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How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Calendar? Lessons in Office Productivity From Tim Campos

Published: June 27, 2019, 11:59 p.m.

Tim Campos, the current CEO of intelligent-calendaring company Woven, has some big ideas about how to shake up the online calendar and bring it into the modern age.\n\nIn this inaugural episode of Powered by Battery, Campos\u2014the former CIO of Facebook\u2014discusses how his experience at Facebook informed his decision to start Woven, one of many companies (like Slack and Airtable) trying to optimize specific elements of larger office-productivity suites. Current online-calendaring systems need a reboot because they are too dependent on email and aren\u2019t \u201csmart\u201d, meaning they can\u2019t learn from a users\u2019 past meetings and other work habits, he argues.\n\nIn this interview, Campos breaks down how artificial intelligence can make calendars better\u2014but also talks about Facebook\u2019s culture, the future of work and even some great office-themed movies from the 1980s, such as \u201cNine to Five\u201d and \u201cWorking Girl\u201d.