Innovation Explorer 2017 Best Moments
The third edition of Innovation Explorer was held in a crowded hall and many questions from the audience to the keynote speakers. The forum took place on February 23 and met the expectations to give stage to the ideas of tomorrow and the ambassadors of the future to collide and unite different points of view in a common direction. This year the hall of Sofia Event Center brought together people from around the world to talk about innovations. In the article below you will find more about the top speakers and videos from the presentations.
Dex Torricke-Barton – the first lecturer in the program. Barton is a former head of the communications department of Space X, and founder of Onwards. He is one of those people who leave behind a dream job to dedicate themselves to a socially meaningful cause. He has crafted the voices of some of the world’s most influential organizations and leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Erik Schmid, and today he is a passionate defender of causes with global impact and initiates discussions on how technologies of today can serve to the largest possible number of people around the globe. His project Onwards aims to build a global society which values and encourages open doors and respect for people who belong to different communities. He believes that isolated societies will cause distortion of the meaning and the application of innovations. Video record from his lecture is published on the facebook page of Innovation Starter.
Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom – the Chief Impact Officer for Singularity University. Her talk Space Innovation in an Exponential World was about her experience with space missions and the role of the state governments in space projects. In her presentation, she mentioned two Bulgarian projects – Space Challengers which is the biggest free Educational Program in the field of space science and exponential technologies in Europe and EnduroSat – the Bulgarian company that provides innovative space communication satellite solutions for a range of missions from low Earth orbit to Solar System exploration. Why did she mention the two companies in her presentation – find out in the video from her talk.
Sheldon Brown – Director at The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and the third guest on stage. Sheldon Brown is a visual artist known for creating art installations, stimulating the imagination. In his talk Accelerating Human Imagination he mentioned why artificial intelligence may also possess imagination.
Dr Nikolaos Dimitriadis Development Director of Executive Development Institute, made the audience laugh several times during the lecture. He discussed whether there is a digital revolution at all. His thesis was that innovation requires people to develop not only the “thinking part” of their brains but the one that “feels” as well. Do not miss all the interesting statistics in the field of neuroscience that Dimitriadis stated in support of his statement.
Erez Tsalik, Director of Asia and Pacific Region at Systematic Inventive Thinking talked about innovative thinking and how it can be achieved. Tsalik made a very attention-grabbing presentation on the difference between “innovative” and “new”. His thoughts about what makes an idea an “innovative” one, you can find in his TV interview.
After the lunch and the networking brake, the forum continued with a panel discussion with the key speakers. Discussions focused on three main topics:
- Is our ambition to conquer the space offsetting the debate about the Earth and how far dreams and reality can reach
- Whether and how education is changing and what is our attitude to learning? How can we catch up with exponentially growing data – by using the new technologies or we need some other compensatory mechanisms
- The business and its ability to adapt (innovate) to the above-mentioned changes
Videos from the discussions you will find here and here.
In social networks, the event resulted in thousands of posted videos, photos and comments under the hashtags # innovationexplorer2017 and # IX2017
