Key Themes

Digital Life
  • The opportunities and challenges in Mobility and Big Data to the Internet of Everything (IoE) - Connecting these mobile dots and defining the new mobile trend.
  • Imagining the Next Generation Digital Workspace.
  • Analysing the much-ignored but defining block of the Digital World – Security.

 

Cutting Edge: Robots/Drones/3D Printing
  • Deciphering the impact of the arrival of increasingly smart, agile machines (Robots and Drones) that can interact more naturally and safely – Reimaging productivity of the future.
  • How Fabbers, or personal manufacturing machines (3D Printing), are expected to change the way we live and the way goods are manufactured, even in countries like India.
Smart Cities
  • Rethinking Urban Infrastructure
  • Making sense of India's smart cities: By 2050 there will be 9 billion people living on Earth. And India is expected to be home to the world's largest population, overtaking China. How will our smart cities shape up?
Future of Payments
  • We may speak digital but still live a cash-based world, with 85% of consumer transactions worldwide done with bills and coins. New technologies, including digital wallets, crypto currencies, and mobile peer-to-peer payments, and India's own United Payments Interface (UPI) aim to tip that balance.

Future of Energy

  • Power consumption is set to go up in the next 10-15 years from 1.1 trillion units today to 4 trillion units by 2030. What is the future of energy and what are the technologies that can brighten this future?
Artificial Intelligence: The Next Frontier
  • The next frontiers for machine learning - Artificial Intelligence. Uncover its implications for humanity.

Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality

  • New devices are finally bringing virtual reality into the mainstream. At the same time, emerging technologies promise to challenge VR's primacy--think augmented, mixed, holographic or cinematic reality--by blending virtual reality and real life together. How will our day-to-day experiences be augmented by these emerging technologies?
Connected Health
  • Can Technology Assist an aging Population? Discover how wearables, assistive robots, remote monitoring and big data are going to revolutionize healthcare as we know it.
  • Genome editing is evolving as a tool to fight hereditary diseases and extend life expectancy. How are companies and start-ups using this technology? Decrypt its impact on the healthcare industry.