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I had a blast moderating some fascinating conversations at Fortune’s annual tech conference #BrainstormTech. Thank you to all the founders, investors, and executives who joined us this week.
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What an event! A big thanks to the team at Fortune for an amazing few days. At Biolinq we are excited for what the future holds for wearable technology! #FortuneTech
Thanks to Olympic athlete Sky Christopherson for all your hard work today on stage! 🚴🚴♂️🚴 Our CTO & Co-Founder Jared Tangney took real-time measurements of Sky on stage so the audience could see how exercise effects both glucose and lactate levels. Our CEO Rich Yang also did push-ups on stage today, and showed what the silicon microneedles look like with our wearable biosensor!
Missed #BrainstormTech in Park City, Utah? Here’s a recap of some of the key AI tidbits: ➡️ Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary C. Daly told Fortune's Emma Hinchliffe generative AI’s impact on the labor market will depend on what we do with the technology. Daly said we should expect generative AI to contribute to at least average productivity growth, which is currently 1.5% annually. ➡️ Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell that he sees AI democratizing access to wealth management services. While very high net-worth individuals will continue to be served by human financial advisors, AI will be able to give many other people access to good financial advice who could never have afforded a financial advisor before. ➡️ Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson showed off the company’s Digit humanoid robot, which is already working inside warehouses as part of a multi-year deal with GXO Logistics. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eCvEGiC7
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🎉 LWhat makes a conference EPIC! 🧠 You learn new things 💡 🤝 Connect + make friends 👯♂️👯♀️ 🎭 You have fun! 🕺💃shoutout time! 👏👏👏🌟 To the incredible Fortune team who made #BrainstormTech magical this week (tagged in comments). You made it look effortless! 🧈✨🧙♂️ To our fantastic co-chairs and braintrust - you were the secret sauce that made everything pop! Alyson Shontell Jason Del Rey Andy Dunn Joe Marchese | Erik Brynjolfsson Terri Burns Jill (Greenberg) Chase Lucy Guo Brooke Hammerling Elena Kvochko TJ Parker Raj Seshadri Lila Tretikov Ken Washington, PhD 🍾📝 To the brilliant Fortune journalists who probed and pushed in the nicest way possible, of course! Allie Garfinkle Sharon Goldman Polina Marinova Pompliano Emma Hinchliffe Jessica Mathews Jeremy Kahn Leo Schwartz 😉)And last but not least...🎭 Andrew Nusca, what a comeback! You're the ultimate partner in crime! 🦹♂️🦹♀️Who's ready for the next conference? 🙋♀️🙋♂️ Let's keep this energy going! 🚀🔥 #innovation #technology #community #purpose
Digit, the flagship robot at Oregon-based Agility Robotics, raised its hand to wave at the audience at the Fortune #BrainstormTech in Park City, Utah, as CEO Peggy Johnson explained to the crowd why the robot’s knees were, well, backward—like bird legs. “Knees get in the way of picking things up,” she explained to Fortune tech reporter Jason Del Rey, pointing out that Digit was designed to work in big warehouses, lifting things up and putting things down. Now, Digit is putting its backward-knees design, ten years in the making, to good use: The droid recently got hired at its first real job—picking up totes at a Spanx facility in Georgia and putting them onto conveyors. Read more here: bit.ly/4f6NycA
Generative AI tools clearly hold great potential for advertising and marketing—recent data from Forrester show 61% of U.S. agencies are already using them, while 30% are exploring use cases. But, as the analyst house also noted, some ad agency employees are still resisting the technology. According to Philippe Krakowsky, CEO of Interpublic Group (IPG)—one of the biggest players in the ad world—the solution is simple: agencies have to overcome resistance “in the same way that you get people to show up back in the office past the pandemic.” “There clearly do need to be non-optional mandates,” Krakowsky told #BrainstormTech. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eu-RgRBs
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“The characteristics we look for in founders have been the same for 50 years: the quality of the idea and the unique insight the founder has.” Roelof Botha speaks with Alyson Shontell at Fortune #BrainstormTech about AI and building for the long term. https://lnkd.in/gtjYm-6Q
New York City has all the right traits to make it ideal terrain for robotaxis like those being developed by Amazon-owned Zoox. Few people in the Big Apple own cars, and residents rely on public transit and ride-share apps like Uber and Lyft. “It is the Holy Grail for the business,” Zoox CEO Aicha Evans said on stage at #BrainstormTech in Park City, Utah. “But it’s not easy.” There’s one big problem for Zoox and other robotaxi companies eager to expand into the Northeast. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e2NXKxkK
Forerunner managing partner Kirsten Green has made a career—and raised billions of dollars—by investing early in consumer startups like health device maker Oura and grooming product retailer Dollar Shave Club. Now, Green says the growing number of consumer-based options has created a massive opportunity for AI companies. “We’ve reached peak access…people are feeling overwhelmed, if not burdened, by the level of information and hyperconnectivity they have,” Green said on stage at #BrainstormTech in Park City, Utah. “Enter gen AI.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/eMwse9hG
Once dominated by government agencies like NASA, the space-race ecosystem is increasingly run by private companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin. Now, billions of dollars are flooding into the red-hot sector, with the World Economic Forum predicting that it will be worth $1.8 trillion by 2035. According to two space tech executives speaking at #BrainstormTech in Park City, Utah, the budding industry is not just an opportunity for profit. Getting back to the moon is also a “moral obligation,” said Jaret Matthews, the founder and CEO of Astrolab, a planetary logistics startup recently awarded a contract by NASA that could be worth nearly $2 billion. “To survive as a species, we need to move out among the stars,” he said. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ggFmRHwK