unDavos Webinar: Crossing the Digital Chasm
Welcome to the inaugural session of our community-hosted webinar series, sparked by the energy of unDavos 2025. We’re continuing the conversation with bold topics—from AI and finance to sustainability, storytelling, and beyond.
Each session is your chance to engage, contribute, and shape what’s next with the unDavos community.
3rd September Session Overview
Title: Crossing the Digital Chasm
Description: We’re living and working in 2G spaces while the digital world rockets towards 10G connectivity. The future of spacemaking demands the seamless integration of our digital world into the fabric of the physical places we occupy. This marriage is inevitable, yet it’s not happening. Why? What the hell are we waiting for?
Living in a dumb world has consequences. Especially when that dumb world is nested within an infinitely intelligent universe. Happiness, productivity, connection, fulfillment and efficiency suffer massive blows in these dysfunctional, 2G liminal spaces. This has a tremendous ripple effect on people, brands, customers, and pretty much everyone else. What it’s time to imagine is predictive intelligence so magical that it disappears into the experience. A convenience and efficiency so effective that it’s invisible to those enjoying it. We need to start using the mindblowing technologies we’ve developed to improve the real, practical world instead of focusing on novel applications that gamify the augmented, imaginary world.
Let’s start to imagine what can and should happen when we walk out the door, away from our computers, and our phones are in our pockets. Our devices are smart and getting smarter, but they’re a single point of connection, and they’re slow and expensive to evolve. Without the newest phone, literally in our hands, we’re completely untethered from the connected world. But what if the minute we entered a coffee shop, a hotel lobby or room, or an airport terminal, we were connected to an end-to-end encrypted network that carried with it all of our settings, programs, tools and preferences? What if our digital world came with us wherever we went?
Springing from the utility of seamless encryption, logins, and tools traveling with us wherever we go is one major output: data. And the power of data in becoming one with the connected universe isn’t confined to digital tools. The shift towards a flow-state oriented connected experience requires us rethinking what data can do. Instead of massive data going unused, or worse, being used to sell us things we don’t need, it’s time to use data to make personal experiences magical in uniquely human ways. When physical spaces are smarter, our data can make amazing things happen for us.
Food, water, energy, lighting, temperature and intellectual stimulation — all seemingly basic needs — have become a reflection of what personalization should mean in a physical world that works for us. And in the next few years, the massive data that we all produce can and should be used by the physical spaces we occupy to predictively deliver the things we want and need in order to stay in the flow. Instead of Starbucks using our data to deliver promotions and geofenced ads, the coffee shop, hotel lobby or airport terminal of the future should put that data into nuanced and intimate customization that returns the favor. We’re exiting the era where it’s okay for the best tech in our public workspaces to be the POS system. It’s becoming a human right. And that’s a paradigm shift.
The need is evident everywhere, and the evolution of spaces is inevitable, but as with every major transformation, it will happen somewhere first. Given that much of the world is going freelance, and may never go back to the office, it’s obvious that work will be the proving ground for the connected universe and what it makes possible. It’s hard to think of a need state more deserving of an overhaul than productivity. The places we visit in order to be productive are about to undergo a seismic shift. Where the needs for environmental personalization, predictive intelligence, food and beverage, and seamless connectivity meet, and massive data can be gathered and used for good — that’s where to look.
By sprinting forward in the digital realm and leaving the physical to gather dust, we’ve unknowingly deepened the gulf between employees and the people who pay them. Innovations in the digital world tragically assume that their values and goals are aligned, but the nuances make a massive difference. While productivity matters to each, it matters for a totally different reason, and the world we’ve constructed doesn’t fully tap into the psyche and needs of the worker. Without optimizing for the flow state and heightening the experience of employees, we’re leaving great ideas and lots of productivity to languish.
What matters most to employers and employees will become more similar in the future, but only if physical space catches up to the deeply unique and personal needs of humankind. The ways that spaces operate for us has to change, and that begins today.
Bridging the employee/employer divide begins with bridging the digital/physical divide. And what physical spaces lack — the number one thing that progress in digital spaces is defined by — is an operating system. Preferences and settings, programs and tools, and a language to unite them. So that as we flit from one window to the next, and things adjust to our unique desires over the course of a day, no one program ever loses communication with the other, and things work mostly in harmony. And so do we. That’s my belief system, and that’s what drives me. The desire to provide humankind with the spatial operating system they deserve. One that values their privacy, leverages their data and preferences to improve their lives, and ultimately helps physical space disappear into the aether, delivering them to their ultimate flow state so they can accomplish twice as much in half the time, and spend the change on the other things that give them joy.
The result is a culture that places a higher value on productivity, but not solely for the sake of productivity. It’s a vision where higher value derives from respect for the time of creatives, freelancers and workers of all varieties, and everything is working for them in service of helping them achieve what they desire. And businesses inherently and exponentially benefit, as well. When the system works, culture thrives. People are freed from inefficiencies and enabled to share, facilitate, mentor, learn, info-share and imagine at an exponentially faster and more organic pace, through a spatial operating system that builds community and equity, reframes productivity, automates tasks, and creates joy simply by removing obstacles. That’s what I’m building. A way to keep up with the limitless power of the human mind instead of hindering it.
Format: Keynote (A solo session with an extended talk)
Host:
Mo Hamzian CEO at Multiple Orgs
_I’m Mo Hamzian, -a transformative leader with a remarkable ability to scale companies–from startups to established enterprises–and achieve expectation-exceeding results. From real estate to technology to finance, my global, cross-sector leadership journey has been defined by: Predictive, data-driven strategy. Bold, decisive action. People-powered, purpose-forward innovation. And a relentless commitment to operational excellence. Raised in war-torn Iran, I witnessed firsthand how failing systems dictate much of human experience. Our systems either clear our path and propel us forward, or put up unnecessary walls, sapping our energy and potency. My core belief is that humans can be better at being human. And we can build better teams, better companies, and better industries–if we can clear the path to our full potential. Through strategic alignment and systems and processes optimization, incorporating cutting-edge technological solutions, I help individuals, teams and companies exceed their current capacity and reach new heights._
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