Executives who want to transform their companies into digital ones may be looking at acquisitions like Amazon purchase of Whole Foods with envy. But first they should consider their access to data and how digitally-savvy their leadership is. More
Business Community Insights Managing
Instant Enterprises and Techonomic Leadership: Is your Organization Ready?
Two-thirds of U.S. CEOs believe the next 36 months will be more critical than the previous 50 years. More than half of the Fortune 500 has been wiped out since 2000. We need a new kind of "techonomic" leadership. But to get there, training needs to become more about systems than than just better-trained people. More
Business From the Magazine Innovation
Big Companies are Learning to Work with Small Ones (But It’s Not Easy)
Big established companies are acquiring, investing in, or partnering with startups in record numbers. But how can incumbents do it right, moving quickly and learning from their smaller brethren? General Motors and Banco Santander are among those finding success.
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Zuckerberg is Changing—Can Facebook Catch Up?
Building communities is hard. Mark Zuckerberg now wants Facebook to deliberately do more of it and to "bring the world closer together." But Yatish Rajawat of India's LocalCircles has actually been managing online purpose-based communities, and learned difficult lessons in the process. Is Facebook really ready to follow its leader? More
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Delaware Drives Blockchain Innovation
Delaware is the corporate home to the biggest tech companies and many others in the Fortune 500, but it wants to continue to innovate in the services and tools that it offers companies. So the state is breaking new ground in regulation by facilitating the use of blockchain technology for record keeping and other purposes. On August 1st, the state's initial blockchain law goes into effect. More
Business Community Insights The Internet
Winners and Losers in Next-Generation Internet Infrastructure
Global communications networks are at least as critical today as roads and bridges, but unlike most physical infrastructure, they aren't improved the same way. Software has emerged as the centerpiece for digital infrastructure. It means we can move more quickly, and along the way improve society. More
Business Security & Privacy Society
Are Connected Toys Worth the Risk?
Children's toys and rooms are quickly becoming connected, like just about everything else. Parents may find monitors useful and talking toys a merciful distraction, but is this new digital world safe? Big companies like Mattel, whose Hello Barbie is illustrated here, may handle the responsibilities, but the raft of startups creeping toward our children's lives may be another matter. More
How Customers Pay to Help Big Companies Innovate
Innovating effectively is an urgent imperative for big companies. Now some are working with Indiegogo to crowdfund consumer products that might not have met former thresholds for money and attention. If interest is there, the scale-up happens fast at companies like Whirlpool and GE. (From the latest issue of Techonomy Magazine) More
Our New Video: A Window to the Techonomy Experience
It is hard to put into word what makes our Techonomy events so unique. The blend of highly developed programming, thoughtful room-wide conversations, and amazing networking. The carefully curated group of top thinkers, business executives, and entrepreneurs. Our conferences provide a fertile environment for collaboration and discussion focused on tech’s impact on business and society. […] More
Techonomy returns to New York for two days of intense conversation about technology’s impact on business and society
GE’s Beth Comstock, Arianna Huffington of Thrive Global, and John Martin of Turner are among 60 speakers dissecting the role of tech on social and economic progress, and especially in health. New York City, NY, April 18, 2017 – Techonomy, a leading events and media company focused on helping organizations and executives prepare for the […] More
Impressive Bipartisan Senate Action Promotes Online Healthcare
The Senate Finance Committee has moved legislation to finance telehealth services via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, reports Modern Healthcare. The fact that it was the powerful Finance Committee that took this action is all the more significant, and welcome. Could it portend ongoing support for digital health measures in Congress? It would be wonderful to think so... More
Longevity Moonshots with Craig Venter
StartUp Health NOW: Longevity Moonshots, with Craig Venter, PhD More
Who Makes The Rules For The Global Digital Economy? DLD17
Cloud computing and digital platforms offer huge benefits for people around the world. But the rise of large and powerful global technology platforms owned by commercial companies raises fundamental questions. What kind of rights, rules and responsibilities should govern this new landscape? What is the role of nation-states, when technology is global and data moves seamlessly across international borders? What kind of rules will best insure that tech is a force for good? Who should set them? And how can tech companies, governments and civil society best begin to address these issues? More
What’s Missing at CES 2017?
David Kirkpatrick, Founder and CEO of Techonomy, chats with Dodi Axelson at CES 2017. More
Beyond Technology And Data at DLD17
Digitalization comes with both - possibilities and challenges. In this talk Ian Goldin, Timotheus Hoettges and Niko Mohr will navigate through the fields of automation and AI. They will discuss how this will affect our life and society in the near future and how we can learn from history to face and cope with change. More
Democratizing Everything
David Liu of XO Group explains why he thinks our interest in democratizing everything is creating an uninspired society. More
The Failing Global Governance
Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau of the European Commission at Techonomy 2014. More
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