By Mélody Deunier-Lisene, Voys Telecom, Information NetworkSouth Africa (Excerpt from published in The original)
held every year in Amsterdam is next web meeting, which brought together some of the world’s sharpest tech minds over two days in June. Tim Berners-Lee, Natasha Chamuleau, Brian Solis, Edward Snowden, Meik Wiking and Mo Gawdat are among more than 200 speakers at the 2022 event. Mélody Deunier-Lisene from Voys South Africa offers a dazzling exploration of the future of digital technology.
go boldly
In a field where the term “next big thing” goes further than photons from the Big Bang, “the next web” is a moniker especially suited to conferences that study the cutting edge of the network’s outermost reaches. What are they, what do they reveal, where are we going, when and how? Attempts to answer these questions have resulted in some of the most exciting investigations, innovations and inventions currently from many of the sharpest minds of this or any era.
We are currently experiencing a super renaissance in technology where change is so fast that it can be both liberating and terrifying.
Brian Solis: The famous author discusses his new book Lifescale.
up and down away
Another distinguished speaker from The Next Web was Brian Solis. The ‘Digital Anthropologist’ and Acclaimed Author Talks Powerfully About His New Book . Lifescale:How to live a more creative, productive and happier life Make audiences question their own barriers to happiness and productivity in a way that is both simple and authentic. Solis’ work is credited with having a strong impact on the early digital and social marketing fields.
final frontier
This can easily describe the purpose of The Next Web Conference as a whole. For anyone worried about the future or obsessed with technology, this conference is the perfect antidote: few people are so excited about the inherent potential of technology to make the future a fun, free and fascinating place.
please read Full text hereand summaries of other distinguished speakers, including Mo Gawdat, Edward Snowden, Alisa Cohn, and Jason Silva.
