Conference Bites

Habit Design Meetup, 2/3/12 San Francisco, Part 1

"One of the pathways to change is pleasurable change. You just do it!"
~ David Sobel, Professor/Philospoher

"Another path to change is breakthrough or quantum change—heart attack, natural disaster, falling in love."
~ David Sobel, Professor/Philospoher

"Incremental change, despite gamification, is a pain in the ass."
~ David Sobel, Professor/Philospoher

"What does a litany of failure do to your sense of confidence and control?"
~ David Sobel, Professor/Philospoher

"Successful baby steps can boost that sense of confidence and control."
~ David Sobel, Professor/Philospoher

"I’ve cognitively reframed that. I used to call it exhaustion (after exercise)—now I call it being alive."
~ David Sobel, Professor/Philospoher

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Social Fresh EAST 2/6-7/12 Tampa

"If you know everything already, there's no place for new ideas to come in. Don't be afraid to not know everything."
~ Jesse Catlin, JHC Digital

"The business of business is people. Keep the humanity in social."
~ as tweeted by Summer Boone

"The enemy isn't too much data, it's not having enough insights..."
~ Chuck Hemann, WCG

"Listening is the foundation of everything we do in social....the 4L's--Listen, Linke, Levrerage, Launch & the 4A's--Awareness, assesment, Action, Ambassador."
~ Chuck Hemann, WCG

"Guiding principle for Ford in social media: be human, and add value."
~ Scott Monty, Ford Motor Company

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TEDx 2/4/12 Berkeley

"One thing that connects us as humans is our ability to laugh."
~ Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker

"People's resumes should just list their failures... it would be much more interesting"
~ Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker

"Crying expels stress hormones and stimulates endorphins."
~ Dr. Neha Sangwan

"America is so fixed on the concept that a PILL can cure a disease of the soul (listen to your body)."
~ Dr. Neha Sangwan

"Success is going through failure after failure without losing your enthusiasm (quoting Winston Churchill)."
~ April Rinne, WaterCredit

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World Economic Forum 1/25-29/12 Davos Switzerland, Part 2

"The distance between the impossible and possible is shrinking."
~ Kishore Mahbubani, National University of Singapore

"We have heard about a bank being too big to fail, but now we risk hearing about people being too small to matter."
~ Thorning-Schmidt, Denmark Prime Minister

"Last year G7 became obsolete. Now we have G20. To me, it looks like a G-Zero world, because there is NO agreement on anything."
~ Nouriel Roubini, Economist

"You will see powerful movements where new leaders embrace what is coming up from below & meet it somewhere in middle."
~ Thomas Friedman, NY Times

"A cotton factory now has only two employees, a man & a dog. Man feeds the dog. Dog keeps man away from machines."
~ Thomas Friedman, NY Times

"A world with women in power? We might as well try it. It can't get worse."
~ Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook

"Average life expectancy of the Fortune 500 is now only 15 years. If you don't change, you fall behind."
~ John Chambers, Cisco

"How many things do we lose simply out of our fear of losing them?"
~ Paulo Coelho, Writer

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World Economic Forum 1/25-29/12 Davos Switzerland, Part 1

Dive Into Media 1/30-31/12 Laguna Niguel, Part 2

"Twitter is extending the runway of television conversation. Twitter is the 2nd screen for tv."
~ Dick Costolo, Twitter

"When people search Google for an @ or # they ought to get what they're expecting (not Search + Your World)."
~ Dick Costolo, Twitter

"We are in the media business, we are not necessarily a media company."
~ Dick Costolo, Twitter

"My kids look at physical copy of Sunday New York Time like it's a dead cat."
~ David Remnick, The New Yorker

"The last 10 years has taught us that technology gives consumers what they want."
~ Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music Group

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Dive Into Media 1/30-31/12 Laguna Niguel, Part 1

"We are not cable networks but media networks." 
~ Philippe Dauman, Viacom

"TV is America's hobby, radio is America's companion, and the Internet manages my life box."
~ Bob Pittman, Clear Channel

"Core of the culture at Google is technology. Core at Facebook is partnerships.  When it comes to partnering with companies, Facebook is the best I've ever seen - it's core to their culture"
~ Bob Pittman, Clear Channel

"Premium content matters... it's about storytelling and production values, and you know it when you see."
~ Jason Kilar, Hulu

"Hulu's owner can't be blinded by their existing revenue streams. They must listen to consumers."
~ Jason Kilar, Hulu

"The album will never be dead, it's an art form, a novel instead of a chapter."
~ Neil Young, Singer/Songwriter

"My goal is to try to rescue the art form I have been practicing for the last 50 years" (on digital music quality)
~ Neil Young, Singer/Songwriter

"Steve Jobs was a digital music pioneer. But when he went home, he listened to vinyl."
~ Neil Young, Singer/Songwriter

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World Economic Forum 1/25-29/12 Davos Switzerland, Part 1

"Companies can’t fake positive social impact."
~ Duncan Niederauer, NYSE

"In the EU We have to be competitive & prosperous, otherwise, we are just a very nice place to visit."
~ Angela Merkel, German Chancelor

"There’s too much Euro Pessimism in the world and my goal is to balance it with Asian Optimism."
~ Kishore Mahbubani, National University of Singapore

"Twitter is the drug of Davos."
~ Kate Roberts, (@KateRobertsPSI),as posted on Forum:Blog

"Men have tried for centuries... we've made a mess. Let women."
~ Desmond Tutu, Bishop

"No one is safe untill everybody is safe."
~ Paulo Coelho, Writer

"You may ignore you are sick, but that doesn't make you healthy."
~ Paulo Coelho, Writer

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DLD (Digital - Life - Design) 1/22-24/12 Munich Germany

"Every 3 days 5 Exebytes of information is created. From the beginning of time until 2004 5 Exebytes have been created."
~ Nikesh Arora, Google

"We are going to go from an information era back to a people era."
~ Nikesh Arora, Google

"The most important thing we need in society is a rapid acceleration of empathy."
~ Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post

"If we don't learn to disconnect, we are lost."
~ Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post

"Imagination is the ultimate renewable resource."
~ Alan O'Connor, Salesforce

"Big three trends: Anonymity to Authentic Identity. Wisdom of Friends, not Crowds. We are all Broadcasters. We're making a shift from the wisdom of crowds to the wisdom of friends. We're seeing a shift in power from institutions to individuals."
~ Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook

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"Every 3 days 5 Exebytes of information is created. From the beginning of time until 2004 5 Exebytes have been created."

Nikesh arora Google

"We are going to go from an information era back to a people era."  

 

Nikesh arora Google

 

"The most important thing we need in society is a rapid acceleration of empathy."

Arianna #dld

"If we don't learn to disconnect, we are lost."

Arianna #dld

Big three trends: Anonymity to Authentic Identity. Wisdom of Friends, not Crowds. We are all Broadcasters. We're making a shift from the wisdom of crowds to the wisdom of friends.

We're seeing a shift in power from institutions to individuals.

Shery sandberg #dld

"Every 3 days 5 Exebytes of information is created. From the beginning of time until 2004 5 Exebytes have been created."

Nikesh arora Google

"We are going to go from an information era back to a people era."  

 

Nikesh arora Google

 

"The most important thing we need in society is a rapid acceleration of empathy."

Arianna #dld

"If we don't learn to disconnect, we are lost."

Arianna #dld

Big three trends: Anonymity to Authentic Identity. Wisdom of Friends, not Crowds. We are all Broadcasters. We're making a shift from the wisdom of crowds to the wisdom of friends.

We're seeing a shift in power from institutions to individuals.

Shery sandberg #dld

Personalized Medicine World Conference (PMWC) 1/23-24/12, Part 2

"After seven years with my head down, (I asked myself) what would I do in this current environment?"
~ Ryan Phelan, DNA Direct

"(Despite the growth in info) I see the same bottlenecks—how to put the information in context for patients."
~ Ryan Phelan, DNA Direct

"There has been so much progress in this field, (but) we need to do a better job of quantifying the promise."& the power of genetic information, and the ROI."
~ Ryan Phelan, DNA Direct

"Comorbidity is key. In my years of being a clinician, I've yet to encounter a patient with a single disease."
~ Rob Ribitzky, R&D Ribitzky

"Telome Health's TeloTest will quantify the root cause of aging and age-related disease."
~ Cal Harley, TelomeHealth

"Telomere length testing is useful in its own right, but is probably going to be most powerful in conjunction with other biomarkers."
~ Cal Harley, TelomeHealth

"Can I afford a good deal, if its on a Mercedes? I think not." 
~ Naomi Aronson, BCBS, (making point about health care costs)

"It's an arduous road, but most good things come through arduous roads, so we shouldn’t be (dismayed by that)."
~ Naomi Aronson, BCBS



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Personalized Medicine World Conference (PMWC) 1/23-24/12, Part 1

"We want to let individual help advance research meaningful to them, rather than sitting on the sidelines."
~ Ashley Dombkowski, 23andMe

"Your DNA should not be the sole province of the scientific elite. It should be transformative for you—from Helix to Health."
~ Ashley Dombkowski, 23andMe

"Given my status, what is the best outcome I can hope to achieve and how do I get there." (the core patient question posed by)
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

"If you have a way to make patients better, you can't make money on it today."
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

"The clinical system doesn’t capture data in any way that is useful for the patient."
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

"What we really want to do is not use amazing tech—we want to predict the future so we can change it."
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

"We don’t have a statistics problem or a public problem... (our problem is) we are not thinking of medicine as an ongoing learning system."
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

"We are building an information resource that tells whether people we love will live or die, and (yet) we don’t give it to them!  We have to build ths system partnering with the patients... they are not subjects, they are participants."
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

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