Tom is a Design Director at IDEO in London, where he uses the innovation and design process to develop new business opportunities. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Tom has first-hand experience in building successful enterprises.
Tom is a Design Director at IDEO in London, where he uses the innovation and design process to develop new business opportunities. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Tom has first-hand experience in building successful enterprises.
Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of foursquare, a service that mixes social, locative and gaming elements to encourage people explore the cities in which they live. Previously, Dennis founded dodgeball.com, one of the first mobile social services in the US, which was acquired by Google in 2005. In this lecture he will speak about social cities.
Andreas Weigend studies people and the data they create and share. He works with companies that are eager to discover and tackle the pertinent questions and to develop strategies to realize the untapped power of data. In this lecture he will talk about the power of data.
Our friends (and now Service Partners) from Big Shots had a virtual canvas of 26 seconds to create a teaser for PICNIC'10 and this is what they came up with.
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How can societies encourage innovation in the life sciences, and still protect the public from unreasonable risks?
Those who design or modify living organisms have long claimed there is little or no risk to what they do. As a result, billions (at least) of genetically engineered plants, animals and bacteria have been released into the wild.
But terms like “bioengineering” and “biotechnology” imply a knowledge of the mechanics of living things…
‘Synthetic Biology’ has received much attention recently with the announcement by Craig Venter of the first ‘synthetic organism’. It is a field in its infancy, and a field where the challenges, concerns, issues and potential are largely unprecedented. But synthesizing the DNA of a known organism and re-inserting it into a ‘shell’ (ala first ‘synthetic organism’) is just a start.
It would be entirely another thing altogether to be able to design and…
Your past actions are the best predictor of your future decisions. Your past actions – or the memory of your past actions – have always been immutable. But what if they weren't? What if marketers could meddle with your memories and insert product placements where they weren't before? Who would we be? What implications would it have for how we live? What if this wasn't all hypothetical? In this talk, Aza Raskin will tell you how to do the meddling,…
Jeff Jarvis will discuss how our fundamental assumptions about media – what it is, how it operates, how it is supported, how people discover it, and how it relates to the public – must all be challenged. How will these changes and challenges lead to new opportunities and new efficiencies?
PICNIC Festival 2010 took place on September 22-24 2010 at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. This channel will contain some of the lectures and other selected videos from the festival.
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