Program

May 27 - Day 3

Morning sessions

  • Auditorium
  • Forum
  • Emerald Room
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  • Creative Industries

    Platforms for Transformation

    Emerald Room
    9:00 - 10:30 hrs.

    This session features some of the world’s top innovators from various fields. All the speakers have an interest in using technology, combined with creative design ideas for shaping the societies and spaces in which we live. The case studies they present come from different settings: public sector broadcasting, politics and civic engagement, contemporary urbanism and design for future scenarios. This session will showcase, through case studies, how technology is being used and conceived to engage with problems, opportunities and challenges that confront many societies, organizations and businesses.

    Welcome Speech

    Mr. Dr. Simon Roberts

    Senior Design Anthropologist Intel Corporation

    Simon has been researching the interactions of people, culture, technology and business for over a decade. Those explorations began with research on popular Hindi films and a cultural study of the satellite TV revolution in India in the mid 1990s.

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    Keynote Speech

    mySociety: What We Do And Why We Do It

    Mr. Tom Steinberg

    Founder mySociety.org

    Tom Steinberg is the founder and director of mySociety, a non-profit, open source organisation that runs many of the best-known democracy websites in the UK.

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    Keynote Speech

    Reading the city, writing the city: Urban experience in a networked age

    Mr. Adam Greenfield

    Founder and managing director Urbanscale

    Adam Greenfield is founder and managing director, Urbanscale, and author of Everyware (2006) and The City Is Here For You To Use (forthcoming). He lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

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    Keynote Speech

    My Elastic City

    Ms. Anab Jain

    Director Superflux

    Educated in India, Vienna and London, Anab is is a TEDIndia Fellow and the Founder of Superflux, a design studio working at the intersection of people and technology.

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    Battle

    Interactive TV & Communications Part 3

    Wrap-up

    Mr. Dr. Simon Roberts

    Senior Design Anthropologist Intel Corporation

    Simon has been researching the interactions of people, culture, technology and business for over a decade. Those explorations began with research on popular Hindi films and a cultural study of the satellite TV revolution in India in the mid 1990s.

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Afternoon sessions

  • Please note that the preliminary program can be subject to change.