Christian Madsbjerg is co-founder of ReD Associates and Senior Partner at ReD’s New York office. Christian has been leading projects and client programs since ReD’s foundation, focusing on ways to rigorously study human behavior and understand the use of particular methodologies in order to do so. He writes, teaches, and speaks about the kinds of methods and reasoning needed for fact-based investigations of human activity, emotions, and decision-making processes, and have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, and many other leading publications.
Christian’s latest book, Sensemaking: The Power Of Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm is a defense of the humanities and social sciences as essential approach to understanding people.
Retail’s Rubicon
Session Description: The physical and digital are converging, and nowhere more so than in retail. Amazon’s astonishing inroads are daunting. Yet retail will not be exclusively digital. From browsing, to purchase, to delivery—how do retailers balance the in-store and online experience? The full transcript is also available here as a downloadable PDF. Kirkpatrick: Mark, who’s a great […]
Esther Dyson: Health not Healthcare
Session Description: Will tech help us stay healthier? How will digital tools assist patients and help the system improve? An excerpt of the Health not Healthcare panel is below, but the full transcript can be accessed here. Kirkpatrick: We’re going to start with a big picture discussion about how technology plays a role, or doesn’t play a role, […]
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Techonomy 17
“The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Techonomy 2016. He has subsequently recanted.
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Health 17
Techonomy Health was a wide-ranging, day-long conference on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 for leaders about how healthcare is changing fast. How will tech shape the future of healthcare and extend it beyond medical institutions into all our lives?
