John Watton leads European marketing for Adobe's Enterprise portfolio of creative, document and marketing solutions that empower brands to deliver the best digital experiences.

This is his keynote from the NEXT Conference 2018

Marco Boerries is a German entrepreneur with a passion for making ideas work. enfore is his fourth start-up and was founded in 2009 as NumberFour AG.

He founded his first company Star Division, inspired by a Silicon Valley school exchange, as a 16-year-old back in 1985. The company created the popular office suite StarOffice and later OpenOffice.org

This is his keynote from the NEXT Conference 2018

London based recording artist Imogen Heap blurs the boundaries between pure art form and creative entrepreneurship. She produced the entire score for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, winning the 'Outstanding Music in a Play' Drama Desk Award.Imogene received 5 Grammy nominations (one for engineering and another for her contribution to Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’)

In 2014 she envisioned a flourishing music industry ecosystem through Mycelia and released ‘Tiny Human’, the first song to use smart contracts on a blockchain.

This is her keynote from the NEXT Conference 2018

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer and entrepreneur with a long history of generating change and innovation.Thomas founded Podio, a company that changed how people work. Today, Thomas heads TwentyThree, which aims to transform the way companies communicate via video.

This episode features his keynote at the NEXT Conference 2018

Pamela Pavliscak studies the future of feelings. Obsessed by our conflicted emotional relationship with technology, her work is part deep dive research, part data science, part design. This is her keynote from the NEXT18 Conference.

We are living at the beginning of a necessary bureaucratic revolution – challenging the ideological roots of modern society – from sovereignty to the very notions of public & private.

Indy Johar will share these conceptual underpinnings & frameworks behind Dark Matter Laboratories work around the world – with world class organisations from the Greater London Authority to UNDP

More than an innovation platform for brands, digital is becoming a survival tool for consumers. So more and more it’s been helping people to solve their daily problems – especially in remote markets. Eco Moliterno, Chief Creative Executive Officer at Accenture Interactive for Latin America, will show how digital can go far beyond advertising and will show examples for digital fixes in countries like India, Peru or Bolivia.

Our world is made of information that competes for our attention. What is needed? What is not? We cannot interact with our everyday life in the same way we interact with a desktop computer.

Calm technology describes a state of technological maturity where a user’s primary task is not computing, but being human. The idea behind Calm Technology is to have smarter people, not things. Technology shouldn’t require all of our attention, just some of it, and only when necessary.

Amber Case studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds. Case is currently a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a visiting researcher at the MIT Center for Civic Media.

This episode was recorded live at the NEXT Conference 2018

Data and machine learning offer ways for businesses to better serve their customers, understanding and anticipating their needs to build more user-centered services, automate customer service, and support sustainable human-centric cities.

Dr. Ayesha Khanna is Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) advisory firm and incubator. She has been a strategic advisor on artificial intelligence, smart cities and fintech.

In 2017, ADDO AI was featured in Forbes magazine as one of four leading artificial intelligence companies in Asia and Ayesha was named one of South East Asia's groundbreaking female entrepreneurs by Forbes magazine in 2018.

Ayesha is also the Founder of 21C GIRLS, a charity that delivers free coding and artificial intelligence classes to girls in Singapore.

This Episode was recorded at the NEXT Conference 2018.

HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE lays out solutions to the greatest ills of our digital age. I argue that we have five tools for these fixes: regulation, innovation, consumer choice, citizen engagement and education. These solutions are real world and come from countries as diverse as Estonia, India, Singapore and Germany.