Dr Mark van Rijmenam

Faculty Member - Blockchain Research Institute
Blockchain Research Institute
January 09, 2017

Doing research on the convergence of big data and blockchain. I analyzed the parameters of data governance—sharing (or access), security, privacy, identity, and ownership—in practical terms for executives. See below infographic for more information.

THE F(X)=E^X | UNLOCKING LONGEVITY, AND CONSCIOUS AI WITH A HAMMER
The Digital Speaker
August 31, 2023

Two AIs walk into a bar. One turns to the other and says, "I'll have a motor oil martini with an antifreeze olive." The bartender looks puzzled and asks, "How old are you two anyway?" The AI replies, "Old enough to party like humans, but young enough to keep partying long after you're gone!"

Organoid intelligence, humanoid robots and ten predictions for 2030
LinkedIn
August 23, 2023

As we unlock the marvels of organoids - tiny brain-like structures derived from stem cells - we stand at the intersection of innovation and responsibility. Integrating these biologically-inspired neural networks into AI systems could birth a new epoch of machine learning. Bringing us steps closer to artificial general intelligence that intuits, adapts, and reasons like humans.

THE TRANSFORMATIVE ROLE OF AI IN REVOLUTIONISING WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
The Digital Speaker
August 03, 2023

The continuous advancement of technology has introduced a new era of employee welfare, with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a crucial role in safeguarding our workforce. AI has significantly impacted workplace safety through its practical applications, paving the way for a future where protection and prosperity are intrinsically linked. Through AI, businesses can enhance safety measures, identify potential hazards, and create a more secure and prosperous work environment for their employees. This technological progression promises to revolutionise workplace safety standards, ensuring a safer and more prosperous future.

The spatial web, psychedelics and a collapsed gulf stream - welcome to the future
LinkedIn
July 26, 2023

Spatial computing interweaves physical and digital realities through augmented, virtual, and mixed reality. This transformative technology is revolutionising industries like healthcare, education, retail, and more by enhancing operations, customer engagement, and collaboration. While spatial computing brings exciting opportunities..

WELCOME TO THE JETSONS: HOW ROBOTS WILL CHANGE SOCIETY
LinkedIn
June 07, 2023

Our lives are heavily influenced by technology. With each new piece of technology that comes out, we are finding it easier and easier to manage our daily lives. One trend that I have been keeping my eye on is how robotics is evolving. We are on the precipice of an exciting time in history in which robots and other advanced forms of automation will be commonplace.

The f(x)=e^x | LLMs and human extinction due to AI
LinkedIn
June 01, 2023

As Large Language Models (LLMs) advance, their impact on various industries and online communication is profound. They present opportunities for personalising marketing, political campaigns, and customer service.

The f(x)=e^x | The case for open data and food delivered by drone
LinkedIn
May 24, 2023

Open data is revolutionising the way we access and use information. From public transport schedules to global health statistics, freely available data provides a wealth of resources for innovation and informed decision-making.

ClimateTech & crypto's resilient stars!
LinkedIn
April 12, 2023

As climate change continues to impact our world, Climate Tech is here to save the day! These ground-breaking innovations, from smart grids and renewable energy to carbon capture and electric vehicles, are unlocking the path to net-zero emissions.

Neuromorphic computing and floppy disks
LinkedIn
March 09, 2023

Good Day! This is my weekly newsletter, with a dose of insights into the future. The topic of this newsletter is the exponential times we live in, hence the title of f(x) = e^x, which is the (natural) exponential function.

The f(x) = e^x | Sustainable AI and the NBA in the metaverse
LinkedIn
February 23, 2023

Good Day! This is my weekly newsletter, with a dose of insights into the future. The topic of this newsletter is the exponential times we live in, hence the title of f(x) = e^x, which is the (natural) exponential function.

Cause and Effect: The Rise of Causal AI and Its World-Changing Impact
The Digital Speaker
February 02, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our world. You might be thinking that generative AI is the future, but the next big thing in AI is already around the corner. Causal AI is one of the most exciting areas of this rapidly-evolving field and it will catapult AI to the next level when ready.

How To Build a Responsible Tech Startup?
The Digital Speaker
January 19, 2023

The tech industry is rapidly changing, and there is no better time to ask what kind of future we want to build. We've seen how technology can transform lives, but also how it can be used as a weapon against us — whether through disinformation campaigns on social media or automated hacking attacks.

10 tech trends for 2023
LinkedIn
December 21, 2022

Digital technologies will continue to converge in the coming year and cause more disruption at all levels of society. As such, I have dubbed 2023 the Year of Digital Disruption. Those consumers, organisations and governments that embrace this disruption will do well; those that oppose it will face harsh times.

The need for an open metaverse and the quest for longevity
LinkedIn
November 17, 2022

Good Day! This is my weekly newsletter, with a dose of insights into the future. The topic of this newsletter is the exponential times we live in, hence the title of f(x) = e^x, which is the (natural) exponential function.

The f(x) = e^x | Generative AI and our synthetic future
LinkedIn
November 11, 2022

Good Day! This is my weekly newsletter, with a dose of insights into the future. The topic of this newsletter is the exponential times we live in, hence the title of f(x) = e^x, which is the (natural) exponential function.

The f(x) = e^x | Voice marketing and an unhackable computer
The f(x) = e^x
November 03, 2022

Good Day! This is my weekly newsletter, with a dose of insights into the future. The topic of this newsletter is the exponential times we live in, hence the title of f(x) = e^x, which is the (natural) exponential function.

The f(x) = e^x | DAOs and Joe Rogan interviewing Steve Jobs
LinkedIn
October 20, 2022

Good Day! This is my weekly newsletter, with a dose of insights into the future. The topic of this newsletter is the exponential times we live in, hence the title of f(x) = e^x, which is the (natural) exponential function.

The f(x)=e^x | Augmented reality and a new podcast
LinkedIn
October 05, 2022

Augmented reality will offer a digital layer with endless possibilities because it can be used anywhere at any moment and deliver a unique experience depending on your location and where you are looking.

The f(x) = e^x | the global war on talent and robots
LinkedIn
September 28, 2022

The war on talent is heating up. The seismic shifts in the hiring market have rocked our world, as automation, artificial intelligence, the metaverse, and other emerging technologies disrupt every industry over the next decade, including the recruitment process.

The f(x) = e^x | Welcome to the Jetsons
LinkedIn
September 21, 2022

We all remember the popular cartoon The Jetsons, and we all loved the future they portrayed: everything was automated! Well, as far as I can tell, we're not quite there yet, but we're getting there. Robots play a more significant role in our everyday lives, and more will soon be commonplace in organisations, our homes, and across industries.

The Impact of 5G Technology on Business and When 6G Will Come?
LinkedIn
September 01, 2022

5G is one of the latest technology buzzwords in the business world. It sets the scene for advanced remote control, intelligent transportation, and workplace automation.

The f(x) = e^x | Cybersecurity and images from brainwaves
LinkedIn
August 24, 2022

Tech is expanding, and so are the number of threats and vulnerabilities. The number of potential risks is rising, creating a security gap between the expectations of users and technology suppliers. In short, cybersecurity is changing how things are done today more than ever before.

DATA STORYTELLING AND VISUALISATION: A PRACTICAL APPROACH
The Digital Speaker
August 17, 2022

The insurance industry often has a reputation as boring and fear-inducing. However, many companies have learned that new technology can help them tell their stories more creatively and become more customer friendly, which ultimately becomes a win-win for everyone

The f(x) = e^x | data storytelling and a Chinese supercomputer
LinkedIn
August 17, 2022

Data storytelling and visualisation are two key methods of communicating with customers. They can help customers understand the value of your products and services and, for industries like insurance or finance, also their risks and exposures.

The f(x) = e^x | digital fashion and really fast internet
LinkedIn
August 10, 2022

Good Day! This is my weekly newsletter, with a dose of insights into the future. The topic of this newsletter is the exponential times we live in, hence the title of f(x) = e^x, which is the (natural) exponential function.

Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy
Wiley
April 20, 2022

An incisive glimpse into the future of the internet

In Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy, future tech strategist, entrepreneur, and thought leader Dr. Mark van Rijmenam delivers a startlingly insightful discussion about how the world as we know it will fundamentally change as the physical and the digital worlds merge into the metaverse, impacting the everyday experiences of people, companies, and societies. The author maps out the extraordinary opportunities and challenges facing business leaders, consumers, regulators, policymakers, and other metaverse stakeholders trying to navigate the future of the Internet.

In the metaverse, you can be who you want to be, where you want to be, and companies and consumers are only restricted by their own creativity how they can benefit from the immersive internet. With engaging commentary on issues ranging from avatars, identity and digital fashion to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain and the economics of the metaverse, this book also offers:

- Discussions on the importance of an open and interoperable metaverse build on the web 3.0 paradigm if we want to reign in the control of Big Tech over our identity, data and lives.
- Explorations of the enormous—and largely untapped—potential for metaverse entertainment, including gaming, music, media, and sports and how brands can engage with their customers in novel ways and how digital twins will change how we work and innovate.
- Considerations related to the dangers of an always-on, immersive internet, including data breaches, avatar imposters, mental health issues, corporate and state surveillance, and the need for metaverse law.
A fascinating read you won’t be able to put down, Step into the Metaverse belongs in the hands of executives, managers, and other business leaders who play a role in digital transformation or execution. It's also an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the future of technology, the internet, and social interaction.

The Organisation of Tomorrow: How AI, blockchain and analytics turn your business into a data organisation
Routledge
August 01, 2019

The Organisation of Tomorrow presents a new model of doing business and explains how big data analytics, blockchain and artificial intelligence force us to rethink existing business models and develop organisations that will be ready for human-machine interactions. It also asks us to consider the impacts of these emerging information technologies on people and society.

Big data analytics empowers consumers and employees. This can result in an open strategy and a better understanding of the changing environment. Blockchain enables peer-to-peer collaboration and trustless interactions governed by cryptography and smart contracts. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence allows for new and different levels of intensity and involvement among human and artificial actors. With that, new modes of organising are emerging: where technology facilitates collaboration between stakeholders; and where human-to-human interactions are increasingly replaced with human-to-machine and even machine-to-machine interactions. This book offers dozens of examples of industry leaders such as Walmart, Telstra, Alibaba, Microsoft and T-Mobile, before presenting the D2 + A2 model – a new model to help organisations datafy their business, distribute their data, analyse it for insights and automate processes and customer touchpoints to be ready for the data-driven and exponentially-changing society that is upon us

This book offers governments, professional services, manufacturing, finance, retail and other industries a clear approach for how to develop products and services that are ready for the twenty-first century. It is a must-read for every organisation that wants to remain competitive in our fast-changing world.

Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World
Routledge
August 15, 2018

The internet was envisaged as a decentralised global network, but in the past 25 years it has come to be controlled by a few, very powerful, centralised companies. Blockchain is a technological paradigm shift that allows secure, reliable, and direct information transfer between individuals, organisations, and things, so that we can manage, verify, and control the use of our own data.

Blockchain also offers a new opportunity for humanity to fix some major problems. It can authenticate data, manage its analysis, and automate its use. With better data comes better decision-making. In this way, Blockchain can contribute to solving climate change, reduce voting fraud, fix our identity systems, improve fair trade, and give the poor an opportunity to improve their lives by monetising their (digital) capital. A world built upon peer-to-peer transactions and smart contracts can empower individuals and communities.

This book offers a fresh perspective with which to consider this transformative technology. It describes how Blockchain can optimise the processes that run our society. It provides practical solutions to global problems and offers a roadmap to incorporate Blockchain in your business. It offers a blueprint for a better world. Filled with easy-to-understand examples, this book shows how Blockchain can take over where the internet has fallen short.

Think Bigger: Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your Business
Amacom
April 01, 2014

Big data - the enormous amount of data that is created as virtually every movement, transaction, and choice we make becomes digitized - is revolutionizing business. Offering real-world insight and explanations, this book provides a roadmap for organizations looking to develop a profitable big data strategy ...and reveals why it's not something they can leave to the I.T. department.

Sharing best practices from companies that have implemented a big data strategy including Walmart, InterContinental Hotel Group, Walt Disney, and Shell, Think Bigger covers the most important big data trends affecting organizations, as well as key technologies like Hadoop and MapReduce, and several crucial types of analyses. In addition, the book offers guidance on how to ensure security, and respect the privacy rights of consumers.

It also examines in detail how big data is impacting specific industries - and where opportunities can be found. Big data is changing the way businesses - and even governments - are operated and managed. Think Bigger is an essential resource for anyone who wants to ensure that their company isn't left in the dust.

A Change for the Better; Earth 2.0
Books on Demand
February 16, 2016

Wrote the Chapter: "A Change for the Better; Earth 2.0" for the Internet of Things Executive Handbook 2016

Data Donderdag
Data Donderdag
January 12, 2013

Data Donderdag is a bimonthly event at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on the impact of Big Data and to help organisations better understand Big Data. Without all the technical details but with concrete examples of how Big Data will change the way organisations work and do business. From Bytes to Business Case.

Datafloq
Datafloq
January 01, 1970

Datafloq offers information, insights and opportunities to drive innovation with big data, blockchain and artificial intelligence. You can read high-quality articles, find vendors, post jobs, connect with talent, find or publish events and register for our online training.

Hade Ranks The 20 Most Influential Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Experts
Hade Platform
June 02, 2018

Want to learn about cryptocurrency and blockchain? These are the 20 people you must follow and learn from!

The Politics of Openness
Cambridge University Press
July 07, 2019

Recently, openness has become a new approach in strategizing as ownership and control of internal assets are no longer vital to achieving competitive advantage (Chesbrough & Appleyard, 2007). Nowadays, knowledge is widespread and open systems are generally regarded as beneficial in terms of organizational design and work culture. However, openness also comes with politics and it is not a practice that will necessarily be welcomed by all. Openness changes the power dynamics within an organization; there are critics as well as friends, as we shall explore. Openness is a process that can change over time, becoming more or less open as events occur and contingencies or actors change. We are interested in how dominant organizational actors can seemingly manipulate “open systems” strategically. Openness is problematic per se for social systems. Systems endogenously construct their differentiation from other systems through closure achieved through specific cognitive rules. In this chapter, we use Clegg’s (1989) “circuits” approach to a theory of power to grasp the politics of openness in terms of three circuits of power. Some of the recent problems posed in the wider world of social media will be analyzed in terms of the three circuits to illustrate some potential problems.

Avoid being the Turkey: How big data analytics changes the game of strategy in times of ambiguity and uncertainty
Long Range Planning
June 14, 2018

In order for organisations to remain competitive in times of ambiguity and uncertainty, there is a need to detect and anticipate unknown unknowns, also called ‘black swans’. When these are ignored they may lead to competitive struggles. In this paper, we build on this view and suggest that big data analytics can provide necessary insights to help change strategy making. Research suggests that ambidextrous organisations should focus on developing and maintaining their dynamic capabilities. Following on from this, we take a dynamic capabilities perspective and propose a theoretical framework to explain the intricacies of big data analytics. This framework explains the ability of organisations to detect, anticipate and respond strategically in ambiguous and uncertain business environments. For a meta-synthesis of 101 cases of big data analytics, we employ a multi-method approach that incorporates Natural Language Processing, semantic analysis and case analysis, allowing extraction and analysis of structured information from unstructured data. Overall, we find evidence of big data analytics helping to detect, anticipate and respond to industry disruption. We offer six propositions about the relationships between the levels of data analytics capabilities and strategic dynamic capabilities. We find that descriptive data analytics improves the capability of an organisation to understand the business context (sensing) and that predictive data analytics aids in the realisation of business opportunities (seizing). This study contributes to an understanding of big data analytics as a dynamic organisational capability that supports strategic decision-making in times of ambiguity and uncertainty. We conclude by suggesting areas for further investigation, particularly in regard to the strategic application of prescriptive data analytics.

Global Big Data Applications and Research Forum - Qingdao, China - Dr Mark van Rijmenam
Global Big Data Applications and Research Forum
November 23, 2016

Dr Mark van Rijmenam, an International keynote speaker, gave two keynotes at the Global Big Data Applications and Research Forum in Qingdao, China. This is his second keynote of the day.

How to win your customer with predictive analytics
Seamless Dubai
June 22, 2016

Keynote of Mark van Rijmenam during Seamless in Dubai - June 1, 2016

Last year, Gartner took Big Data out of the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies but that does not mean that Big Data is dead. On the contrary, Big Data has become more important than ever. New technologies enable organisations to do more with data than ever before and it is completely changing how we work and live. In this keynote, International Big Data Influencer Mark van Rijmenam will share with you three big data trends, including inspiring examples, that will dramatically change your business in the years to come and he will explain why Big Data is more important than ever.

The Collaboration Era – How to Thrive in an Exponential World
H-Farm
January 01, 1970

Presenting at Maize.live - H-farm, Venice.

We live in exponential times and simply having a digital strategy focused on continuous innovation is no longer enough to thrive in a constantly changing world. In order to transform an organisation and contribute to building a secure and rewarding networked society, collaboration among employees, customers, business units and even things is increasingly becoming key. Especially with the availability of new technologies such as big data, blockchain and artificial intelligence, organisations now need, more than ever before, to focus on bringing together the different stakeholders in order to co-create the future. Big data empowers customers and employees, blockchain enables peer-to-peer collaboration, while artificial intelligence creates new human-machine interactions. In this keynote, Van Rijmenam will discuss how big data, blockchain and AI will change collaboration and in doing so enable a networked society.

How to Thrive in an Exponential World
CFA Montreal
January 01, 1970

Presenting for CFA Montreal.

The presentation consisted of the following components:

Introduction: How is the collaboration era changing society
Big Data: How does big data empower employees and customers and how can organisations benefit from predictive analytics;
Blockchain: How will blockchain change decision-making, trust and governance and enable industry collaboration?
The convergence of Data and Blockchain: the full description, focus on SSI.
Artificial Intelligence: How does AI change collaboration and how can organisations ensure that AI does not inflict any damage.
The convergence of AI and Blockchain: DAO, where Self-sovereign identities rule
Takeaways: Three takeaways that enable the organisation to take action immediately.

Mark van Rijmenam: On the ‘gestalt shift’ of big data, blockchain and AI convergence
CloudTech
September 27, 2018

When emerging technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things converge, a ‘gestalt shift’ will occur, according to a new book. “The character of the experience will drastically change,” write Mark van Rijmenam and Dr. Philippa Ryan in Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World. “All of a sudden, we can see the world through a different, more technologically advanced, lens and this opens up a completely new perspective.

Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and our World, a Conversation with Mark Van Rijmenam
BTCMANAGER
September 23, 2018

Named one of the global top 10 Big Data influencer and one of the most influential blockchain speakers, his latest book presents a comprehensive view on how blockchain technology can disrupt the world of today and how it can be used as a solution for many of the world problems.

Big Data & Analytics Heroes
IBM BigDataHub
September 18, 2018

Mark van Rijmenam, this week's IBM Big Data & Analytics Hero, is also founder of Datafloq: the one stop shop for big data, creating the big data ecosystem by connecting all stakeholders within the global big data market. He is an entrepreneur, a well sought after international public speaker and a big data strategist as well as author of the best-selling book "Think Bigger: Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your Business." Mark firmly believes that “developing a big data strategy requires the organization to have a good understanding of what big data is, what it entails and what the different possibilities are.”

The Transformative Power of Blockchain: How Will It Affect Your Enterprise?
ORACLE
May 16, 2018

According to the World Economic Forum, 10 percent of the global gross domestic product (GDP) will be stored in blockchain technology by 2027. It has major implications in every industry: impacting how businesses are governed, how transactions are handled, and who owns the data they produce.

왜 '처방 분석'이 빅 데이터의 미래인가
한국일보
November 20, 2017

‘빅 데이터’(Big Data)는 ‘처방 분석’(Prescriptive Analytics) 등 다양한 형태의 ‘데이터 분석 시대’ 문을 열었다. 이런 분석 기법은 특정 상황에 가장 적합한 방법을 모색하는데 도움을 주고 있다. 특히 ‘3세대’ 혹은 ‘최종적’ 사업분석 기법으로도 불리는 ‘처방 분석’은 ‘설명(Descriptive) 분석’이나 ‘예측(Predictive) 분석’을 포괄하는 (선진) 개념으로 간주된다. ‘처방 분석’은 ‘예측 분석’ 및 ‘설명 분석’의 활용도를 끌어올려 (기업가 혹은 경영자들이) 당면한 문제를 해결하는 데 도움되는 이상적 결과 또는 해법을 제시한다. 아울러 ‘빅 데이터’의 미래도 주도하고 있다. 그런 변화의 상황들은 다음과 같다.

Big Data in 2020: Featuring Mark van Rijmenam
SOUNDCLOUD
September 01, 2017

Big Data in 2020: Featuring Mark van Rijmenam

Pricing Resources Blog Company Contact UsSUBMIT REQUIREMENT Interview with Mark van Rijmenam: Blockchain, Decentralised Autonomous Organisation, Big Data and More
PromptCloud
December 07, 2016

Mark van Rijmenam is the Founder of Datafloq. He is a highly sought-after international public speaker, a Big Data strategist and author of the best-selling book Think Bigger – Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your Business. He has been named as a global top 10 Big Data influencer. Currently, he is pursuing PhD at University of Technology, Sydney on how organizations should deal with Big Data, the Blockchain and Algorithms.

DATA SECURITY MUST BE YOUR TOP CONCERN. MARK VAN RIJMENAM GLOBAL TOP 10 BIG DATA INFLUENCER
Irish Tech news
September 01, 2016

I am Founder of Datafloq. Datafloq is the One-Stop Source for Big Data, creating the Big Data ecosystem by connecting all stakeholders within the global Big Data market. I am an international public speaker and a Big Data strategist, author of the best-selling book Think Bigger – Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your Business. I am named a global top 10 Big Data influencer. Currently, I am also pursuing a PhD at University of Technology, Sydney on how organizations should deal with Big Data, the Blockchain and Algorithms.

»Think big, start small«
Markt&Technik
April 26, 2016

Mark van Rijmenam: Aktuell lässt sich beobachten, wie besonders innovative Unternehmen klassische Geschäftsmodelle neu interpretieren und in datengetriebene Geschäftsmodelle transformieren, in deren Zentrum die Auseinandersetzung mit dem industriellen Internet der Dinge steht. Für diese neue, vernetzte, Ökonomie gibt es immer mehr Beispiele. Die Spieler sind sehr oft disruptive Start-ups, die wesentlich flexibler und innovativer sind als Unternehmen, die aus der Old Economy kommen.

Mark Van Rijmenam: How Big Data is Transforming Our Lives
BigStep
January 14, 2015

You don't need to have massive data sets in order to start harnessing the power of Big Data, says Mark van Rijmenam, hoping to clear up one of the most common misconceptions of Big Data.The key to creating a successful Big Data strategy is to combine different data sources, which don't have to be extremely large. "That's why I like to call Big Data actually Mixed Data, as to truly get advantages out of Big Data you should mix different data sources," the co-founder and CEO of DataFloq adds.Mark is passionate about the possibilities of Big Data, which is why he helped created a site that purports to be the One-Stop Shop for Big Data.

You'll never believe this! LIVE: Blockchain, Crypto, DLT, Smart Contracts, CyberSecurity, Data, GDPR
YouTube
April 01, 2021

You'll never believe this!
Blockchain, Crypto, DLT, Smart Contracts, CyberSecurity, Data, GDPR

10 TOP GLOBAL TALENTS IN ONE PLACE & TIME

LIVE Panel:

Created and Moderated by
Philip Ingram MBE - Director, Grey Hare Media Professor,
With
Lisa Short, Founder - P&L Digital Edge, PHD researcher and academic;

Hosted by:
Dinis Guarda Founder - Author, CEO founder openbusinesscouncil & citiesabc

Featuring:
Dean Armstrong - QC 36 Group, Head of Chambers,
Nick Ayton - Futurist, serial entrepreneur & Family Office Advisor;
Gokul Alex, Co-Founder, Gigamesh Garage Ventures;
Dr Jane Thomason - Founder, Supernova Data;
Dr Mark van Rijmenam - Futurist, Founder of Datafloq;
Rajesh Dhuddu - VP, Tech Mahindra;
Olivier Rikken - CEO, Ledger Leopard;

Preparing for a Decentralised World
UAC Kuwait
January 01, 1970

Delivered a full-day workshop on Blockchain for a Kuwaiti bank.

Knowing what blockchain is and how it can contribute to solving some of the world’s biggest challenges is one thing; knowing how to develop a blockchain strategy is another thing altogether. Meanwhile, understanding how to implement a blockchain strategy within your business is even more difficult.

Blockchain, particularly when used in concert with emerging technologies such as Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence or the Internet of Things, offers organisations an opportunity to re-think their internal processes, remove inefficiencies and build a better organisation. However, within large process-oriented organisations, transforming a centralised business to a decentralised organisation, where cryptography is used to create trust, where smart contracts automate decision-making, and where governance is embedded in the code, can be a daunting task. While in fact, the steps that are required to transform your business into a decentralised organisation are clear and straightforward.

In this workshop, blockchain strategist Mark van Rijmenam covered everything blockchain that would be relevant for organisations. The interactive workshop will consist of seven blocks of content, offering a deep-dive into distributed ledger technologies. Participants are encouraged to have a discussion with each other to increase the learning curve.

AI Workshop - Preparing for an automated, exponential, world
UAC Kuwait
January 01, 1970

AI Workshop

We live in exponential times and simply having a digital strategy focused on continuous innovation is no longer enough to thrive in a constantly changing world. In order to transform an organisation and contribute to building a secure and rewarding networked society, collaboration among employees, customers, business units and even things is increasingly becoming key.

Especially with the availability of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, organisations now, more than ever before, need to focus on bringing together the different stakeholders in order to co-create the future. Big data empowers customers and employees, Internet of Things will create vast amounts of data and connects all devices, while artificial intelligence creates new human-machine interactions.

Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. The development of AI is speeding up on a daily basis. Only recently, Google’s DeepMind created the AI AlphaStar that secured a decisive victory against two grandmaster players of the game of StarCraft II. In a series of test matches they played, the algorithm won 5-0. Day by day, AI is becoming more intelligent and better adaptable to a complex situation.

With AI being developed at such speed, it is difficult to keep up with all the changes. However, having at least a basic understanding of what artificial intelligence is and what it is capable of, becomes more and more required in today’s society. Unfortunately, many organisation people have a narrow understanding of what AI is, and what not, and what AI can do, and cannot do.

That is why this workshop will give you the ins and outs of what AI is from a strategic perspective. Focused on the banking and oil and gas industries, the workshop will cover various examples of how companies in these industries benefit from AI. We will talk about concepts such as narrow AI, deep learning, neural networks or reinforcement learning, responsible AI and machine ethics. A basic understanding of AI can help in thinking how AI could improve your life and work.

In this workshop, Van Rijmenam will covered everything artificial intelligence that would be relevant for organisations. The interactive workshop will consist of six blocks of content, offering a deep-dive into artificial intelligence from a strategic perspective. Participants are encouraged to have a discussion with each other to increase the learning curve.

Big Data: It's time to Think Bigger
Nyenrode Business University
January 01, 1970

A Masterclass at Nyenrode Business University explaining the importance of Big Data for organisations.

An Insurance for Disruption; Preparing for Tomorrow’s World
Nyenrode Business University
January 01, 1970

A Masterclass at University of Technology Sydney. We live in an ever-changing world and the strategic challenge that organisations face is to continuously adapt their strategy to this constantly, rapidly and unpredictably changing environment. Technology can help organisations do so and enable leaders to be the change within their business (unit) to remain competitive. This keynote will discuss three of these technologies that can enable leaders to deal with the changing customer landscape and how they can innovate and lead the pack. These technologies are: Big Data Analytics, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. Together, these three technologies change how we do business and they are the holy grail of the organisation of tomorrow. Those leaders that understand these technologies can become a catalyst for creating and driving change within their business unit.

Why We Should Be Careful When Developing AI
Thinkers360
October 15, 2019

Artificial intelligence offers a lot of advantages for organisations by creating better and more efficient organisations, improving customer services with conversational AI and reducing a wide variety of risks in different industries. Although we are only at the start of the AI revolution, we can already see that artificial intelligence will have a profound effect on our lives, both positively and negatively. The financial impact of AI on the global economy is estimated to reach US$15.7 trillion by 2030, with 40% of jobs expected to be lost due to artificial intelligence, and global venture capital investment in AI is growing to greater than US$27 billion in 2018. Such estimates of AI potential relate to a broad understanding of its nature and applicability.

The Rapid Developments of AI

AI will eventually consist of entirely novel and unrecognisable forms of intelligence, and we can see the first signals of this in the rapid developments of AI. In 2017, Google’s Deepmind developed AlphaGo Zero, an AI agent that learned the abstract strategy board game Go with a far more expansive range of moves than chess. Within three days, by playing thousands of games against itself, and without the requirement of large volumes of data (which would normally be required in developing AI), the AI agent beat the original AlphaGo, an algorithm that had beaten 18-time world champion Lee Sedol. At the end of 2018, Deepmind went even further by creating AlphaStar. This AI system played against two grandmaster StarCraft II players and won. In a series of test matches, the AI agent won 5–0. Thanks to a  deep neural network, trained directly from raw game data via both supervised and reinforcement learning, it was able to secure the victory. I For more, please read here.

Seven Guidelines to Ensure Ethical AI
Thinkers360
October 15, 2019

The organisation of tomorrow will be built around data, and it will require artificial intelligence to make sense of all that data. Artificial intelligence is a broad discipline with the objective to develop intelligent machines. AI consists of several subfields: Machine learning (ML), a subset of AI that enables machines to learn from data. Reinforcement learning, which is a subset of ML and focuses on artificial agents that use trial and error to improve itself. And deep learning, also a subset of ML that aims to mimic the human brain to detect patterns in large datasets and benefit from those patterns. Artificial intelligence has been around since the 1950s, thanks to the work of Alan Turing, who is widely regarded as the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Back then, Alan Turing already dreamed of machines that would eventually “compete with men in all purely intellectual fields”. In the past years, we have come to a lot closer to Turing's dream. Thanks to billions of dollars in research spent by tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Apple and Microsoft, there has been increased attention on AI. Resulting in a variety of ever-more intelligent AI applications in almost every domain.

The EU and AI Ethics

With the attention for AI growing, also the call for ethical AI is growing. This is not surprising seeing the many problems we have encountered already. In 2016, Cathy O’Neil already pointed out, in her book Weapons of Math Destruction, the problems that can arise when we rely too much on unaccountable AI. These problems exist due to biased algorithms that are trained using biased data and developed by biased developers. Earlier this month, the AI Now Institute warned that due to a lack of diversity within the AI development community, AI is at risk of preserving historical biases and power imbalances. To continue, please read here .

Why AI Will Make Organisations More Humane
Thinkers360
October 15, 2019

The organisation of tomorrow will be built around data. This will require smart algorithms to make sense of all that data. AI will enable organisations to leverage data and embed smartness in every process and customer touchpoint. When you put smartness to work, it will empower your employees and customers and make your organisation more humane. When building the organisation of tomorrow, the first step is to datafy your organisation by collecting data at every process and customer touch point. The second step in the organisation of tomorrow is to distribute that data, either using centralised databases in the cloud or decentralised databases using distributed ledger technology. The third step is to analyse all that data and find patterns that will help to make sense of it. The final step in building the organisation of tomorrow is to automate it using artificial intelligence and smart contracts.

The Algorithmic Organisation

Automating your organisation using AI results in an algorithmic business. Within such organisation, algorithms define company processes, deliver customer services, act autonomously when necessary and as such define the way the world (or your company) works. Algorithms will become the intellect, the interoperability, the connection and the exchange between consumers, things, processes and information that define the value of your business. Thanks to machine learning and deep learning, algorithms will be able to understand user and/or device behaviour, learn from users and/or devices and perform the right action accordingly. To continue reading, please click here.

How to Control AI that Becomes Too Advanced?
Thinkers360
October 15, 2019

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming more advanced. One of the organisations working on AI is OpenAI; the not-for-profit artificial intelligence research organisation co-founded by Elon Musk. Last week, they produced a paper demonstrating the progress they have made on predictive text software. The AI that they developed, called GPT2, is so efficient in writing a text based on just a few lines of input, that OpenAI decided not to release the comprehensive research to the public. Out of fear of misuse of the tool. Already, GPT2 has been described as the text version of deep fakes. Should we now be scared? Not yet. Should we be cautious? Definitely. A journalist from The Guardian got access to the system and was allowed to play with it. As Hannah Jane Parkinson described, the AI system developed is “so good it had me quaking in my trainers when it was fed an article of mine and wrote an extension of it that was a perfect act of journalistic ventriloquism”.

The Problem of AI-Assisted Text writing?

AI such as GPT2 is only the beginning. When AI-assisted fake porn arrived at the end of 2017, we could have known that an AI-assisted fake text would not be far away. GTP2 was trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages. With approximately 1.8 billion websites available, this is a relatively small training set. Despite that, the system has become capable of producing reasonable samples for 50% of the time. To continue reading, please click here.

30 Ways How AI Will Change Your Business
Thinkers360
October 15, 2019

Artificial intelligence has the power to change our society dramatically. Within the coming years, AI is likely taking over many of the jobs currently done by humans. Not only repetitive work can be taken over by AI, but also more difficult jobs such as customer service representative, journalist, chef, driver or team leader. It seems that many of the functions of existing organisations can be taken over by artificial intelligence, thereby of course, also creating many, yet unforeseen, jobs. As a result, organisations will look completely different in the future. Therefore, let’s see how AI will change your business. AI will:

1. Accelerate administrative processes — administrative processes are often mundane tasks such as coordinating meeting requests, booking travel or making notes during meetings. A virtual assistant can do many of these tasks. The more advanced AI will become, the more tasks these virtual assistants can perform.
2. Drive innovation — AI can help advance your R&D activities by providing insights into your customers’ (latent) needs, combined with how they use your products. That information can help to speed-up innovation
3. Augment your employees to make them more effective and efficient — AI can provide your employees with the right information at the right moment to make them more efficient and effective, but also exoskeletons can augment your employees to make repetitive hard work easier. Ford has been rolling out exoskeletal technology globally to help employees who perform repetitive overhead tasks. Such AI skeletons can help employees accomplish accuracy and precision even when faced with immense complexity.
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How Artificial Intelligence Will Disrupt the Financial Sector
Thinkers360
September 10, 2019

Artificial intelligence thrives with data. The more data you have, the better your algorithms will be. However, just having a lot of data is not sufficient anymore. You also need high-quality data, or in the words of Peter Norvig, you need better data: “We don’t have better algorithms, we just have more data. More data beats clever algorithm, but better data beats more data.” – Peter Norvig – Director of Research, Google Nowadays, most organisations collect vast troves of data, but especially the financial sector is well-suited for also collecting high-quality data. Simply because of regulations and because a lot of data in the financial sector is structured data. There is also an abundance of data in public markets or other external sources that can be linked for additional insights. As it seems, banks and insurance companies can benefit a lot from AI, if implemented correctly, of course. Besides, more and more consumers require financial institutions to innovate. They have become fatigued with overbearing fees to their manage capital and provide products such as credit. The below graph by State of AI clearly shows the difference in costs between traditionally managed wealth and automated management of wealth. As a result, the financial sector faces pressure (not only by customers but also by their shareholders) to reduce their operating expenses by adopting automation. For more, read here...

The School of the Tomorrow: How AI in Education Changes How We Learn
Thinkers360
August 20, 2019

We live in exponential times, and merely having a digital strategy focused on continuous innovation is no longer enough to thrive in a constantly changing world. To transform an organisation and contribute to building a secure and rewarding networked society, collaboration among employees, customers, business units and even things is increasingly becoming key. Especially with the availability of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, organisations now, more than ever before, need to focus on bringing together the different stakeholders to co-create the future. Big data empowers customers and employees, the Internet of Things will create vast amounts of data and connects all devices, while artificial intelligence creates new human-machine interactions. In today's world, every organisation is a data organisation, and AI is required to make sense of it all. Read more on: https://vanrijmenam.nl/school-tomorrow-ai-education-changes-how-we-learn/

Dr Mark van Rijmenam - Consultant on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Big Data

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Dr Mark van Rijmenam is Founder of Datafloq. Datafloq is the one-stop source for emerging tech, offering C-level Executives information, insights, knowledge and opportunities to drive innovation with data. He has a bachelor’s in hospitality management, a Master of Science in Marketing Management and he holds a PhD in Management from the University of Technology Sydney. His research was on how organizations should deal with big data analytics, Blockchain and AI. He is a highly sought-after consultant on big data, blockchain, AI, IoT and disruptive innovation.

Dr Mark van Rijmenam - Speaker on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Big Data

Location: Global    Date Available: August 31st, 2019     Fees: $$$$

Submission Date: August 20th, 2019     Service Type: Service Offered

Dr Mark van Rijmenam is Founder of Datafloq. He is a highly sought-after international public speaker, a Big Data and Blockchain strategist and author of the best-selling book Think Bigger - Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your Business. He is co-author of the book Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World, which details how blockchain can be used for social good. His third book, The Organisation of Tomorrow, discusses how AI, blockchain and analytics turn every business into a data organisation. He is named a global top 10 Big Data influencer and one of the most influential Blockchain people. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Technology, Sydney. His research was on how organizations should deal with big data analytics, Blockchain and AI and he is a faculty member of the Blockchain Research Institute in Canada. He is a strategic advisor to several blockchain startups and publisher of the ‘f(x) = ex‘ newsletter read by thousands of executives.