#datanewoil

MEET ME IN LONDON Nov 21 2012 for this keynote talk: Everybody is talking about 'data is the new oil' aka big-data. SoLoMo (social local mobile) is the battle cry of the day. Human-machine interfaces are rapidly evolving and may quickly become commonplace (think Google Glasses, MSFT Kinect), artificial intelligence is the geek-phrase-of-the-day, and Kurzweil says the singularity is near/here. So how will our world really change in the next 5 years, i.e. the way we communicate, get information, create, buy and sell, travel, live and learn? What are the biggest threats and the hottest opportunities - not just in financial terms, but also in societal and human terms? Futurist Gerd Leonhard will share his foresights and explore the key 'networked society' scenarios.

It’s also inevitable. Nothing can stop the generation of information, its dissemination and the burgeoning of knowledge. The rate of growth is exponential, doubling every few years. Innovative ways of harnessing information are now the “new economy” – or as futurist Gerd Leonhard would have it, “data is the new oil”.