{"id":460,"date":"2016-10-11T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T11:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.omg.com\/mena\/technology-will-become-human-like-to-engage-better-marketers-told-at-phds-brainscape-2016\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:10:10","slug":"technology-will-become-human-like-to-engage-better-marketers-told-at-phds-brainscape-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/technology-will-become-human-like-to-engage-better-marketers-told-at-phds-brainscape-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTechnology will become human-like to engage better,\u201d marketers told at PHD\u2019s BrainScape 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media network\u2019s annual conference draws over 400 delegates with future-shaping trends<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can either be scared or excited about the opportunities the future presents, but you can\u2019t sit this one out because it is coming sooner than you think.\u201d Those were the stern words of caution from David Rowan, Editor of Wired UK and speaker at the seventh edition of BrainScape<\/strong>, the annual thought-leadership conference staged in Dubai by PHD<\/a>. Held on October 10th at the Westin Habtoor City in Dubai for an audience of over 400 marketing and media professionals, the conference explored the implications of an inevitable technological revolution that will transform the way we live, work and transact.<\/p>\n

Rowan opened the conference with a presentation on the technological forces that are already disrupting the way we work and live. He projected the audience into the future by explaining the impact of these trends and showcasing showing the types of products and services we can expect in the years to come. \u201cWe\u2019re moving from science fiction to just another product, all thanks to how easy startups can get to market these days,\u201d stated Rowan. He later added to the concept that startups have greater agility to respond to future trends, commenting: \u201cStartups are fighting for survival every single day and that keeps them way ahead of how a corporate works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Technological theorist and author, Tom Chatfield, addressed the societal and ethical issues coming from a world driven by technology, looking particularly at relationships with and through technology. \u201cWe must respect the highly emotional nature of these relationships and ensure they are based on maximising the skills that bind us: human creativity and sociability versus machine capacity, speed and connectivity,\u201d he explained. Reassuring those who feared our de-humanization through the over-reliance on machines, Chatfield asserted that living in a networked age means there is less and less we will do individually and more and more we will do together.<\/p>\n

Going further into the notion of technology versus humanity, Daniel McDuff, a researcher on state-of-the-art sensing and machine learning tools at Microsoft, showcased technologies that can read human emotions and provide incredibly valuable data. \u201cSomething as simple as the smartphone in your pocket can measure your physiological state and capture data on what gets your heartrate up; it\u2019s very scalable,\u201d revealed McDuff, adding algorithms could outperform humans in detecting certain objects, situations or emotions. \u201cUnderstanding how someone reacts to your products is the first step to tailor a consumer experience to that individual at that particular time,\u201d McDuff said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere humanity is going to have a role, it\u2019s going to be in the field of experiences and it\u2019s these experiences that brands will want to associate with or create for themselves,\u201d declared PHD<\/strong> Worldwide\u2019s Chief Strategy Officer, Hugh Cameron. His session detailed the tangible steps that businesses can take to enhance interactions with their consumers through their communications planning. \u201cPlanners and strategists will become the designers of more streamlined consumer experiences, using data and talent to enhance human journeys. At PHD<\/strong> (Omnicom Media Group<\/a>), we strongly believe that a brand\u2019s success comes when humans, data and AI work together.\u201d<\/p>\n

“This year, the speakers at BrainScape<\/strong> encouraged marketers here to start thinking about the forces that are already transforming the way we work,\u201d commented Elda Choucair, CEO of PHD<\/strong> MENA<\/strong>. \u201cThe speed of transformation can be quite challenging and this conference serves as a platform to accelerate the awareness of and the response to future-shaping developments among business and marketing professionals. It\u2019s an advance warning, a wake-up call to help our stakeholders gain a first-mover advantage by future-proofing their strategies and better preparing themselves for what is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

The seventh edition of PHD<\/strong>‘s BrainScape was produced in association with DMS – the digital media arm of Choueiri Group, which manages a premium portfolio of online and mobile properties, and was sponsored by Mediaquest, Future Tech Media, Gulf News and 7awi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Media network\u2019s annual conference draws over 400 delegates with future-shaping trends \u201cYou can either be scared or excited about the opportunities the future presents, but you can\u2019t sit this one out because it is coming sooner than you think.\u201d Those were the stern words of caution from David Rowan, Editor of Wired UK and speaker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,63],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mena-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}