Big Data Will Drive The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Big Data Will Drive The Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will really take off in the coming year as more and more factories are becoming smart factories. Although a complete global adoption of the Industrial Internet could still be a decade away, the Industrial Internet has massive potential. The vision of tomorrow's manufacturing combines intelligent factories, machines, raw materials, and products that communicate within an "Internet of things" and cooperatively drive production. In this video by Siemens they show how products can find their way independently through the production process, resulting in a highly flexible, individualized and resource-friendly mass production.
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Dr. Mark van Rijmenam
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker, a world-leading futurist and global AI keynote speaker who helps leaders decide what AI, and the technologies that follow it, mean for their business. He speaks to leadership teams at their retreats and to conference audiences worldwide, and his WAVE framework gives them a way of deciding that they keep using long after he has left the room. His Intelligence Age Scorecard measures how ready an organization is across the four WAVE pillars.
He holds a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney, is a Certified Speaking Professional and Global Speaking Fellow, and ranks among the world’s top futurists on the Global Gurus list (#1 in 2025, #3 in 2026). Salesforce named him one of its 16 leading AI voices. He has written six books, most recently Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change, writes the Synthetic Minds newsletter on Substack, and founded Futurwise. Talk to his digital twin on WhatsApp: +1 (830) 463-6967.
