As an artist and investor from the MIT, John Maeda started working on making technology and design merge early on. Considered the “Warren Buffet of Design” by Wired, John Maeda shows how design could inspire the leaders of today and tomorrow in his talk at USI. Design can be seen […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
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A specialist in cybersecurity and a hacker herself since the age of 12, Keren Elazari has always advocated in favor of computer pirates. For her they are sources of inspiration and innovation in all areas and as such are: “the most important change agents”. In her USI 2017 talk she […]
“Artificial intelligence is already at work everywhere today, but we can’t see it yet because we assimilate it to our current systems and mechanisms.” For Kevin Kelly, co-founder and executive editor of Wired since 1992, the combination between new technologies and human intelligence is nonetheless the driver of twelve ‘inevitable’ […]
What if we got it all wrong about hackers? What if hackers were tomorrow’s best hope from freedom and a valuable work force for compagnies? Cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari takes us behind the cyberlines, where ISIS is vulnerable, where our legal system seems obsolete and where future geopolitical strategies might just be decided…
The title may seem fatalistic, yet Kevin Kelly’s latest best-seller, The Inevitable is anything but that. Futurist, environmentalist, and philosopher, Kevin Kelly is someone who illuminates our future—in every sense of the word—and proposes solutions. Privacy, artificial intelligence, media, technological trends … Kelly’s piercing analysis of our future shakes all […]
A question of leadership, creativity and organisation. “I have this vision of a future where men are on Mars. I dream of a mother looking at the sky with her child, telling him that’s where she comes from.” Brian Muirhead knows about failure. In 1978, he was a member of the […]
Towards an enhanced planet? A little over 40 years after the birth of the Internet, Nicolas Demassieux focuses of the evolution of a tool that is now intrinsically linked to our society. During a talk that describes an ultra-connected network, he goes over the evolution of our digital uses. More […]
According to Don Tapscott, the invention of blockchain represents the new technological revolution that is going to transform the business world and the way we tackle organizations and institutions. By implementing a new protocol based on trust, this technology affords new autonomy and disintermediation possibilities.
Dare to be optimistic! For the psychologist Richard Wiseman, “luck is not what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you”. Philippe Gabilliet, speaker at the USI conference in 2015, insists on this point: “by saying “I’m lucky” you encourage luck”. From ancient times, to be […]