November 12-13: Next:Economy - An O'Reilly Radar Summit, November 12 - 13, 2015, San Francisco, CA

We believe that the biggest changes are still ahead, and that every industry and every organization will have to transform itself in the next few years, in multiple ways, or fade away. Until now there's been no event dedicated to these changes—no focused, high-level conversation about the deep ways in which computers and their ilk are transforming how we do business, how we work, and how we live. Just about everyone's asking WTF? ("What's the future?"), but answers have been hard to come by. That's why we're launching Next:Economy (WTF?) as an executive-level event, similar in style to O'Reilly's groundbreaking Web 2.0 Summit, which provided clarity and focus to the transformation of Silicon Valley after the dotcom bust. Our goal is to shed light on the transformation in the nature of work now being driven by algorithms, big data, robotics, and the on-demand economy. Disruption is inevitable. The race is not between man and machine, as some have asserted, but between old forms of economic organization and new ones. As technology disrupts and displaces the old economy, how quickly can we rise to the challenge of creating a new one?