Amid the known inequity of women holding corporate board seats and, further, those chairing boards, the newly-released book ‘Dear Chairwoman’ features highly personal stories of challenges, perseverance and success from some of the world’s most esteemed C-suite women executives and board members/chairs. These women, says Merilee A. Kern, Forbes Councils member, MBA, work with corporate behemoths […]
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The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) alliance published its first 6G White Paper “6G Drivers and Vision”. While various views have already been shared by many organisations in industry and academia, says Quan Zhao, one of the three NGMN 6G project co-leads, and a senior member of technical staff in the Future Mobile Technology Lab, China Mobile. NGMN takes a unique position, […]
The complexity of new state-of-the-art buildings is skyrocketing; Aquariums, wedding chapels, rollercoasters, and even artificial canals are becoming the norm for office centres and shopping malls. This is way too much to be efficiently managed by people alone, says Sergiy Seletskyi, IoT practice leader and senior solution architect at Intellias. And far too often, businesses have […]
The factory floor has certainly come a long way. Rather than traditional production lines that operate in silos, industry today leverages cloud-connected devices to enable data collection and business insight on a massive scale. While in the past, businesses were wondering how to build an IoT platform, it’s now easier than ever before, says Carsten […]
Across the globe, smart technologies are introducing new efficiencies for the way cities operate and improving the quality of life for city dwellers. With the UN predicting that 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050, cities must evolve to accommodate these ever-increasing densely populated urban areas. The ‘smartest’ way to maintain a balance […]
The software development industry is one such industry that has consistently boomed with the introduction of every new technology in the past two decades, therefore it has always been challenging to stay on top of these trends and stay productive for IT professionals. Every year, new products and services are introduced in the market to […]
The requirement to feed an ever-increasing population combined with the devastation created by frequent extreme weather events, challenges every farmer globally. As Zeng Zhenyu, general manager of data intelligence, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, says, in some markets the problems are compounded further by labour shortages, a squeeze on profit margins on produce like milk and the […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly increasing in popularity, with predictions that there will be 27.1 billion devices this year, according to Cisco, making it imperative that cyber resilience becomes a priority to ensure a safe future for all, says Rob Spiger, vice president of Trusted Computing Group With enterprises and people depending on technology […]
Gartner expects that by 2022 more than 50% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside the traditional data centre or cloud. With the explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT), the amount of data devices collect is becoming so vast that it cannot all be stored and monitored in the cloud. This is […]