Experience the future as it takes shape
Firmly focused on the future, we're partnering with The Wall Street Journal to showcase their upcoming event, The Future Of Everything Festival. In this Special Edition we're highlighting the best articles related to the themes covered by the event. With world-class experts from all spheres of life and business leading discussions and talks, there is no better time to register.
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Why AI That Teaches Itself to Achieve a Goal Is the Next Big Thing
What’s the difference between the creative power of game-playing AIs and the predictive AIs most companies seem to use? How they learn. The AIs that thrive at games like Go, creating never before seen strategies, use an approach called reinforcement learning.
Technology helped us navigate the pandemic. Join The Wall Street Journal at The Future Of Everything Festival, online May 11–13, as business leaders from across industries look ahead to how it will continue to change the way we live, work and play.
On the day of its March IPO, Roblox valuation soared from $29.5 to $45 billion. The video game platform’s chief executive, David Baszucki, looks at what’s next for gaming and whether or not investors will stay sweet on tech.
The airline industry is preparing for pent up travel demand. Delta’s chief executive, Ed Bastian, shares his bets on technological advancements, sustainability and heightened health and safety measures that might define air travel in the coming years.
Valued at $3 billion, cloud-based scheduling platform Calendly is a pandemic success story. The company’s founder and CEO, Tope Awotona, presents a playbook for building a unicorn tech company, as well as how remote work has accelerated our reliance on AI and machine learning.
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Artificial Intelligence in ophthalmology
Telemedicine and artificial intelligence (AI) provide solutions to the challenges faced by ophthalmologists and healthcare professionals around the world.
Elon Musk Is A Critic Of Laser Lidar For Autonomous Cars, But Top Tesla Lawyer Joins Luminar
Luminar, a newly public maker of laser lidar sensors that help self-driving cars see their surroundings, has hired Tesla’s acting general counsel Alan Prescott as chief legal officer.
The future outlook of IoT technologies and applications
For over a decade we have witnessed a proliferation of internet-connected devices. Nowadays, the number of internet-connected devices is estimated to be around 25 billion.
SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in the hot seat
The sprawling hacking campaign deemed a grave threat to U.S. national security came to be known as SolarWinds, for the company whose software update was seeded by Russian intelligence agents with malware to penetrate sensitive government and private networks.
As companies begin to think about a return to the office (or not), join The Wall Street Journal for The Future Of Everything Festival, online May 11–13, where you’ll hear from founders and CEOs on their approaches to innovation, adaptation and leading through a global pandemic.
Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund—Bridgewater Associates—discusses how the pandemic’s financial fallout is an opportunity for reinvention, from closing the wealth gap to rethinking our relationships with the workplace and technology.
For WeWork, Covid-19 meant managing a tenant exodus. The company’s chief executive, Sandeep Mathrani, offers projections for an office rebound, as the company again prepares to go public—this time via a special-purpose acquisition company.
Not many CEOs speak openly about personal challenges as a way of shaping company strategy. The leader of Pernod Ricard, Ann Mukherjee, does just that, showing us what ethical leadership—and the creative evolution of an alcohol brand—looks like in the process.
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Where Does Management Stop and Leadership Start?
Most people don't know when to use management versus leadership. As a result, both end up collapsed.
Post-pandemic: What skills will you need to thrive?
Digital transformation is profoundly changing the nature of work and forward-thinking leaders recognise we’re living in the midst of ‘The Great Acceleration’.
What’s next for the way we spend, save and invest? Join The Wall Street Journal for The Future Of Everything Festival, online May 11–13, where trailblazers from Wall Street to Washington will discuss the future of the economy, regulation and your nest egg.
Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital’s billionaire hedge-fund manager, unpacks the latest trends on Wall Street, from the GameStop craze to the sizzling SPAC market.
Digital assets such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are on the rise. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce, one of the SEC’s most vocal digital-currency supporters, sheds light on what might come next for crypto regulation.
The health crisis forced companies to step up their cashless game. Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach discusses the company’s own pivots, which payment technologies are here to stay and whether or not paper currency’s days are numbered.
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Bitcoin? We Want Britcoin!
The Bank of England and the UK Treasury have announced a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Taskforce to coordinate the exploration of a potential British CBDC.
Coinbase’s direct listing alters the landscape for fintech and crypto startups
Coinbase’s direct listing was a massive finance, startup and cryptocurrency event that impacted a host of public and private investors, early employees, and crypto-enthusiasts.
How can individuals and companies champion a cause beyond signing a blank check? Join The Wall Street Journal for The Future Of Everything Festival, online May 11–13, where you’ll hear from visionaries across industries who are making real change toward social justice, economic equality and saving the planet.
Covid-19 has laid bare the link between food accessibility and socioeconomic mobility. High-profile chefs José Andrés and Rachael Ray discuss how policymakers and community leaders must rethink their approach to preventing hunger before the next crisis hits.
Tessa Khan, a climate-change lawyer and founder of Uplift, an organization that helps individuals prosecute their governments over environmental policies, will lay out why litigation is set to become a key tool in the fight to protect the planet.
Miranda Wang, the founder and chief executive of Novoloop, is on a mission to transform everyday plastic waste into high-performance materials for everything from running shoes to car interiors. Ms. Wang outlines the gamechanging technology that gives plastic scrap a second life and explains what this means for the health and future of the circular economy.
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Is Agroecology Being Co-Opted by Big Ag?
As climate-smart farming initiatives scale up, experts decry ‘junk agroecology’—global initiatives they say are cherry-picking sustainable practices, while denying political realities.
So what has the rest of the world promised to do about climate change?
Countries around the globe have made plans called Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to reduce carbon emissions. We take a look at some of the most significant