Future of Business with Game Changers, Presented by SAP

Buzz of the day: “Just like your favorite video conferencing and collaboration tools, VR will save you time on travel, connect your regional offices and change the workplace as we know it—but with the experience of meeting in person still intact (www.pgi.com). We predict your company will conduct business primarily via virtual collaboration instead of face-to-face meetings. Electronic file shares instead of hard-copy documents. Virtual instead of physical currency. The bottom line: VR and AR technologies are scaling to speed companies like yours into this future business world! The experts speak. Steven Krause, DocuSign: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it” (Alan Kay). Stefan Aubele, IT-Kompass GmbH: “Things are only impossible until they're not” (Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek). Ed Canney, IGerencia: “In God we trust. All others must bring data” (W. Edwards Deming). Join us for The Future of Business Is...Virtual!

The buzz: One big happy family. Today’s workforce has four generations side-by-side for the first time ever. While the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers are still mostly in control, Gen X’ers and Millennials influence the day-to-day. But when you add the status-quo-disrupting Internet of Things, does it create an IoT Generation workforce gap separating these cohorts from the fifth wave of newbies expecting a fully-connected work day? The experts speak. Sherryanne Meyer, ASUG: “Dorothy: We’re not in Kansas anymore!” [Wizard of Oz). Mal Poulin, ANCILE: “The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time” (Dante). Sharon Cook, hyperCision: “I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social” (Angela Ahrendts). David Dreyer, SAP: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” (Ralph Waldo Emerson). Join us for Future of Business: IoT & The Next Generation Workforce.

The buzz: “3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can’t be made.” (Hod Lipson) It may not be far in the future when a significant amount of the products manufactured today in the four walls of a factory are actually manufactured in a store, repair shop or even a home. How? Distributed Manufacturing leveraging 3D printing is pushing the bounds of the possible. Technology has already moved beyond 3D printed sugar cubes and pasta to building 3D printed cars and even prosthetic limb replacement. What is the timeline of scaling from toys to a real, productive business approach? And how do IoT and security figure into the mix? The experts speak. Alan Amling, UPS: “Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be” (John Wooden). Rick Smith, Fast Radius: “The future ain’t what it used to be” (Yogi Berra). Gil Perez, SAP: “I failed my way to success” (Thomas Edison). Join us for The Future of Distributed Manufacturing and 3D Printing.

The buzz: “You tell me that it’s evolution.” It’s the future of global business on steroids, a revolution right now that knows no borders. What is it? The Digital Transformation (DT) revolution. DT was set in motion with the first computer and has the same exponential growth curve as the Internet. As more people and devices join, DT gets stronger. Every industry, organization and structure will change and the transactional business world as we know it today will be fundamentally transformed. If you think DT doesn’t apply to you and your business, you’re in for a shock. The experts speak. Prof. Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame: “The Internet of Things will be bigger than the Internet” (John Chambers). Geoff Scott, ASUG: “Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window” (Steve Wozniak). Teri Kurtz, SAP: “If I had asked people what they had wanted, they would have said faster horses” (Henry Ford). Join us for Global Business on Steroids: The DT Revolution Is Real.