Web Summit 2017
2017-11-06..2017-11-09
Lisbon, Portugal
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Where I am putting my money in 2018 | Jim Breyer, Dana Settle | 21m |
Venture focus narrows to practical AI and data plays: autonomous vehicles, machine learning applied to healthcare (claiming multi‑billion opportunity in AI… | ||
| Hybrid reality 2 0 | William Sargent | 15m |
Claims that the next decade makes the physical and digital indistinguishable, with augmented overlays fill the air powered by data and algorithms; concrete… | ||
| What it means to be human | Bryan Johnson, Simon Evetts | 20m |
Kernel aims to build a brain toolkit that moves beyond MRI/EEG and deep brain stimulation toward high‑bandwidth interfaces, claiming a plausible timeline of… | ||
| A new way forward for self driving cars | John Krafcik | 23m |
Waymo announces fully self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans outfitted with lidar radar cameras and an in-house AI compute stack, running on public roads in… | ||
| Artificial intelligence: How data is evolving the future of technology | Brian Krzanich | 45m |
Argues data fuels AI and gives concrete demos: a USB Movidius Neural Compute Stick runs neural nets on drones to detect sharks and enable on-board rescue (demo… | ||
| From the ring to the board room | Paul Levesque, Triple H | 19m |
Uses ring lessons to build concrete systems not just slogans: creates the Performance Center to train talent globally and launches an OTT platform that reaches… | ||
| Rebooting the brain | Bryan Johnson | 15m |
Argues for building tools to read and write our neural code and says $100 million funds a company aimed at that; current tech listed as MRI, EEG and tDCS and… | ||
| How Innovation Facilitates Change | Francois Hollande | 17m |
France reports 500,000 new companies yearly and Paris as Europe’s leading startup hub, with startups raising €4 billion and Bpifrance financing innovation… | ||
| Change is coming: Mark Hurd in conversation | Mark Hurd | 19m |
Oracle says all production and dev/test apps move to cloud by 2025 and points to 16% of corporate data centers closed last year as proof the shift is… | ||
| Marketing in 2018; What to expect | John Hegarty, Bob Greenberg, Susan Credle, Lara O'Reilly | 22m |
Prediction-heavy debate argues that 2018 brings a return to creative fundamentals after 15–20 years of drift, with persuasion trumping short-term promotion… | ||
| The evolution of conversation: Facebook's Stan Chudnovsky | Stan Chudnovsky | 22m |
Argues that customer–business chat will migrate to Messenger, with hybrid bot→human handoffs and statistics: 100,000 developers building conversational UIs… | ||
| How to raise a billion dollars | Joe Xia | 19m |
Joe Xia, CTO and co-founder of MoBike, explained how the company raised close to a billion dollars in two years and expanded beyond their native country to be… | ||
| ICO: Hype or revolution? | Joseph Lubin, Rebecca Lynn, Tim Draper | 20m |
ICOs are presented as a way to raise capital without selling equity, with tokens functioning as utility tokens or protocol access rather than shares; the space… | ||
| It's lonely at the top; The life of a leader | José Neves, Jason Robins, Gillian Tans | 22m |
Three CEOs describe how loneliness at the top shows up as the need to make high‑stakes calls when data is imperfect and how culture and rituals counter it… | ||
| Fair play and tech | Margrethe Vestager, Kara Swisher | 17m |
Argues that market success must come from product quality not unfair advantages, and backs that with competition tools: 2.4 billion euro fine for Google, a 13… | ||
| Clearing the path for innovation | Margrethe Vestager | 18m |
European competition policy explains concrete interventions: Google fined for search bias after elevating its comparison-shopping and demoting rivals to about… | ||
| Will AI save or destroy us? | Ben Goertzel | 22m |
Announces a concrete project: Singularity Net, a decentralized blockchain marketplace that lets narrow AIs call and pay each other to combine into broader… | ||
| When the machines out-smarts us | Max Tegmark | 21m |
Argues machines can reach human-level general intelligence within decades (median poll answers ~30–50 years) and shows concrete milestones: AlphaGo Zero learns… | ||
| Challenges and opportunities facing the world - António Guterres of the United Nations | António Guterres | 15m |
Global tech must be steered to fight climate change and rising inequality, not just celebrated for novelty. Paris commitments still leave >3°C if commitments… | ||
| How to prevent cyberwar | Jared Cohen | 24m |
Claims that more smart devices than people by 2020 and that future conflicts start as digital-first wars lead to specific countermeasures: a machine‑learning… | ||
| Dr. Oz: Will technology actually make us healthier | Dr. Oz | 17m |
Claim: a single consumer-facing platform aggregates wearables, records and messaging to nudge behavior and lower costs. Built: Sharecare-style app with voice… | ||
| VR and AR changing the way we work, play, learn | Amit Kumar Singh, Mat Honan | 21m |
Google describes a concrete mobile VR and AR stack: Daydream View headset with an expressive controller, a phone-based Daydream platform on “tens of millions”… | ||
| Mind control with Julius Dean | Julius Dean | 06m |
Claims to be able to steer choices and perform mind reading on a live audience by combining simple props and platform-ready stunts, using a pen, an onstage… | ||
| The cyber security challenge: Our need to protect the world | Brad Smith | 17m |
Argues cyber conflict escalates into a global public-safety crisis with concrete examples: WannaCry hits 200,000 computers in 150 countries, NotPetya disables… | ||
| Sexism in the Valley | Christine Herron, Dick Kramlich, Kara Swisher, Erin Griffith | 25m |
Panel lays out concrete levers: push companies to pay a real price for harassment, ban or limit non-disclosure agreements (bills in New York and California)… | ||
| Building trust in a connected world | Simon Segars | 15m |
ARM claims a future with trillion devices by 2035, moving from ~20 billion today to ubiquitous sensors in roads, hospitals and food fields. Example: AMO’s… | ||
| Live it: Creating successful culture | Dustin Moskovitz, Wladimir Klitschko, Laurie Segall | 28m |
Two founders describe concrete tactics: one built an internal tool at Facebook and turned it into Asana to give teams clarity of plan and responsibility… | ||
| The future of work: Enabling human connection | Stewart Butterfield, Jemima Kiss | 26m |
Slack claims 9 million weekly active users and over 50,000 paid companies and explains how channels replace inboxes so information is visible across teams… | ||
| The Trump effect: One year on | Brad Parscale, Mike Isikoff | 20m |
Claims credit for winning on Facebook, saying the campaign raised $280 million, ran 150,000 creative pieces on peak days and produced 50–60,000 ads on busy… | ||
| Redesigning Reddit | Steve Huffman, Karen Tso | 23m |
Redesign plans keep Reddit’s core mechanics but add a visual card view, new profile pages, first-class event threads and sitewide video while testing relevancy… | ||
| Gamertainment: Gaming goes mainstream | Kati Levoranta, Rick Kelley | 18m |
Rovio recounts turning 51 early titles into Angry Birds, then scaling into animation, merchandise and a feature film released in 88 countries, claiming €266… | ||
| How do we move on from Fake News | Joseph Kahn, Yaron Galai, Ann Mettler, Ian Katz | 21m |
Panel explains fake news as deliberately fraudulent content and gives concrete responses: a content network cuts 25% of revenue overnight by removing… | ||
| Tech has a diversity problem | Susan Herman, Blake Irving, Jane Martinson | 19m |
Tech workforce demographics show 26% of the computing profession are women and many senior roles are far lower, while 58% of US small businesses are woman-run… | ||
| The third wave of technology: Steve Case in Conversation | Steve Case | 22m |
Argues that the third wave means embedding the internet into health care, agriculture, energy and cities — not just apps — and that success requires… | ||
| Uber's flying cars | Jeff Holden | 29m |
Company plans an all‑electric VTOL using distributed electric propulsion with many small rotors, no single‑point failure, and a four‑passenger cabin optimized… | ||
| Cryptocurrencies 101 | Joseph Lubin, Chris Burniske, David Chaum, Joon Ian Wong | 20m |
Covers ecash (1992) as the first digital bearer instrument using blinded signatures to make payer anonymous while proving recipient, the rise of Bitcoin (white… | ||
| Google in Europe: Matt Brittin in conversation | Matt Brittin | 24m |
Google says it employs 14,000 people in Europe and faces a 2.4 billion euro fine while arguing it drives growth through Android (installed on ~75% of people in… | ||
| Is Europe always going to be second best? | Nicolas Brusson, Klaus Hommels, Diego Piacentini, Karen Tso | 20m |
Panel argues Europe has half a billion consumers and firms like BlaBlaCar prove cross‑border B2C scale is possible but regulatory fragmentation (different… | ||
| Cult of personality | Jenna Marbles, Alfie Deyes, Mark Russell | 19m |
Describes building a fanbase by filming life every day — editing and publishing 25-minute daily videos, still doing own edits, and watching a thousand tweets… | ||
| What will tech's next big innovation be? | Alexander Zosel, Mood Rowghani, Brian Halligan, Steven Bertoni | 21m |
Claims that conversational AI will replace taps and swipes, with conversational bots in three years powering Alexa‑style skills; hardware becoming media… | ||
| Caitlyn Jenner: Who defines gender? | Caitlyn Jenner | 23m |
Personal account describes decades of hiding, a midlife transition, systematic family conversations and faith work, then launching a foundation that channels… | ||
| Storytelling and technology | Neville Spiteri, Andrew Jones | 15m |
History of virtual production from Titanic and Avatar to Jungle Book and VR projects The Blue and Gnomes and Goblins with concrete techniques: motion capture… | ||
| Can tech save the music industry? | Hans-Holger Albrecht, Wyclef Jean, Martin Garrix, Ben Beaumont-Thomas | 21m |
Argues streaming already grows revenues and returns the majority of income to rights holders while reaching less than 5% now, 20–30% projected of listeners… | ||
| Ofo's European experience | Zhang Yanqi, Stephen Carroll | 20m |
Ofo claims rapid scaling from a 2014 campus project to over 10 million bikes mainly in China, 32 million trips a day and 15 million daily users, with 50,000… | ||
| Debate: Do tech companies pay enough tax? | Rolf Schromgens, Andra Keay, Sabrina Siddiqui | 23m |
Argument says tech firms dodge taxes via offshore deals revealed in the Panama and Paradise Papers, with a conservative estimate of 10% of global GDP parked in… | ||
| The rise of the celebrity activist | Rosario Dawson, Sara Sampaio, Matt Garrahan | 20m |
Co-founded Vote Latino in 2004 and acted as a Bernie surrogate and delegate, arguing celebrity reach converts to civic leverage but also to legal risk; social… | ||
| Mad Men to Math Men | Alexander Nix, Matthew Freud | 19m |
Claims that political communication shifts to predictive analytics and addressable advertising, backed by a chronology of work: roughly 4,000 campaigns run… | ||
| Amazon wants to talk to you | Werner Vogels | 19m |
Amazon frames voice as a new human interface that lets non‑computer users access systems by speaking to cheap microphones while cloud services do the work. The… | ||
| Data-driven influence: Can people hear the truth? | Matthew Freud, Matt Garrahan | 10m |
Claims that digital tools collapse distance and speed up encounters by reshaping how people locate and layer social space, illustrated by the Web Summit… | ||
| Prime Minister's Address: Portugal and the World | António Costa | 05m |
Portugal hosts Web Summit in Lisbon for a second time and positions the city as a growing capital of entrepreneurship, arguing digital change touches… | ||
| Closing Ceremony | Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Paddy Cosgrave | 06m |
Five-minute closing that lists five words: gratitude for the teams and thousands of people who made the event larger than last year, pride in Portugal’s… | ||
| Pitch final | 26m | |
Three finalists present concrete products and traction: Jauntin offers on-demand hourly travel insurance (AIG partnership, geo‑fenced switches, AI fraud… | ||
| PITCH Winner revealed | Daniela Gerd tom Markotten, Paddy Cosgrave | 04m |
Audience voting is added as a fourth judge with over 2,500 votes in 15 minutes, the crowd gives Life in a Box 52% and the jury votes match that outcome, so the… | ||
| Autonomous driving and handling the handover | Adam Kell, Zach Barasz, Karen Francis, Jim Motavalli | 21m |
Claims that driver attention fails every four seconds and that a study over 600 million driving miles finds 88 out of 100 drives involve phone use shape… | ||
| nothing matches | ||