Platforms for Collaboration and Productivity

From the mediaX Conference “Platforms for Collaboration and Productivity”, Armen Pischdotchian the Watson Academic Partners: Technical Mentor for Universities, IBM Watson Group examines how a world of sensors and devices that communicate with one another often analyzing data and predicting futures, are about to meet cognition; where systems understand, reason and learn.

From the mediaX Conference “Platforms for Collaboration and Productivity”, Rahul C. Basole a Visiting Scholar at mediaX at Stanford University shows how the rise of digital platforms is transforming entire industries and economies.

From the mediaX Conference “Platforms for Collaboration and Productivity”, Dave Toole the CEO of MediaMobz shows how the platform enables brands to become video publishers, telling their stories to engage customers, internal communications and more.

From the mediaX Conference “Platforms for Collaboration and Productivity”, Aman Kumar a mediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar from SAP and Andrus Viirg the Director of Enterprise Estonia, Silicon Valley discuss the Republic of Estonia e-Residency program. Now, anyone can apply for an Estonian digital identity card to sign contracts, encrypt documents, and register a business from anywhere in the world. e-Residency’s ambitions are to unlock the productive and entrepreneurial potential of every world citizen — redefining the nation state in the digital era.

From the mediaX Conference “Platforms for Collaboration and Productivity”, Abby King with the Stanford Prevention Research Center examines that although technology is a major “driver” of many of society’s comforts, conveniences, and advances, it has engineered regular physical activity and a number of other positive health behaviors out of our daily lives. A key question is: how can we harness technology for “good” in the health promotion/disease prevention area? One potential solution is “community-engaged citizen science” that brings together researchers + public and private organizations + residents themselves in harnessing the potential of IT and mobile devices to solve the health promotion challenge.

From the mediaX Conference “Platforms for Collaboration and Productivity”, Michael Berstein from the department of Computer Science at Stanford University examines how computation might coordinate many peoples' abilities toward complex and interdependent goals. His researchers are exploring the potential of flash teams as a way of quickly crowdsourcing complex tasks, using a specially developed system for quickly gathering and guiding crowds of experts —including professional programmers, designers, singers and artists.

From the mediaX Conference “Platforms for Collaboration and Productivity”, Candace Thille, with the Stanford Graduate School of Education highlights the power of platform tools and technologies to transform observation and data collection. This process enables researchers from industry and academia to know their user better – as consumers, as producers, and as learners.

From the mediaX Conference “Platforms for Collaboration and Productivity”, John Willinsky with the Stanford Graduate School of Education discusses The The Public Knowledge Project, the world's most-widely used journal management system, and how this is among the initiatives contributing to a new age of public access to research and scholarship.

From the mediaX Conference “Platforms for Collaboration and Productivity”, Kathy Bries, Senior Director and General Manager of Cisco Collaborative Knowledge discusses Cisco’s innovative integrated solution, bringing learning and knowledge into the everyday operation of how people work, and serving as a platform that helps people learn, work and connect with peers in an intelligent manner.