DLDcities SFO 2014
2014-06-23..2014-06-26
San Francisco, United States
who it's for
city planners, urban designers, civic technologists, startup founders, makerspace operators, public-sector policymakers, data scientists
topics
urban sensor networks; digital twins for infrastructure; maker spaces and prototyping; mobile data for social physics; smart locks and home IoT; beacon and proximity payments; crowdfunding and seed valuations; open data and right-to-be-forgotten privacy; pop-up temporary city logistics; smart commuting and transit design; retail personalization with beacons; community-level health trials
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome Remarks | Steffi Czerny, Lukas Kubina | 03m |
DLD launches its first DLD Cities in the US in San Francisco and traces the program back to a spin-off edition started years ago with a first edition in… | ||
| Data-Driven Cities | Alexander Pentland | 15m |
A revival of social physics turns big phone, credit and Foursquare traces into equations that predict social outcomes: MIT research runs hundreds of group… | ||
| Global Trends in Fundraising & Entrepreneurship | Gerd Götte, Boris Wertz, Kevin Laws, Justin Kan, Jessica Lessin | 01h 12m |
Seed valuations peak around 2012 and then cool slightly while later-stage deals show winner-takes-most fireworks with Uber cited at ~$18.2B; Y Combinator… | ||
| Digital Agenda | Brigitte Zypries | 17m |
European court ruling creates a right to be forgotten that prompts Google delisting requests and 12,000 Europeans filing on day one, asserting law over online… | ||
| Design | Yves Behar, Pablos Holman | 19m |
A set of product stories shows sensors moving from body to home to nature: fitness trackers with millions of users, the August Smart Lock for keyless access… | ||
| Pop Up City | Harley K. Dubois | 15m |
A temporary city is built in two weeks, lives eight days and is torn down in two weeks, becomes the seventh-largest city in Nevada during the event and… | ||
| On the Way to Wellville: A Clinical Trial for Population Health | Esther Dyson | 11m |
A community-level clinical trial called The Way to Wellville uses a five-year competition across five (maybe six) towns under 100,000 to test coordinated… | ||
| Maker Cities Keynote | Peter Hirshberg | 17m |
A national push centers on a White House Maker Faire and a call to 150 cities to build maker spaces, teach skills, or host events. Urban pilots include Market… | ||
| Maker Cities | M. E. Campos, C. Brenner, D. Dougherty, N. Hrushowy, P. Hirshberg | 32m |
San Francisco repurposes Market Street with a $350 million Better Market Street program, prototyping 50 prototypes during a festival in early October that… | ||
| Human Face of Big Data | Rick Smolan | 02m |
After two years of reporting the claim is that big data will have thousand times bigger impact than the internet and that billions of cell phones act as human… | ||
| Trinity of Future Retail (Smart Data, Embedded Context, Ubiquitous Point Of Sale) | Mathias Holzmann, Nick Palmer, Sina Afra, Cyriac Roeding, Joern Leogrande | 46m |
Panelists argue that offline retail survives by adding tech that solves real problems not spam: ultrasound+iBeacon hybrid verifies in-store presence, Shopkick… | ||
| Keynote | Sven Scheuble | 19m |
Siemens frames digitization around concrete outcomes: using a digital twin to virtually design manufacturing and reduce building energy up to 40 percent… | ||
| Internet of Things - Big Data | Luke D'Arcy, Dan Feld, Jeremy Howard, Dave Liu, Stefan Denig | 40m |
Panel argues IoT plus Big Data moves from hype to delivery: IDC predicts ~40–50x data growth by 2020 while less than 3% of current data is used, so focus… | ||
| Ecosystem Bay Area Intro | Bjoern Lasse Herrmann | 10m |
Compares data from tens of thousands companies in a 2012 ecosystem report updated soon, finding the Bay Area far ahead on revenue, funding, hiring and growth… | ||
| San Francisco Social Issues | Gabriel Medina, Melanie Nutter, Suzanne DiBianca, Kim-Mai Cutler | 20m |
Salesforce’s 1% equity, 1% time, 1% product model is explained with numbers: 1% time equals ~600,000 volunteer hours and 22,000 nonprofit customers. The… | ||
| Megalopoli(tic)s | Laura Baird | 15m |
Cities already generate more than 60% of global GDP, 600 urban centers hold over a quarter of the population, and over 500 cities exceed 1 million residents… | ||
| Creating Living Cities | Andrew Hessel | 13m |
Cities face doubling scale pressures: another billion people in ~16 years while urban density rises. Practical moves include using a 3D printer for DNA to… | ||
| The Sharing Economy, Our Cities...and What's Next | Jaleh Bisharat | 13m |
Argues that the real sharing boom is talent not things, citing oDesk/Elance where average jobs fill within three days and 25% fill in 24 hours and a retired ad… | ||
| Government 1.5: The Dark Side of Open Data | Ian White | 11m |
Open data in government produces plenty of aspiration but few practical gains: a private company sues New York City Transit and files hundreds of FOIA requests… | ||
| Smart Commuting | Shiva Shivakumar | 10m |
A small startup builds a digital reconstruction of a city’s transit by merging transit feeds, smart‑car traces and open data, running massive cloud inference… | ||
| Social Biking | Ryan Rzepecki | 07m |
Claims a dockless Bike Share built with an integrated lock with mobile communications and GPS that lets users book via app or the bike and produces ride data… | ||
| Gray Area for Art & Technology | Josette Melchor | 11m |
Gray Area activates art and technology to turn civic frustrations into concrete interventions: built a LinkSF app (piloted in the Tenderloin) that connects… | ||
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