80+
Startups launched within large enterprises
650+
Startups accelerated since 2011 - and counting
30.000+
People empowered with the mind, skill and toolset of innovation
Building trust in society and solving important problems
Last year we predicted...
AI is the new UI
Amazon will be shipping more than 10 million Echo smart speakers in 2017
That's 68% of the smart speaker market, which didn’t exist 2 years ago
Everything as a Service
2018: Ondemand economy will be a $57 bln market
A Cadillac for anyone, anywhere, anytime
APIs and robotics will drive business efficiencies
RPA investments hit 200 mn in 2017, and expected 
 to double by 2018
Recoup the investment within 6-9 months
We were right!
Let's begin...
The Netflix effect
Expectations of seamlessness
Shift from the Netflix effect to the Amazon effect
Editorial credit: pianodiaphragm / Shutterstock.com
Alexa: the first smart speaker that talks
Amazon Go; The first truly intelligent store
Amazon: Entering new markets boldly from groceries 
 to movies
Incredibly forward-looking patents
"
Our customers are loyal to us right up until the second somebody offers them a better service. (..) And I love that. It's super motivating for us.
"
Jeff Bezos
Shutting down the entire brick and mortar industry, brick by brick?
December 2017: 50% of US households will have an Amazon Prime subscription
#amazonbuyus New exit strategy for middle-aged businesses
" Do more,
do new things, do things that have never been done before "
Let's change the world
We are living in the best century of human development
Only bottleneck: the speed of human thought
If we can imagine it, we can make it a reality
The State of Tech 2018
Let’s see our world through lenses
How we sustain our planet
How we do business
How we interact with each other
How we take care of ourselves
How we sustain our planet
Renewable Energy Revolution
Governments are rising to the occasion
U.S. states and cities remain onboard with the renewable revolution
Sweden has set its goal to be 100% renewable by 2040
Costa Rica is already powered by 99% renewables
Investments in renewables now far outpacing those in fossil fuels: 2 to 1
Renewable capacity installed in 2016 alone: 161 GW
By 2022: global renewable capacity enough to power India and Japan
Wind 2007: $100 per MWh 2017: $50 per MWh
Solar 2007: $600 per MWh 2017: $100 per MWh
Solar went from virtually 0 GW in 2000 to 305 GW in 2017
In 2017: 
 1 in 2 solar panels installed were in China
Solar roadways Solar windows Solar clothing
Apple patented solar panels beneath touchscreens
An electricity system without batteries is like a computer without a hard drive
Source: www.spaceinvader.me
Tesla is building 130 MWh battery system for Australia
The electric battery market will grow from 50B to >110B in 2025
Li-ion batteries expected to grow from 33% to 70% of market in 2025
1837: The world’s first electric car. Speed 5 km/hr Range 2.4 km
1996: 
 General Motors released the EV1. Range 160 km
2017: 
 Tesla Model S Range 632 km
Tesla’s market cap is comparable to Ford, despite having only about 1% of the sales
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Source: www.daimler.com
Daimler AG: 8bn committed in electric technology
China, UK & France are banning diesel/ petrol vehicles by 2040
By 2025: all new vehicle sales in Norway required to be electric
By 2040: 140 million EVs
2017: 0.2% of world’s traffic 2040: 7%
EVs: every size, every shape
Source: VanMoof
Electric cars, bikes, trams, buses, vans, trucks, drones, even planes.
The smart cities of the new world
Cities only occupy 4% of Earth's land area
By 2030: 60% of the world population will live in urban regions
Targeting action on cities is logistically logical and easier
The goal of making cities smarter is to make them responsive
Cities have to see, think and act
See
The world is moving to 5G in phases starting 2020
How? Using new high end frequencies
Everything connected and communicating in real-time
Think
Smart Cities will use advanced data analytics
CCTVs in all our public spaces
If something happens, it could be bad
Camera's watching, identifying and alerting if something happens
Source: www.theverge.com
Google: Clips the hands-free, always-on, auto-clicking camera
AI detects what's happening, and decides whether it's interesting
NVIDIA, Omnipresent AI: Watchman for the world
Security Concern: Intelligent cameras deployed anywhere and everywhere
ACT
Singapore: Smartest city on Earth
Detecting if people are smoking in unauthorized zones
If people are throwing litter illegally
Smart Mobility to solve chronic congestion problem
Source: NRF, SLA, GovTech, Dassault Systèmes
Virtual Singapore: A dynamic 3D model to run virtual tests
Digital crystal ball that captures what is happening in the city
Source: Sidewalk Labs / www.wired.com
Toronto is building a smart city from the ground up!
How do we do business differently?
"Humanity as a species wears technology as " its true skin Terence McKenna
Fourth Industrial Revolution in full swing
By 2020: IoT investments may exceed $250bn
Source: Tesla
Tesla Gigafactory now officially open for business
" The machine
that makes the machine " Elon Musk
A single factory producing as much as total global battery production today
9 other Gigafactories in the works, and maybe even more in future
Source: Waymo
Digital Twins a term you will hear more of in the near-future
Welcome the era of collaborative robots Cobots
The 3 top messaging apps have surpassed the top 3 social networks
Chatbots reduce customer service costs by 30%
45% of end-users prefer chatbots for primary customer service inquiries
Chatbots will be the new Search interface
By 2025: The Natural Language Processing market is expected to hit 22bn
Expression and emotion tracking
Imagine: 
 a new era of emotion-aware software Money
Pay with a smile
A browser that knows your mood
Discounts when your consumers are excited
Google Sheets and Excel will be AI-enabled
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Automatically figuring out the most valuable insights
Meet Codota: auto-complete for entire blocks of code
Cobots on the office or factory floor
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Carmen: a bot that can be 'taught' without coding
Meet the new generation of Household Bots
Supercharging your productivity
As a result, the nature of work itself, is changing
Machines are going to learn and deliver outcomes humans provide
False Alarmism! Total # of jobs has not changed a lot in last 20 years
Experience and Lifestyle designers
Algorithmic Risk Assurance
Cybersec SWAT Teams
MicroTransaction pricing specialist
RegTech Support
Jobs of 
 the future?
Industrial Sustainability Ecologists
Data Ethicists
IoT Mechanic
Smart Contract Lawyers
Let’s talk FinTech
Incumbents are competing less, partnering more
30% of large financial players invest in AI
77% expect to have adopted blockchain by 2020
Major investment areas are:
Payments
Banking
Insurance and Asset / Wealth Management
Major items on the innovation agenda
Ease of use and product/service design
24/7 availability and faster services
Superior customer service
Cost Management
Mobile wallets on the rise
Consumer interest is the primary barrier to adoption
No need for cheques that take 3 days to cash in..
Banking: Too much focus on innovating front-office
New customers are likely to remain "Digital Only"
mBank: focusing on personalization
mBank: Analyzing trends to anticipate customer needs
mBank: Apply for loans and get approved in 30 seconds
Peer-to-peer money transactions
Technology as a transformative force in Insurance
Metromile: pay-per-mile auto insurance
Real-time data to measure behaviour and create customized risk profiles
Lemonade: Making waves in the millennial insurance space
Aligning interests to prevent fraud
The rise of blockchain applications
2017: over $ 1.5 billion invested in Blockchain startups
80% of banks are looking to implement Blockchain
Investors are looking for more use cases outside of finance
Arcade City: connecting supply and demand for ridesharing
MIT wants to award diplomas on the Blockchain
Governments are also looking at Blockchain
Estonia: A suite of ecosystem services
"Data Embassy"
What if Estonia released its own cryptocurrency?
Cryptocurrency: no longer a private sector issue
China banned token sales and local exchanges
85% of Bitcoin trading comes from China
What will the world of money look like in 2040?
Many issues are just technological challenges
Cryptocurrencies Dollarization 2.0
Leveraging the low cost of power to mine Bitcoin and Ethereum
Global P2P microtransactions greater than local B2B/B2C transactions
Cryptocurrencies: providing speed and volume without barriers of delay or fees
New companies with decentralized 
 P2P equity
Smart contracts will democratise power in decisionmaking
Are ICOs the new IPOs?
Cyber Security: things are getting very serious!
A connected world = more opportunities for hackers
No one is safe
Cyber crime manifests itself in roughly 4 ways
User Privacy
More personal information on public social networks
AI can guess an individual’s sexuality from just one image
Available to public: the personal voting preferences of 198 million voters
Data-driven campaign crucial in debate and voter turnout
Misinformation
Source: www.apple.com
iPhone X with revolutionary FaceID system
Source: www.appleinsider.com
Map voices and expressions onto faces of people of authority
Converting audio files into realistic mouth movements
Theft
Cybertheft predicted to rise ~60% in 2018
Q3 of 2016: 18 million new malware samples captured by Panda
Intellectual property theft is hot
Equifax was breached twice in 6 months exposing 143 million people
WannaCry attack: affected more than 400.000 machines, 150 countries within 24 hours
IBM study: Average damage $ 3.6m per breach
North Korean hackers attempting to steal bitcoin
Cryptojacking: if hackers can't steal from banks, they will robb homes
Infrastructural breaches
Software can now shutdown and damage real-world critical infrastructure
December 2015: Ukraine's largest TV broadcaster hacked
It impersonated an antivirus scanner
2016: Kiev, major power station hacked
The calm before the storm: a cyber hurricane could be on its way...
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How do we interact with each other?
Technology is changing our very civilization
What is the effect of this global mixing of cultures and ideas?
Online dating is changing our society
People are more exposed to others with similar interests
Number of interracial marriages significantly jumped when Tinder was released
Consumer technology increases the capabilities of a individuals
Universal remote control to change the world
What is the difference?
2.2 million different functionalities for your personal remote control
Home / Office
Food/ mobility
Media
Online Shopping
Travel
Meeting People
Learning
Business/ leisure
Society
Corporates (like IKEA) are catching onto the trend
"What can I solve?" instead of "What can I sell?"
We are the last generation that knew life before the Internet.
Human-Human
How do we take care of ourselves?
Digital health is " moving from a curiosity, to a research tool, to an actual mainstream, accepted clinical tool
"
Corey Bridges, LifeMap CEO
Healthcare continues to be reinvented
72% of US internet users acquire healthrelated information online
Skype a doctor ondemand
Discuss personal issues with a virtual therapist right on your phone
Giving advice for understanding and managing stress and anxiety
Proactive health systems: predictive maintenance for humans
2021: 
 there will 240 mn health trackers sold in the wild
Google and Levi's are collaborating on a smart jacket
CRISPR molecular scissors for gene therapy
Successfully treated genetic blindness
Switching genes on and off 
 with light
Our best tool in the fight against cancer
We can now genetically engineer human embryos to our design
Can humans live forever? Shouldn’t we try?
Are we playing God? Should we be?
Our Predictions
AI will be like electricity, It will be everywhere
Rapid rise in machine learning methods, 
 huge demand for data scientists
Dedicating core teams to deal with potential and implications of AI
AI could contribute almost 16 trillion to the global economy by 2030
Source: https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/data-and-analytics/publications/artificial-intelligence-study.html
Humanity 2.0 is coming
Forget Augmented Reality
Think Augmented Humanity
Our incredible ability to imagine and invent ways to hack the world
Image humans no longer as naked apes, but as cyborgs; Man + Machine
Google Glass may have disappeared but it's back with a new vision
Apple has officially incorporated support for Augmented Reality applications
Source: Google
Realtime translation of 
 foreign languages
Our technology will be co-pilots, not auto-pilots
Shifting to a world of zero UI
The trend is to move away from apps, again!
Screenless interactions with your product
How else will we interact with the world?
How will the world interact back based on our moods?
AI is the new electricity
Humanity 2.0 is coming
Entering the world of zero UI
“Only the paranoid survive” Andy Grove, Intel