Trailblazer

THE BRIEF

“Headless is an experience delivery approach, fully decoupling your frontend technology from your backend system”

Mihaela Mazzenga

SVP of Technology Strategy, Valtech 

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“5G will be a key pillar in industry 4.0 initiatives around smart factories and smart buildings”

Scott Petty

CISO, Vodafone Technology 

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“We're fast approaching about a hundred processes that we've been able to robotize”

Marco Sciarra

Director of Operational Planning and Technology, Bell Canada 

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BY THE NUMBERS

What are the top automation priorities for 2022?

Imp roving productivity 49% Improving operational effici enci e s

54%

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C r eating better-connected exper ie n c e s41%

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EDITOR'S CHOICE

MULESOFT OUTLINE SEVEN TRENDS TO WATCH IN 2022: From delivering improved user experiences and innovation at speed, 2022 promises many new emergent trends. Software company Mulesoft, integration and API platform specialists outline these trends.

PROGRAMMATIC IN CHINA IS NOW A $50 BILLION A YEAR INDUSTRY: China is the advertising opportunity of the decade, according to Alex Deats, EVP China, MiQ. Many things in this world have been uncertain, but China’s growth has been a sure thing.

SIEMENS: FEMALE ENGINEERS ARE CHANGING THE WORLD: Carl Ennis, UK CEO stresses the need for more women to consider careers in engineering, science and technology

The world’s largest vertical farm

In a sleepy part of rural Norfolk, England, work has begun on a £25m farm that it’s creators — Fischer Farms — claim will be the largest of its kind in the world.

How big are we talking?

The 25,000sqm site and its four-acre building will produce the same amount of produce as 1,000 acres of conventional British farmland. The climate-controlled building will also be run entirely on renewable energy upon completion in 2022.

How does it work?

No pesticides, herbicides or insecticides are to be used, everything is grown locally to stay fresher for longer with no need to rinse; therefore removing traceability issues and cutting food miles with shorter ‘farm to fork’ times. Energy-efficient, low-heat LEDs allow the lighting to be placed very close to the tops of plants, enabling tightly-stacked vertical layers. Data analytics tools will optimise automated growing, harvesting and reseeding systems.  GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE (AI)

Gartner has predicted generative AI has a top tech trend for 2022. This technology uses machine learning methods and Gartner expects generative AI to account for 10% of all data produced, up from less than 1%.

 ROLLS ROYCE Rolls Royce has set three new world records with its stunning all-electric ‘Spirit of Innovation’ aeroplane. During its recordbreaking runs, the ‘Spirit of Innovation’ recorded a maximum speed of 623 km/h (387.4 mph).

 TESLA Hundreds of people have been locked out of their Tesla vehicles due to an outage in the company’s mobile app. 500 users reported an issue spurring CEO, Elon Musk to issue an apology.

 NSO GROUP Apple sued the NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company marking another setback for the beleaguered firm and the unregulated spyware industry. The lawsuit is the second of its kind, Facebook sued NSO in 2019 for targeting its WhatsApp users.