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Strategic
Technology
Trends
A Primer
Presentation to the Women In Technology (WIT) group
February 22, 2019
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3 Big Themes
Intelligent
Foundation:
Augmented Intelligence & Machine Learning
Digital
Merging:
Real & Virtual
Mesh
Connecting:
People + Process + Apps + Devices
+ +
Significant potential for impact and disruption for enterprises for the next 5 years!
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AI Foundations
• Augmented
Intelligence
• Machine Learning
Intelligent Apps &
Analytics
• Rich UI/UX
• Intelligent Actions
• Business Analytics
Intelligent Things
• Drones
• Robots
• Swarms
• Collaborative
• Cooperative
Intelligent
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Digital Twins
• Digital version of
Physical entities
• Simulations
Digital
Cloud to Edge
• Style of
computing
• Deliver
computing
power to the
“edge”
Conversational
Platforms
• Natural
Language
Processing (NLP)
• Context
+Persistence
Immersive
AR & VR
• Augmented
Reality
• Virtual Reality
Merging: the Real and the Virtual worlds
+
New User Experience!
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Blockchain
• Distributed;
Immutable Ledger
with Cryptographic
validation of
transactions
• Reduce Business
Friction
• Reduce Technical
Friction
Mesh
Connecting: People + Process + Apps + Devices
Event Processing
• From Request Driven
To
• More flexible &
dynamic
• Orchestration of
Services
• IoT
Continuous Adaptive
Risk & Trust
• Dev Sec Ops
• Deception
Technologies (Honey
Pot)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPbKyD2bAR4&
feature=youtu.be
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WAZE
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True Car
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Before 1980 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010 - Present
Mainframes
PCs
WWW
Mobile
Phones
Cloud Social
Near Future
Apps
Platforms
Marketplace
ScaleofImpact
IoT
Data
Science
Big
Data
Network
Orchestration
“The Age of the Customer”
“Knowledge is Power”
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Silicon Valley and China are the biggest investors
Source: Data from Thomson Reuters Eikon, May 2017
United States
75%
Europe
3.7%
Africa 1.8%
China
16% Japan
2.6%
S. Korea
0.5%
L. America
0.1%
All industries, though Financial Services and Pharmaceuticals more advanced
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Etc.
Lot’s of technology choices…
…at reasonable cost
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Digitization
Digitalization
Platformation
Analytics
Descriptive
Diagnostic
Predictive
Prescriptive
Value Focus
Better
Faster
Cheaper
(Optimization)
Value Focus
Engage
Enable
Empower
Digital Transformation
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Descriptive
Diagnostic
Predictive
Prescriptive
What?
Which?
How many?
Etc.
Why?
How?
Etc.
[x] will happen.
[y] won’t happen
[a] will become [b]
[c] will fail
Etc.
Do [x] so [y] will happen.
Do [y] so [z] won’t happen
Do [a] to make [b] increase
If you do [c], [d] will fail
Etc.
Our Systems can
do this today
This is what we want
to be able to do
Progression of Analytical Capability AI
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AI
Augmented
Intelligence
adjective aug·ment·ed  ȯg-ˈmen-təd 
made greater, larger, more complete, or more intense
noun in·tel·li·gence  in-ˈte-lə-jən(t)s 
(1): The ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying
situations : REASON; also : the skilled use of reason
(2): the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to
think abstractly as measured by objective criteria
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“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the
next two years and underestimate the change that will
occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into
inaction.”
Bill Gates
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Links to articles
 https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2018/12/04/most-powerful-
women-in-tech-in-2018/#6801340f3778
 https://www.forbes.com/top-tech-women-america/list/#tab:overall
 https://www.wired.com/2014/08/silicon-valley-sexism/
 https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252437742/Why-does-
India-have-a-higher-percentage-of-women-in-tech-than-the-UK
 https://smallbiztrends.com/2018/03/women-in-technology-
statistics.html