It’s easy to imagine a world in which companies collaborate to provide voice-enabled customer service through virtual personal assistants. In fact, it could be a major economic enabler. But Amazon Alexa and Google Home aren't smart enough yet. More
Community Insights Internet of Things Net Giants
Real Customer Service Can’t Happen Yet on Smart Speakers
5G Internet of Things Partner Insights
What Will 5G Mean?
At a recent dinner in SF hosted with Ericsson, agreement about the importance and gravity of 5G was near-unanimous. But questions abound- where will it arise first? What will it mean for the internet of things? Can we manage all that data? More
5G Internet of Things Sustainable Development Goals
Interview with Verizon CEO Vestberg: It’s All About 5G
In this exclusive pre-CES conversation, Vestberg talks about what 5G wireless, the industry's new standard, means for society, and for Verizon. For him it's key to how all business, and even government, will be able to improve society. More
Internet of Things Partner Insights
Why You Need to Co-Create to Build Your IoT Business Model
How can we unlock the potential of the Internet of Things? It won’t be possible for any single company to solve the puzzle. If we really want to create a killer user experience, we must collaborate, co-create, and develop new business models within a variety of ecosystems. More
Business Global Tech Internet of Things Techonomy Events Video
Ericsson’s Ulf Ewaldsson: Intelligent Devices Are Driving Carriers’ Digital Transformation
Ulf Ewaldsson is Ericsson’s Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Digital Services. He has more than 20 years of experience in product management, industry development, and customer relations, which has taken him to leadership positions at Ericsson in China, Japan, Hungary and Sweden. Ewaldsson says as devices need to become more intelligent, networks […] More
Internet of Things Society Techonomy Events The Internet
“The Internet Under Attack Is Civil Society Under Attack”
As the Internet becomes more and more vulnerable, civil society is under threat. Is it already too late? A panel at Techonomy 2017 paints a dire picture. More
Global Tech Internet of Things Opinion
Traversing Europe’s Stellar Tech Firmament
Chief Techonomist David Kirkpatrick was blown away by Europe's energy and tech creativeness on a recent swing, both by how good the conferences were and by the importance of the digital revelations he had. Self-flying cars, anyone? More
Connected Cities Demand a Great User Experience
The capabilities of the Internet of Things are uniting city planners and technology experts everywhere to transform metropolises into smart, connected cities. Smart cities are popping up in Europe and around the world. What we need are systems of experience that represent the people, processes, and technology, giving cities necessary long-term sustainability. How will the IoT help to build cities of the future? More
Global Tech Internet of Things Partner Insights
Why Twitter and eBay Rely on 100-year-old Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes, a powerhouse in the era when sending print mail was the primary way of communication, is fully in the present today. Now, the company is emerging as a crucial part of the digital ecosystem, operating a back-end software and services infrastructure that enables Twitter to assign a location to a tweet, eBay's customers to buy and sell goods from anywhere in the world, and other services. More
Community Insights Healthcare Internet of Things
Why Digital Tech Will Create More Jobs than it Destroys
Many worry that new digital tools, robots and artificial intelligence are going to replace entry-level and middle class jobs. I appreciate the concern, but I disagree. Just as electricity created vastly more jobs than it destroyed in the 20th century, the mobile internet will do the same in the 21st. More
Wired Wineries: IoT Fine-Tunes Ancient Processes
Making wine has become as much science as art, and tech is playing an increasing role. Hahn Family Wines in California partners with Verizon to deploy sensors throughout their vineyards. The sensors collect data that is analyzed and used to increase output and improve flavor. More
Healthcare Internet of Things Techonomy Events Video
The Evolving Internet of Health Things
Personalized, digitized healthcare is evolving at warp speed. We not gather health data from not just wearables, but implantables and ingestibles. New tools and technology will interact with ambient devices to assess and even diagnose us. What is the nature of this evolving ecosystem surrounding the person? Does it have limits? More
Internet of Things Techonomy Events Video
In Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg at Techonomy 2016
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down at Techonomy 2016 with Chief Techonomist, David Kirkpatrick, for an exclusive interview that made worldwide headlines. More
Energy & Green Tech Internet of Things
How The Internet of Things Will Fight Climate Change
The Internet of Things may shift how our energy system works as much as the steam engine reconfigured Western economies at the start of the industrial revolution. As the world focuses on its climate crisis, we must become more energy-efficient, produce less carbon dioxide, and power more things with electricity from wind and solar. IoT can make it possible. More
Healthcare Internet of Things Partner Insights
Unlocking Healthcare’s Data
We need technology to bring new solutions to global healthcare. And the potential of the Internet of Things is just beginning. Computing power, miniaturization, mobile, big data, the cloud, and social networks are driving this critical trend. Almost two in five are projected to use wearable monitoring devices by 2019. The resulting data can make the world dramatically healthier. More
Internet of Things Techonomy Events
Reflections from Ross: On Techonomy 2016 (of course)
We’re 6 weeks out from our annual Techonomy conference. It starts the day after the election, so we’ll talk intensely about what the outcome means for business, the tech industry, and tech as a tool. Much content this year relates to the continuing march of the Internet of Things. And we'll tackle longer-term questions like whether, once AI intersects with the IoT, this ultimately leads to a sentient cyber ecosystem that intuits and responds to our every move. We'll also talk about cities, shipping, and social media. It's the conference for people who want to understand tech deeply so they can be more effective. More
Internet of Things Society Techonomy Events
Our Weird Possible Data-Centric Futures: Listen as We Plan Techonomy 2016
Listen in to Techonomy's program planners as they discuss some big issues we're building sessions around for the Techonomy 2016 conference, November 9-11 in California. This year we’ve honed in on the reality that the world is entering a completely new era, as data-gathering of all sorts accumulates across global society. How will society determine who gets to control and utilize data about people? How much will people get access to data about themselves and their communities? What relative powers over data will companies, governments, and individuals have? More
Community Insights Internet of Things Security & Privacy
Terrorists Want Control of Your Car
The risks of terrorism are growing, as we all know. But with the rise of the Internet of Things comes an entirely new range of threats. After a brutal attack in Nice using a truck, it becomes obvious that many of the "things" around us in society can be weaponized. It's already been shown that hackers can take over connected vehicles remotely, and new developments make it even scarier. Venture capitalist and security expert Yoav Lietersdorf explains just how bad this could become, and some of the ways we might fight the risks. More
Healthcare Internet of Things Society
Watch Healthcare Improve as Runners Embrace Tech
I joke sometimes with my running friends that we don’t take our watches on runs; our watches take us on runs. In June Facebook launched Moves, its own activity-tracking app. Facebook is just one of many companies that wants to know when you’re active. People who run are obsessed with statistics, and watches and wearables are becoming almost a must-have for runners. This technology may drive a revolution in healthcare. More
Community Insights Government Internet of Things
Grow Civic Tech––But Respect Today’s Systems
People have always relied on tech to make civil society more efficient and accessible. Now, the rapid evolution of the net and standards-based protocols are already enriching a variety of civic activities, such as voting. It will get better. A great example of what's possible is a simple system we at Microsoft developed to support the 2016 Iowa Caucuses for both parties. More
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