July 18, 2018
China’s seemingly endless supply of cheap labor made it the factory for the world in past decades. Today, as the country seeks to remake itself, from a maker of products created elsewhere to an...
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Emerging Technologies
July 13, 2018
Breakout Session The session will cover all aspects of the GoFly Prize from its inception to today (with 2,000 Innovators participating from 85 countries). It will take a deep dive into our...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Companies need a consistent and systematic way to identify signals of emerging trends that will affect the future of their business. It enables organizations to engage proactively in...
July 12, 2018
Plenary Deep learning has caused revolutions in computer perception and natural language understanding, enabling new applications such as autonomous driving, radiology screening, real-time language...
July 12, 2018
Plenary As access to the internet grows globally, the number of information sources are growing exponentially. In addition, innovations driven by technology platforms such as IoT, AI, MEMS, etc. are...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Through the SPRING program, RTI and IRI are providing members with research on trends impacting innovation leaders today. Translating information about emerging trends into insights...
July 12, 2018
Plenary The world we’re about to step into will be unlike anything that has been seen before. This speed of change, as much as the specific changes it brings, will transform the ways we work, live...
July 12, 2018
Express Session Conceptually, Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) provide a linear map of technology evolution, which recent work reveals to be in many ways a nonlinear process. TRLs also tend to be...
July 12, 2018
Express Session Join us to examine a few cross- industry examples of AI technologies being applied in ‘traditional’ (non-web) enterprises. In particular, applications of deep learning and deep...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session "Jill Watson" was initially developed to respond to student questions posted to class forums, though the possibilities extend far beyond the classroom. Ashok Goel, creator of Jill...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Is it possible to remain competitive in a technology company when Moore’s Law makes everything obsolete before it ships? How should innovation teams think about technology strategy...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session According to futurists, Blockchain will be more disruptive than the internet. Join this session to learn the current state status of Blockchain and apply qualitative forecasting...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Horizon scanning to identify important rising technologies and trends is a critical need for organizations. Companies must understand what will disrupt their product portfolios to...
July 12, 2018
The country is undergoing a rapid generational change in our workforce. Baby boomers are starting to retire, and 35% of the labor force in America is currently made up of Millennials. That number is...
June 05, 2018
The country is undergoing a rapid generational change in our workforce. Baby boomers are starting to retire, and 35% of the labor force in America is currently made up of Millennials. That number is...
May 14, 2018
I was invited to visit China for the first time in 1989, to speak about expert systems, then at the forefront of practical AI. At that time, technology transfer from the West to China was a one-way...