March 5th 2013 - March 6th 2013
- Park Plaza Victoria, London
The 2013 event was once again a huge success with over 250 senior business leaders joining Tom Standage in London.
Attendees enjoyed sessions that helped them foresee how advancements in technology may affect their businesses operating environment, customers, competitors and business models.
Technology has moved beyond simply transforming how we live.
We are entering an era where technology will redefine who we are. It is no longer just a question of what technology can do for us, but also what should we allow technology to do.
Technology Frontiers is THE technology event for business leaders. It is a truly inspiring event that looks over the horizon at where technological innovation is going and how business can prepare for that today.
True to the principles of The Economist, it is not just about great ideas, but ideas with meaning – the practical implication for business.
Technology Frontiers is the business event that continues to take a fresh perspective on how technology will transform our work, our lives, our world.
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| 08.00 | REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS |
| 08.50 | CHAIR'S INTRODUCTION Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist |
| 09.00 | OPENING KEYNOTE: WHO OWNS THE FUTURE Jaron Lanier, Computer Scientist, Composer, Visual Artist and Author |
| BUSINESS - TECHNOLOGY AND THE ECONOMY |
| 09.30 | THE NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Carlota Perez, Visiting Scholar, London School of Economics |
| 09.40 | THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com Naveen Jain, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Executive Committee, Inome Vivek Kundra, Executive Vice-president, Emerging Markets, Salesforce.com |
| 10.40 | NETWORKING AND REFRESHMENT BREAK |
| SOCIETY - TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING POLITICS |
| 11.00 | DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNMENT Tom Chatfield, Author and Commentator Tim Harford, Senior Economist and Author, Financial Times Harper Reed, Technology Engineer, Innovator and Entrepreneur |
| 11.55 | IDEAS SESSION: TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING STORY-TELLING Adrian Hon, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Six to Start Michael Bove, Co-founder, Center for Future Storytelling, MIT Media Lab |
| INDIVIDUALS - OUR INTERACTIONS WITH MACHINES ARE CHANGING US |
| 12.25 | WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN Mark Bedau, Editor-in-Chief, Artificial Life; Professor, Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College; Adjunct Professor, Systems Science, Portland State University Nick Bostrom, Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford Martin School; Director, Future of Humanity Institute; Director, Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, University of Oxford |
| 13.10 | IDEAS SESSION: WHY IT MATTERS TO TEACH KIDS HOW TO PROGRAM COMPUTERS Eben Upton, Founder, Raspberry Pi |
| 13.30 | LUNCH |
| 14.30 | IDEAS SESSION: TANGIBLE BITS - BEYOND PIXELS |
| 15.00 | IDEAS SESSION: SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY Tom Knight, Founding Director, Emeritus, BioBricks |
| SCENARIOS |
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| 16.30 | CHANGE OVER BREAK |
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| 17.35 | CHAIR'S CLOSING REMARKS |
| 17.40 | DRINKS RECEPTION |
| 18.45 | GALA DINNER Keynote talk: Geoffrey West, Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute |
| 21.00 | CLOSE OF DINNER |
| 21.15 | CARRIAGES |
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| 08.00 | REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS |
| 09.00 | CHAIR'S INTRODUCTION Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist |
| 09.05 | OPENING KEYNOTE: TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN INTERACTION Will Self, Novelist and Journalist |
| INDIVIDUALS - OUR INTERACTIONS WITH MACHINES ARE CHANGING US |
| 09.35 | TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN INTERACTION Lane Greene, Business Correspondent, The Economist Matt Webb, Chief Executive Officer, BERG London Will Self, Novelist and Journalist |
| 10.30 | IDEAS SESSION: HUMANS AND MACHINES Mark Pollock, Adventurer and Bionic Man |
| 11.00 | NETWORKING AND REFRESHMENT BREAK |
| SOCIETY - TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING SOCIAL VALUES AND SYSTEMS |
| 11.20 | ETHICS AND SOCIAL NORMS A C Grayling, Founder and Master, The New College of the Humanities |
| BUSINESS - TECHNOLOGY AND THE ECONOMY |
| THE RISE OF COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION |
| 12.10 | IDEAS SESSION: NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Roland Lamb, Chief Executive Officer, ROLI |
| TECH QUARTERLY LIVE |
| 12.40 | TOP TEN TECHNOLOGIES TO WATCH Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist |
| 13.20 | LUNCH |
| 14.30 | CLOSE OF EVENT |
Technology Frontiers 2013 will be held on March 5th - 6th 2013 at Park Plaza Victoria, 239 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 1EQ
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Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist
Tom's speciality is the use of historical analogy in science, technology and business writing. He is currently the editor of The Economist digital output (the website, mobile apps, etc) and also edits Technology Quarterly.
Jaron Lanier, Computer Scientist, Composer, Visual Artist and Author
Jaron is hugely respected as a computer scientist and will talk about how technology is changing human beings and why this concerns him.
Will Self, Novelist and Journalist
Will Self is the author of nine novels, six collections of shorter fiction and five non-fiction works. His fiction has received many prizes and been translated into 22 languages.
Adrian Hon, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Six to Start
Adrian believes that great stories have always had the ability to move and excite people, whatever the medium.
Tim Hubbard, Board of Management representative for Bioinformatics, Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust
Tim Hubbard was one of the scientists involved in organising the sequencing of the human genome. He will discuss his work and the exciting opportunities, plus the philosophical and ethical questions, that it presents us with.
Eben Upton, Founder, Trustee and Executive Director, Raspberry Pi Foundation
Eben is a founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and serves as its Executive Director.
Anthony Dunne, Professor and Head, Design Interactions MA Programme, Royal College of Art London
He will join a conversation about how technology is changing the way we interact with each other, and what this means for our identities and our relationships.
Carlota Perez, Visiting Scholar, London School of Economics
Author of "Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: the Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages", Carlota’s writing about technology and economic development has been very influential.
A C Grayling, Founder and Master, The New College of the Humanities
David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge
David Spiegelhalter is Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge and previously Senior Scientist in the MRC Biostatistics Unit.
Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Director of The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Director of The Institute for Science and Ethics, University of Oxford
Julian is on the Advisory Board for the journal Neuroethics.
Mark Bedau, Editor-in-Chief; Professor, Philosophy and Humanities; Adjunct Professor, Systems Science, Artificial Life; Reed College; Portland State University
Mark A Bedau is an internationally recognised leader in the philosophical and scientific study of artificial living systems.
Nick Bostrom, Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School; Director, Future of Humanity Institute; Director, Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, University of Oxford
Nick has a background in physics, computational neuroscience, mathematical logic and philosophy.
Richard Seymour, Co-founder and Design Director, Seymourpowell
Richard Seymour’s career spans more than 30 years and a huge range of creative disciplines. During this period, he has become a global champion for design-led innovation, picking up numerous awards along the way.
Tom Chatfield, Author and Commentator
Tom Chatfield is a British writer and commentator. The author of four books exploring digital culture – most recently “How to Thrive in the Digital Age” – his work has appeared in over a dozen territories and languages.
Carsten Bruhn, Executive Vice-president, Ricoh Europe
Carsten Bruhn is Executive Vice-president and member of the Ricoh Europe Board.
Tim Harford, Senior Economist and Author, Financial Times
Tim Harford is a world renowned behavioural economist and award-winning Financial Times columnist.
Niall Murphy, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Evrythng
A computer scientist by training and Co-founder of future scenarios organising The Digital Thinking Network.
Matt Webb, Co-founer and Chief Executive Officer, BERG
Matt Webb is BERG’s Chief Executive Officer, and co-founded the design studio in 2005.
Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com
Naveen Jain, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Executive Committee, Inome
Harper Reed, Technology Engineer, Innovator and Entrepreneur
Michael Bove, Co-director, Center for Future Storytelling, MIT Media Lab
Lane Greene, Business Correspondent, The Economist
Colin Smith, Director, Engineering and Technology, Rolls-Royce
Geoffrey West, Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute
Guruduth Banavar, Vice-president and Chief Technology Officer, Global Public Sector, IBM
Vivek Kundra, Executive Vice-president, Emerging Markets, Salesforce.com
Chris Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, 3D Robotics
Rob Coneybeer, Managing Director, Shasta Ventures
Mark Pollock, Adventurer and Bionic Man
Steve Rayner, Director, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, James Martin Professor of Science and Civilisation, Co-director of the Programme on the Future of Cities and Co-director of the Oxford Geoengineering Programme, University of Oxford
Tom Knight, Ph.D., Founding Director, Emeritus, BioBricks
Saul Klein, Partner, Index Ventures
David Bulman, Director of Information Technology, Virgin Atlantic
Mitch Higashi, Chief Economist, GE Healthcare
Ari Gesher, Engineering Ambassador, Palantir Technologies
Hiroshi Ishii, Jerome B. Wiesner Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Patients Know Best
Roland Lamb, Chief Executive Officer, ROLI
Tamar Kasriel, Futurist and Managing Director, Futureal
Tamar Kasriel is a futurist and will talk about how businesses can respond to the impact of changing technology on consumers.
Michael Chui, Partner, McKinsey Global Institute
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Founding sponsor:
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Ricoh is a leading global provider of technology and services that can help organisations worldwide to transform business transactions and processes. Its core offerings include Managed Document Services, Production Printing, Office Solutions and IT Services.Silver sponsor:
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Supporting PR Agency:
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry delivers integrated traditional and digital PR and communications to some of the world’s most innovative companies. Our PR teams build global brands in technology, media and telecoms. Our content development team develops high-quality communications in a style and tone of voice that bring a brand to life. |
Supporting Organisations:
TechWeekEurope UK, is the authoritative UK source for news, features and reviews of business technology. Its aim is to help IT decision makers enhance their business with technology. |
British Design Innovation (BDI) represents experienced professional Industrial Design practitioners who create, develop and deliver product, service and interaction design solutions. |
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3D Robotics | GE Healthcare
| Sanofi Aventis Groupe Sante Fe Institute Science Technology and Innovation Council Salesforce.com Seymour Powell Shasta Ventures Shazam Entertainment Siemens Sika Six To Start Sociability Ltd St Paul's School Standard Chartered Bank Standard Life Starbucks Coffee Company Student Competitions Talenthouse Telecity Group The Banker The New College of the Humanities The Royal College of Art The Technology Strategy Board The University of Liverpool The Wellcome Trust Tyco Fire & Security UK Trade & Investment University of Edinburgh University of Oxford Vidyo Inc Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd Visa Europe VocaLink Wall Street Journal Europe Watershed Web Connectivity WhipCar Wired.co.uk Wrapp Zamir Telecom Zurich Financial Services |
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Park Plaza Victoria London
The Technology Frontiers Summit will take place at:
Park Plaza Victoria London
239 Vauxhall Bridge Road
London
SW1V 1EQ
Tel: +44 844 415 6750
The four star, deluxe Park Plaza Victoria London hotel is situated within walking distance of Victoria Train, Coach, Bus and Underground stations, providing an excellent transportation link to Heathrow and Gatwick.
Practical Information
All delegates are entitled to:
- Full access to the conference
- Complimentary breakfast
- Complimentary lunch
- Complimentary tea and coffee
- Networking drinks reception & Gala Dinner on day 1
Opening times
Day 1 - March 5 2013
08.15am - 16.30pm
Day 2 – March 6 2013
08.15am – 14.20pm
Conference Registration
The on-site registration desk will open at 08.15am. When you arrive onsite simply go to the registration desk to collect your badge and delegate booklet. You will need this badge in order to gain entry into the conference.
For any enquiries please contact our customer services team:
customerserviceuk@economist.com
+44 (0) 20 7576 8472
Address
Park Plaza Victoria London
239 Vauxhall Bridge Road
London
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After the success of the first sold out Technology Frontiers the event is back for 2013. Promising to continue to provoke thought, amaze and inspire, Technology Frontiers will once again be the must attend business event of the year.
To appreciate how technology will transform the world around us is critical for business leaders. This event will show how technology will change the way their company carries out its activities and understand how technology will revolutionise the world in which their company operates.
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