SXSW - Regina Dugan - Making Epic Sh*t

Yet another brain dump.

Regina Dugan - Making Epic Sh*t was probably my favourite talk at SXSW so far.

• Credentials: DARPA + Google ATAP
• Innovation is a discipline
• Breakthrough vs Evolutionary Innovation
• When operating at the level that DARPA/Google ATAP operate at failure is just a part of it - Said differently Breakthrough Innovation is going to involve failure.
• Failure isn’t the problem, fear of failure is the problem
• Pasteur’s Quadrant - Picking highly applicable technologies for which the science is now ready

The talk wasn’t recorded but I did find a bunch of other Regina talks after:

The Google I/O talk is longer and potentially better (though slightly older).

An even older talk while Regina was still at DARPA is also interesting: