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Adam Stead

As Research & Content Producer, Adam finds and publishes up-to-date expertise regarding how disruptive technology will drive change business and life.

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The Personalisation Dinner

on 14-Nov-2017 17:18:30 By | Adam Stead | 0 Comments | Thought Leadership
This interactive dinner took place at Searcys at The Gherkin on the 8th November. It was a dinner for industry leaders from backgrounds such as finance, retail, media and the public sector. The dinner was conducted in partnership with Optimizely.
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VOICE BOTS AND THE RISE OF THE CUSTOMER-MANAGER

on 14-Nov-2017 16:08:31 By | Adam Stead | 0 Comments | Thought Leadership
Christmas approaches: Amazon Echo was Amazon’s most bought product over the 2016 Christmas period, and stakeholders will be watching anxiously to see if they’re still selling as the novelty wears off. Creative Strategies found that 22% of early adopters used their Amazon Echo less over time.[1] But businesses should also watch. Just as screen-based computers and mobiles have changed how they must present themselves, voice, in its infancy, could too.
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Event Report: Army HQ Innovation Panel

on 27-Oct-2017 16:58:13 By | Adam Stead | 0 Comments | Event reports
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ARTIFICIAL DISTANCE

on 20-Oct-2017 11:10:21 By | Adam Stead | 0 Comments | Thought Leadership
The collapse of distance is perhaps the most politicised technological trend. Travel is now brief; communication, instant. Economic globalisation has too many consequences for wealth and its distribution to list; and over the 1990s, immigration to the UK increased substantially.1 Technologies such as real-time translate earphones, or global freelance marketplaces enabled by smart contracts, will soon be implemented.
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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE: THE VIRTUES OF LEADERSHIP

on 19-Oct-2017 16:09:02 By | Adam Stead | 0 Comments | Thought Leadership
Leadership was on the news as I went to meet Julian Tranter, the MD of Environmental Services at Kier Group. There are few companies less like his than Uber, the flashy and scandal-prone private hire company. Uber has had a bad year: the CEO resigned in June.1
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DATA AND ETHICS

on 12-Oct-2017 12:33:05 By | Adam Stead | 0 Comments | Thought Leadership
The forthcoming ‘right to be forgotten’ aims to change a world in which everything is remembered. Currently, clicking through the internet is like wading through deep snow. It is visible exactly where you have been.
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POLITICS: A DISRUPTION

on 06-Oct-2017 11:13:59 By | Adam Stead | 0 Comments | Thought Leadership
Although the democratisation of information is a net positive, it is worth examining the negative consequences. The media is possibly the industry which has been most substantially changed by a disruptive technology – the internet. Those changes are still unfolding. But since the press has specific duties in the context of a democracy, it follows that politics, for better or worse, has been disrupted too.
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THE COOKIE JAR: DATA & ADVERTISING

on 22-Sep-2017 10:53:34 By | Adam Stead | 0 Comments | Thought Leadership
Mad Men is a popular TV series depicting 1960s advertising in America, the industry’s “golden age”. In one memorable scene, several creatives meditate about how to sell lipstick to women. Eventually they ask the chief creative’s PA what women might like. If they went on to discuss where to place the ad to maximise ROI, it was not depicted.
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INSIGHTS FROM 2017 SEPTEMBER IGNITE

on 14-Sep-2017 17:21:47 By | Adam Stead | 0 Comments | IGNITE Summits
Automation, Data, and Trust - themes which converged at this September’s IGNITE 14th SEPTEMBER - and Nimbus Ninety's office is already (mostly) clear of bits of kit packed away following another successful 'IGNITE' event. It was a tremendous conference, and we'd like to thank everybody who spoke, everybody who attended, the venue, and our sponsors.
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Expert Perspective: The Cusp Of The Matrix

on 30-Aug-2017 09:30:00 By | Adam Stead | 0 Comments | Case Studies & Interviews
Catherine Allen is an immersive media specialist, having led the production of two of the BBC’s first VR experiences and contributed on VR to WIRED. I wanted to ask her what the future holds for VR, and to find out, we all be living in virtual spaces in the future?
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