Pause Fest 2019
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Designing for humanity | Billy Seabrook | 29m |
Shows concrete examples and numbers: Walmart cuts trace time from a week to 2.2 seconds with blockchain, Delta tests biometric check‑in terminals, a fingernail… | ||
| Chasing the uncomfortable | Cecilia Ambros | 26m |
A researcher traces how movies normalize intimate AI then runs personal data to test the reality: platform inferences label interests like 4 weeks of drama and… | ||
| The rise of First Nations entrepreneurship in Victoria | John Chambers, Marsha Uppill, Jirra Harvey | 48m |
Concrete details: LaunchVic survey finds 2% of founders in Victoria despite First Nations being ~1% of the population. Highlights include the Runway… | ||
| Design is bedded in the boardroom | Mark Bergin, Laura Anderson, Kirsten Mann, Harriet Wakelam, Andrew Hoyne | 47m |
Design influence is shown through concrete wins: an acquired startup scales from one UX person to a 72‑person product and experience team and then runs product… | ||
| How to prepare humans for space travel | Marissa Rosenberg | 24m |
Microgravity shifts fluid to the head causing puffy faces and raised intracranial pressure that flattens the eye, bone and muscle loss that current… | ||
| Intention to innovation: the road to real impact | Mark Brand | 25m |
Describes a practical model that turns restaurants and farms into workforce pipelines: an 11‑acre farm and brewery hires people with developmental delays, 58%… | ||
| Creating the future we want takes togetherness | Kate O'Keeffe | 28m |
CHILL runs 48-hour multi‑company labs that force real decisions: require any potential blocker to be physically in the room, put senior budget holders on… | ||
| A cultural consensus: youth survey | Stephanie Winkler | 33m |
VICE partners with Max Kelsen and runs IBM Watson over 15 years of content to analyze 500,000 data points and a 3,700-person Australian census of 16–38… | ||
| Don't Underestimate the Power of Crazy | Stephen Gates | 31m |
Presents concrete findings: InVision surveys 2,200 companies across 23 industries and 77 countries (a dataset 77× larger than prior efforts) and finds only 5%… | ||
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