Insights & Innovations: Your Weekly Roundup
Hi there!
This week’s newsletter is packed with fresh insights and exciting innovations that span from interactive workshop tools to sustainable growth strategies.
We’re looking at what’s next in AI legislation, exploring how big tech’s AI ambitions could be fuelled by nuclear energy, and sharing a roundup of top UI/UX conferences for 2025.
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Here’s what’s making waves this week:
1. Butter Scenes: If Miro, Mentimeter and Pitch had a baby
Butter Scenes hits Product Hunt today! Create engaging workshops that combine the best of presentation, interaction, and white-boarding tools—all in an easy-to-use slide builder. Easy for participants, powerful for you.
2. Ethical Strategies for Startup Leaders to Avoid Growth Hacking with Andy Budd
Andy Budd shares why avoiding growth hacking is crucial for building resilient businesses and explains how behavioural science can shape user-centered, sustainable growth.
3. UK AI rules coming 2025
Will we get a slowdown next year when legislation catches up with tech?
4. Nuclear Energy Could Fuel Big Tech’s AI Ambitions
“Major tech companies, including Microsoft, Google and Amazon, are investing in nuclear energy, including Microsoft’s deal to restart the Three Mile Island reactor, to meet the rising energy demands for AI data centers,” reported Kitco News.
"More uranium" wasn't on my bingo card for 2024, but this AI stuff is power hungry!
5. Top 10 UI/UX Design Conferences in 2025
Getting ready for next year? Need some inspiration and a meeting place for connections you've made this year? Here's a list of the main design conferences next year.
Won't be going to all of these, but I am keen on the inaugural SXSW London in June. Who's interested?
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