Fast Company Innovation Fest adds Jordan Peele, Elizabeth Banks, Meek Mill

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Satya Nadella, Donna Langley, Brian Cornell, Nancy Dubuc, Will Packer to headline Fast Company Innovation Festival

Exclusive video: Yuval Harari on social inequality and the naivete of tech CEOs

From a cyborg manifesto to hacking humanity, read this artist’s tech-themed poetry created on the spot

Fast Company invited artist Shanelle Gabriel to perform spoken-word poems on the fly at its European Innovation Festival. Read her thought-provoking work.

Offset, DJ Khaled, Russell Westbrook, and the brave new world of celebrity digital avatars

In a world of proliferating digital representations, how many avatars will each person have—and who will control them?

For new tech like VR to thrive, we need to put it in the hands of diverse storytellers

A panel of tech-savvy artists and filmmakers at the Fast Company European Innovation Festival explored how technology is changing the art of storytelling, particularly for marginalized groups.

Why Jared Leto loves being the dumbest person in the room and what Elon Musk taught him

At Fast Company’s European Innovation Festival, actor, musician, and tech investor Jared Leto broke down what he looks for in a company.

How Darren Aronofsky and astronauts are taking on the environmental crisis

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky uses technology to document how we’re destroying our planet. But what will it take to get us to fix the mess we’ve made?

How a century-old luxury brand like Gucci won over Gen Z

Marco Bizzarri, Gucci’s president and CEO, credits the company’s explosive success with young consumers to a delicate blend of creativity and technology.

From bionics to brain chips, hacking humanity has never been more ethically fraught

Renowned scientists Moran Cerf and Riccardo Sabatini discuss the intersection of technology and the human body.

Here’s why we need more diversity in AI

At the Fast Company European Innovation Festival in Milan today, tech executives discussed how artificial intelligence is only as good as the data that trains it.

Why are we wasting a third of the food we produce? (and how to stop)

“Food is not about the quality of ingredients, it’s the quality of the ideas behind them,” says chef Massimo Bottura

Why it’s important for brands to build physical communities in the digital age

At Fast Company’s European Innovation Festival, executives from Snap, SoulCycle, and Soho House converged on the idea of human interaction in the advanced tech era.

Yuval Noah Harari: Humans are on the verge of merging with machines

Fast Company European Innovation Fest to feature Jared Leto, Alec Ross, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jessica Brillhart, and more

Comedian Larry Wilmore created his own path. Now he’s helping the next generation do the same

The Renaissance man of comedy stopped by Fast Company’s Innovation Festival for a live (and damned funny) episode of Creative Conversation.

How GM and CNN are copying startups

As industries like automotive and media get “disrupted” by tech companies like Uber and Twitter, some legacy brands figure: If you can’t beat them, join them.

Scooter Braun didn’t learn everything from his dad–but what he did changed his life

“Success and failure are neighbors,” he said. “They live right next door. The only thing you can do is keep pushing through.“