David Blood: A New Paradigm for Finance
David Blood brings a pragmatic approach to the world of social finance and aims to encourage businesses around the world to be more responsible, ethical and sustainable.
David Goulait: Enable Innovation
David Goulait believes it’s important to understand that when you’re charting your career path it’s important to know what you’re getting into, why and what you’re going to do with it. In his own experience, he recognised that this created his direction and his career intent of making it better.
Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) Transform Government
The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub, so why can’t Governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, not only to be transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their […]
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, […]
