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Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly advanced, and it is poised to play a major role in every industry, including the military industry.
Read MoreDr. Mark van Rijmenam, CSP, is a world-leading strategic futurist and award-winning global keynote speaker who helps Fortune 500 leadership teams navigate AI and emerging technologies. Recognized by Salesforce as one of 16 global voices shaping the future of AI, he holds a PhD from University of Technology Sydney and is the author of six books on emerging technology and judgment in the AI era, including his latest book: Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change. He is the founder of Futurwise and the developer of the Intelligence Age Scorecard that helps individuals and organizations understand how prepared they are for the future.
His pioneering efforts include the world's first TEDx Talk in VR in 2020. In 2023, he further pushed boundaries when he delivered a TEDx talk in Athens with his digital twin, delving into the complex interplay of AI and our perception of reality. In 2024, he launched a digital twin of himself, offering interactive, on-demand conversations via text, audio, or video in 29 languages, thereby bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds – another world's first.
Dr. Van Rijmenam is a prolific author and has written more than 1,200 articles and six books in his career. As a corporate educator, he is celebrated for his candid, independent, and balanced insights. He is also the founder of Futurwise, which focuses on elevating global knowledge on crucial topics like technology, healthcare, and climate change by providing high-quality, hyper-personalized, and easily digestible insights from trusted sources.
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Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly advanced, and it is poised to play a major role in every industry, including the military industry.
Read MoreWe live in a world where increasingly globalisation is under threat. The biggest threat comes from trade wars, started by Mr Trump, that could significantly harm the world economy. This week, the International Monetary Fund warned that Trump’s trade war could cost the global economy $430 billion in 2020
Read MoreThanks to the current trade wars, globalisation is at risk. However, global collaboration is the only way forward and, despite rising nationalism and protectionism that are driven by the USA, there is an imminent move towards more collaboration on the Eurasian continent.
Read MoreThe algorithmic organisation [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/top-7-technology-trends-2018/] is an organisation built around smart algorithms. Algorithms that define company processes [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/organisation-tomorrow-data-organisation/], that deliver customer services, that take action when necessary and as such define the way the world works.
Read MoreBlockchain started out as a purely financial technology but has shown surprisingly expansive potential into other industries with the release of add-ons like smart contracts and tokenisation.
Read MoreThis week's f(x) = e^x newsletter discusses decentralised analytics, Chinese chips and a controversial EU copyright law.
Read MoreThe internet has a problem. On the one hand, we have the ‘Western internet' where everyone can do as they like, where you can be anonymous and say/do whatever you want, but where reputation and online trust is difficult.
Read MoreThe fast-changing, uncertain and ambiguous environments that organisations operate in today, require organisations to re-think all their internal business processes and customer touch points. In addition, due to the availability of Emerging Information Technologies such as big data analytics, blockchain and artificial intelligence, it has become easier for
Read MoreMany banks around the globe are not very crypto-friendly. Most of them, simply refuse any company that has something to do with cryptocurrencies, whether you are a trading company or doing an ICO.
Read MoreThe retail industry has become increasingly complex in the past decades. Products are made in one part of the world, assembled in another and sold in a third part of the world, whether it is food, clothing or flowers. As a result of this complexity, transparency has become challenging, and
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