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Bumble’s Louise Troen on censoring dick pics using AI

May09
by on May 9, 2019 at 9:53 am
Posted In: Around the Web, TNW2019


We’re coming to you live from day one of TNW 2019, our flagship conference in Amsterdam. Up next is Louise Troen, Bumble’s iconic VP of Internal Marketing and Communications in the UK. Troen joined Bumble when the billion-dollar company was still a small team. The female-focused social networking app believes in empowerment not just through dating, but in business and networking too. When it comes to brand building, kindness is key. The app recently introduced AI to automatically censor unsolicited dick pics to make online dating for women a safer and friendlier space. Starting in June, users of dating apps…

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Deloitte’s tips on coming up with viable blockchain use cases

May09
by on May 9, 2019 at 9:47 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Today at TNW2019 in Amsterdam, consulting giant Deloitte shared some tips on how to use blockchain to streamline your business operations – and find suitable use cases for the fledgling technology. In a workshop titled “Beyond tech: blockchain strategy for complex environments,” Deloitte‘s in-house blockchain team walked participants through the process of coming up with viable distributed ledger use cases. Among other things, Deloitte noted that blockchain is particularly well-suited for financial applications, supply chain logs, and real estate records due to its transparency features, which make it possible for multiple parties to have access to all date shared. “Nobody…

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Before developers build cathedrals, teach them to build sheds

May09
by on May 9, 2019 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


It‘s a truth universally acknowledged that managing fewer things is easier than managing lots of things. Yet, why do so many of us in tech exalt “scale” as a paramount virtue? The cloud-native arena is a particularly interesting focal point for this exact debate. The cloud-native community is disrupting many long-held technological conventions, making us rethink how we should build the systems of tomorrow. However, many of the tools, platforms, and practices coming out of that community have been extracted from the largest technology companies on Earth. These companies dominate the cloud-native computing landscape: its technology, its evangelism, and its…

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Bumble’s Louise Troen is live at TNW2019 – tune in now!

May09
by on May 9, 2019 at 8:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web, TNW2019


Welcome to day one of TNW’s annual conference, taking place in the industrial hipness of Amsterdam’s NDSM Wharf. The sun’s out. The coffee is brewing. It’s a beautiful day. Now, let’s talk some tech. In five minutes, Louise Troen, Bumble’s iconic VP of Internal Marketing and Communications will take to the stage to talk about when it comes to branding, kindness is key. She credits Bumble’s values of empathy, compassion, and consideration to its stratospheric success, which has resulted in the company achieving unicorn status. Not here in Amsterdam with us? That’s okay. You can still catch it via live-stream…

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