NEXT Conference

We are all soldiers in an information war. It’s just that many of us don’t realise it yet. And worse, we’re sometimes being recruited by those we think of as friends and supporters. And that’s what makes this phase of our digital evolution so dangerous...

On the Friday of NEXT19, I hosted a session where attendees shared their big take-aways from the event. Many of them wanted to talk about the session by Brian Whipple, CEO of Accenture Interactive (which is the parent company of NEXT), on purpose in...

There was a time when all the press coverage of new websites was indifference. And then it was followed by breathless excitement. Are you feeling nostalgic for those days yet?
These days, any reporting of such site tends to be of some new, terrible and unexpected societal harm done by a mega-internet platform. Politicians seeking an electoral platform make promises — or threats — about how they’ll curtail the power of the...

If there was one theme that the whole of NEXT19 orbited around, it was the idea of complexity. Perhaps it was implicit in our theme – Parallelwelten. But, on stage, before the first day was out, it was explicit.
David Mattin expressed it most clearly, as he often does. The problems we’re facing as societies and businesses are inherently driven by the growing complexity of the world, he said....