Here is a condensed recap of a few focal highlights of those last years, the beginning of a exciting journey: as long as the digital era creates opportunities of expansion but also raising question marks Web Summit will continue to contribute with solutions in and out the web, always with strong ethics and the power of a new thinking class.
-HR: Character VS Curriculum Vitae
Recruitment technologies are getting more and more advanced, enriched lately with deep AI, an attempt for quicker and more centralized selection of candidates, a method that created controversy though especially in beauty pageants where the algorithm focused on Caucasian candidacies. The essential ability to distinguish the right one for the job remains finally the interview and the evaluation of his/her personal traits and code of ethics, more than the prior experience or the knowhow. The difference-maker is always the character-builder in contemporary HR approach. (JobSCope A, Polina Montano).
-Outer space – Airspace: Field 4 Business
The outer space exploitation plus the airspace ventures of the future go beyond the exploration of other planets and civil aviation (airlines) for tourism purposes. Bobby Healy, the founder of aviation company MANNA stirred customer services through contemporary technologies: drones delivering your takeaway lunch order. Astroscale, is a global private space debris removal company using its technology for stock sustainable transferring to outer space, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The possibilities are endless and they do not stop in the sectors of retail or waste management.
-Improve VS Recreate
In certain areas there are certain ways to function. Penalties inside the digital space acting as amendments or alerts to tech giants are proved to be unsuccessful: the result is that fines are getting paid by the Big tech for several discrepancies which end up being repeated. The actual solution for certain practices to stop is to demolish (and recreate from scratch) entirely the digital environment of action for the big tech who continue to ignore legislation. EU deciphered the challenges of this year including the need for restoration after a penalty and the recovery of the market post-damage, a new code of conduct (i.e. the Anti-Trust Law Enforcement) for any upcoming big company, the new tools set for distant working and learning, the need to release the weights and move faster in a capitalistic environment of private property and initiative.
-AI Benevolence VS AI Discrimination
With clauses like “physical labour in the industrial unit is going to be vanished” and AI wining over vital space in the workforce department when it comes to learning, public transports, farming and admin the new dominant question is born; not how many jobs we will lose to machines but what type of new jobs we will move into? Many countries implement coding since kindergarten and specialized tech or customer support tends to become a new sector of economic growth.
-Growth VS Scale
Vertical profit or profit in physical money tends to be less important when other type of assets like NFT are taking the lead (among many others to follow), especially to multidimensional, hyper-architected environments like the Metaverse soon to be launched inside many industries other than entertainment, (: virtuality, interaction between humans And services, augmented features 4 larger or smaller user audiences worldwide).
-Public sector Architecture VS Public Sector Infrastructure
Dr. Rebecca Parsons on evolutionary architecture and governance, she re-invented the public speaker's game in WS19, regarding a subject we rarely hear about and even more rarely tend to (really) understand. Linear hierarchies in the public sector infrastructure, pyramid schemes with the odd external app enriching the user value to make it look “upgraded”, belong to the Napoleonic era. The current notion of digitally stereoscopic , fully augmented, intelligent systems where civilians and public administrators contribute and navigate simultaneously saves time, can be error proof and excels in provision and crisis management scenarios.
-Supply Chain VS Climate Rescue
What it takes for environmental organizations to team up for one cause: net zero carbon emissions by 2050? Sustainability is not an expense but a cost-reduction factor and it needs to be implemented at the birth of every business, like an energy certificate for buildings, like water, electricity or consumables. The themes of ecology, desystematization and re-systemization, Circular Economy Model, ethical consumption, deplastification, repair, performance economy, dematerialization et al. are going to affect the state of the planet therefore the change in our climate. A change directly linked with a shift of the current economic and political system.
-Shake hands (with the attendant next to you) VS not to shake hands;-)
Paddy Cosgrave's advice is the first kick in the opening WS ceremony, just to break the ice and start networking: shake hands or (post-Covid) kindly introduce yourself to the person seating next to you;-))
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