tech: collision 2022

from june 20 to 23, technologists, investors, business leaders, and policy makers met in toronto to discuss the future of technology in finance, infrastructure, agriculture, public policy, science, and creativity.

following are speaker highlights.

creativity equals imagination plus technique. If technique is the soil, imagination is the seed.
—hovhannes avoyan, picsart

the nft market is shifting from a point of hype to a moment of delivering its promise. this shift happens with every technology. lots of excitement, and then who will go the distance?
—roham gharegozlou, dapper labs

users of [web 3] networks have an alignment of incentives to participate in those networks by being economically compensated for sharing their data. this is a huge foundational change in the business operating model of internet-based platforms.
—nicolas cary, blockchain.com

it’s easy to become timid in downturns, but that’s the worst time for it because there are always opportunities. be absolutely courageous in the face of it.
—sairah ashman, wolff olins

supersonic flight has a bad reputation for sustainability. a new generation of aviation fuel called power-to-liquid based on carbon capture will allow us to fly cleaner and further than the old fossil stuff.
—blake scholl, boom supersonic

what needs to be invented to reach ai’s potential while managing threats are new models for time, memory, and decision understanding. the key scarcity right now are systems with built-in learning.
—eric schmidt, google and schmidt futures

ai is a marketing term, and as a field is over 70 years old. targeted advertising and licensing models to third parties made it relevant again. the only way to do cutting-edge ai research is by having access to resources that are centralized and controlled.
—meredith whittaker, federal trade commission

cash is much more expensive than it used to be. founders hear things like, grow quicker and spend more, but what will drive the coming years is a plan for expenses and revenue that we believe in.
—eynat guez, papaya global

we’ve got the knowledge and we’ve got all kinds of amazing new technology. it’s the willpower we're missing at the political level. and we're gunna need the luck. we have to go from scaring the kids to scaring the politicians.
—margaret atwood

we should never have to change to fit into society. the world around us should adapt to embrace our uniqueness.
—chief r. stacey laforme, mississaugas of the new credit first nation

reference: 
https://www.youtube.com/c/collisionhq/