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On March 8th, 2017 the Digital Seminar series hosted Andrew Mao from Aarhus University. Andrew gave a talk called “Studying Teamwork and Cooperation in the Virtual Lab.”

Much fanfare has been made of the promise and potential of the platform economy, predominantly for its flexibility and efficiency, but for workers in the “gig economy,” is it really a reasonable way to earn a living? This is the central question at the heart of Juliet Schor’s (Boston College) research on some of the big six providers: Airbnb, TaskRabbit, Uber, Lyft, Postmates and Favor.

On March 22nd, 2017 the Digital Seminar series hosted Gerald (Jerry) Kane from Boston College. Jerry gave a talk called “Wikipedia: The Canary in the Coal Mine for Online Collaboration.”

Presented at the Digital Initiative 2017 Future Assembly, in this flash talk, Richard Dulude from Underscore VC, explores problems with adopting the technology of VR and possible ways to address these challenges.

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg explore data visualization’s many applications — from analytics to art.

On December 4th, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Siobhan O’Mahony and Rebecca Karp from Boston University.

What if you could spin up an entire organization of qualified experts in a matter of moments? This is precisely what Stanford’s Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein aim to accomplish with their research on Flash Orgs (crowdsourcing complex work using reconfigurable organizational structures).

In this keynote from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Julie Larson Green (former Chief Experience Office at Microsoft) shares insights into the fascinating (and nuanced) ways that work around the world is evolving in the digital economy. Here is a snapshot of what the modern worker and the future of work looks like.

In November 2015, Zipcar Co-Founder Robin Chase inspired the crowd at the Harvard Business School Digital Transformation Summit by challenging them to use platforms and peers to build exponential solutions to some of the world’s most challenging problems.

Presented at the Digital Initiative 2017 Future Assembly, in this flash talk, Keith Hopper a Visiting Entrepreneur in Residence at Olin College of Engineering, explored the way companies set and define their “strategy” and how this is changing (and maybe dying) in the “Age of Agile.”