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A 20 Years Journey through the Internet and SustainabilityThe Power of the Edge
Nicola VillaExecutive Partner, IBM Global Business Services
Source: Paul Baran
Internet Evolution – last 20 years
Intelligent Connections
Internet ofThings
Connect the Unconnected
ImmersiveExperiences
Digitize interactions NetworkedEconomy
Digitize businessprocesses
ConnectivityDigitize access to information
Triple Bottom Line Impact
1995 – 2000: Networked Economy
LeadershipGovernanceCompetenciesTechnology
2000 – 2005: Broadband
2005 – And now ?
2005 -‐ 2015: Meanwhile…
Highline – New York
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• Billions of Things are getting connected
• Our world is submerged in data• The world is being re-written in software code and the cloud is the platform on which this it taking place
• Computer systems are gaining cognitive capabilities that are becoming mainstream
We are now being confronted with new developments
Cloud as the main platform
Arrival of cognitive computing
80% of unstructured data
Reimagining our world – Once Again
Transformingthe traditionaltaxi industry
Excess Capacity: Everythingas a service
Transformed itsindustry in a capital
intensive space
Self-driving caris impacting traditional
auto makers
Rethinking Entire Value Chains
With Buildings becoming Banks…
And New Technologies disrupting Multiple Industries
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• Understand natural language and put it into context
• Reason by generating hypothesis, considering arguments and coming back with recommendations
• Learn while being trained by experts and continuously becoming smarter with each piece of information
Cognitive Systems understand, reason and learn
Understand
Learn
Reason
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Cognitive … in The Netherlands !
Poseidon Inclusive EnterpriseThis initiative focuses on raising awareness on
the (over)use of water in agriculture and developing low-‐cost technology for 3rd world farmers to support them in consuming water in
smart, efficient and effective ways.
This project advocates the well being of the employees and the feeling of being engaged to the workplace; with the goal to provide a better
workplace.
RainSenseRainSense is a project under IBM’s partnerships with academia aims at creating smarter cities that can react effectively in cases of extreme
rainfall or related phenomena.
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
Winston Churchill
