Unlocking the Power of Belonging Digital Summit

If people only knew how to master changes in their lives and organizations?

How that would increase the everyday happiness and business performance around the world?

Welcome to enjoy a session on Transformation Algorithm for Human Happiness at the World Happiness Foundation 2-day digital summit on Unlocking the Power of Belonging. Join some of the leading researchers, educators, and community builders, along with the workshop facilitators from over 40 cities worldwide!

Over the last years, we have quite naturally arrived to an evolutionary point, where we know enough about our human nature to start becoming the masters of our own transformations. Yes, there is still a long way ahead to study details and particular effects in various contexts. Nevertheless, we have made a huge leap in demystifying ways for elevating personal identities and profoundly enhancing corporate leadership.

We have uncovered a transformation algorithm for human happiness.

It streamlines our understanding about human potential and capacity to achieve any desired long-term changes. The good news is that everyone already has an inherent wisdom of change, called a transformation gene. Thus, the remaining task is only to activate and make it work sustainably. Join and see it for yourself!

RBS University Preparation Centre

Welcome to join a guest lecture on Becoming the Masters of Change at the University Preparation Centre of RTU Riga Business School.

Is everything around inevitably transforming — people, organizations, societies, environment?

Rapid or slow, a change has been the catalyst for all that. If that’s true, then how good are we at actually mastering this constantly evolving reality? So, so — would often be given as an honest answer. Then wait — is this how we expect to achieve happy and fulfilling lives in the future?

Apparently, there is an obvious need for having another, more serious take on this matter. If everything is constantly changing, then it would be naturally wise of becoming the masters of such core transformation.

Transformative Technology Conference

Welcome to join this community breakout session on Human Artificial Intelligence at the annual Transformative Technology Conference.

Tremendous achievements are demonstrating our humane ability to evolve and progress. On this journey, let's remember that all the key answers are already encoded in our basic nature. Thus, artificial intelligence is only something that can serve us for the next big leap of the mankind. Technology is nothing more than a huge mirror that reflects all the good and the bad sides of what we have inherited as human beings.

Artificial intelligence is learning from what we can offer.

Developer bias is at the core of all our expectations and speculations for the future of man-machine co-evolution.

The Now! Fest 2020

From rational thinking to irrational decisioning, the last few years have taken behavioural strategists and scientists on an exciting journey. Coming from nowhere and dominating the business of how we understand human thinking, context and action, behavioural science has finally found its voice in the world.

Now, is a great time. It ought to be celebrated. — The Now! Fest

TransTech Paris 2nd Event

Together with our community we explored and enjoyed the experience and expertise around transformative technology for wellbeing and design for a better future.

A network of TransTech experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, scholars, and enthusiasts. A community hosting events, empowering disruption, facilitating tech development, helping to find partnerships, funding, and purposeful evolution. Welcome to expand your knowledge, practice, and future vision on TransTech.

TransTech Global

Join the largest global community of entrepreneurs and innovators leveraging technology to expand human potential and flourishing - Transformative Technology Lab.

Transformative Technology Community Opening Event

We are proudly announcing the launch of TransTech Paris Chapter. A network of Transformative Technology experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, scholars, and enthusiasts.

A community hosting events, empowering disruption, facilitating tech development, helping to find partnerships, funding, and purposeful evolution. Welcome to expand your knowledge, practice, and future vision on Transformative Technology.

Join the largest global community of entrepreneurs and innovators leveraging technology to expand human potential and flourishing. Our mission is to permanently move a billion people into a state of wellbeing and flourishing by 2030.

Transformative Technology - Global Community

We sit at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, tech, entrepreneurship, and innovation. We leverage exponential technologies like AI, AR/VR/XR, networks and sensors, biotech, neurofeedback, robotics and more to build tech to enable human wellbeing at scale. We start with this premise – the Future of Work, Society, and Tech depends on the State of the Human Mind.

How do we enable every human to develop their full potential?

Together, we can create an unprecedented era of human flourishing. We can take the tech that has taxed our thinking and relationships and use it instead to transform our hearts and minds. We can have greater clarity, joy and connection, and ultimately more possibility for all of humanity.

We must have flourishing because we cannot solve our other problems without having healthy human minds. Psychological wellbeing was once considered a luxury – something you get at the end of a stressful and fear-filled life. But now we need flourishing – to work, to live, to thrive. This is why we need to build the tech that we really, actually, need. The tech that helps us know ourselves better than algorithms, that helps us connect to ourselves and one another. The tech that supports our hearts and minds. Remember: We can design tech to serve us, to prioritize human contact and connection.

How COVID-19 Accelerates Global Healthy Cities Transformations

We all are aware that COVID-19 is profoundly impacting our lives and work. The world is now experiencing one of the largest global transformations in the last decades. Current changes will sustain their effects over the next generations. We are learning new ways not only to make individual decisions, but also create novel designs for our living spaces in future cities. Thus, this talk aims at discussing:

How transformation science and practice can help future cities become healthy and flourishing?

At Action Spot in Silicon Valley

Transformation tools and design methodology for organizations and businesses to empower profitable changes during and post COVID-19. Explaining the typology of change, vectoral transformation, eight tools of the transformation design framework, and providing practical examples of applied behavior design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Media Lab). Achieving positive transformations in cities, organizations, and human lives.

Change has been always part of any evolution. In business management, just like everywhere else, continuous improvements have been assuring the success of every project. Moreover, also outside forces keep pushing for more rapid organizational change. Such conditions require businesses to master transformation, so that they become the drivers of change, instead of being desperate followers.

This event provides scientific knowledge and practical methodology for leaders designing transformation. It explains a typology of change, a concept of vectoral transformation, a transformation framework containing eight applicable tools, an application example, and three case studies deploying this methodology. It demonstrates how transformation, instead of being mystical and difficult, is actually practical and achievable. Professionals are encouraged deploying the provided transformation tools and design methodology.

Transforming Response to COVID-19

Discussing how data can help us understand and transform the response to COVID-19 by addressing these three main questions:

What data sources would you suggest can help us best understand the COVID-19 situation from a civic / municipal angle, and how?

You work with changing populations’ behaviours through feedback loops. What do you see as some easy wins we could be aiming for in this regard?

The question CoronaWhy SHOULD be asking — How to help people efficiently achieving their desired transformations?

CoronaWhy

CoronaWhy’s mission is to mobilize volunteers and community partners to address the world’s biggest challenges through data science, artificial intelligence and knowledge sharing. Our focus is the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

We are all in this together. For the sake of our high risk segments of the population every member of society, every business and every government must make an effort in solidarity to overcome this pandemic using all the tools available with the collective creative problem solving capability of human society worldwide.

Visions that Compose a New Reality

We invite you to the fourth week of Wisdom Health, where we are going to share different visions of some of the people who have accompanied us in this first stage, to compose a new reality. To achieve a cross-linked dialogue that gives birth to a common message, integrating what is happening to us, what we can learn from the past and what moves us committing ourselves to a regenerated future.

Wisdom Health is an emerging community of conscious leaders that promotes the relationships sustaining the process of regeneration and cohesion in vulnerable times. Focusing on three main areas:

• Being with our Present - Regenerative Humanity

• Learning from our Past - Ancient Wisdom Resilience

• Committed to our Future - Humane Economy and Technology

UX Psychology Global Community Meetup

While digital transformation is effectively helping to advance physical and virtual environments, we tend to overlook the essential role that human nature is playing in the change processes. Therefore, this online masterclass will show you how business acceleration and societal wellbeing can be achieved through technology design and behavioural psychology.

Masterclass

Join UX Psychology Global Community for this online international masterclass where you’ll have the opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals around the world in the human behaviour, design, and digital space. After this practical masterclass, you won’t see online transformation as mystical, but rather a practical process.

Community

UX Psychology exists to help people build digital experiences that make a difference in the world. If you know someone else who might be interested please share this event. Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you.

Wisdom Health: Emerging Community for Conscious Leaders

Human flourishing and societal wellbeing can be achieved through purposefully designed innovations that successfully blend technological advancements with behavioral science.

In the moments of global transformations, how to use technology in a humane way?

Wisdom Health is an emerging community for conscious leaders committed with cohesion and transformation in vulnerable times.

Keynote at World Happiness Fest

Can you imagine a city that feels, understands, and cares about human flourishing?

Future cities will reshape human potential in countless ways. Novel strategies and models are required for future urban spaces to properly respond to human evolution, environmental conditions, and social dynamics.

Transforming technologies will play an important role in making cities more livable by addressing current emotional challenges and empowering mental health.

Transforming cities aim at improving wellbeing across societies through purposefully designed urban innovations that successfully blend technological advancements with human nature.

To achieve that, a science-driven Transforming Framework has been developed at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Media Lab) to equip practitioners and designers of technology to create urban innovations that last.

Global Business Challenges

Prof. Agnis Stibe invites his students to the Transforming IMBA Hackathon for addressing Global Business Challenges.

This was a unique experience, as for one full day all of the Transforming IMBA students addressed some of the most urgent global challenges within these three:

CATEGORIES

1. Sustainable Business (19) - creating businesses that leave positive footprint on the planet.

2. Human Flourishing (6) - helping people and societies to have happy and fulfilling lives.

3. Emerging Economies (3) - facilitating and supporting emerging markets to succeed faster.

CRITERIA

1. Impact - the size of impact - how many people impacted?

2. Scale - how easy it can be scaled? - can it cover the whole planet?

3. Viability - is there a real need? - is there a validated necessity?

4. Disruptiveness - how futuristic is your solution? - how far from an ordinary thinking?

TEAMS

• Registered their team name and members.

• Had maximum 3 people.

• Contained students from any of the IMBA groups.

SOLUTIONS

• Recorded as a short video presentation or demonstration.

• Each video less than 3 minutes long.

• Easy video recording and editing tool Screencast-O-Matic.

• All video uploaded to YouTube.

• All the names of team members are explicitly written in the video description on YouTube.

AGENDA

• 09:00 - Welcome Zoom Call

• 09:10 - Introduction to the Categories

• 09:20 - Teams Formation

• 09:30 - Hackathon Starts

• 17:00 - Time to Upload your Videos to YouTube

• 17:30 - All Videos Uploaded and their Links Added

• 17:40 - Closing Zoom Call

• 18:00 - Hackathon Ends

GRADING

• All videos evaluated and ranked.

• The best performing videos receiving top grades.

ENCOURAGEMENT

• Getting your enthusiasm, creativity, and devices ready for this memorable experience!

• Any questions?

Demystifying Transformation

Majority of global problems are byproducts of poor human attitude and behavior. Often people find reasons outside themselves for why we have such environmental issues and cultural segregation. We tend to see changes as something difficult, impossible, and mystical, thus something to avoid. Such attitude naturally leads to questionable choices and consequent results. This talk will demystify human change and reveal the secrets of transformation, thus making it easy for everyone to apply globally.

Demystifying Human Change: Transformation Made Easy for Everyone

People, businesses, communities, societies, basically everyone needs help with transforming their lives and activities. Many want to permanently change or walk the path of sustainable transformation, but we also know how often our new year's resolutions end in February. People are often unsuccessful with transformation because they don't have knowledge about it, and thus it seems mystical to many. This talk will revolutionize this aspect by introducing:

• Transforming Wellbeing Theory — that explains the essentials of and the inevitable need for global transformations (Stibe et al. 2019),

• Typology of Change — that clarifies the variety of changes and provides ways to consciously separate them (Stibe et al. 2019),

• Transforming Framework — that contains 8 applicable tools for immediate use (Stibe et al. 2019), and

• Transforming Sociotech Design — that bends technological innovations with human nature to empower sustainable changes at scale (Stibe et al. 2018, Stibe & Larson 2016).

Our world is going crazy, so what? Therefore, this talk will reveal how the Transforming Wellbeing Theory & Practice is emerging as an inevitable response to the ever-growing imbalance in our lives across the globe. Over the decades, we have been advancing technologies to make our lives better. The fundamental question still remains: with all the evolving innovations, are we gaining decent success in achieving happier and more sustainable societies? Every crucial domain of our lives continuously provides evidence of how things are getting imbalanced despite us making huge progress in building increasingly capable technological innovations, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, and drones, just to name a few. The talk will provide scientific insights and practical applications to transform lives at global scale. Due to its strong fundament that intertwines technological innovations with human nature, this work is applicable in many essential life contexts, including health, education, sustainability, equality, governance, safety, emergency, management, marketing, ecology, economy, and dwelling.

by Alumnus Prof. Agnis Stibe

Global thought leader on science-driven transformation. This Transformation Masterclass has travelled 5 continents engaging already thousands of people. Participants did:

• demystify transformation,

• acquire fundamentals of transformation,

• learn 8 transforming tools and

• apply them to real-life challenges.

Persuasive Era and Wellbeing

Welcome to your unique journey into the transforming future of international business administration. Our current times require high degree of agility and broad open-minded thinking to advance in line with the fast-paced technological evolution and global changes.

Why Transforming? Because changes today happen very fast and that speed will only accelerate with time. Such increasing pressure naturally affects all areas of our lives, including the ways we are doing business, especially on the global scale. Therefore, this event is tailored for professionals and students to become efficient leaders of transformation in organizations and beyond.

In this event, participants acquire and share knowledge that is essential for global leadership and growth management in our world that is increasingly manifesting its cross-border nature and multi-cultural mentality.

Emergence of Transforming Wellbeing Theory (TWT) Tutorial

Majority of global problems and business challenges are byproducts of poor human attitude and behavior. Communities, societies, businesses, and organizations, basically everyone needs help with transformations. People often tend to perceive changes as something difficult, impossible, and mystical, thus are willing to avoid them. That attitude naturally leads to poorer decisions and consequent behavioral outcomes. This science-driven tutorial demystifies transformation by introducing:

• Transforming Wellbeing Theory (TWT) — that explains the essentials of and inevitable necessity for transformation,

• Typology of Change — that clarifies the variety of different changes, and

• Transforming Framework — that provides 8 (eight) applicable tools for bending technological innovations with human nature to empower sustainable changes at scale.

Due to its scientific richness and practical nature, this transforming tutorial is applicable in many essential contexts, including wellbeing, health, innovation, leadership, autonomy, commercialization, education, diversity, culture, sustainability, dwelling, equality, social change, governance, automation, emergency, management, marketing, art, safety, ecology, and economy.

Transforming Wellbeing Theory

Transforming Wellbeing Theory is emerging as an inevitable response to the ever-growing imbalance in our lives across the globe [15]. Over the decades, we have been advancing technologies to make our lives better and businesses growing. The fundamental question still remains: with all the evolving technologies, are we gaining decent success in achieving healthier societies and well performing organizations? Every crucial domain of our lives continuously provides evidence of how things are getting imbalanced despite us making huge progress in building increasingly capable innovations. This work summarizes the state-of-the-art scientific insights and practical applications to transform lives and accelerate businesses at global scale.

Present knowledge on persuasive technology often reveals how behavior change designs and interventions are limited in sustaining their effects [5-6]. There is an increasing need for novel ways to design technology that helps people not only to achieve their goals, but also to support sustaining their newly developed habits. Transforming innovations should ultimately empower people and organizations to succeed in their desired and more often even inevitable changes. Thus, the theory aims at extending the understanding beyond limitations of traditional change management and behavioral designs.

The theory is highly instrumental for organizations and communities that are designing for and undergoing transformations, as it provides and helps internalizing easy to use methods and tools for achieving permanent behavior change. This science-driven work embodies advanced knowledge on how to design sustainable changes, including Typology of Change and Transforming Framework.

Typology of Change

Scientific literature [1] [3-4] [16] reveals three general types of change: transactional, transitional, and transformational (Fig. 1). Transactional change is usually defined as an occurrence producing an outcome that differs from previous preferences. Then, transitional change is often defined as a period, in which certain outcomes significantly differ from what was habitual before. However, transformational change manifests itself as a continuum having direction as well as magnitude to produce apparently irreversible shifts.

The three types of change have their characteristics, including general descriptions, overall perspective, perceived timelines, orientations, nature, metrics, underlying psychology, and some examples provided in Table 1.

Transforming Framework

Despite acknowledgeable progress in designing persuasive technologies, many behavioral design interventions still produce unsustainable effects on target audiences [8]. To help scientists and practitioners creating technology designs for sustainable change [7] and wellbeing [10], a science-driven Transforming Framework is introduced (Fig. 2).

Transforming Framework embodies 8 (eight) scientifically driven tools that leverage prior knowledge on triadic reciprocal determinism (TRIANGLE) [2], elaboration and behavioral modeling (CURVE) [6] [9], essential components for defining transformation (METRIC) [14], susceptibility to influence and change (CIRCLES) [14], key layers of transforming technology design (ARCHITECTURE) [14], fundamentals of socially influencing systems (SOCIUM) [11], typology of computer-supported influence (MODERATION) [12], and dark patterns and persuasive backfiring (ETHICS) [13].

Event

This is the fourth sequential event succeeding the “Persuasive Urban Mobility” workshop in 2015, the “Empowering Cities for Sustainable Wellbeing” workshop in 2016, and the “Transforming Sociotech Design” tutorial in 2018. The number of participants has significantly grown over these events, which evidences their importance and relevance to the Persuasive Technology community, especially the conference participants. This upgraded tutorial will introduce and explain how the

Transforming Wellbeing Theory (TWT) contributes to the Persuasive Technology (PT) research by extending our understanding beyond limitations of traditional behavioral change designs and interventions.

This tutorial addresses highly important research direction that influences the future of PT and ways to properly and ethically design our ever-increasing technology-supported environments. The PT community will benefit from the advanced knowledge and immediate capacity of applying the fundamental strategies and frameworks to transform lives.

Organizers

• Prof. Agnis Stibe, ESLSCA Business School Paris, France

• Kathrin Röderer, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria

• Michaela Reisinger, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria

• Tobias Nyström, Uppsala University, Sweden

Transforming Sociotech Design tutorial 2018

References

1. Amado, G., Ambrose, A.: The Transitional Approach to Change. Karnac Books (2001)

2. Bandura, A.: Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1986)

3. de Biasi, K.: The Interdependent Relation between Continuity and Change. In Solving the Change Paradox by Means of Trust, pp. 45-75. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden (2019)

4. Burke, W. W., Litwin, G. H.: A Causal Model of Organizational Performance and Change. Journal of Management, 18(3), pp. 523-545 (1992)

5. Chatterjee, S., Price, A.: Healthy Living with Persuasive Technologies: Framework, Issues, and Challenges. American Medical Informatics Association Journal 16, 171–178 (2009)

6. Fogg, B.J.: Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann (2003)

7. Mustaquim, M. M., Nyström, T.: A System Development Life Cycle for Persuasive Design for Sustainability. In: MacTavish, T., Basapur, S. (eds.) Persuasive Technology, LNCS, vol. 9072, pp. 217–228. Springer, Heidelberg (2015)

8. Orji, R., Moffatt, K.: Persuasive Technology for Health and Wellness: State-of-the-Art and Emerging Trends. Health Informatics Journal (2016)

9. Petty, R. E., Cacioppo, J. T.: The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion. In Communication and Persuasion, pp. 1-24. Springer, New York, NY (1986)

10. Röderer, K., Reisinger, M. R., Stibe, A.: Well-Being in Persuasive Technology Research: A Systematic Review (forthcoming)

11. Stibe, A.: Towards a Framework for Socially Influencing Systems: Meta-Analysis of Four PLS-SEM Based Studies. In: MacTavish, T., Basapur, S. (eds.) Persuasive Technology, LNCS, vol. 9072, pp. 171–182. Springer, Heidelberg (2015)

12. Stibe, A.: Advancing Typology of Computer-Supported Influence: Moderation Effects in Socially Influencing Systems. In: MacTavish, T., Basapur, S. (eds.) Persuasive Technology, LNCS, vol. 9072, pp. 251–262. Springer, Heidelberg (2015)

13. Stibe, A., Cugelman, B.: Persuasive Backfiring: When Behavior Change Interventions Trigger Unintended Negative Outcomes. In International Conference on Persuasive Technology, pp. 65-77. Springer (2016)

14. Stibe, A., Larson, K.: Persuasive Cities for Sustainable Wellbeing: Quantified Communities. In International Conference on Mobile Web and Information Systems (MobiWIS), pp. 271-282. Springer International Publishing (2016)

15. Stibe, A.: Envisioning the Theory of Transforming Wellbeing: Influencing Technology and Sociotech Design. The 7th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO). IEEE Conferences. Page 6. Keynote. June 10-14, 2018, Budva, Montenegro (2018)

16. Vito, G. F., Higgins, G. E., Denney, A. S.: Transactional and Transformational Leadership: An Examination of the Leadership Challenge Model. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 37(4), pp. 809-822 (2014)

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Majority of global problems and business challenges directly stem from and are driven by poor human attitude and behavior.

Often people look for and find reasons outside themselves for why we have such environmental issues and low performing organizations. People, communities, societies, businesses, organizations, industries, basically everyone needs help with transformations. Many people want to change, but we also know how often our new year's resolutions end in February. Majority of our current global challenges are byproducts of unsuitable thinking too. Why? Because, people tend to perceive changes as something difficult, impossible, and mystical, thus are willing to avoid them. Such attitude naturally leads to poorer decisions and consequent behavioral outcomes for societies and business organizations.

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Vai arī jūsu iepirkšanās pieredze ir iestrēgusi atlaižu kultā un cenu dominances stagnācijā?

Vai tiešam nav nekā effektīvāka par gadu desmitos notrulinātajiem burkāniem un nūjām, jebšu pielabināšanas un sodīšanas paņēmieniem?

Cilvēki izsenis vēlas patīkamāku dzīvi, pieņemt labklājīgākus lēmumus un izveidot līdzsvarotākus paradumus. Tagad tas ir iespējams, pateicoties transformējošas labklājības teorijai un praksei.

Mūsdienu zinātne apvienojumā ar modernām tehnoloģijām jau vairākus gadus piedāvā inovatīvas pieejas ikdienas pieredzes transfromēšanai visā pasaulē. Tās sekmīgi palīdz sasniegt jēgpilnas attieksmes un uzvedības transformācijas daudzās dzīves jomās, iekļaujot veselību, ilgtspēju, pilsētvidi, transportu, uzņēmējdarbību, pārvaldi, un citas. Ir pienācis laiks šo sasniegumu aktīvākam pielietojumam arī uzlabojot iepirkšanās pieredzi.

Konference Retail Pulse ’19

Konference “Retail Pulse '19” ir svarīga tikšanās vieta ikvienam, kas šodien ir saistīts ar mazumtirdzniecības nozari. Tēma “BEYOND PRICING” uzsver, ka cena nebūt nav vienīgais līdzeklis, kas ietekmē pircēja izvēli. Lēmums par pirkumu formējas pakāpeniski, un cenas impulsu nozīmi nosaka dažādu pieredzes aspektu kopums. Tā ir teritorija, ko varam ietekmēt.

Konference sniegs atbildes uz jautājumiem:

• Kas noticis mazumtirdniecības jomā 2018. gadā un ko varētu nest 2019. gads?

• Kāds ir mūsdienu veikals?

• Kā pozitīvi ietekmēt pircēja pieredzi?

• Kā palielināt pārdošanu bez cenu samazinājuma?

• Kā radīt dizainu, kas izceļ produktu un motivē pircēju izvēlēties tieši tavu produktu?

• Dienu noslēgsim ar diskusiju – ko nozīmē būt labam pircēju mārketinga ekspertam?