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Blake Morgan (@blakemichellem) is an author, keynote speaker and customer experience futurist currently working on her second book with HarperCollins on customer experience technology. Her first book is More is More: How The Best Companies Work Harder And Go Farther To Create Knock Your Socks Off Customer Experiences.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How customer service can make or break companies
- Why augmented reality and virtual reality are such exciting technologies for Blake
- What to look out for when building a business
- The future of ecommerce and competing with Amazon
- How the future of work is changing faster than we can react
- The scary reality of data, privacy and personalization
- Why AI will be such a transformational tool for customer service
- What Blake thinks about startups and Silicon Valley
- Why business will look very different in the future
- The issues and advantages of robots in our homes
- How AI evolves into love and relationships
Blake is adjunct faculty at the Rutgers executive education MBA program, contributes to Forbes, the Harvard Business Review and Hemispheres Magazine and is the host of The Modern Customer Podcast and a weekly customer experience video series on YouTube. She has worked with Accor Hotels, Accenture, Adobe, Parker Hannifin, Ericsson, Verizon and many more and has a wealth of knowledge on the future of commerce and customer relations/experiences, something not often enough talked about.
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Blake Morgan (@blakemichellem) is an author, keynote speaker and customer experience futurist currently working on her second book with HarperCollins on customer experience technology. Her first book is More is More: How The Best Companies Work Harder And Go Farther To Create Knock Your Socks Off Customer Experiences.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How customer service can make or break companies
- Why augmented reality and virtual reality are such exciting technologies for Blake
- What to look out for when building a business
- The future of ecommerce and competing with Amazon
- How the future of work is changing faster than we can react
- The scary reality of data, privacy and personalization
- Why AI will be such a transformational tool for customer service
- What Blake thinks about startups and Silicon Valley
- Why business will look very different in the future
- The issues and advantages of robots in our homes
- How AI evolves into love and relationships
Blake is adjunct faculty at the Rutgers executive education MBA program, contributes to Forbes, the Harvard Business Review and Hemispheres Magazine and is the host of The Modern Customer Podcast and a weekly customer experience video series on YouTube. She has worked with Accor Hotels, Accenture, Adobe, Parker Hannifin, Ericsson, Verizon and many more and has a wealth of knowledge on the future of commerce and customer relations/experiences, something not often enough talked about.
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Roel Vertegaal (@roelvertegaal) is a Dutch-Canadian interaction designer, scientist, musician and entrepreneur working in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. He is a Professor at Queens Universitys School of Computing where he directs the Human Media Lab and is best known for his pioneering work on flexible and paper computers, with PaperWindows (2004), PaperPhone (2010] and PaperTab (2012). He is also known for inventing ubiquitous eye input, such as Samsungs Smart Pause technologies.
“In the near future, a computer will have any shape or form, and flexible computer displays will start appearing on any product of any form. These Organic User Interfaces will be completely embedded in real world interactions.”
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
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How technology transforms society and cultural norms
The big problem with conflicting interests creating filter bubbles, fake news and overly aggressive Facebook
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Roel passion for quantum computing and potential implications
The reason Roel is very worried about climate change
Why Roel believes startups and tech companies should have higher moral character
The awesome effects of flexible computers, phones and interfaces
Why the lab is always 10-15 years ahead of commercial companies
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