Inspiration and Trends from SXSW

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TRENDS

Robots

AI (or cognify)

“AI is a natural extension of a
relentless pursuit to automate
tasks”
Jerry Kaplin, Futurist

“AI is going to become a utility and
its not human like. Benefits of AI is
going be sold as free of
consciousness”
Kevin Kelly, Wired

VR

VR

“VR is going to be the next platform
after smartphones. We will going
from the Internet of Information to
the Internet of Experiences”
Kevin Kelly, Wired

“VR will become the most social of
social media”
Kevin Kelly, Wired

Diversity

F I N D I N G 1
D I V E R S I T Y I S T H E N E W N O R M A L

F I N D I N G 2
Y O U C A N ’ T E F F E C T I V E L Y S O L V E A
P R O B L E M T H R O U G H A S I N G L E
P E R S P E C T I V E

F I N D I N G 3
L E T I D E A S S U C C E E D T H R O U G H M E R I T N O T
C U L T U R A L C O N S E N S U S

Experiences

“Ensure that humanity is not lost as a
result of technology. Technology
should be invisible”
JJ Abrams

“70% of people said that in-store
experiences are the biggest
influencer to purchasing decisions”
Find your happiness panel

“Design experiences to make people
happy. Make the mundane
memorable”
Find your happiness panel

“The way we think and reason is
more through touch than we realise”
Kelli Anderson, Designer and Adobe Resident

“The Uberfication of everything is
turning San Francisco into an
assisted living community for the
young.”
Steve Selzer, Experience Design, Airbnb

Awards

Awards

Awards

Best Talk - Brene Brown
Daring Greatly

“If you are not in the arena getting
your arse kicked regularly, I am not
interested in your feedback”
Brene Brown, CEO,The Daring Way

Other Great Words of Wisdom

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”
Kevin Plank, CEO, Under Armour

“Data is the new oil. The
companies that do well are the
companies that use math.”
Kevin Plank, CEO, Under Armour

"We are busy doing stuff in a futile
attempt to have more time”
Andy Puddicombe, Headspace

“I’d rather have an economy built on
ideas and creativity rather than
routine”
Kevin Kelly, Wired

Other stuff

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