Don’t look back in anger! Embrace & create opportunity #SxSw #entrepreneurship #creativity

It’s been 2 weeks now, since I returned from SxSWi (Austin, Tx.)…after a cold turkey/jet lag I have returned to my everyday life…but this experience changed my mindset! What an amazing experience, vibe and atmosphere this was….I got sucked in and survived, but I don’t want it to stop for a year! SxSWi showed me how entrepreneurial, creative and opportunist our world can be. Back in Belgium I only notice status-quo. Our ancient economy should look ahead instead of back, should look for opportunities instead maintaining what we have…I know we can do this, but we need to adapt our society, education, work,….Without throwing everything overboard, there are some easy steps to take to become more creative, entrepreneurial and opportunist!

Behavioural Design to create Behavioural Change #SxSw #BehaviouralDesign

How do we make decisions? And how does technology influence our way of decision making?…2 key questions to answer regarding human behaviour and tech use.  A small example to show the importance of tech in our decision making process. Back in 2004, when we wanted to donate something to charity the call for action had a long tail….when you saw a sign “please donate for …,” you would go home and hopefully remember what the charity was, go to their website, being redirected to your bank website to donate, today the call for action is almost imediate. You take out your smartphone, and donate to the cause by pressing one button.
So why and how do we design to change a persons behaviour or attitude?

The Google Glass experience will be lean or won’t be…. #SxSw #GoogleGlass #ProjectGlass

Googles wants to change the world. With there moonshots program they’re developing radical ideas to change the world. The first real project to be come alive in the real world is “Project Glass”. This project (which is probably the first step, from many to come) wants to rethink the relationship to technology…with “Project Glass” Google introduces technology that isn’t in the way of your actions like traditional screens (from smartphones, cameras,…) are. With “Project Glass” you have access to your applications without a screen sitting in your way.

Is Big Data killing creativity? #SxSw #bigdata #creativity

Everyone has an opinion on marketing – nobody trusts marketeers – they’re just a bunch of colourpickers and thinking about new ways to sell the same. Today marketing is a different story, a story led by data…a story looked at by marketeers as threatening. Where is the “gut” feeling and creativity in big data.
These data trend is driven by the current data explosion. More then 2 exabytes of data is being produced each month. Data which are being used by companies, CMO’s and other marketeers.
How do we – marketeers – make sense of this big data?

The future of identity – your to be (social) currency #SxSw #socialcurrency

Through out the years humans have developed a lot off skills to survive the -at that time- present society. He learned to develop basic skills like feeling pain, being like other people and be able to learn from others. Over the last 1000 years this transfer of information/knwoledge came into a rollercoaster developing a lot of speed and new possibilities to pass information. From handwriting, to publishing over the internet, mankind has accelerated the capabilities of knowledge transfer. This acceleration was necessary since interacting and sharing of information began at a hight cost, time.
The trading solution (in which you transfer knowledge) isn’t always flawless. Lies and mistakes being great examples of a false trade-off. So who do you share with, what do you share with who and who do you trust are becomming more and more important in present society!
Today we build a (social) network/graph to deal with this trade off! A social system to survive and thrive, and will this influence our future!?

Generation Flux – How fear and chaos drive creativity in these agile times #SxSw #generationflux #creativity

A few months back Fast Company came up with an article on Generation Flux, the generation of people who drive on current flows and survive well in current society. Who are they? What are they all about? It got me curious then… Generation Flux came as a reaction on the New Economy Generation in the late nineties. This New Economy Generation was the generation to live in the global and connected world and was well described back then….BUT off course this description remained a paper model/writing piece and looking at reality didn’t have the answers we were waiting for.
Generation Flux is again an observation of the moment….wether or not this is al reality we’ll see in next years. One thing is for shure, generation flux is the first generation which is not about age, but about mind-set and attitude!

The giving graph – Let big data and social media tap into your social responsability #SxSw #givinggraph

We’re living in a graph era (more informartion in my slideshare understanding the social graph) were we share billions of social objects and have trillions of connections. It’s safe to say this is a huge amount of information – or big data as we call this. A lot of our experiences are based on our graph. Like the Amazon experience where Amazon feeds us with extra information based on our graph profile (others who bought this, also bought that f.i.). Our (social) graph lets us explore new boundaries. So why don’t we create a “giving graph.”

Why gamification is like chocolate and big data is like bacon – #SxSw

Big data is like bacon – in his raw form it is kind of nasty….if you put analytics behind it, it becomes interesting. Gamification is like chocolate, if you do it once, you want more….As a start for a SxSw panel, this was a nice summary and start of an interesting panel. Both hot topics are taking over business as we speak and there is no stopping them…but this panel gave some nice insights on big data and the gamification connection!

#SxSw – Getting on the radar

My first – so being a newbie – SxSw (South by South West) Interactive experience. SxSw being one of the big events in new, social and interactive media; more then 20 000 participants, 5 days, over 500 workshops, sessions or keynotes and a lot of parties. Austin (Tx) is being being taken over by (cool) geeks. This post and my next posts will all be about this event, my experiences, ….

Future view on life and work

A new release from microsoft on how they look at the future of work and life.
As predicted they see a future in which screens are the basic communication drivers, together with the ability to interconnect every screen with every (connected) thing. All screen are interactive gesture and voice controlled…
…2015? Or sooner?