Web Summit: Tech

This panel debate the pros and cons of AI in society, exploring the topics from different angles in order to educate and inform.

Guests: Sairah Ashman, Wolff Olins; Hicham Oudghiri, Enigma Technologies; John Avlon, The Daily Beast

Technology was supposed to give us freedom. Instead, some of us have become slaves to the screen. There are no simple solutions to tech addiction—but what can be done to live healthy tech lives?

Guests: Center for Humane Technology's Tristan Harris, Common Sense Media's Jim Steyer and NBC News' Alyssa Newcomb

Teaching AI to communicate and facilitate conversations with other platforms is becoming a major facet of technology in 2018. How can we manage and encourage the emotions inherent in the technology?

Guest: Convocation Design and Research's Caroline Sinders

Is Silicon Valley still the epicenter of startup innovation and funding or can companies grow to great heights from other parts of the world or even other parts of the U.S.?

Guests: Algolia's Nicolas Dessaigne, Tradesy's Tracy DiNunzio, Jill Ford of Toyota AI Ventures and VentureBeat's Anna Hensel

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With our increasing reliance on technology for even the most basic elements of life, are we in danger of seeing a wider divide between the 'haves' and 'have-nots'. Or is technology the great leveller, with better opportunities available even in the most remote areas?

Guests: Verizon's Rose Stuckey-Kirk, Sentient Technologies' Babak Hodjat and Quartz's Georgia Frances King at Collision Conf 2018.

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Stripe aims to expand internet commerce by making it easy to process transactions and manage an online business.Stripe now processes billions of dollars a year for thousands of businesses, from newly-launched start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Since Stripe powers so many new businesses, it's a snapshot of how the internet is changing; many users are in categories that barely existed five years ago. Listen as Head of Growth James Allgrove details the secrets to growing this billion dollar startup.

Guests: James Allgrove, Stripe; Zachary Karabell, Envestnet

Pro-surfer Anastasia Ashley, Andrew Cotton and Tiago Pires of Red Bull, and pro-surfer Garrett McNamara took to the stage with Ger Gilroy of Newstalk to discuss if extreme sports are more accepting of technology.

Donald J. Trump's 2016 election and the campaign built around "Making America Great Again" will live long in the memory. How did the campaign come alive online? Brad Parscale, who served as Digital Media Director for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, took to the stage to share the advertising secrets to electing a US president.

Bryan Johnson of Kernel and Simon Evetts of Blue Abyss sat down on day one of Web Summit to discuss if human augmentation will lead to a loss of humanity.

Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, took to the stage to dive into the shift towards human-centric design, the initial results of using voice and conversations as the main interface, and the path towards unlocking digital systems for those who are not computer users.