Magnus Kalkuhl

Keynote by Speaker Magnus Kalkuhl

The future may be tomorrow, but the boarding is now

• Wayne Gretzky once said the he is not skating to where to puck is, but where it’s going to be. This quote has been an inspiration for many entrepreneurs, Steve Jobs being the most prominent of them.
• Unfortunately, it is easy to make predictions, but hard to make a prophecy. Magnus Kalkuhl knows how far we can stretch our ability to tell the future, based on first hand experience. Before creating his own technology startup, Magnus worked for Russian security company Kaspersky Lab. Part of his work as the Director of Kaspersky Lab’s European Research and Analysis Team was coordinating of prototype development and new technology research in his group. In 2012, Magnus was approached and asked to be one of 25 guest authors (including Steve Ballmer, Joseph Stiglitz and Ferdinand Dudenhöffer) for Ulrich Meister’s book “Vision 2030”.
• Magnus’ presentation is not only an entertaining trip through past predictions in history (including spectacular failures), but first and foremost aims at equipping the audience with the right mental tool-set, enabling them to make forecasts for their own professional field – and implementing this findings into today’s work.

Keynote by Speaker Magnus Kalkuhl

If robots are the new professionals, you’d better become a manager

• In the last century, unemployment has often been a result of resource shortages, poor education policies, or in some cases, simply of individuals having no interests in job interviews. Since this factors were seen as economical or social problems, they were addressed with the tools politicians have. The unemployment we are facing in a computerized future however is a totally different game: Taxi drivers being replaced with autonomous cars is just the beginning.
• At one point, even jobs that require an outstanding level of education will be handled my machines rather than humans – despite our individual level of education and motivation.
• What does this mean to us as individuals? Which impact will this have on our society? And most of all: What options do we have in a world, where more and more professional tasks are outsourced to computers and robots?
• Technology expert and future researcher Magnus Kalkuhl will not only show were we are right now, but also present possible future scenarios and approaches how to deal with that. Given the impact this development will have on everyone of us, it’s sure good to know our options.

Keynote by Speaker Magnus Kalkuhl

Put my logs where I can see them

• Lifelogging is on its way to become part of the mainstream. Even if you never heard about “quantified self”, the chances are high that at least one of your virtual friends on Twitter or Facebook automatically posted how many kilometres (or miles) she/he ran today. Now Apple wants to join in with its “Healthbook”, and yet, this is just the beginning, as many aspects of our life are still waiting to be discovered, measured and analysed.
• In the long run, lifelogging is not just about improving your weight, but your life as a whole. But along with the technical revolution, millions of questions appear: How much do we actually want to know about ourselves before it starts getting creepy? What if we don’t like the idea at all, but then get passively logged by others? And what about corporate security and industrial espionage aspects if everyone’s logging their daily work routine, thus sending confidential data into the cloud?
• Lifelogging and security expert Magnus Kalkuhl deals with this kind of questions on a daily basis – and he believes that everyone should know about the potential traps when it’s about sharing your private life with other companies. Therefore this presentation does not only highlight the status quo and future developments of lifelogging, but most of all is about how we maintain control over our data, while still being able to play with the cool stuff.