”The new campfire is this amazing grid created by little pieces that all merge together to our own individual stories.” Bjarke Myrthu is CEO founder of BLIND SPOT an interactive storytelling app for social media. In this talkhe takes on a storytelling perspective andspeaksabout life after the printing press and how it’s changing the way we socialize, the way you work and the way you learn.There is a fundamental change in the way that we tell stories and that change is due to the growing use of social media. The history behind storytelling began as a linear process with stories being told in front of a campfire as a social activity.Today storytelling online involve collective stories that humans share with each other and pass around the Internet. Time and space is no longer a limit for communication to flourish.

“When you combine life with long exposure photography you get stories”.Nicholas Felton is a designer, entrepreneur and artist whose work focuses on translating quotidian data into meaningful objects and experiences.Data has become creative material; it’s the new wood of which we can make beautiful objects from.In a world flooded with photographs, what new forms of communication become possible when photography and data visualization techniques are merged to tell complex stories.

”Always relate to technology from a business perspective.”Futurist Nicklas Bergmantalks about how to survive the ongoing tech storm in times of great uncertainty. Phenomenon like robots entering the job market and data commercialization will revolutionize our world. We need to be prepared.Nicklas Bergman has for more than 20 years worked as a serial entrepreneur, technology investor and futurist focusing mostly on investments and business development in emerging markets, web services, nanotechnology, computing, new materials and new media art, currently through roughly 20 direct and indirect technology investments.

"The organization which make the fastest decisions will always win."Isaac Pinnocktalks aboutthe art of being responsive and what this means to you, your clients and your organisation. We are moving from a world which is built on control and demand to a world where we need to be more responsive.Responsiveness has to be embedded in all levels of an organization. Through evidence and data-based decision making you can shorter the time process of decision making.Isaac Pinnock is a founding partner of Made by Many, a product innovation company and accelerator. As well as leading their design team, he uses his experience of customer insight gathering, rapid prototyping and interaction design to transform business requirements into viable and desirable products.

”In general, work takes meaning from life.”Roland Paulsen has a PhD in sociology and is anauthor.The Wall Street Journal recently described him as "one of the world’s foremost experts on how people shirk on the job".Here, Roland talks about the ever-decreasing need for human labour and how it affect humans and the society we live in. He poses the question why humans work so much with the answer that it's not because we want toguarantee our material survival but rather because we want to secure the survival of capitalism.

"In an increasingly global world we need design that is culturally responsive."Senongo Akpem, Senior Designer at Cambridge University Press,talks about culturally responsive design. Senongodiscuss how cultural variables can affect our perception, and how to build visual and cultural diversity into design in a thoughtful (and occasionally subversive) way.

“We need to bring love and science together.” Elliott Hedman, Design Scientist and creator of mPathshows how emotional sensors can help uncover users unmet needs and lead to great experience design.Many companies further themselves from their customers and focus on the wrong things. How can they care about their customers if they don’t know them?

Derek Sivers shares his lessons of life. How to stop being rich and happy.

”Help the ecosystem grow, you are all in it together.”Nicole Yershon, Director of Innovative solutions at Ogilvy Lab,talks about the role of an intrapreneur. How everybody at a company can take the lead and be in power of the change needed andhow to be a disruptive force within an organization with an aim to build new relationships that make exciting, effective ideas a reality, no matter what.So, what is an intrapreneur exactly? You can say that it is a human with an entrepreneural spirit working within a huge organization.By experimenting with innovations Nicole and her team at the Ogilvy Lab creates opportunities for the company to see from new perspectives and handle the daily work activities with more efficiency.

"Drop your institutional ego."Are today’s organizations too much “I” and too little “you”? Andie Nordgren, Executive Producer of CCP Games argues for this being the reality amongst many organizations and which in turn have resulted in limitations of the quality of the design work on products and services.Many companies self-obsess and care too much about what their users think about them as a company. They need to re-think and focus on what do users think of themselves as a result of interacting with the creation/product. The talk is also available in writing at medium.com