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A Report from Techonomy Media Spring 2013 TECHONOMY MEDIA TECHONOMY Presented By: A Report from Techonomy Media Techonomy Media, Inc. 670 Broadway, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10012 [email protected] W W W. T E C H O N O M Y. C O M SPRING 2013 SPRING Spring 2013 n ai Lee Lum D e S i G n photography Braschler/Fischer: p. 17 Marsha Ericks: p. 14 David Kirkpatrick: p. 3, 44 Jeff Kowalsky: p. 48-50, 53, 56, 57 (top left and top right), 58, 59 Adam Ludwig: p. 8, 9 Asa Mathat: p. 2-6, 20, 22-24, 27, 28, 30-32, 34-40, 42-46, 60 Alana Range: p. 2, 3 (team portraits) Brad Ziegler: p. 1, 54, 55, 57 (bottom) 42149_Cover.indd 2 2/28/13 8:05 AM M a r c h 2 0 1 3 The world is being transformed by technology, and quickly. companies, jobs, institutions, governments, the way we shop, our personal lives—even friendships—are being irrevocably altered by connectedness, software, and the innumerable innovations emerging from the planet's growing creative class. at Techonomy we see a world getting better. Massive challenges remain. But opportunities are emerging to address, even solve, age-old problems like hunger, disease, poverty, and chronic disenfranchisement. We believe business is the best engine for progress in most areas. Meanwhile business itself is being transformed at a startling pace and in every industry. Our mission is to document and celebrate technology’s impact on business and social progress, in hopes of quickening it. It’s also to educate, to help more people understand tech-driven change. Since early 2009 we’ve organized four major conferences—three flagship Techonomy events, most recently in November at the ritz-carlton Dove Mountain resort near Tucson, as well as our U.S.-centric Techonomy Detroit last September; we’ve built a gorgeous website, then completely rebuilt it again to be suitable for publishing as well as conference info; hosted 8 dinners in 6 cities; and published innumerable articles and videos. This book surveys our work in 2012 and points to our plans for 2013. In addition to edited excerpts from sessions in Tucson and Detroit, you’ll find five original articles. We've strengthened our company, our team, and our partnerships. TE13 takes place again at Dove Mountain Novem- ber 11th to 13th, and Techonomy Detroit September 17th. We also plan dinners this year on three continents. We look towards international expansion, especially in asia. Our publishing and video operations will grow. Thanks to Dell for its support. We don’t think print is dead, despite all. The evidence is in your hands. I hope you enjoy it. With Enthusiasm, David Kirkpatrick c h I E F T E c h ON OMIST TEchonomy The Team Simone Ross Co-founder, COO, and Chief Progr am offiCer A TechonomisT since my days with the computerworld Smithson- ian awards, I've long been an inquisitive observer of the companies, individu- als, and ideas at the intersection of tech, the economy and society. I’ve worked with IT innovators and leaders to create programs and contexts that meet the exacting intellectual, practical, and inquisitive requirements of leaders across indus- tries, function, and titles. It's not so much the bells and whistles of tech itself that interest me. It’s the application of that tech for productivity and progress that excites me and makes me a Techonomist. 02 Josh Kampel Adam Ludwig Chief Str ategy Content ANd offiCer Communit y manager L Aunching my first As A TechonomisT, scrappy Internet and a Brooklynite, I’m business in 1996 from a excited about how dorm room outside of crowdsourcing and social Boston was the first step design can help stimulate on my path to becoming manufacturing, create an official Techono- jobs, and grow a vital DIY mist. having helped economy. Each morning build technology I listen to the radio and companies that force browse my favorite online conventional industries news channels, hoping, to rethink established maybe even expecting, to business models, I hear or read the word consider myself one of “techonomic” used to those restless entrepre- describe an important neurs who always think development in business there must be a better or public policy. It’s way. Now, as a part of bound to happen soon. Techonomy, I am I believe that more and excited to have a more people will look at front-row seat to study the world through a how the accelerating techonomic lens as change enabled a way to understand the by faster and cheaper trends that increasingly Flying our flag above the Ritz-carlton technological shape our global future. Dove mountain development will impact our world. 03 conTents TEchonomy Sp R i n g 2 0 1 3 06 Why I Am a Techonomist » marc benioff, jack dorsey, dave morgan, dan schulman, padmasree warrior 08 content and community » The View from Broadway and Bond St. by david kirkpatrick » Entrepreneur? No. Street Fighter by josh linkner » What’s Next in the Techonomy? by john hagel & john seely brown » Welcome to Little Big Inc. by tim weber » The Industrial Internet by bill ruh 20 Why I Am a Techonomist » jean case, jeff goodell, david keith, james manyika, richard thompson 22 Techonomy 2012 » When Everybody’s Online » The Internet’s Fantastic Four » Forest, Trees, Data » The Facebook Effect, continued » Geo-Engineering » africa: The Final Frontier » EMc’s Joe Tucci » a changing china » The Madness of crowds » Shopping: Data and Dollars » robots, Factories, Jobs, and Life » ray Kurzweil: Enhancing humanity 46 Why I Am a Techonomist » gordon bell, eden full, john hagel, stephen hoover, peter vander auwera 48 Techonomy Detroit » The DIY Economy » Entrepreneurship and american relevance » an Era of Global competition » how Far can Innovation Take Our cities » Jack Dorsey on the city as Inspiration » Entrepreneurship and Tech 60 Moving Forward in 2013 Opening Night Dinner, Techonomy 2012 TEchonomy Why I Am a Techonomist Marc Benioff Jack Dorsey Dave Morgan Dan Schulman Padmasree CEO, Chairman, CEO, grouP PreSi- Warrior SaleSforCe.Com twitter, and Simulmedia dent, enter- Chief teChnol- i’m a Techonomist CEO, Square it is virtually PriSe growth, ogy and Strategy because we are The best ideas impossible to ameriCan offiCer, Cisco seeing the most can come from overestimate how exPress Technology is profound shift in anywhere, and much technology Whether you’re changing the world the history of our Technonomy has will transform us, running a startup or around us at an industry. But tech proven to be an our lives, and the driving innovation unprecedented is not a silo, and incredible gathering world over the next within a large pace. Today there Techonomy puts place for Techono- 25 years. But, it company, new are roughly 6 billion what’s happening mists to have real won’t happen on its technologies have people connected. into the context meaningful discus- own. i’m a the potential to We have not even of how it will sion that propels Techonomist fundamentally begun to imagine affect business, learning, growth, because i believe better the lives of the economic and economics, and and change. we all have a people, and that’s social implications social progress so responsibility to what inspires and as 50 billion things we can change the help shape our motivates me to get connected by world. We all have future. dream big and 2020. Techonomy an incredible create change. The brings together the opportunity—as path to change people who can not well as a responsi- can be frustrat- only imagine but bility—to transform ing, and it is never make possible the our businesses to be a straight line, but exciting transforma- more competitive, true Techonomists tions at the more innovative, can imagine beyond intersection of and more today, focusing on technology, econ- successful than ever what could be, and omy and society. before possible. not what is. cheers to human- ity as we wake up 99% of our world! 06 content & community » Techonomy 2012 Techonomy Detroit TEchonomy content & community Techonomic Tables ThroughouT The ye Ar , Techonomy organizes dinners at stunning venues around the world. But while we eat delicious food we also facilitate wide-ranging conversa- tions about local and global technology progress. These gatherings, typically 20-25 people and often presented in partnership with sponsors, are mini-Techonomy con- ferences that serve to introduce new people to our community. Insights we gain there help us plan our conference programs and editorial direction. In 2012 we hosted Techonomy dinners in London, Menlo Park, chicago, and Wash- ington, Dc. We convened multidisciplinary groups of business leaders, intellectuals, diplomats, economists, policy experts, entrepreneurs, dreamers and doers. Guests Photos from our included senior executives from a cross section of sectors and companies, including dinner at Washington’s hay-Adams rooftop accenture, alcatel-Lucent, capital One, the carlyle Group, cisco, Electronic arts, Above Swedish Facebook, Groupon, Intuit, McKinsey, Nielsen, Thomson reuters, TUI Travel plc, the Ambassador h.E. Jonas Wellcome Trust, the White house and WPP, plus top professors at Oxford and Stan- hafström (l) talks with ford. Topics included how nation-states use technology and the Internet; the shift in Alec Ross, Senior Advisor on innovation power from hierarchies to networks of people; and the civic and corporate responsi- to Secretary of State bility of tech leaders to the vast communities they impact. hillary clinton In 2013 we plan even more dinners, in additional US cities as well as in china, Right guests take their places for dinner Israel, and elsewhere. Opposite top KaBoom! cEo Darell hammond and Techonomy’s Simone Ross on the hay-Adams terrace Opposite bottom marne Levine, Facebook’s Vice president of global public policy 08 Techonomic Talks in JAnuAry we organized a standing-room-only “SuperSession” at the consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, hoping to add a little techonomic thinking.
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