New video: Digital Media Strategist Carlo Donzella and Futurist Gerd Leonhard talk about Smart Cities

 

This is the 3rd pilot for my new web-tv show called Meetings of the Mind (MotM), soon to be available at www.meetingsofthemind.tv). In this episode I talk to Carlo Donzella, in Rome / Italy see http://twitter.com/nerissimo 

As an advisor to the Lazio Region of Rome, Carlo has recently been involved in the Futouring.it project which has created 6 world-class digital media experiences for 6 world-heritage sites within the Lazio region. Carlo also teaches the "Brave New Media World" course at the Master in Development, Innovation and Change (MiDIC) of the University of Bologna (Italy) and at the PopAkademie of the University of Mannheim (Germany).

A reviewer for dozens of international projects, he has covered various executive and consulting roles with many public agencies and private enterprises.

We discuss Carlo's work in digital, smart cities, and ponder what the future may hold for cities that use social local mobile video and cloud applications to engage with their visitors, citizens and fans.  This is a wide-ranging discussion that covers a ton of stuff - hope you like it.  Audio track will go up on www.futuretalks.com soon, as well!

Audio-only (podcast)

 

MotM3 Carlo Donzella Gerd Leonhard Smart Cities

 

New video for my German tweeps: Zukunft der Medien / Verlage / Publishing (Medienforum NRW Juni 2012)

IN GERMAN: Meine Keynote vom Medienforum NRW im Juni 2012, zum Thema Zukunft von Verlagen, News/Paper/Print, Publishing, Content. Siehe dieses Interview: http://gerd.fm/MkkNH2 Das PDF mit der Slideshow ist hier: http://db.tt/01NrBcj8 Das Video ist cross-posted von http://youtu.be/X0lJJ3l7II0  Besten Dank and das Medienforum NRW http://www.youtube.com/user/medienforumNRW

 

New video: Future of Mobile & Apps (NextBigApp event in Moscow)

Future of Mobile & Apps: Futurist Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard (NextGreatAppMoscow) (by gleonhard)

This video is overdubbed in RUSSIAN language, featuring Futurist and Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard at the NextGreatApp event in Moscow, May 24, 2012; presented by Sberbank see http://digitaloctober.com/event/next_great_app for more details. Topics include the future of apps, commerce, mobile and social. The PDF with the slides can be downloaded here: http://db.tt/a4acS8D5

via www.thefuturesagency.com

Cool video - with Russian translator overdup:)

Video interview, review of my talk at Digital London: from Ego to Eco (Futurist Gerd Leonhard)

Here's a brand-new video from DigitalLondon 2012; good interview with many key topics covered such as sustainability, making money in a networked society, control versus trust, access versus ownership, future of content,  climate change and global warming, how to become a networked company, why interdependence is the future, and much more.

Update: TechWorld has an interesting review of my talk, here. The best snippets:

Speaking at the Digital London conference this week, Gerd Leonhard, futurist and CEO of The Futures Agency, said that over the next decade, society needs to make the shift “from Ego to Eco”. “Global warming constitutes the biggest market failure in the history of capitalism,” said Leonhard. “The world is over-heated, over-spending and over-crowded, and a continued focus on growth alone may well kill us.” 

He said that we are now moving from the “age of the network” to the “age of the networked”, where the concerns of the masses overtake the concerns of the one percent at the top of the economic pyramid. Leonhard identifies this as a major trend in business, energy and in politics. “Our entire system of economics and energy used to be based on systems that you had to invest in to build – and those were based on a closed system,” he said. “Now, because of the internet, systems are opening up and we can be decentralised. It's no longer important that you own the power plant, because if you have a distributed network of three million wind turbines you can do the same thing.”

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Video of Sept. 8 vPanel: Mobile Commerce: The Decade Ahead (IBM Global Business Services)

I really enjoyed being a speaker on this IBM panel discussion and webcast, today. More details. Twitter Buzz here

The other panelists were:

Alon Kronenberg, Practice Lead, Mobile Applications Practice, IBM Global Business Services (Host)

James Wester, Editor of Mobile Payments Today (@jameswester)

Molly Garris -  Director, Digital Strategy at Arc Worldwide (@girliefromthed)

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New video: "Friction is Fiction" explained

This video summarizes the key messages of my 2009 book "Friction is fiction" (free PDF). The bottom line is that in a networked and digital society we can no longer merely rely on FRICTION i.e. planned hurdles and carefully placed obstactles to enforce payments or otherwise get paid for something. Most traditional  friction points - whether in media / content, communications / marketing or business and commerce - can now be easily bypassed (see free music streaming vs itunes, Youtube / Netflix vs cable-tv, whatsapp vs sms etc), and this trend will only accelerate. IMHO I think it will suit us better to get used to it now, i.e. we may want to lessen our dependence on friction and increase our efforts to monetize based on radical user empowerment. Think Zappos not Barnes & Noble. Be sure to watch this related video recorded at TedXWarwick on the same topic.

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Futurist Conversations: The Future of Money (Ross Dawson & Gerd Leonhard Video)

Ross Dawson and me recently met in Sydney (where I spoke at the Google ThinkTravel event, on The Consumer of Tomorrow) to do some videos together. The first episode is now live on Youtube, on the Future of Money. I think this turned out quite well and provides some interesting brain-teasers. You?

Ross has a good summary of what we discussed:

* The world of money is opening out in a big way today
* Facebook credits are becoming an important alternative currency
* Cash will phase out for digital payments
* The rise of Bitcoin is important in shifting transactions out of the purvey of governments
* In many developing countries mobile phones are becoming the predominant banking platform
* Micro-payments for content could work through social media and dominant platforms such as China’s QQ
* These could flow into crowdfunding for creative endeavors
* Behaviorally we are some way from micro-payments working well
* Money will inevitably shift to the cloud

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New video: TedXWarwick: Friction is Fiction (the future of business)

18 minutes can be quite short, I think; I always feel a bit rushed as a consequence. But either way, I would love to get your feedback on what you think about this  fast-paced presentation; so please leave your comments below or email me.  To make this a bit easier, here is the PDF (18MB) of my slides: TedXWarwick Gerd Leonhard PDF. Provided under the usual creative commons attribution non-commercial license, just like all my other slideshows and videos. Most other TedXWarwick can be found here. You can download my book "Friction is Fiction" here (free and hopefully 'friction-less' PDF), or buy a dead-tree version here.

 

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Video interview with The MusicVoid

A lot of interesting topics are covered here (Midem 2010)

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The Networked Society: a quick overview (Ericsson event at Mobile World Congress 2011)

I really enjoyed doing this event with Jeff Cole, Stephen Berlin Johnson, and the Mikkelsen brothers (Refugees United), at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, on Monday. My slideshow is below, and you can watch the 11-minute video here, as well.

Welcome to the Networked Society Gerd Leonhard MWC 2011

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My presentation at MidemNet Academy in Cannes: Innovation ideas for the music industry

Here is the PDF from today's event at MIDEM 2011 in Cannes, as promised (5.5 MB PDF) More details soon! Check out the Musically blog coverage, and the twitter buzz.

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Social Media for Music Professionals (Berklee College of Music Seminar)

Last week, while in Boston, I was invited by my Alma Mater (Berklee College of Music) to do a workshop on how social media can help musicians and music professionals to build a better career for themselves.  The PDF is here (8MB), and the M4V file (iPod, 500 MB) video can be downloaded here. All is provided under the usual Creative Commons Attribution / Non-Commercial license.  Enjoy and re-tweet this if you can. Update: audio-only version (MP3)

Gerd Leonhard at Berklee on Social Media (Audio Only)

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