“People often optimize for the role or for the company. The first thing I optimize for is who I will work with. Don’t bet on companies, bet on people,” Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, told students at today’s View From The Top event. Khosrowshahi discussed his departure from Expedia and his approach to shifting company values at Uber to focus on diversity and inclusion. “An important factor in our change was setting a new culture and new norms,” he said. “We crowdsourced those norms and asked people – what kind of company do we want to be?”
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More than ever, Information Technology and Communication are globally changing all aspects of society. Their exponential evolution is allowing the development of applications and increasingly interactive specialized tools. The Drone-based Earth Observation systems sector is where this evolution has had one of his greatest impacts. These drones appear as a new tool that complement previously existing platforms, satellites and manned aerial means (helicopters, light aircraft). Currently there exists a growing number of specific systems and applications, given the large number of advantages they present in terms of investment and operation costs, spatial resolution, agility and temporal resolution, etc. Within this field, fixed-wing drones have higher productivity (due to their greater autonomy) than multicopters, which makes them more suitable for studying large areas.
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Which industries are partnering to produce the leading energy experiences?
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In Shenzhen approximately 50k electric vehicles drive on the streets, which of around 16k are buses and round about 30k are cars, plus some other vehicles. Even with hydrogen technology, the Chinese are pushing R&D for their own purposes. A driving force shaping partnerships. Electromobility IS ready.
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Ma received the award at the 19th annual Forbes Global CEO Conference, held this year in Singapore, where he and Forbes talked for about an hour about Alibaba history, Ma’s thoughts on entrepreneurship and his philanthropy work.
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In 2014, Satya Nadella was appointed CEO of Microsoft, making him only the third leader in the software company’s 40-year history, following Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Since taking over, Microsoft’s share price has tripled. Nadella spoke to students about cultivating a sense of culture and purpose, and how through relationships with others, work becomes more than transactional.
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For over 40 years, computing has been a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional world. Tech giants and startups are now looking into the growth opportunities of spatial computing through augmented reality and virtual reality, where information is organized and interacted with in space rather than on a flat-screen. In this video from the BRITE ’19 Conference, Ori Inbar, Founder and Managing Partner of Super Ventures, speaks about how spatial computing will impact our lives and businesses.
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The global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this feature-length documentary, social and economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin lays out a road map to usher in a new economic system.
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Digital future meets it’s partners: DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival 2019 attracts investment decision-makers from around the globe, including VC’s, Angels and media.
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