In today’s economic landscape, no business model, company, or industry is immune to disruption. Every industry and organization needs to transform… or perish. At O’Reilly’s Next:Economy summit, the geeks met the suits to explore the future of work in an era of sweeping technology-driven transformation. This complete video compilation puts you at the center of every presentation.
You’ll hear from key executives …
In today’s economic landscape, no business model, company, or industry is immune to disruption. Every industry and organization needs to transform… or perish. At O’Reilly’s Next:Economy summit, the geeks met the suits to explore the future of work in an era of sweeping technology-driven transformation. This complete video compilation puts you at the center of every presentation.
You’ll hear from key executives of companies driving the transformation; economists, journalists and policymakers studying it; and people on the front lines of the revolution: workers taking on new jobs in new kinds of businesses, along with inventors, investors, and entrepreneurs who are changing the world with their products and services.
You’ll also hear from a broad spectrum of businesses whose industries are now undergoing transformation. Everyone’s asking WTF? (“What's the future?”), with questions that include:
Pick up these videos and learn how technology is shaping the future of industries, companies, and the nature of work.
Setting the stage
Next:Economy Summit 2015 - What’s the future of work?
Opening welcome - Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media), Steven Levy (Backchannel), Lauren Smiley (Medium)
No ordinary disruption - James Manyika (McKinsey Global Institute)
Minds and Machines
From self-driving cars to retraining humans - Sebastian Thrun, Co-Founder and CEO, Udacity
The future of personal assistants - Adam Cheyer, Co-founder and VP of Engineering, Viv and Alexandre Lebrun, Head, Wit.ai, Facebook
Will robots augment us or rule us? - John Markoff, Journalist, New York Times; and Jerry Kaplan, Visiting Lecturer, and Fellow at The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, Stanford University
“Knowledge Work”: No longer safe from automation - Kristian Hammond, Chief Scientist, Narrative Science
The first machine age isn’t over yet
The small scale factory of the future - Limor Fried, hacker, slacker, code cracker, Adafruit Industries
One, two, three, boom! - Mark Hatch, CEO, TechShop
Why services aren’t enough - Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
Workers in a world of continuous partial employment
Does on demand require independent contractors? - Leah Busque, Founder, TaskRabbit
What’s it like to drive for Uber or Lyft? - Eric Barajas, Driver, Uber; Jon Kessler, Driver, Lyft; and Kelly Dessaint, Driver, National Veterans Cab
Networks and the nature of the firm
The changing nature of work - Esko Kilpi, Managing Director, Esko Kilpi Company
What’s the investment opportunity? - Simon Rothman, Partner, Greylock Partners; Gary Swart, Venture Partner, Polaris Partners; and James Cham, Bloomberg Beta
Supporting workers in the on-demand economy - Nick Grossman, General Manager, Union Square Ventures
Creating better teams - Stewart Butterfield, Co-founder and CEO, Slack
Tax and accounting tools for the franchise of one - Brad Smith, President and CEO, Intuit
Flexibility needed: Not just for on-demand workers - Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America
Humans need not apply? Not so fast! - Nick Hanauer (Second Avenue Partners)
The entrepreneurial learner and the new career arc
Managing talent in the networked age - Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder Executive Chairman | Partner, LinkedIn | Greylock Partners; Zoë Baird, CEO and President, Markle Foundation
Exponential teaching - Kimberly Bryant, Founder, Black Girls CODE
Matching workers with opportunities at high velocity - Stephane Kasriel, CEO, Upwork
Augmented workers
Intelligent agents, augmented reality, and the future of productivity - Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
Augmented reality in the factory - Brian Mullins, Founder and CEO, DAQRI
How augmented workers grow the market - David Plouffe, Chief Advisor and Member of the Board, Uber
Reinventing healthcare - Lynda Chin, Director, Institute for Health Transformation
What if the robots do take all our jobs?
Policy action recommendations for the 21st century economy - Zoë Baird, CEO and President, Markle Foundation; Neera Tanden, President, Center for American Progress; and Felicia Wong, President and CEO, Roosevelt Institute
Rewiring the US labor market - Byron Auguste, Managing Director, Opportunity@Work
Worker voice in the 21st century - Jess Kutch, Digital Strategist and Co-founder, Coworker.org; Michelle Miller, Co-founder, Coworker.org
Reinventing the labor union - Andrew Stern, Senior Fellow, Columbia University; Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer / CFO, AFL-CIO
Portable benefits and the “shared security account” - Laura Tyson, Professor Director of Institute for Business and Social Impact, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley; Nick Hanauer, Co-founder and Partner, Second Avenue Partners; and David Rolf, President, SEIU 775
Work, not jobs, and the future we want
Reinventing public transportation - Logan Green, CEO, Lyft
A people-centered economy - Chad Dickerson, CEO, Etsy
The good jobs strategy - Dan Teran, co-founder, Managed by Q; and Palak Shah, Social Innovations Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance - Part 1
Enable people, and they will amaze you - Evan Williams, CEO, The Obvious Corporation
Closing remarks - Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media), Steven Levy (Backchannel), and Lauren Smiley (Medium)