With the pandemic easing, it’s time for businesses to square their shoulders and aggressively move toward a digital-first future. Lessons learned from COVID will help. More
Innovation Partner Insights Resilience
The Pressing Need for Innovation in Unexpected Places
Among the many painful lessons from a year of COVID-19 and lockdowns is that we live in a volatile world. Businesses of all kinds have been forced to reassess how they think about, and plan around, risk. More
Community Insights Resilience The Pandemic
2020 wasn’t all bad. Technology laid the groundwork for a better future.
It’s easy to dismiss this year as a total catastrophe, but 2020 has proven that, when used correctly, the right technology can provide the hope we need for improving the way we work, learn, and live. More
Education Resilience The Pandemic
For Homebound Kids, the Play’s the Thing
Among the laundry list of behaviors that have been upended by the pandemic is what constitutes playtime for kids. Playdates, playgrounds, and outdoor sports all but evaporated as the world locked down. Screens became the intermediary between kids and the physical world. The silver lining is that parents got to watch and even participate in […] More
Healthcare Resilience The Pandemic
COVID-19 Push to Virtual Therapy is Opening Up Mental Health
The pandemic-fueled fear, anxiety, and trauma the world has faced during the past few months has dramatically increased the need for mental health care across our country. Because in-person interactions have been so restricted, the value of virtual behavioral health for patients and providers during these unusual times is undeniable. That’s true for people in […] More
Resilience Sustainable Development Goals The Pandemic
What is Sustainability In a Pandemic-Ridden World?
We’re traveling less, using less gas, less energy. The air is cleaner, cities are quieter, but our environmental goals seem less urgent. What does the pandemic and a changed normal mean for our climate and the pathway to a cleaner, more sustainable world? More
Bio & Life Sciences Healthcare Resilience Techonomy Events
Making the World a Healthier Place through Digital Health
Moderated by W2O’s Aaron Strout, panel participants include Melissa Opraseuth, Chief Operating Officer at par8o and Jennifer Lavanture, Vice President of Business Development at MedRhythms. Panelists will discuss how the technology’s promise of advancing healthcare is being realized at both their companies and how this sector will evolve over the next couple of years. More
Resilience Tech & Society The Pandemic
TECH+Education Event – The Back to School Dilemma
America’s families face wrenching uncertainty and a lose-lose situation. We want our kids back in school, but what about the real risks to them and us if they are? However, staying at home means emotional challenges piled on top of educational ones. And for the food insecure and the 30% of kids without enough at-home connectivity, the problems become a nightmare. Will kids be able to learn this fall? More
Managing Resilience Tech & Society
That Scream You Hear? A Parent Facing Summer Without Camp
With summer camp essentially impossible, innovative parents are turning to alternatives. There are lots of online programs or you can restructure family life, but there are ways to avoid parental burnout this summer. More
Community Insights Healthcare Resilience
How Second-Order Effects Will Shape the Post COVID-19 World
As we await a vaccine that may confer widespread immunity, how successfully we collectively address the Second Order Effects of the pandemic will shape our destiny. More
Global Tech Healthcare Resilience
What’s Next for Testing, Tracking, Treatment, and Tech?
As we seek to move to a safer phase of Covid-19 response and remediation around the world, how is tech contributing? Experts in testing, tracking, and treatment joined our roundtable to help Techonomy’s community ground itself in the new realities. More
Inclusion Learning Resilience Video
How the Covid Crisis May Help Transform Higher Education
Higher ed has changed almost overnight. Universities and colleges face huge new challenges, but when higher ed gets technologized, there are positives. We can, for example, glimpse a more affordable and accessible future for digitized higher education. What will things look like this fall, and beyond? More
Arts & Culture Media & Marketing Resilience
Yes There is Still Good News, and It’s Amplified Online
A new type of high-tech busking is emerging, and a big canvas that is both isolated and worldwide is taking root. Raskin explains and puts your FOMO at ease with her calendar-based compendium of live, virtual events. More
Leadership Media & Marketing Resilience
Martin Sorrell: A V-Shaped Recovery, and Vast Digital Transformation
Ad veteran Martin Sorrell told an online Techonomy roundtable last Friday that the economy will be back by end of year, Trump will be re-elected, and that few non-digital vestiges will be left in society and business once Covid gets through with us. More
Companies Respond to the Crisis with Open Innovation
In this environment companies may have little choice but to move toward the movement known as "Open Innovation." It takes cultural readiness, but is a reliable tool for a dangerous period. More
Community Insights Democracy Government Resilience
Making Elections Resilient Against Pandemics
COVID-19 hits in an election year, which raises many questions about how we cope. We need modern voting tech to help democracy be more resilient, argues a former director of research at the NSA. More
John Chambers Expects Crisis to Persist Through December
The inaugural online roundtable hosted by Techonomy Media last Friday featured longtime Cisco CEO John Chambers, who had led the company through four major crises. Drawing on his experience, he offers insightful and actionable advice for today's leaders. More
Community Insights Design Resilience The Future of Work
The Office is Dead. Long Live the Office.
The social construct most affected by COVID-19 is office work. When we return to offices, the standards and norms the govern how we work will have irrevocably changed. More
Bio & Life Sciences Healthcare Resilience
A New Kind of COVID-19 Test Could Get Health Workers Back in Action
Another sort of test is possible. By looking at who’s already had COVID-19, rather than who has it now, we could help healthcare workers stay on the job. More
Community Insights Resilience Tech & Society
Are We Ready for a Do-Not-Touch World?
Touching was already getting touchier. Now, life under threat of COVID-19 is the ultimate touchless state. But as we reign in touch we lose communication and comfort. More
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