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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