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Nike Designer Tinker Hatfield on the Future of Shoes

Tinker Hatfield, the legendary Nike shoe designer and master storyteller, was owning his moment on the stage at the WIRED25 conference in San Francisco, pulling his rapt audience along. If you value innovators, entrepreneurs, or people who do extraordinary things,…

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Need a JetNap or a JetLift? Sleep Innovation to the Rescue

The executives from Portugal were in high spirits after a fun exploration activity at San Francisco’s Ferry Building. The goal was to find examples of great user experiences, cross-pollination, and customer empathy, and they hurried back to the Hyatt Regency…

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Traveling for Ideas: Global Cross-Pollination

The best place to look for fresh inspiration is anywhere but home, as we discovered last week while leading innovation labs in San Francisco for Portuguese executives and Brazilian high school students, just days after we flew home from our…

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Plugging into the Global Hive: StartupCity Summit

TNW’s sprawling sun-drenched Next Web tech conference in Amsterdam felt like a California music jam, a bustling festival-styled European tech smorgasbord, bringing stars like Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly, Station F Director Roxanne Varza, and dozens of startups, digital innovators and…

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