Future of Business with Game Changers, Presented by SAP

The buzz: “Collaborations work best this way; when there's a mutual desire to see what the other side adds. You know that what you're making on your own has value but the sum is more than the parts and every part knows it” (Questlove). 17th century English poet John Donne wrote: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” Donne’s wisdom applies to people, countries, and your company. Collaborating with other businesses can help deliver unique innovations, define new markets, differentiate from the pack, bring new products to market. The experts speak. Marc Haberland, Clariba: “No pressure, no diamonds” (Thomas Carlyle). Camilla Dahlen, SAP: “Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common” (Deborah Lloyd). Surendra Reddy, Quantiply: “Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things” (Theodore Levitt). Join us for Future of Business: Collaborative Innovation.

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: “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.