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Web Summit 2015: Blathnaid Healy
News site Mashable owes its growing readership to keeping one step ahead of the online conversation, says UK editor Blathnaid Healy.
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Carlos Menendez: Digital wallets with social sharing
Mastercard’s president of partnerships and growth discusses how users want social experience integrated alongside seamless payments and reassuring ...
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Social media v self-validation
In the 21st century teenagers will have to deal with a new kind of growing pain: learning how to be a person online.
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Insta-real
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Anti-authenticity Marketing Webinar
The Future Laboratory co-founders Chris Sanderson and Martin Raymond examine Anti-authenticity Marketing, one of three macro trends from our Autumn...
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Web Summit 2015: Ken Bretschneider
Expect 2016 to be the year that virtual and augmented technologies finally come of age, says The Void founder and CEO Ken Bretschneider.
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Patrick Dixon: E-commerce now
Smartphones are re-shaping e-commerce, global retail and premium retail, says the founder of Global Change.
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Nick Gray: Hacking institutions for the better
The founder of Museum Hack on the value of understanding the system enough to subvert it.
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Sarah LaFleur: Online personal styling
MM.LaFleur’s sleek Bento Box workwear packages enable a streamlined shopping experience for busy professional women.
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The Athena Woman
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Fashion advertising cools off
In an age of ubiquitous hyper-sexual imagery, knowing brands are turning down the heat to remain relevant.
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Alison Farrington: No-tax retail
Data-driven analytics must top the global luxury agenda, says business and insights editor at Global Blue.
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Thomas Kochs: The Secrets of Claridge's Service
Customer expectations from luxury hotels are continually changing.
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Transforming cities: Culture Inc
Brands are leading the way in the cultural bricolage of urban regeneration today.
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Jonathan Reynolds and Nick Everitt: New-normal retail
Jonathan Reynolds, academic director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Nick Everitt, global insight and strategy director of P...
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Beyond Borders: Trend Briefing
What are Anti-authenticity Marketing, New Bricolage Living and Revelation Brands? Our editor explains
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Jessica Straker: Music journeys
Jessica Straker, founder of audio-visual web station JuiceVCR, tells us that when it comes to finding new music, machine learning cannot ...
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Oscar Farinetti: Agri-eating
Education and information are key to the slow food movement, says the founder of Italian food emporium Eataly.
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Nick Knight: Digital creativity
SHOWstudio founder Nick Knight discusses the innovations and interactivity explored via his experimental platform.
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Transmedia Futures
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Paul Armstrong: How to disrupt
Disruptive innovation isn’t easy, but there are ways to make sure you do it, says the founder of HERE/FORTH.
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Beau Lotto: The digital brain
The future of digital will not be on screens, says neuroscientist Beau Lotto, founder of augmented messaging app Traces.
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Jacques Panis: Reviving Shinola
Jacques Panis, president of Shinola, explains how the watch and leather goods brand was brought back from near extinction.
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