Ben Shardlow: The Cultural Potential of Vacant Storefronts
Ben Shardlow believes vacant store fronts are opportunities. He co-founded ‘The Starling Project, matching building owners of vacant spaces with people who are looking for ‘nesting spaces’ or short-term opportunities to try out new businesses, galleries, or other types of workspace and event space.
Rachel Botsman: The Currency of the New Economy is Trust
There’s been an explosion of collaborative consumption — web-powered sharing of cars, apartments, skills. Rachel Botsman explores the currency that makes systems like Airbnb and Taskrabbit work: trust, influence, and what she calls “reputation capital. She writes and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing through network technologies, and on how it will transform business, […]
Gabe Zichermann: Gamification
Gabe Zichermann is an entrepreneur, author, highly rated public speaker and gamification thought leader. He is the chair of the Gamification Summit and Workshops, and is co-author of the book ‘Game-Based Marketing’, where he makes a compelling case for the use of games and game mechanics in everyday life, the web and business.
Jamie Fitzgerald: Whatever You Do, Keep Rowing
Jamie Fitzgerald and his teammate Kevin Biggar set out to row 5,000 kilometres across the Atlantic and learned that not making progress is still better than going backwards. How did they deal with it, how did they deal with difficult situations like that? They focused on where people that succeeded, had succeeded in the past and what […]
David Le Page: A Case for the Maximum Wage
David Le Page is a sustainability Journalist and Editor living in Cape Town. In his talk, David explores how across the world, and in South Africa particularly, extreme and growing inequality is one of the greatest root causes of economic, environmental and political destruction and instability. We claim to hate poverty yet shrink from understanding […]
