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Innovation: Start-up Stars

Making sense of today’s deluge of Big Data is a great IT challenge, requiring Design Synthesis. Zann Gill predicts that crowdsourcing platforms will evolve into next generation social networks to support the emerging field of collaborative intelligence. Her talk describes this thought leadership space and its emerging potential for a range of new ventures dedicated to turning social networks into problem-solving ecosystems. More. . .

Next Generation Social Networks

Social Networks and the information explosion now serve each other. To search an expanding universe of information, we need to cluster information, to rely on the recommendations of friends and colleagues whose judgment we trust More. . .

SuperLux: Smart Light Art, Design & Architecture for Cities

In recent years, new lighting technologies have been used to illuminate cities and towns in creative, energy-efficient ways. “Smart Light” is now a widely used term for the new technologies and ecological ideas that are transforming nighttime atmospheres and spectacular Smart Light festivals are awing audiences around the world More. . .

Gaming the Future: Collaborative Intelligence

Collaborative intelligence is NOT the conventional view that collaboration is about being “nice,” agreeable to work with, sharing information, human ethics in teamwork — all good, but not collaborative intelligence. More. . .