Smart citizens make smart cities
Dan Hill, Fabrica
At NEXT13 Dan Hill, CEO of Fabrica, pointed out that smart citizens are necessary to make smart cities: “We have the technology to do anything. To make things happen you need to turn to design and redesign the context, the decision making and the question.”
Blogging Bruce Sterling: the web reacts to his NEXT keynote
By Adam Tinworth
Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote was the most challenging of the conference. As the video has spread, people have been quick to pick up on his ideas – and his big warning.
The Weird Is Yet To Come
Martin Spindler, freelance
“We need to stop worrying about connectivity, and start worrying about what we do with it.” – Watch the inspiring talk from Freelance IOT-Consultant Martin Spindler at NEXT13.
What’s next for start-up pitch winner LineMetrics?
By Adam Tinworth
What have the weeks since their win at NEXT Berlin brought for LineMetrics? We chatted to co-founder Wolfgang Hafenscher to find out…
Dragon slayers
Peter Rampling, Telefónica Germany
Matthias Schmidt-Pfitzner, Deutsche Telekom AG
Stanton Sugarman, G+J Deutschland
Jochen Wegner, ZEIT ONLINE
The dragon-slayers Stan Sugarman (G+J), Matthias Schmidt-Pfitzner (Deutsche Telekom AG) and Peter Rampling (Telefónica) discussed how global players can tackle the digital challenges faced by their particular industries. The panel was moderated by Jochen Wegner (ZEIT online).
“There be dragons, there be giants’ – how we chart the future and make our choices “
Thomas Kiessling, Deutsche Telekom
Like other big telecoms businesses Deutsche Telekom is faced with some choices. There are so many potential business areas they could get into – how do they select which ones they get involved with?
The age of computer vision
Gesche Joost, Design Research Lab
Gesche Joost, Head of Design Research Lab, was announced to be part of chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück’s expertise team this week. At NEXT13 Joost and her colleagues Tom Bieling and Fabian Hemmert explained their newest innovations to the audience.
Design for the New Normal
Anab Jain, Superflux
Watch Anab Jain’s talk “Design for the New Normal” at NEXT13.
3D printable social robots
Limor Schweitzer, Robosavvy
Watch the video of the fascinating demo & talk by Limor Schweitzer, Head of Robosavvy. He also brought Fonzie, the dancing robot to NEXT13.
A mobile future seen through Google Glass
By Adam Tinworth
When Robert Scoble showed us his Google Glass, was he showing us more than an interesting new product? Was he showing us a new, mobile-centric future of computing?
Recipe for Discovery
Janjaap Ruijssenaars, Universe Architecture
Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars talks at NEXT13 about inspirational quotes from his dad and the future of architecture and design.
The Nature of the Future: The Socialstructed World
Marina Gorbis, Institute for the Future
Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (iftf.org) discussed the evolution of communication and its consequences at NEXT13.
The Computational Knowledge Revolution
Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research & Wolfram Alpha
Stephen Wolfram shared his knowledge with the audience of NEXT13. Watch his fascinating speech!
NEXT13 says THANK YOU!
By Ina Feistritzer
This goes out to all our great speakers, participants, partners and volunteers: THANK YOU! We were overwhelmed by your enthusiasm and the great feedback we received! Want to relive some of the best NEXT13 moments? Read more to find videos, pictures and posts.
The new normal and lurking dragons – more bloggers on NEXT13
By Adam Tinworth
Anab Jain has recreated her NEXT13 talk in blog post form – and other bloggers went away haunted by their own dragons. More great blogging about the conference.
Tips, Glass and Reed is Awesome – bloggers on NEXT 13
By Adam Tinworth
The best links from around the web about this year’s NEXT conference in Berlin.
Bruce Sterling on Fantasy prototypes and real disruption
Bruce Sterling, Freelance
In the closing keynote of NEXT Berlin 2013, acclaimed science-fiction author and journalist Bruce Sterling tackled a variety of topics like design fiction, start-up culture, and the mass adoption of disruptive technology. He sees science fiction as a form of design – design fiction that is part of the start-up world.
Robert Scoble shows his Google Glasses live at NEXT13
Robert Scoble, Rackspace
It was the first time that Google Glass has been shown in Europe: Robert Scoble wore his newest gadget when he came on stage at NEXT Berlin 2013. And then true NEXT moment happened when he let Bruce Sterling try out Google Glasses.
LineMetrics wins the NEXT13 Start-up Pitch
By Ina Feistritzer
LineMetrics is the winner of this years NEXT13 start-up competition, organised by hub:raum at NEXT Berlin. The Austrian team impressed the jury of experts with their combination of hard- and software that enables industrial companies to monitor individual machines or entire production lines, in real time.
NEXT13 Keynote by Robert Scoble: The age of context
Robert Scoble, Rackspace
Robert Scoble believes we are entering a new era: the age of context. It’s a freaky, contextual world he envisions in his keynote talk at NEXT Berlin 2013. Don’t be fooled by the hype: It’s way more than just Google Glasses.
Harper Reed on Big Data & Big Answers
Harper Reed, Freelance
For the first time in Berlin, Harper Reed gave a talk at NEXT13 on April 23, 2013 on how he succeeded as Obama’s CTO and on the three things that make up a good product: build a great team, practice failure and microlistening.
Bruce Sterling: Design fictions and the judgement of history
By Adam Tinworth
Bruce Sterling has found the biggest dragon of all – and the worldwide startup culture is part of it. What will the judgement of history be on our era?
Robert Scoble: Context and Google Glass
By Adam Tinworth
Liveblogged notes from Scoble’s talk at NEXT Berlin The new age is one where the number of wearable devices is going up exponentially. This stuff is coming. Many of these ideas are research projects right now, but soon fashion designers will be building these technologies in. The data we’re collecting is going up exponentially – [...]
Martin Ott: disruptive messages and lightweight relationships
By Adam Tinworth
Facebook is turning your friends into content matchmakers, but brands who see Facebook Pages as destinations are rather missing the point, says Martin Ott
