Virtual Reality and 360° technology empower journalists to teleport viewers to places where they would never go themselves. It´s this telepresence that makes the difference. Now users are part of the story: Storytelling becomes story-living.

But how can VR stories from conflict zones really create an impact? How do they change the reception and level of understanding of how hatred and injustice are effecting our world? What should VR journalists take care of and what should they avoid doing?

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In his talk interaction designer and digital artist Andreas Refsgaard describes how machine learning has become an integrated part of the practise.

By enabling people to decide upon and train their own unique controls for a system, the creative power shifts from the designer of the system to the person interacting with it.

Using machine learning to make unconventional connections between inputs and outputs Andreas has made projects where games are controlled by making silly sounds, music is composed by drawing instruments on paper and algorithms are trained to decide what is funny, funky or boring.

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As early as 2017, google created an artificial intelligence called Creatism, which can independently edit photos at the level of photo professionals. AI is on the advance, but what concrete effects does it have on the creative industry, how does it change work processes? (Agnieszka Walorska is the author of specialist publications and keynote speaker on agile management, digital innovation and customer experience. She led several successful projects in the area of innovation and customer experience for energy companies, banks and media houses, among others.)

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Loss of privacy, fake news, and leaders behaving badly. What is the future of trust? More specifically, what can digital companies do to make that future positive? From the nature of trustworthiness to the workings of betrayal, Brennan will unpack trust, explain precisely what goes on when it is broken, and identify steps digital companies can take to care well for trust into an uncertain future.

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Popular music provides the ultimate gauge of contemporary attitudes about culture, politics and society at large. It’s the language we use to subconsciously discuss and deliberate the issues of the day. Whether it’s about the rise and fall of disco, the role of boy bands or contagion of K-Pop, there is no greater measure of social sentiment than popular music. It creates an understanding of a society’s collective attitude. And with that, one could say that the music industry has the answers to some pretty compelling cultural questions.

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No matter what, “we can fix it”, Mark Zuckerberg and other tech pioneers, some of them downright fanatical, are certain. But solving all problems by technology is impossible. And that’s a good thing. Freedom, for example, is based on a completely different way of thinking and more on dramatic than technoid production processes. What would we have to expect if, in the future, however, a technocracy was to replace democracy? Let’s talk politics and technology.

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As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly making decisions that directly affect users and society, many questions raise across social, economic, political, technological, legal, ethical and philosophical issues. Can machines make moral decisions? Should artificial systems ever be treated as ethical entities? What are the legal and ethical consequences of human enhancement technologies, or cyber-genetic technologies? How should moral, societal and legal values be part of the design process?

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Today’s educational system prepares our children and young people for the world of the past century, but not for the demands of an increasingly networked world. We need new models that focus much more on creativity than on knowledge transfer, focus more on the team and prepare for a lifelong learning process.

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Pip Jamieson is the Founder of The Dots, a LinkedIn challenger designed around the networking needs of 'No Collar' professionals – creators, freelancers and entrepreneurs. As routine jobs become more automated, these No Collar professionals will represent the future workforce.

This is her Keynote from the NEXT Conference 2018

We all want to fix digital. But if we want the next wave of technologies – AI, VR, robotics and more – to shape a better future, we need to understand where they are leading us. The way to do that? View these transformative technologies through the lens of our age-old, evolutionary human nature.

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