Luke Johnson, the chairman of Channel 4, opened the morning with a call to look forward to the digital future, explaining that history has shown pessimists have always been on the losing side.
Mr. Chambers, who is usually upbeat about Cisco's future, explained that it was in transition, in part because of a raft of new products in its switching business.
Siegel and Doshi were hesitant to talk too much about what we can expect from the video editor in the future, explaining that it will depend on what users are asking for.
Speaking to the Labour and Conservative Party conferences in September and October, Sundar Katwala, director at British Future, explained "that [in terms of religion and nationality], the army which fought on the Somme in 1916 looked more like the Britain of 2015 than the Britain of a century ago".
Martin Ford, futurist and author of Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, explains the jobs that are most at risk are those which "are on some level routine, repetitive and predictable".
As for the future, Chatterjee explains that Google will be using mobile signals even more to serve more relevant ads.
While he doesn't believe there will be a flood of cases based on miscarriage as a disability in the near future, Lynk explains that lawyers will no longer have to argue to establish it as one.
For more perspective into where and how books might evolve, watch the video from New York Times technology writer Nick Bilton where he talked about living in the future, explaining all of the ways that his new book has been augmented.
Evidently, this recession is "not providing a society-wide worry about the future".Mr Green explains that economic problems are uneven in their effects: "Perhaps the unemployed are going to church more, but others may be going less".
You will recall that in Back to the Future (1985), Doc explains that if Jennifer comes face to face with her older self, "the encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction which would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum".
