Slush 2017
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Meeting Point of Content Creation and Consumption | Megumi Ikeda | 13m |
Argues that television is shifting from legacy networks to OTT because ad revenue is squeezed, tech players and media buyers are consolidating content, and… | ||
| New Forms of Design – Reimagining Creativity | Jeff Veen | 17m |
Argues that digital design has moved from computation to connection to comprehension, citing concrete shifts: the web grows from ~2,000 sites to 3.8 billion… | ||
| Meeting Point of Content Creation and Consumption | Jeff Pulver | 11m |
Starts with ham radio at age 12 and a license earned at 12.5, moves to downloading Internet Phone in February 1995, launching Free World Dial-up in October… | ||
| New Forms of Design – Reimagining Creativity | Alex Champandard | 11m |
Creative.ai builds authoring tools that treat machine learning as AI as instrument not conveyor belt automation, mixing computer vision and natural language… | ||
| The Democratisation of Financial Services | Kaidi Ruusalepp | 10m |
Argues that blockchain shifts trust from intermediaries to code and that ICOs could provide global liquidity outside local exchanges. Defines four token types… | ||
| The Democratisation of Financial Services | Marko Wenthin | 07m |
Claims that banks as institutions will fade and financial services must be embedded into everyday apps, using examples like WeChat and China and predicting big… | ||
| The Democratisation of Financial Services | Viola Llewellyn | 12m |
Ovamba claims to have democratized SME finance in Africa with a digitized lending platform handling ~1,700 transactions where only ~1 in 6 borrowers ever had a… | ||
| Are Users Able to Take Control of Their Data? | Marten Mickos | 12m |
Claims that coordinated bug bounties beat conventional security with numbers: a vetted team of 1,410 hackers breaches Pentagon systems in 13 minutes and finds… | ||
| Are Users Able to Take Control of Their Data? | Robin Tombs | 12m |
Claims a working digital identity app called Yoti that verifies people by face + passport chip read using live video and liveness words, then stores attributes… | ||
| Are Users Able to Take Control of Their Data? | Steven Waterhouse | 10m |
Orchid Labs Inc. builds a privacy layer that routes traffic through a chain of relays so censored sites become reachable, with nodes paid in cryptocurrency and… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Martti Kaasalainen | Martti Kaasalainen | 06m |
Proposal uses porous silicon nanoneedles to load peptide drugs (insulin) into porous volume and deliver them via a plaster that penetrates only the outermost… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Johan Seijsing | Johan Seijsing | 05m |
Antibiotic resistance kills ~700,000 people this year and could reach 10 million by 2050 with a $100 trillion GDP loss, so the project develops enzymes derived… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Anna Stockl | Anna Stockl | 05m |
Claims building a working four-cell patch-clamp setup to record four identified retinal neurons simultaneously, quantifying how synchronous activity across the… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Svante Henriksson | Svante Henriksson | 06m |
Proposal to weaken hurricane eyewalls by injecting turbulence and aerosols to convert a Category 5 into about a Category 1, claiming 40% reduction in peak wind… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Muhammad Ammaduddin | Muhammad Ammaduddin | 06m |
Slush loves science and wants to bring startups and science closer to each other. One initiative taken together with KasKas Media is an annual Science Pitching… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Olli Karkkainen | Olli Karkkainen | 05m |
A project using metabolic profiling of hundreds of small molecules aims to predict which adolescents will develop alcohol use disorder and who will respond to… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Ivana Trapani | Ivana Trapani | 05m |
Claims a gene‑editing therapy for Stargardt disease that uses a modified, non‑replicating viral vector to deliver molecular scissors that cut out the mutated… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Anand Tatikonda | Anand Tatikonda | 06m |
E‑waste totals 125 million tons by 2020 worth about 75 billion dollars but only 15% is recycled. Proposal: shred electronics to <1% metal feed, encapsulate… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Tommi Himberg | Tommi Himberg | 05m |
Group improvisation games train whole classrooms to interact better and yield measurable changes in creativity, bonding and resilience. Teams combine cognitive… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Janne Hakkarainen | Janne Hakkarainen | 05m |
Claims a new formula to extract the human CO2 fingerprint from satellite observations and uses open-access NASA CO2 data to produce first-ever maps of man-made… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Torill Kornfeldt | Torill Kornfeldt | 11m |
A visit to Yakutsk yields the best preserved male mammoth head and the claim that researchers extract 20,000-year-old genes and identify mammoth traits like… | ||
| Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Menghuan Zhang | Menghuan Zhang | 04m |
A mobile delivery robot called Mui Robot moves without magnetic strips using travellish technology, navigates by itself and coordinates teams of 15+ units… | ||
| Announcing the Winner | 02m | |
A clear winner scores 70 out of 80 points and takes the Scholar Award 2017, Johan Say Singh from the University of calm. The pitch targets major societal… | ||
| How Biology Benefits from Technological Discoveries | Arvind Gupta | 16m |
Claims rapid acceleration: biology outpaces Moore's Law as sequencing and synthesis costs drop, enabling reprogramming of life to address projected 12 billion… | ||
| How Biology Benefits from Technological Discoveries | Morteza Ahmadi | 09m |
A palm-sized artificial kidney weighs under a pound and uses a nanofiltration system modeled on the glomerulus to purify blood, with animal tests in 65 kg pigs… | ||
| How Biology Benefits from Technological Discoveries | Melanie Matheu | 09m |
Claim: a company uses 3D holographic projection printing to decouple speed and resolution and build functional microvasculature. The system prints up to 1 cm³… | ||
| Augmenting Human Capabilities to New Dimensions | Oliver Armitage | 10m |
Claim: an implantable neural interface captures over a terabyte of neural data from peripheral nerves, outpacing prior datasets by an order of magnitude, and… | ||
| Augmenting Human Capabilities to New Dimensions | Harri Valpola | 12m |
Current deep learning needs huge labeled datasets and humans in the loop, fails at quick adaptation and object discovery, and lacks the slow deliberative… | ||
| Augmenting Human Capabilities to New Dimensions | Siraj Raval | 13m |
Audience at Slush 2017 enjoyed keynotes on augmenting human capabilities to new dimensions. Here's one from Siraj Raval, Data Scientist, Author and… | ||
| Augmenting Human Capabilities to New Dimensions | Rumman Chowdhury | 14m |
Argues that physical, neural and genetic augmentation are already real: LASIK gives pro athletes “better than perfect” vision; Open Bionics 3D‑prints themed… | ||
| Augmenting Human Capabilities to New Dimensions | Liviu Babitz, Scott Cohen | 11m |
A permanently implanted device vibrates when the body faces magnetic north, giving a continuous directional cue via two titanium rods and a wearable with ~200… | ||
| Individual Learning Experiences for Personal Growth | Vinod Khosla | 14m |
Nonprofit CK-12 provides an open-source K–12 STEM platform with 167 million questions answered, about 8,000 concepts mapped like a Tube map, 250,000… | ||
| Individual Learning Experiences for Personal Growth | Joel Hellermark | 09m |
Sana Labs applies neural networks to large online-education datasets and claims to personalize learning in real time, predicting answers from inputs like… | ||
| Lift-off for More Accessible Space Exploration | Natalya Bailey | 14m |
Company claims an electric propulsion for small satellites that is modular and scalable, with three propulsion systems slated to fly early next year. Market… | ||
| Lift-off for More Accessible Space Exploration | Jim Cantrell | 10m |
Vector aims to lower launch cost and raise cadence with Vector R and Vector H — 11–12 m small rockets that cut per-launch cost from ~ $1.5B to $1.5M per launch… | ||
| Lift-off for More Accessible Space Exploration | Rafal Modrzewski | 12m |
Startup builds tiny synthetic-aperture radar satellites and claims instrument is ~100× cheaper than traditional $100M SAR craft; first unit sits in Chennai for… | ||
| The Democratisation of Financial Services | Andreas M. Antonopoulos | 11m |
Claims that human groups cap at Dunbar number ~150 and that bureaucratic hierarchies fail to scale global decision making lead to a specific solution… | ||
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