Is the shift greater than the sum of its parts?
Summary
Join information architect Abby Covert for a conference wrap-up for the ages. All the sensemakers (Dan Brown, Sophia Prater, Hang Xu, ) will return to help us bring all the threads together. Our collective goal: figure out where we are, what we uncovered and the paths of where this might all go and how we might support one another during this shift.
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