As Provoke17 approaches, we took the opportunity to speak with Aarti Shah, Head of Strategic Partnerships, COO, and Senior Editor at The Holmes Report about diversity, augmented reality, and what she’s looking forward to at the conference. As VR and AI become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, what can communications professionals do to stay ahead of … Read more
In the days leading up to Provoke17, Holmes Report’s Editor-in-Chief and CEO, Arun Sudhaman, sat down with us to describe the importance of trust and transparency during this shift to a fast-paced new reality. How do you prioritize the need for transparency while balancing confidentiality and the uncertainty of the political and communications landscape? I think it probably helps … Read more
Leading up to Holmes Report’s Global PR Summit, PRovoke17, we asked Alexander Jutkowitz, H+K US CEO, to tell us his perspective on the changing communications landscape. Alex will join the event as a panelist discussing navigating change in a new reality.How can brands innovate faster in a world of uncertainty?It all starts with how you define uncertainty. … Read more
What exactly is a smart city? Ask anyone who has worked on these urban development projects and they’ll tell you that the definition is constantly changing. We asked Gemma Ginty, Urban Futures Lead at Future Cities Catapult, this and more in a conversation about the future of urban development and how cities can improve the … Read more
Source: LinkedIn IBM’s Watson is the machine that crushed Ken Jennings at Jeopardy, analyzes sports statistics to improve player performance, churns through 60 million pages of medical journals a second, and is learning to make diagnoses and treatment recommendations. Now, it’s being used to revolutionize the world of finance. Watson has grown up and its … Read more
In recent years, the spectacular breaking of China’s digital dawn has unfolded at a pace and scale that has been unprecedented around the world. From ordinary citizens to massive conglomerates, the nation has fully plugged into the digital future, and Chinese officialdom has recognized the urgency of keeping up with its tech-savvy populace and corporates. … Read more
Future prospects uncertain for the homely squares One of the new features of Apple’s iOS 11 update is a quick-response (QR) code reader baked into the camera. Big news for consumers? Hardly. Since the busy little squares of black and white began proliferating in the mid-2000s — showing up everywhere from storefronts to packaging, food … Read more
If you work in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector you have probably been losing sleep lately. From activist investors to changing retail models and the speed of Chinese manufacturing, there are diverse and disruptive forces impacting the big CPG companies and the brands they sell. In the not-so-distant past, CPG seemed like a safe … Read more
As we discussed extensively in our Creativity + New Reality event last week, mixed reality technologies are developing rapidly. As always, new technologies lead us to new opportunities, as well as new challenges. We asked the members of Creativity + New Reality’s Mixed Reality panel one question: Are there any ethical issues that mixed reality … Read more
Human emotion is a very powerful thing, and it has a way of creeping into daily decision-making in all sorts of ways that we may not understand or even detect. The ripple effect of this phenomenon can be equally difficult to see yet have an enormous impact. Consider the global financial crash, now marking its … Read more
