Celebrating our cultural differences/commonalities
About the collider
The Collider is a knowledge-sharing event powered by multidisciplinary leaders who want to foster collaborative learning that yields innovations to emerge in the interplay between disciplines.
The Collider is a leadership network that create a serendipitous learning space in which these individuals can safely explore ways to support each other in gaining new insights and in accelerating personal and corporate transformations to create resilient organisations that sustainably innovate and create jobs.
Christophe has a sense of the zeitgeist that comes from his extremely wide network. He is also a terrific team leader. The people he brings on are always focused, involved, and connected with each other. His teams produce!
Director of Sector Reputation, Bell-Pottinger Sans-Frontieres
Mark Linder
Professor Sarah Harper, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
Lizzie Shupak, Senior Biz Consultant // Global Innovation - LBi
Richard Wheaton,EMEA CEO, neo@ogilvy
Jeremy Swinfen-Green, Managing Director, Amberlight
Amelia Torode, Head of Innovation & Venture Strategy, VCCP
Daina Middleton, Global CEO, Performics
Dana Eyre, Principal, Eyre & Associates Inc.
Professor William H. Dutton, Principal Investigator of the Oxford e-Social Science Project
Jason Bacon, Director, VW Consulting
Professor Robin Mansell, Dept of Media and Communications, LSE
John V Willshire, Founder, Smithery
Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Group
Alastair Duncan, Partner, Alternative Genius
Catriona Campbell, Founding Director, Seren
Leonardo Metelli, Director, Xbox Live EMEA Advertising
Mark Linder, Director of Sector Reputation, Bell-Pottinger Sans-Frontieres
Anil Pillai, UK CEO, LBi
Americo Campos Silva, Global Media Manager, Shell
Paul Constantine, Managing Partner, ZenithOptimedia
Andy Mihalop, Head of Biddable Media, MediaCom UK
Le’Nise Brothers, Group activation director, global solutions, MEC
Justin Cooke, CEO, POSSIBLE UK
The Elephant and the blind Men
Once an elephant came to a small town. People had read and heard of elephants but no one in the town had ever seen one. Thus, a huge crowd gathered around the elephant, and it was an occasion for great fun, especially for the children. Five blind men also lived in that town, and consequently, … Continued
Using Our Practical Wisdom
In an intimate talk, Barry Schwartz dives into the question “How do we do the right thing?” With help from collaborator Kenneth Sharpe, he shares stories that illustrate the difference between following the rules and truly choosing wisely.
India’s invisible innovation
Can India become a global hub for innovation? Nirmalya Kumar thinks it already has. He details four types of "invisible innovation" currently coming out of India
The Next Revolution Will Be Psychological…
One of marketing’s most original thinkers and influential speakers, Rory is a leading light in the advertising industry and as outspoken as he is creative.
Economic Growth through Open Data
Professor Nigel Shadbolt discusses the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making during his opening keynote of the conference Internet, Politics, Policy 2012: Big Data, Big Challenges? organised by the OII-edited journal Policy and Internet…
The Mind is Flat
When we choose a car, vote, or make a moral choice, we imagine ourselves driven by deep motivations and desires. But one of the insights of modern behavioural science is that this feeling is almost entirely an illusion. Rather than…
Who Owns The Future?
Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer…
Race Against The Machine
“We ain’t seen nothing yet when it comes to technology’s impact on the labor force.” Automation redefined blue collar employment and reshaped a global economy. Now, technology is replacing higher skilled jobs by augmenting human brainpower the way steam engines augmented human labor. Andrew McAfee braces us for a fundamental transformation in the future of … Continued
Value & Worth
Value & Worth: Creating New Markets in the Digital Economy. Today’s world is dominated by rapid technological developments, constantly changing the way we live, learn, communicate and interact, and impacting the way we use objects and services to help us achieve our outcomes. By acquiring objects and technologies, we have become better at solving problems, … Continued
The Lean Startup
The Lean Startup movement is taking hold in companies both new and established to help entrepreneurs and managers do one important thing: make better, faster business decisions. Vastly better, faster business decisions. Bringing principles from lean manufacturing and agile development…
MIT’s Vision for the Digital Economy
Erik Brynjolfsson is the Schussel Family Professor of Management Science, a Professor of Information Technology, and the Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Brynjolfsson explores how advances in information technology contribute…
The 21st century the last century of Youth
Oxford University gerontologist Professor Sarah Harper spoke about the implications of a falling birth rate coupled with rising longevity – a phenomenon affecting most countries across the globe. She asks what implications this will have for societies, their economies and…
The Power of Outrospection
I believe that empathy – the imaginative act of stepping into another person’s shoes and viewing the world from their perspective – is a radical tool for social change and should be a guiding light for the art of living.…
The End of Growth
Richard Heinberg examines the ongoing financial crisis, explaining how and why it occurred, and what we must do to avert the worst potential outcomes. Describes what policymakers, communities, and families can do to build a new economy that operates within Earth’s budget of energy and resources. Heinberg argues we can thrive during the transition if … Continued
Perfect Storm
As many readers will know, I’ve spent a long time researching a major report on the fundamentals of the economic outlook. This report is now available for download here. The central theme is that we are at the confluence of no less than four critical economic trends. Whilst each is disturbing enough in itself, the combination of … Continued
Are Brands Fracking The Social Web?
Are Brands Fracking The Social Web? – v2.0 from John V Willshire
Renewing the Knowledge Societies Vision
UNESCO commissioned research on knowledge societies topics focusing on the following themes: open technologies, literacy, persons with disabilities, media, indigenous peoples, citizen science and info-ethics. The summaries highlight recent development, trends and recommendations for the post 2015 world. – See…
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
—Albert EinsteinIt never ceases to surprise me at the infinite capacity of the human mind to resist the introduction of useful knowledge.
—Thomas Raynesford LounsburyLife is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
—Jose Ortega y GassetWe thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
—BonoAsk the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.
—Vanessa RedgraveIt's not that they can't see the solution. They can't see the problem.
—G.K. ChestertonJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
—VoltaireThe scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
—Claude Lévi-StraussIn school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.
—Richard Saul WurmanComputers are useless. They can only give you answers.
—Pablo Picasso
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