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The Enterprise of the Future
We live in a time of unprecedented technological change, when new ideas and technologies are daily transforming how we live, work, play, and conduct business. Emerging technologies have the potential to remake entire industries and make established strategies obsolete.
To help managers anticipate and deal with such change, The Macquarie Institute for Innovation has developed a unique educational program. The program aims to inform participants about some of the technologies that are likely to a dramatic influence on business over the next 5 to 10 years, and to help them to develop the knowledge, skills and capabilities to analyse the impact of newly emerging technologies on the economics of their enterprises.
The "Enterprise of the Future" program is structured as a series of seminars and workshops, with each being dedicated to a particular set of technologies and their implications.
The first workshop in the series, entitled of "When all Things have a Digital Identity" focused on the implications of a world where all objects have a unique, readily accessible digital identity - a clear trend enabled by the low cost wireless platforms that are increasingly embedded in all objects and can report their identity, location, and state.
Led by Visiting Professor C. Gordon Bell, one of the seminal figures of the computer industry and presently a senior member of the Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley, the course was structured as a workshop and will examine the key technologies enabling this trend, develop a taxonomy of industry sectors and opportunities involved, and present some examples of resulting capabilities and applications.
Particular emphasis in the future will be given to Wireless Sensor Networks - an emerging computer class with the potential for dramatic impact on several industries.
This unique event was held on February 7th, 2006 at Macquarie University at North Ryde.
Future workshops will be held, please watch this space for updates.