In this talk, I will take you through uncertainty and its impact on our lives by looking at case studies from the cotton mill workers of 19th Century Britain to the fall of Nokia as the world’s No. 1 phone maker and how change connects them both. Then, I will explore how the uncertainty of change can sometimes cause us to ignore, deny, distort, or even try to stop it from happening instead of working with it. 

Over the last two years, the tech industry has been going through big changes.

In this talk, media server engineer Josh McNamee discusses the challenges in shipping Disguise’s ‘Single Large Canvas’, the software feature that lets U2 put images on the inside of the Las Vegas Sphere.

The landscape of technology has changed over the past decade – and that change has led to the place of engineering changing in the architecture of modern businesses.

If you were standing in this exact spot in early 1941, you’d be surrounded by rubble. Large swaths of London lie in ruins after the months-long Blitz during World War II, and Cripplegate ward where we now sit was almost completely destroyed. The only building you’d see standing would be a heavily damaged St. Giles Church.