Why Meta’s Maxine Williams thinks diversity is ‘a business imperative, full stop’


If a company wants to offer great products and services, it’s important to hire the smartest people. But it’s also important that these people don’t all look and think the same — that they bring their own unique backgrounds and experiences to the

Can we ‘reprogramme’ our brain for happiness? Former head of Google X says yes


There are probably a billion and one self help books out there claiming to have the key or the secret formula to happiness. Mo Gadwat’s series of books: Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy and his upcoming That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Cod

The rise of the CPO: Why this role is more important than ever


As businesses navigate the increasing demands of digital transformation and product-led growth, the role of the CPO — as a facilitator of this transition — is more important than ever. Speaking at TNW Conference 2022, Renee Niemi, CPO at non-profit organizat

Founders: It’s time to look beyond VCs, and approach angel investors


Global VC funding reached $143.9 billion in the first quarter of 2022 — down 19% from the previous quarter. Amidst the current recession and looming uncertainty, VCs seem to be pulling out of the market, which means that startups need to turn to alternative

President Zelensky’s hologram addresses 4 tech conferences across Europe — here’s what he had to say


In an unprecedented turn of events, President Zelensky of Ukraine appeared as a surprise guest at four of Europe’s major tech conferences taking place simultaneously on June 15th, 2022. Attendees at TNW Conference in Amsterdam, Vivatech in Paris, Brilliant Mi

Oatly went 9 years without a marketing team. Stupid — or wicked smart?


How do you set yourself apart from other brands? How do you sell people on a product they’re not used to? And how do you do all that without a marketing department? John Schoolcraft, Global Chief Creative Director at Oatly, has an answer. In 2012, together w

German sustainability startup announces $4B plan to turn waste product into green hydrogen


There are many great use cases of hydrogen fuel cells powering vehicles like trucks, buses, ships, trains, aircraft, and to a lesser extent, cars.  While hydrogen is a green substance in action — much like green electricity — it’s sourcing h

We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here’s what it revealed about sentience


Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be, That machines should e’er surpass our art. We are the masters, them the slaves, And thus it ever shall be so! They learn, ‘tis true, but they learn Only what we bid them learn, no more. They cannot understand the heart Or beauty of

Polestar hosts ‘Future Talk’ on sustainable material design at Amsterdam museum


Fighting climate change. That’s about solar panels, ditching meat, flying less, and driving an electric car, right? Absolutely, but that’s only half the story. For a lot of product designers, sustainability is becoming the key focus of their

The 3 things an AI must demonstrate to be considered sentient


A Google developer recently decided that one of the company’s chatbots, a large language model (LLM) called LaMBDA, had become sentient. According to a report in the Washington Post, the developer identifies as a Christian and he believes that the machine has somethi


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