TNW Talks

Dive into our archive of inspiring talks from TNW Conference

 

Sophia Velastegui - AI Business leader

Lubomila Jordanova - CEO of Plan A

Lars Regers - EVP and CTO of NXP Semiconductors

Gary Shapiro - President of Consumer Technology Association

Constantijn van Oranje - Special Envoy of Techlean.nl

Opening Show - The Human in the Loop

The Journey Ahead: Booking.com’s Glenn Fogel on Shaping the Future of Travel

From Algorithms to Impact: Leveraging Technology for Global Good

Deep Tech Trends: What Can We Expect by 2030

Democracy in Jeopardy: 2 Billion Votes in 2024

Behind the Paywall: Uncovering OnlyFans with Lee Taylor

Decarbonizing the Earth: Pipedream or Reality?

How to F-Up Your Startup: Best Practices to Failing

Reviving VanMoof: McLaren Applied's Strategic Acquisition and Growth Support

DEI as a Business Enabler: Normalizing Data-Driven DEI

Unstoppable AI: How the Next-Gen is Reshaping Business

Phantom Menace: The Psychology of Cyber Threats and Deep Fakes in the 2024 Elections

Investing in Turbulence: Index Ventures' Take on the Startup Ecosystem

Vision Opening Remarks - Day 2

Seismic Percussion: Revealed Reality

Stop Obsessing about AI Models: Understanding the AI Platform & Ecosystem Opportunity

Practical AI: The Race to Realising Business Value!

Beyond Skin Deep: AI's Impact on Beauty and Bias

Banking Redefined: The AI-powered Journey to Customer-Centric Finance

TNW x Amsterdam 750 Announcement

Humanism: The Philosophical Debate for AI Ethics

From Disposable to Circular: Redefining Sustainability in the Fashion Industry

Quantum Leap: Accelerating Innovation Across Industries

It's Good to Be King: The Rise of Sovereign AI

Rewriting the Rules: Non-Traditional Routes to Entrepreneurship

Blitzscaling: The Unicorn Races

Final Pitch Battle

Disrupted Stage Welcome Remarks - Day 1

Panel: Finance Disrupted - Have Banks Become Tech Companies?

Keynote interview: Beyond Algorithms - How LLMs are paving the way for AI-driven Financial Transformation

Panel: Financial Fluency - The Role of Technology in Enhancing Financial Access and Education

Keynote interview: No More FX-cuses - Shining a Spotlight on Transparency in Cross-Border Payments

Panel: Tokenization - Can it Democratize Private Capital?

Keynote Dialogue: Deepfakes in Fintech: Navigating the Challenges of Regulating Digital Identities

Inside Motive Partners: Strategies for Building Long-Term Value in Fintech

Panel: Building the AI Workforce - Considering the Practical Applications and Risks to Finance

Dialogue: Unlocking Digital Wallets - Money and Payments for a Cashless World

Panel: The Next Generation of Fintechs - Who Are They and Where Did They Come From?

Disrupted Stage Welcome Remarks - Day 2

Panel: Building on the Blockchain - Can the Global Financial System Go Borderless?

Panel: Safety First - Putting Cybersecurity at the Core of Financial Services

HSBC's AI-Powered Future: From Everyday Banking to Quantum Leaps

Panel: Growth Investing - The Risk and Reward of Emerging Markets for Fintechs and Investors

Panel: Beyond the Hype - Unlocking the Full Potential of Embedded Finance

Keynote dialogue: Rise of the ‘Finfluencer’ - A Modern Approach to Financial Literacy?

Panel: Venture Capital - Keeping the Faith in Fintech

Closing Remarks

Opening Ceremony

What’s Worth Designing in The First Place How to Build Great Products by Becoming Design Driven with Robert Brunner

The Next Frontier Kwebbelkop's Journey into Content Creation, AI and Beyond

Digital Disruption Sir Martin Sorrell's Blueprint for Transformational Success

Beyond the AI Inflection Point Strategy, Infrastructure, and Skills to Maximize Value

Trailblazing Tech David Heinemeier Hansson's Journey from Ruby on Rails to Challenging Giants

Collective Intelligence is the Currency of the Future

Real Talk The Realities of Scaling Tech

Peak Innovation

Empowering Tomorrow Unveiling Startup Genome's 2023 Global Startup Ecosystem Report

Beyond Boundaries Tom Furness and the Humanitarian Potential of Extended Reality

Product Champions How Innovators Thrive Against Tech Giants

The Future Mundane

Beyond the AI Frontier Crafting a Responsible and Revolutionary Future

The Journey from Fintech to Wellness Tapping Into a New Era in Consumer Consciousness

Humanizing Technology for Earth and Beyond A Dialogue with Toyota Ventures

Building Innovative Technology for a More Sustainable World

Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success Biohacking Your Way to Well-being and Longevity

Charting the Next Chapter in Diversity and Inclusion The Role of Tech and New Metrics

Unmasking Cybercrime Insights from 'The Ransomware Hunting Team' with Renee Dudley

Viktoriia Itskovych (Kyiv City) - Resilient Cities: Kyiv's Digital Transformation Journey Amid Crisis

Alex Roca (FC Barcelona Foundation) - A Winning Mentality: Redefining Resilience

Ad Astra (to the stars) Before we send people, we send robots

Jeroen Fontein & Naut Donders - Audio Obscura 10 years: Pushing boundaries & impacting culture

Holly Blondin (Author) - Creative Struggle is Real Stop Procrastinating and Start Making

Panel - Reimagining Storytelling: Creating Content for the New Era of Social

Zack McCune (Wikimedia) & Roscoe Williamson (MassiveMusic) - What should Wikipedia *sound* like?

Thomas Peham (Storyblok) & Timo Mayer (Virtual Identity) - Unleashing Content's Potential: Generative AI as the Game-Changer for CMOs and Marketing Teams

Panel - Sonic Inclusion: Empowering Underrepresented Voices in Music with Technology

Bloo, Lucas van Grootheest & Julius Verolme (Bloo) - Digital Superstars: Exploring the World of Virtual Influencers with YouTube Sensation Bloo

Panel - The Human-Centred Office Designing the Best Environment for Tech Workers

Nish Patel (Inertia Ventures) & Malcolm Moore (Financial Times) - FT Fireside Chat: Proptech and the Workplace Revolution

Panel - Aligning Digital Transformation and Net Zero Is Possible: Here's How

Maton Sonnemans (EY Netherlands) & Job van der Voort (Remote) - Remotely Possible: Lessons from the First Four Years of Remote's Global Hypergrowth

Panel - Global Ambitions: Mastering International Expansion Amid Economic Downturns

Panel - Inclusive by Design: Embracing Neurodiversity and Accessibility in Tech

Rob Visser (NN Group) & Lieke Luttmer (NN Group) - Revolutionizing customer experience with tech (even in the most traditional of industries)

Panel - Mastering Product Growth: Navigating Talent, Market Alignment, and Scaling Challenges

Pierre-Yves Calloc’h (Pernod Ricard) - AI at Scale, in Real Business Life: Learnings from a Wine & Spirits Giant

Panel - Generative AI in Healthcare

Rana Gujral (Behavioral Signals) & Ramesh Menon (US Department of Defense) - AI for National Defense: The Power of Public-Private Partnership

Danny Lange (Unity Technologies) - Transforming Gaming Experiences with AI

Shaun McGirr (Dataiku) - How to Stop AI Destroying Data Value Chains

Or Lenchner (Bright Data) - Web Data Accessibility: A Pillar of Progress Under Threat

Michael Schlein (Accion) - AI for Inclusion? Risks and Rewards for Underserved Communities

Panel - The Next Wave in Urban Transport: Integrating Mobility Ecosystems

Tamas Bazsonyi (Bitrise) & Thomas Macaulay (TNW) - Ironclad Mobile Commerce for Safe and Secure Experiences

Jennie Huijboom (ABN AMRO) & Femke van Drooge (ABN AMRO) - Building Customer Relationships through Hyper-Personalization

Philip Rosedale (Second Life) & Rob Whitehead (Improbable) - Good, Evil, and Avatars

Peter Maas - Tech Transformations No Longer Exist

Roham Gharegozlou (Dapper Labs) - Web 3.0 and NFTs: Beyond the bubble

Sowmya Subramanian (Warner Bros. Discovery) - Building the Max Streaming App Tech

Growth Quarters Opening Remarks

Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures) - Beyond the Hype: Tackling Funding Challenges in AI, Machine Learning, and Robotics

Panel - Going the Distance: Mastering Traction and Reducing Cash Burn

Phill Robinson (Boardwave) - Riding the Boardwave: Unleashing Founder-Driven Innovation

Panel - Beyond VC: Exploring Alternative Financing Paths to Fuel Your Startup's Growth

Matthias Laug (TIER Mobility) Scaling Startups with Confidence Technical Leadership and Team Diversity for Growth

Florian Schweitzer (b2venture) & Christopher Osborne (DeepL) - Fact vs fiction: Perspectives from an AI unicorn

Panel - Profit, Purpose, and Planet: Navigating the Circular Economy and Climate Tech with Plan A and Too Good To Go

Romain Palmieri - Artist-friendly disruption: Changing the music industry

Michal Marcinik (AdTonos) - Back to the Future: The Story of Audio

Erik Huberman (Hawke Media) - The Principles of Marketing: How to Create Lifetime Value

Panel - From University Innovation to Enterprise: Paving the Path from University Spinouts to Commercial Success

Martin Tantow (Pegasus Tech Ventures) & Briehan Burke (Keen Ventures) - Accelerating Startup Growth: Balancing Governance, Value, and Venture Capital Strategies

Quentin Clark (General Catalyst) - AI Noise

David Beckett (Best3Minutes) - Igniting Investor Interest: Crafting a Lasting Impression and Building Enduring Relationships

Web3.0 Synergy Powering Up Collaboration for a Game-Changing Future

Panel - Rising Stars: Uncovering the Next Hotspots in Emerging Tech Ecosystems and Second Cities

Julien Bertolini (Volvo Group) - The Benefits of UX design in IoT: Lessons learned by Volvo

Katie Ireland (Enliven) - Courageous Shifts: Navigating the Leap from Corporate Leader to Startup CEO

Panel - Go-to-Market Strategies: Investor Insights for Launching, Expanding, and Cross-Border Growth

Nick Chatrath (Author) - The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AI

Kathleen Muller (SAP SE) - Five Business Strengths Hiding in Plain Sight

Alex Stephany (Beam) - Building Tech for Excluded Communities

Matthew Cockerill (Faster Not Easier) - Don't believe the hype cycle

Panel - Can Scale-ups Harness Diversity and Inclusion to Benefit the Bottom Line?

Pitch Battle Finals

Day One - The FT Morning Show

Panel - Europe’s fintech sector: surviving the impact of a global economic downturn

Fireside Chat with the Co-Founder of Tether

Dialogue: Do CBDCs have a future in financial markets?

Panel - Dialogue: The intersection of AI and Finance - do the opportunities outweigh the risks?

Fireside Chat with Binance: Combating crime in crypto

Panel - What does a lack of institutional adoption mean for the blockchain?

Panel - Dialogue: Banking in the metaverse: do virtual worlds mean big business?

Day Two - The FT Morning Show

Panel - Building an inclusive financial system

Panel: How are consumer behaviours shaping digital payments in 2023?

Panel: Navigating the European tech market during a funding crunch

Panel: Tokenisation and NFTs - what does the future hold?

Panel - Is quantum computing the future of finance?

Closing keynote interview with CoinShares

Opening Ceremony 2022

Maxine Williams (Meta) - DEI & Demystifying the metaverse

Dr. Christian Busch (The Serendipity Mindset) - Connect the Dots: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck

Alisa Cohn (Author, From Start-Up to Grown-Up) - Embracing Your Inner Gremlin

Jason Silva (Futurist) - The Cyberdelic Age

Tamara Shogaolu (Ado Ato Pictures) - Closing the tech divide through storytelling and design

Oscar Höglund (Epidemic Sound)- Making the Music Industry Creator-Centric with Tech

Rosanne Janmaat (ID&T) and Rico de Lange (Q-Dance) - Live Experiences Enhanced by Tech

John LePore (Perception) - Science fiction meets science fact

Volodymyr Zelenskyy (President of Ukraine) - Hologram

Peter Neufeld (EMEIA) | Mary MacPherson ( EY Seren) - The next decade of digital transformation will be human-centred, sustainability-focused & purpose led

Edwin Aoki (Paypal) - The future of commerce and payments: super apps, hyper-personalization, crypto and beyond

Francois Kress (Feelmore Labs) - Mental health for everyone

Seth Dobrin (IBM) | Tim Bradshaw (Financial Times) - Building creative partnerships between humans and machines.

Sander Schutte (Mapiq) Jasper Schuurmans (Mapiq) Nathalie Lam (Philips) Office3: Why time, not space is the new frontier for workplace innovation

Simon O'Kane (Asana) | Cate Lawrence (The Next Web) - Scaling with purpose: How to grow and inspire your team during the Great Reshuffle

Diego Dugatkin (Box) & Renee Niemi (Products That Count) - Competing for the worlds best product talent

Bram Veenhof (South Pole) - Simple ways for your company’s product to make climate impact

Skye Featherstone (Snap Inc.) - Your Business Augmented

Panel: Inclusive and equitable design

Panel: Traditional brands, Non-traditional partnerships

Lars Mangelsdorf (Yokoy) - Financial excellence at mid to large companies starts with you and AI

Panel: Hallmarks of the Empowered CPO

Liron Markus (Fiverr) - How to boost product quality... without owning the product

Panel: Building the content engine of the web

Dima Shvets (Reface) - Born in a pandemic, tested by war

Renee Niemi (Products That Count) - The Rise of the CPO

Mo Gawdat (Author - Scary Smart) – Scary smart, and happy

Heini Zachariassen (Vivino) – The truth of a founder's life and how to survive it

Jen Carter (Google.org) – Harnessing the power of technology in our COVID-19 response

Dr. James Beacham (CERN / Duke University) – The future of science will be wild. But will humanity survive to see it?

Christian Erfurt (Be My Eyes) - See the world in a different way to build successful companies

Tom Raftery (SAP) - The realities of a climate economy

Chris Ume (Metaphysics.ai) – Deepfake me

Jitse Groen (JustEat Takeaway.com) - JustEat, Takeaway, Grubhub - What's next?

Panel: Empowering creators

Panel: Revolutionize marketing operation to drive company performance

Panel: Hustle culture and the burnout generation

Panel: Overcoming bias - does tech do more harm than good?

Marc de Vries (Swapfiets) - Moving the spirit forward: Swapfiets' CEO on driving change

Tech5 2021 Winner Announcement

Ken Serdons & Shane Happach (Mollie) - Leveling the playing field for SMEs

Robert Erdmann (Rijksmuseum) - AI at the Rijksmuseum: revealing the secret life of art

Alain Sylvain (Sylvain) - Brands and the curse of disposable culture

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten (TNW), Pep Rosenfeld (Boom Chicago) – Pep & Boris Show

Panel: Building inclusive communities in gaming and creative industries

Panel: How the digisexual revolution will liberate women’s sexuality

Gordon Willoughby (WeTransfer) – Making Responsible Tech a Reality

Startup Battle: Bootstrap (in-person)

Deeptha Khanna (Philips), Anouk Vleugels (TNW) – How well does your toothbrush know you? These days, better than ever

Tyler Spalding (Flexa) – Crypto networks as business model innovation

Lindsay Ross (Bitpanda), Emily Jacometti (flavour) – Ask Bitpanda's CHRO Anything

Panel: These corporate ‘polluters’ are reducing Plastic in Pact!

Panel: Breaking conventions by moving ideas

Jarno Kartela (Thoughtworks) - The Art and Science of Designing AI-backed Organizations

Aaron Mirck (Presscloud) - This Algorithm Ain’t Right

Startup Battle: Scale (Hybrid)

Albane Bruyas (Scaleway) - Why a sustainable cloud makes business - and social - sense

Luuc Elzinga (Tiqets) - Ask Tiqets’ CEO Anything

Panel: Driving change, what we learned from trying to build resilient food systems

Panel: The Augmented Reality Revolution

Panel: Spark joy in business

Panel: Disrupting traditional financial systems

Jaya Baloo (Avast), Thomas Macaulay (TNW) – Quantum Computing... and How It Will Impact You

Stefanie Schillmöller (Good Grief), Charlotte Wiedemann (friedlotse.de) – Digitally ever after - preparing for immortality in the metaverse

Jesse Moerkerk (Sumo in the office) - Sumo in the office

Hannes Coudenys (Hurae, Smile Safari & Ugly Belgian Houses) - Ugly Belgian Houses

Anna Chung (Palo Alto Networks) Callum Booth (TNW) – Cybercriminal minds

Panel: Tech's role in turning around fashion's sustainability image

Panel: Crypto securities - Making the disruption of capital markets a reality

Panel: Museums in the Metaverse - Providing Culture and Community post-Digital Transformation

Mohit Bhende (Karat) and Mala Singh (EA) - How hiring at scale impacts team performance and growth?

Anne-Valerie Corboz (HEC Paris), Jeff Maggioncalda (Coursera) and Napier Lopez (TNW) - New learnings on leading through uncertainty

Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau (MIT Technology Review) - The ethics behind smarter AI

Toby Russell (Shift), Anis Uzzaman (Pegasus Tech Ventures) and Zenobia Godschalk (Hedera Hashgraph) - From startup to public: The ins and outs of growing your company to IPO or acquisition

Robin Ginn (OpenJS Foundation) and Amanda Silver (Microsoft) - Essential skills of a tech resilient developer

Spenser Skates (Amplitude) and SC Moatti (Products That Count & Mighty Capital) - The age of the chief product officer

Rick Bergman (AMD) - Accelerating the Future to Drive Product Development Success

Mike Hayes (VMWare) - Battlefield to boardroom: lessons on transformation from a tech leader and former SEAL

Ella Hilal (Shopify) - How to Apply Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection and Forecasting At Scale

Startup Battle - Bootstrap (Digital)

Dan Greenberg (Sharethrough) and Claudia Cameron (Media.Monks) - The future of video ads—learning from Tiktok and Reels to attract consumers

Ralph Hauwert (Unity Technologies) - The future of Real-Time 3D

Monica Long (Ripple) and Josh Williams (Forte) - Tokenization and the broader implications for crypto

Will Graylin (OV Loop & Indigo Tech) - Lessons from a 6x founder: finding your niche

Blair LaCorte (AEye) and Tristan Greene (TNW) - Plugged in: mobility and the internet of things

Panel: Building smarter mobility platforms

Martin Villig (Bolt) and Cate Lawrence - Bolt's co-founder on supercharging urban mobility and startup success

Panel: What will it take to boost adoption of crypto by traditional investors?

Bronwyn Williams (Flux Trends) and Cate Lawrence (TNW) - The future starts now... with you

Lane Kasselman (Blockchain.com) - The future of cryptocurrency regulation

Alishba Imran (Voltx) and Thomas Maccaulay (TNW) - 17 and creating smarter machines

Loredana Crisan (Facebook) and Dave Wright (ServiceNow) - Tech careers: following the road less traveled

Erik Huberman (Hawke Media) and Kara Nortman (Upfront Ventures) - From Startup to Scaleup: The Fundamentals of Scaling a Business

Ryan Nece (Next Play Capital) and Andrea Hak (TNW) - What tech and investors can learn from the sports world

Panel: Why collaborations matter more than ever

Kathryn Finney (Genius Guild) and Abhimanyu Ghoshal (TNW) - Build the damn thing: How to launch a groundbreaking company in a rich white guy’s world

Panel: Networked - Can city infrastructure catch up to tech?

Danny Lange (Unity) - AI + synthetic data = smarter robots

Stan Boland (Five) and Cate Lawrence (TNW) - Safety First!

Usha Raghavachari (D-Ford) - Designing Innovative Solutions in the Transformation of Ford Motor Company

Floris ten Duis & Hilde van Egmond (ABN AMRO) - Green House: Reinvent the way we work

Rienk Franken (ABN AMRO) - Growing Flexibility

Lennaert Koch (ABN AMRO) - Shifting innovation gears to save the planet

Karan Setiya (ABN AMRO) - Online recognition

Clarisse Hagege (ABN AMRO) - Security and safe custody of digital assets

Anouk Moll (ABN AMRO) - Payments & Identity

Alexey Shadrin (ABN AMRO) - Evercity

Hugo Bongers (ABN AMRO) - Corporate Venture Capital & Fintech

Robin de Jongh (ABN AMRO) - Financial Crime

Valyuu Ferhat Topuz (ABN AMRO) - Electronic waste problem

Mel Jacobs (ABN AMRO) - How the bank has changed and adapted to very strong changing circumstances

Dorothee Appel (ABN AMRO) - Time Travel, Women in IT

Koen Adolfs (ABN AMRO) - Embedding Finance

Jim Wittermans (ABN AMRO) - Leading the way to safe and transparent markets

Marjon Leggedoor (ABN AMRO) and Lalit Bhakuni (ABN AMRO) – Cyber attacks are evolving, here's how to protect yourself

Edwin van Bommel (ABN AMRO) – Connecting the dots on purpose-led innovation

CRYPTO 101: A CHEATSHEET FOR BUSINESS

ProChile - The Chilean startup ecosystem, heating up with big ambitions!

Nash - Will crypto-based earnings change the future of finance?

AWS - All You Need to Augment Your Startup With AI

Adobe - Creative Trends and Design Tips and Tricks Webinar

Just Eat Takeaway.com - How we foster a culture of growth through learning in tech

Storyblok - The ugly truth of delivering eCommerce experiences in 2021

Amplitude Analytics - How Signify uses Product Analytics to build a better product

MWC Barcelona - Unexpected synergies: where art and industry meets

Lynk & Co - Taking automotive digital

Adobe - Why is fashion embracing 3D?

GTAI - The Digital Hub Initiative: Digitization made in Germany

BOTS - Three golden secrets for trading success

Meltwater - How Ahold Delhaize leveraged Social Media Data during COVID

New Energy Challenge / Shell - How innovative tech can lead us to a carbon-free future

RocketX - International expansion: key insights scaling

AWS - Customer Driven Success

Mambu - B2B? Don’t forget the C

Startup Genome - Key insights of the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021

TNW interviews: Tony's Chocolonely

TNW Interviews: Rocycle

TNW interviews: Zoku

TNW interviews: Ahold Delhaize

Arjan Dijk (Booking.com) - Creating a culture of risk taking - how to be a bolder, better marketing leader

Rich Pierson (HeadSpace) - How to successfully merge social contribution with business impact

Nick Clegg (Facebook): Rebuilding public trust and developing regulatory ecosystems

Jitse Groen (CEO Just Eat Takeaway) - In crisis, are food delivery apps a lifeline to restaurants?

Mark Adams (VICE) - The 7 habits of insurgent companies

Arianna Huffington -Mental resilience in leadership and workforce

Panel: Invisible talent, outsize vision: the "others" in Europe

Jonathan Mildenhall (Airbnb) - The business of survival: Fearless leadership and community-driven branding

Jason Fried - Fostering product innovation in remote teams

Satish Kanwar (Shopify) - Navigating the crisis as a platform

Panel: Tech and financial inclusion, empowerment and accessibility

Georg Petschnigg (WeTransfer) - Taking creativity remote