Entertaining video from Simon Wardley

[StefanHoutzager]

Situation Normal, Everything Must Change - Simon Wardley Keynote

From OSCON 2015 in Portland: From Portlandia’s capa chuchu chuchu tea to Texas where “Everything is so BIG” that they only have data, OSCON is moving. In this farewell talk to Portland, we will cover the history of navigation from stories to maps, the unexplored lands of open source’s future and the territories open source has already conquered.

About Simon Wardley:
Simon Wardley is a Researcher for CSC’s Leading Edge Forum, a global research and thought leadership community dedicated to helping large organizations become more successful by identifying and adopting Next Practices at the growing intersection between business and information technology. Simon’s focus is on the intersection of IT strategy and new technologies, and he currently leads our research entitled The Clash of the Titans.

Simon’s most recent published research (December 2014) is entitled Of Wonders and Disruption where he attempts to predict the nature of technological and business change over the next 20 years. His previous research covers topics including The Future is More Predictable Than You Think: A Workbook for Value Chain Mapping. Simon has also covered topics including Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts: Strategies for an Increasingly Open Economy, Learning from Web 2.0 and A Lifecycle Approach to Cloud Computing.

Simon has spent the last 15 years defining future IT strategies for companies in the FMCG, Retail and IT industries. From Canon’s early leadership in the cloud computing space in 2005, to Ubuntu’s recent dominance as the No 1 Cloud operating system.

As a geneticist with a love of mathematics and a fascination in economics, Simon has always found himself dealing with complex systems, whether it’s in behavioural patterns, environmental risks of chemical pollution, developing novel computer systems or managing companies. He is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditization, innovation, organizational structure and cybernetics.

Simon is a regular presenter at conferences worldwide, and was voted as one of the UK’s top 50 most influential people in IT in ComputerWeekly’s 2012 and 2011 polls.

[uranther]

Can you please give a synopsis?

[StefanHoutzager]

Synopsis is on youtube. Click the link and view on youtube, below the video is a piece of text.
EDIT: Just copied & pasted the synopsis.

[bitboxer]

It would be awesome to have a description here when you post videos. now everyone has to click on the video to discover if it is worth it or not

[priojk]

Thanks for posting this video, enjoyed watching it!