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  • Innotribe your event: CPA and SWIFT

    Innovation is a key theme in SWIFT’s discussions with the community on how they can collectively address both complex and basic challenges. Via the launch of the Innotribe Program, SWIFT has embarked on a new way of promoting innovation amongst the financial industry. Innotribe is an initiative that leverages the collective intelligence of the SWIFT… Read more

  • Identity Rights System 3.0

    Next week, SWIFT Innotribe will be hosting the European eID Interoperability Conference 2010. It’s a great agenda with presentations by European experts on eID, and also some of the smartest SWIFT folks on identity. For example, we’ll have Jacques Hagelstein, our Chief Architect, and we’ll also run an Innotribe Lab on day-2. Check out and… Read more

  • The Medici Effect

      The Medicis were a banking family in Florence who funded creators from a wide range of disciplines. Thanks to this family and a few others like it, sculptors, scientists, poets, philosophers, financiers, painters, and architects converged upon the city of Florence. There they found each other, learned from one another, and broke down barriers… Read more

  • iPAD what’s next ? Oblong !

    Seen at many blogs and feeds during the last week. Of all, i like most the post of MG Siegler of Techcrunch. MG Siegler writes: The demo I saw a couple years ago was stunning, but it was still just a video. Apparently, at TED, the audience got to see it in action. NYT’s Bits… Read more

  • Maslow for Stakeholder Relations

    If you have any role in Stakeholder Relations (in some companies this is called “PR” and/or “Investor Relations” and/or “HR”), i can recommend reading Chip Conley’s book “Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow” Conley, the CEO and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, turned to psychologist Abraham Maslow’s iconic Hierarchy of Needs.… Read more

  • Flyfire swarm for U2 ?

    Found via Singularity Hub. Re-think big screens. Really big screens in the sky. Think swarms. MIT’s Flyfire project uses a swarm of miniature helicopters with embedded LED lights to act as ’smart pixels’ as they fly through the air. Acting in concert they will be able to form complex three dimensional shapes – digital displays… Read more