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Premiere of 2019 Startup Genome’s Global Report, including a world’s first: the rankings of deep tech startup ecosystems along the subsectors of life sciences, AI and blockchain. Learn the latest insights that crack the code of scaleups. With the mission of multiplying startup success in every city worldwide, Startup Genome conducts the only global research on startups and their ecosystems. Startup Genome is the leading innovation policy advisor, working with more than 35 governments across 25 countries.

Nike's keynote will give an overview of the Nike Direct strategy and how Nike is innovating to completely transform digital/physical retail and create unbreakable relationships with its customers. Nike will also showcase a new example of how they're doing this via breakthrough technology and capabilities that will solve for a 100-year-old problem in the footwear industry. Ultimately this development will have far reaching impacts for consumers, the industry and for Nike itself.

We are all passengers on a spaceship with limited resources: our planet. An astronaut’s journey into space bolsters this realization through ‘the overview effect’ — yet unfortunately we cannot all experience this transformative moment. SpaceBuzz, a brand new concept from ESA astronaut André Kuipers, uses this as a premise to educate the world’s children, creating a generation of earth ambassadors in the process.

Big Spam, if you don’t know, is a sassy love/hate letter to technology that Georgina started in 2018 and handwrites daily. Besides delivering the most important tech news of the day, Big Spam has polls, disgusting GIFs, puzzles, puns, and, artist takeovers. Basically, it's an experiment on how far we can twist what a newsletter is supposed to be, and in this talk Georgina will discuss all the horrific things we learned along the way. And also how you, our readers, are our cute, furry, and, probably diseased guinea pigs.

As a product leader at Google, Facebook, Strava, and more, Stephanie has dedicated her career to creating products and advancing technologies that drive social impact forward. She’ll share her lessons learned from building tools to aid in natural disaster response, expanding Google Maps across 80 cities, and launching over 100 voter engagement tools as CTO for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.

Our universe is bizarre. Why is most of the cosmos composed of mysterious dark matter? Why is the Higgs boson so strange? Why do atoms exist? The hottest-and-latest in physics suggests that the biggest puzzles of science could be elegantly solved if our universe were one of a possibly infinite number of universes. But is this a testable scientific idea, or eternally speculative? How do we talk about what's outside our universe? Join Dr. James Beacham, of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, as he explores the edges of knowledge -- including CERN's plans for a colossal Future Circular Collider -- and how the future of science, technology, and innovation will be much wilder than we can imagine.

Instead of a utopian future in which technological advancement casts a dazzling, emancipatory light on the world, we seem to be entering a new dark age characterised by ever more bizarre and unforeseen events. The Enlightenment ideal of distributing more information ever more widely has not led us to greater understanding and growing peace, but instead seems to be fostering social divisions, distrust, conspiracy theories and post-factual politics. How have we come to this point – and has utopia gone forever?

Tech companies based in Europe are faced with challenges. With a heavy emphasis on regulation and lack of funding, the EU should place higher priority on incentivizing talent and startup growth. In order for Europe to gain notoriety as an innovative ecosystem, the tech industry should improve recruitment and tackle diversity issues.

Kicking off the TNW2019 Conference in Amsterdam, tech evangelist Guy Kawasaki shared a number of unforgettable pieces of wisdom from his life in the industry over the past few decades.

If you are creating a work of art in any area of your life, you are not going from a known point A to a known point B but you will invent point B along the way. Whether your “art project” is a business strategy, a crisis response, or a new technology, this all starts with asking the right questions.  Drawing on her book Art Thinking, Amy will leave us with better tools to explore all questions on how to integrate the practical and creative parts of ourselves.

BuzzFeed publishes content across the largest digital media network in the world, fueled by world-class tech stack, and a number of innovative applications of machine learning and AI. With that, the advent of data has brought up important questions around ethics, manipulation, and potential harm. In this session, Gilad will highlight the multi-faceted nature of working on data science in an age of information warfare, manipulation, and mass propaganda.

NY Times bestselling author and serial entrepreneur Dave Kerpen shares key lessons learned on how to build successful relationships with other people that will get you far in social media, in business, and in life. Technology is changing fast - but people skills are more valuable than ever before. Don't miss this session - you will walk away with tips that will impact your life right away.

Des launched Intercom in 2011 as the first to bring messaging for sales, marketing, and customer service to one platform – helping companies of all sizes build personal relationships with customers. Before Intercom, Des was co-founder of Exceptional (now a part of Rackspace), the first error tracking company. Before Exceptional, he was a UX designer for web apps. He’s based in Dublin.

Raj is Chief Scientist and McAfee Fellow for cybersecurity firm, McAfee. He has assisted multiple law enforcement agencies in cybercrime cases, and is a Special Advisor to the European Cybercrime Centre.

In a world of gigs, frequent job changes and geographical moves, it's more imperative than ever to build your network for life. Having a personal "brain trust" to call on is key to your work future. Karen Wickre has spent 30 years in fast-moving Silicon Valley, where your network is your currency.  She will talk about how to make authentic contacts and stay in touch with them online — without crowding your diary.

This session will take you through the Bumble story - from fighting misogyny to launching disruptive creative campaigns whilst highlighting how Bumble successfully launched in multiple markets with one core message - women go first. Bumble took a problem in society and utilised tech function and creative innovative marketing to spread this message like wildfire. Troen has been critical to the expansion and consistency of this and will walk us through her thinking behind this. This keynote aims to showcase marketeers that focusing on mission first as a brand, whilst leading with kindness as a business, is key to building a thriving company in today’s modern world.

Students learn a lot in school - but are they learning the skills they need to be productive people at work, in their community, and their own lives? Are they learning how to effectively learn and follow their passions and curiosity to achieve greatness - or simply happiness? What if schools gave students more ownership over their learning the way an entrepreneur owns her own business success? This talk will be a panel session with students from a unique school in the Netherlands which does just that. A School with no classes, no teachers (ok, they have "coaches") where students own their own learning.

At TNW2018, Jack Constantine, CDO of Lush Cosmetics, took the stage with a rallying cry for other organizations to get their hands dirty and produce their own fresh, handmade technology. This year, Jack returns with a reflective view on the ethical tech that Lush Digital have produced that is changing the game for the tech x retail experience. From AI and ML technologies that are reducing the necessity for single use plastic packaging, to the open source till system boosting company profits, to opening the world’s first signage-free store, Jack will show you the future of retail technology, today.

Ever get the feeling you’re bombarded with too many pings, dings, and rings? You’re not alone. In an age of ever-increasing distraction, technological and otherwise, how can knowledge workers do their best work? Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, wrote the book on the secret psychology of technology. However, in this talk, Nir provides the antidote to the current distraction crisis. Nir shares the findings of his five years of research into how to master what he calls, "the skill of the century," the power to be "Indistractable." Nir's entertaining, research-backed talk provides practical advice and memorable strategies for managing distraction in business and life. Full video: https://youtu.be/WsxSxMzJeJ8 All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference

5 years of salary transparency, what it's like to take salaries public and what we've learned since then. This talk is about how Buffer took our salaries public almost 5 years ago and how we’ve since pushed for transparency across all areas of the company. We will also talk about how transparency encourage constant change and how we keep learning about ourselves to set a better example for the industry. Full video: https://youtu.be/9n6ZLV_SHUI All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference