Over the course of three weeks, more than 55,000 people tuned in to the Disruptive Innovation Festival, contributing to nearly 100,00 views on content. DIF 2017 also saw the highest level of interaction, with over 10 million people reached on social media.
DIF 2017 themes
21st Century Economics
Particular sessions of note around the 2017 theme 21st Century Economics include a series of circular economy films produced exclusively for DIF 2017, which explore the idea of a circular economy from three different perspectives - titles include: A Good Disruption, The Performance Economy and Flow of Wealth or a Wealth of Flows?
Future of Design
Top sessions with the 2017 theme Future of Design in mind, include a series by DIF collaborator UnSchool on Designing a Post Disposable Future, a challenge was set during the DIF which encourages us all to rapidly redesign systems that sustain wastefulness and resource depletion, by reframing negative narratives.
Age of Automation
In the final week of the DIF, the theme Age of Automation took centre stage with two particular sessions of note - David Weinberger's session on How Humans Can Thrive When Machines are Smarter Than Us and Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy's session - Maybe the Robot Invasion Could Be a Good Thing.
Catch up on the finale via DIF on Demand to hear about the themes that emerged, session clips and more.