New technologies and the enterprise of the future
On Tuesday 7 February, one of the computer industry's leading figures will deliver a unique course discussing the impact of emerging technologies on the future of the enterprise.
Professor C. Gordon Bell, presently a senior member of Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley will talk on When All Things Have a Digital Identity. It is the first in an upcoming series of one-day seminars run by the Macquarie Institute for Innovation. Entitled "The Enterprise of The Future", the series focuses on technologies that will have a dramatic influence on business over the next five to ten years, and tools for dealing with emerging technologies.
About the Macquarie Institute for Innovation
The Macquarie Institute for Innovation was established to serve the growing demand for a new paradigm in management education. This year it will commence offering a number of short courses, as well as programs for undergraduates and postgraduates.
The Institute aims to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship. It seeks to produce graduates with the skills and insights needed to launch new ventures, lead the development of economically significant enterprises, and drive transformational change.
The first seminar
When All Things Have a Digital Identity focuses on the implications of a world when all objects incorporate embedded, low-cost wireless platforms that can report their identity, location, and state - and thus become part of the origination's actionable memory.
Bell, along with John Gloekler (CEO of G2 Microsystems), Bruce Satchwell (CEO of Alive Technologies), and Dr Peter Corke from the CSIRO ICT Centre, will examine the key technologies enabling this trend, the implications of this emerging computer class and the potential applications of this technology platform.
"Most new technologies are evolutionary, even though they may appear revolutionary," says Bell. "Understanding the process of technology emergence and evolution enables one to predict future capabilities and economics - thus enabling superior planning and foresight."
This course is designed for a number of key groups, including technology entrepreneurs, research and public sector leaders involved in research commercialization, corporate executives and operational managers whose businesses will be directly affected by emerging technologies, and investors who want to anticipate the impact of emerging technologies.
Participants can expect to gain insights into emerging technologies and how these technologies will impact the future of business; as well as having direct exposure to some of these technologies, their commercial applications and the people involved.
When All Things Have a Digital Identity will be held at Macquarie University House, 6th Floor, 51-57 Pitt St, Sydney. For further information visit the Macquarie Institute for Innovation website at www.mii.mq.edu.au or contact Professor Craig Mudge on (02) 9850 4800.