In the 10 years since the iPhone was introduced the computer and video gaming industry has been shifting from stand-alone offline platforms (consoles and PCs) to a $multi-billion online industry with a host of new benefits and possibilities. Mass direct connectivity...
Our core aim here at Crowdsourcing Week is to empower leaders around the globe to push collaboration and innovation forward into the 21st century. As the global network and forum for the Crowd Economy, we connect people with the most groundbreaking ideas and best...
“ The Future of Jobs” Report published in 2016 by the World Economic Forum said: “By one popular estimate*, 65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that don’t yet exist.” (*Source: McLeod, Scott and...
Our second CSW Summit in USA is in Seattle on October 5. This city is internationally recognised as being at the forefront of new movements and a home for some of the world’s largest corporations, including Microsoft and Amazon. It also intends to introduce a...
Seattle is renowned as a US centre of disruptive new trends and both corporate developments and social movements. The home to global giants including Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing and Starbucks is our choice for CSW’s second US Summit where our leading speakers and...
The location of our CSW Summit in October 2017, Seattle in Washington state, USA, has a reputation as a place where movements begin. The modern coffee bars, underground music, grunge – all began in Seattle. Major corporations including Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing are...
Here at Crowdsourcing Week we are delighted to hold our second USA Summit in Seattle, a global hub of software skills and expertise and, as some say, “the spiritual home of artificial intelligence.” It also gives us the opportunity to flag up a major crowdsourcing...
CSW Summit Washington DC on June 15 brought together a famously distinguished group of crowdsourcing thought leaders and innovators to share insights and trends on how the second wave of the crowd economy is reshaping industries and transforming organizations. Between...
Crowdsourcing Week is delighted and excited to bring its first summit to Washington DC on June 15 2017. CSW Summit DC will focus on the second wave of the crowd economy. In the world of Hi + Ai, blockchain and gamification, both domestic and international industry...
Crowdsourcing can reduce costs, speed up project timelines, tap in to crowd intelligence and creativity, and engage citizens at all levels of corporate and government processes. It’s not just for new startups, iconic organisations including NASA and GE have specialist...
Online crowdfunding enables entrepreneurs and company owners to generate orders for products or trade equity for investment funds.
Georg Fankhauser has spent much of his career as a Mergers and Acquisitions Consultant, successfully overseeing more than 80 company sales and acquisition projects in Switzerland, Germany and France. Since October 2016 he has also been co-founder and manager of KOSOVA...
Can open innovation stimulate critical improvements and breakthroughs that will provide direct benefits to the world? In recent years, many organizations have turned to open innovation to solve their toughest challenges and address their R&D needs. The use of...
Artificial Intelligence is no longer the future, it’s the present and increasing at a phenomenal rate driven by explosive growth of big data, inexpensive computing power and storage, and advanced algorithms like machine learning that enable accurate predictions to be...
Despite apparent greater control of a personal work/life balance open to remote workers and operators in the gig economy, these people often have higher levels of stress and sleep disruption . However, the flexibility offered by ICT has the potential to alter and...
In our article that announced CSW Summit D.C. we were excited about bringing together some of the world’s top crowdsourcing exponents and influencers in the home of the US Government at a time when extensive infrastructure issues are going to be debated and...
The early actions and declarations of President Trump have swung even greater world interest to Washington D.C., where his frequent direct messaging to over 27 million Twitter followers has clearly disrupted the traditional methods of news gathering and dissemination...
What an amazing experience! Let’s remind ourselves why we chose Sweden. In the weeks prior to CSW Summit Arctic Circle on March 15-19 we looked at some of the business sectors where Swedish ingenuity and entrepreneurship has created world-leading disruptor...
A previous article shone a spotlight on several crowdsourcing success stories from Sweden, and the country that birthed technologies from Skype to Spotify is striving to foster other technologies that could influence the world in coming decades. Ahead of our CSW...
In this age of mass communication and globalisation, levels of commerce, foreign investment and tourism can depend largely on how a country is perceived abroad. Visit Sweden, the country’s official travel and tourist information web site, therefore supports many...
After two decades of economic transformation, Sweden is top of Forbes’s 2016 list of countries that are the most inviting for capital investment.* Undoubtedly this is great news for Sweden, a country that is definitely punching above its economic weight. Though...