marcel britsch
Marcel Britsch
Digital consultant, product manager and facilitator
Marcel Britsch is an independent Digital Consultant, Product Manager and Agile Transformation specialist.
He has been living and working in London for over 20 years. He has worked with creatively and technically focused agencies, consultancies and clients across retail, education, conservation, automotive, finance, healthcare and energy.
He helps organisations build solid products and services in a sustainable way by facilitation, pairing, coaching or hands-on product management.
He believes that project success is strongly linked to happy teams, value-focused decision-making and fast feedback cycles. He is passionate about finding the best tools and techniques to optimise team culture, ways of working and solution design. He considers projects that follow classic waterfall / big-design-up-front practices to be too likely doomed to go anywhere near them, but loves to help organisations build products and transform in incremental evolutionary fashion or move towards this approach.
Outside of work he is interested in SciFi and comic books, Theravada Buddhist meditation and number theory.
He is a regular speaker at conferences, teaches at Cambridge University, blogs at www.thedigitalbusinessanalyst.com, hosts the https://www.theburnup.com podcast about ‘all things agile’, and can be found at https://www.beautifulabstraction.com.
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Web: https://www.beautifulabstraction.com
Blog: www.thedigitalbusinessanalyst.com
Podcast: https://www.theburnup.com
Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelbritsch
Social: https://mastodon.social/@marcelbritsch
Session
Join me in this dark but also inspirational exploration of existential risks and what they mean for us working in technology.
Come explore how, for the first time, humanity — armed with unprecedented capabilities to both create and avert existential risks — finds itself at a unique turning point that may decide on the future - or not - of humanity and in fact all life on earth.
Understand the implications of the Fermi Paradox - or ‘why no one is out there’ - and the relevance of the ‘Great Filter’. We'll explore the specific threats posed by run-away greenhouse effect, nuclear destruction, alien invasion or super-intelligent AI. And the potential extinction of not only humanity, but all life.
As contributors to the tech landscape, we all play a crucial role, and collectively must become the architects of a future marked by resilience and ethical foresight, and guide humanity towards a secure tomorrow, transcending the challenges of the Great Filter.