues Silicon Valley still grows fastest and holds the deepest investor networks and senior exec talent, but other hubs are catching up: Paris keeps… | ||
| Secrets of wooing venture capitalists | Christine Herron, Mada Seghete, Steven Rosenbush | 19m |
Investors report deal flow is steady while later‑stage rounds grow and very early seed dollars shrink, so founders need a short plan: what problem, who on the… | ||
| Risk-taking & reinvention | Chris Barton, Rosemarie Ryan, Ryan Mundy, JP Mangalindan | 19m |
Three founders explain concrete moves and surprises: Shazam grows for 18 years into an Apple acquisition pending EU approval, built a working music‑ID from… | ||
| Opening remarks | Jim Hunter | 02m |
Greenwave Systems Inc's Jim Hunter opens the afternoon of Startup University at Collision Conf 2018.
Sign up for a 2 for 1 ticket package for #CollisionConf… | ||
| Two generations of women in tech | Taarini Kaur Dang, Christina Sass | 10m |
Andela wins a Series B led by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and builds a remote staffing model that places developers full time at startups and enterprises… | ||
| Does remote working actually work? | Michael Pryor, George Arison, Jared Lindzon | 22m |
Trello's Michael Pryor, SHIFT's George Arison and freelance journalist, Jared Lindzon at Collision Conf 2018.
A centralised office is no longer a… | ||
| Power of the people: Lessons from running Ellen Digital Ventures | Jill Braff, Alyssa Newcomb | 17m |
Brit + Co's Jill Braff and NBC News' Alyssa Newcomb at Collision Conf 2018.
This fireside chat is an interview featuring the woman who formerly ran Ellen… | ||
| When government and tech actually get along | Chris Webb, Philip Crowther | 19m |
ChowNow runs nearly 10,000 white‑label restaurant apps and sees about $100M processed through those apps; in July Apple enacts guideline 4.2.6 banning… | ||
| Shark Tank with a soul: Learnings from Entrepreneur's Elevator Pitch | David Meltzer | 13m |
Sports 1 Marketing's David Meltzer at Collision Conf 2018.
The host of Entrepreneur's Elevator Pitch show, whose first season had 23 million views, gives a… | ||
| How to bring diversity and inclusion to tech | Jager McConnell, Jenny Lefcourt, Manon DeFelice, Melissa Cullens, Denise Hamilton, Kristen Bellstrom | 28m |
Panelists from Crunchbase, Inkwell, Ellevest, WatchHerWork, Freestyle and Fortune argue concrete fixes: data shows under 10% of VCs are women, only 3% of VC… | ||
| Can a company be a force for more than just profit? | Amy Lesnick, Jenna Griffith, Michael Pryor, Chris Foster | 19m |
Pledge 1% offers a concrete pledge model: companies commit 1% of time, product, profit or equity and get free playbooks and a concierge to implement it. The… | ||
| Q&A with | Brad Smith | 18m |
Azure claims over 40% of Azure workloads run in Linux VMs and operates 50+ datacenter regions, and it ships Azure Stack so customers can run cloud tech on‑prem… | ||
| Q&A with | Damon Wayans Jr, Kristopher B. Jones | 15m |
A live-booking platform called Special Guest app connects performers to venues with an end-to-end workflow: performers upload social links, videos and a… | ||
| Q&A | Mike Massimino | 21m |
Answers report no alien sightings and describe a visceral perspective shift on Earth while spacewalking, plus a concrete perseverance story: rejected three… | ||
| Q&A with | Wyclef Jean, Christopher Leacock | 26m |
Covers why peer‑run talent battles build resilient performers and argues streaming and apps augment rather than replace live artists, illustrated by a working… | ||
| 'Creative ways to network virtually' workshop | Andrew Strickman | 01m |
Claims a reproducible workflow for turning online contacts into meetings including get their contact information, 99% start virtually, and friend them on… | ||
| nothing matches | ||