Day 1Tuesday, 1 September 2020

• From VR to a cross platform approach
• Why we built our own Google earth
• Demo of the product

• Navigating internal infrastructure challenges, including legacy infrastructure and lack of data standards hindering widescale ARVR adoption
• Through managing expectations of content creation and immersion, how can companies account for the immaturity of tech, whilst preparing for opportunities of the future?
• Facilitating organizational readiness: Understand the opportunities and fears of ARVR as a tool for progression among different company teams

• How can companies keep updated on upcoming legislation and funding opportunities offered by national government?
• Exploring the different national, regional and industry vertical programmes that help nurture core skills for innovation, crucial to ARVR adoption
• How can trade associations help connect enterprises to innovative scale-ups to drive innovation?

• defining a framework for the interoperability of AR components, systems and services
• presenting the published reference architecture for AR solutions
• building interoperability to take AR to the next level resulting in a healthy AR ecosystem

The automated simplification processes of large CAD assemblies for the use in web and mobile applications

Why can't large CAD assemblies be used directly in AR / VR? The problem is the assembly structure and the resulting data volumes

Simplify CAD assemblies to such an extent that the optical quality and a high degree of recognition remain

Restructuring of the data while maintaining the assembly hierarchy with a dynamic geometry detail optimization - what do you have to see when?

An optimized 3D CAD data format for WebGL, threeJS and Unity3D applications - Web-, Desktop, Mobile and VR / AR Apps can be served by the same 3D data

Showcase of a Unity3D App using engineering CAD files: a Plastic Mold Machine with 11500 Parts

• Exploring deployment difficulties and experiences when reaching wide-scale audiences
• Scaling with a limited budget: From trialling to execution, how to build crucial buy-in to experimental use cases and navigating KPI’s
• Building an in-house team vs. working with external partners

• Showcase the ROI: from saving costs to sustainability, explore how one-time investment into hardware can enable training at half the price
• Ensuring that pre-generated data, ether from previous examples or virtual training, become the key aid for learning and development
• Where can connectivity and remote working setback the use of ARVR.

• Exploring how cross-platform partnership across hardware and software components can develop new applications
• How to clearly define the opportunity for enterprise R&D teams to trial innovative technology, and create a competitive edge?
• interoperability framework for content creation, improving ease of access and promoting best practice
• Exploring opportunities for ARVR designed SDK’s that can work across platforms

• Whilst the opportunity of high-fidelity content is clear, are hardware devices ready to support data driven enterprise use-cases?
• Exploring how reduced network latency, robust network infrastructure will accelerate adoption of ARVR
• What 5G and CloudXR means fully integrated real-time AI for immersive technologies
• Inviting the world in: Facilitating a debate around the infrastructure and systems required for open cloud AR and understanding the opportunities – and the issues - of the open cloud

• Next generation of working habits and remote working – does augmented social platforms hold the key for enhanced workplace culture amongst remote teams? Can immersive technologies allow remote workers to interact creatively on design and product?
• Visualising opportunity: How can ARVR technology become a visual aid for showcasing design and ensuring crucial buy-in from external partners
• Recognising ARVR as a tool for enhancing human creativity in design and revealing new possibilities through workplace experimentation in immersive environments

• How blockchain can be used to decentralise the energy sector
• Blockchain’s impact on smart metering

• What is the ROI of blockchain?
• The cost saving implications of blockchain enterprise deployments
• What is the cost of blockchain development and integration?
• Assessing the potential of blockchain to improve services

• Regulator perspective
  • Durable medium definition
  • Problem genesis
• Alior Bank solution – objectives
• Solution customer experience
• Alior Bank perspective
  • Solution advantages
  • The process of implementation
  • Identified challenges and solutions
  • How the solution works

• Public, private, semi-private and consortium blockchains: Features and differences
• Hybrid blockchains and their use cases
• Typical implementation processes
• Assessing platform features
• How will blockchain impact B2B and B2C relationships?

• Streamlining and providing transparency in the home-buying process using blockchain
• Using blockchain letters for credit transactions between financial firms
• The benefits of decentralized finance

• VUCA world as a context / an evolution of society / A Complex Multi-Functions Process
• What, why, when and how to use Blockchain?
• Transformation of Ecosystem network
• 3 steps to value
• Impact on digital transformation

• Maersk has been experimenting with blockchain technology for already a few years
• While a big hype in the beginning, we start seeing the technology adoption mature
• Blockchain has the potential to transform global trade!

• Reviewing early healthcare use-cases:
  • Professional credentialing
  • Billing management
  • Personal health records (PHR)
  • Pharmaceutical supply chain track-and-trace
• Is the rate of blockchain adoption dependent on blockchain, artificial intelligence and IoT interplay?

• Blockchain- Potential Impact in Insurance.
• Disruptive Power of Blockchain on the Insurance Industry.
• Blockchain applications in Insurance:
  • Fraud detection & risk prevention.
  • Property & casualty (P & C) insurance.
  • Health Insurance.
  • Reinsurance.
  • Processing of Insurance Claims.
• Use cases-Successful Implementation of Blockchain in my previous organization & ROI.
  • Customer Onboarding Process.
  • Underwriting Process.
  • Claims Process.
  • Reinsurance Process.
• Challenges in Implementing Blockchains.
• Legal implications of Blockchain in insurance.
• Business Factors for Insurance Consideration for Blockchain Adoption.
• The speed of blockchain adoption.
• India to become a Blockchain powerhouse.

• Why use Blockchain technology?
• Where to use the technology
• The different business models that exist that can enable blockchain enterprise integration:
  • Blockchain As A Service
  • Utility Token Business Model
  • Blockchain enabled software procurement

• Assessing whether your cloud strategy matches your business goals
• Examining the costs and cost savings associated with your cloud strategy
• The implications of embracing cloud for your business
• How your workforce will be impacted

• The right management tools can put your data to work for the business. IBM can help you position AI at the core of your IT Operations, to quickly pivot in today’s environment and ensure a successful digital transformation.

Sam Lakkundi, VP of Innovation & Head of BMC Innovation Labs shares the secret to every autonomous digital enterprise’s success: harnessing a multi-cloud approach for AIOps, DataOps, and overall better business operations.

• Agility: adapt and adjust to a changing marketplace and free up the resources to capitalize on opportunities
• CX: redefine the customer experience to meet changing and shifting demands (across B2B and B2C)
• Actionable Insights: know when to act and how to invest
• Create an organization that uses intelligent automation across applications, systems, and infrastructure to execute on your growth strategy

• The definition of Cloud Native, and reasons to adopt it.
• Why a holistic approach matters in Cloud Native.
• How one company, the fictional WealthGrid, encounters challenges in going Cloud Native that will sound familiar to many companies.

• A four-stage method, Think Design Build Run, that can reduce risk when undertaking a Cloud Native transformation.

• Reasons to move to the cloud
• Common migration plans that exist
• Mitigating the challenges associated with cloud migration: from data model re-planning, data migration to security

• Digital business requires observability and agility.
• Yesterday’s siloed organizations do not work in high velocity environments, which require agile DevOps teams.
• DevOps teams need many tools and technologies to handle the complete life-cycle of the application and environments.
• Observability includes collecting logs, metrics, and traces from applications and infrastructure.
• Open source projects have improved vastly in the last few years, but scaling them is a challenge
• Markets are changing, learn which technologies meet these challenges and where the ecosystem is headed in the next year

• Manual provisioning of infrastructure
• Imperative infrastructure as code (shell/ruby/other) scripts
• Semi-declarative infrastructure (puppet/ansible/other )
• Declarative - “Infrastructure as data” (cloudformation/terraform)
• Infrastructure as “real” code (Pulumi)

• Although DevOps professionals sometimes view ITSM as a hindrance, it can actually make their work easier and more successful. In this video, you’ll learn about modern, ITIL-aligned practices that can help both DevOps and ITSM solve key challenges

• Granting developers access to downstream feedback earlier in the cycle
• Avoiding costly mistakes and identifying security errors early

• What is DevOps?
• What DevOps brings to an enterprise? Or Why DevOps is needed?
• Components/tools of DevOps
  • CI/CD
  • Version Control
  • Tools
  • Monitoring
  • Configuration Management
  • Troubleshooting/Analysis
  • Automation/Scripting
  • Cloud Technology
  • Linux Administration
  • Containerisation technology
• What best practice looks like?

• Obtain developer buy-in
• Incentivising dev and ops teams to collaborate
• Reducing the cost of failure
• Increasing patience to foster a culture of collaboration
• The importance of CALMS

• The differences between Mobile AR and Spatial Computing
• AR use cases across multiple verticals
• How small, nimble companies are working on the AR Cloud
• Aligning practical and visionary strategies
• How companies can change innovation to support AR

• Creating a Digital Culture
• Building a big data analytics digital platform for civil aerospace and how it is transforming our business through the use of Digital Twins.
• User experience led design thinking
• Removing complex barriers of entry for data science and democratizing delivery

• In this session, Rob will share how Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity uses data to tackle adolescent mental health issues. He’ll cover how the Charity deployed cloud solution architecture and predictive analytics to help understand the trends of crime and how it impacts adolescent mental health. He’ll set out how to build an Interactive crime data visualisation dashboard, develop a machine learning model of socio-economic drivers of crime and the effect on adolescent mental health, and deploy a predictive scenario application of the crime and adolescent mental health model.

• What does cost governance best practice look like?
• Understanding the cost of development
• Resource controls
• Cost allocation
• Having an effective budgeting process
• Optimising existing architecture
• Cost tracking via tagging and tagging enforcement

• These are still very early days for most organisations in being Digital at all - let alone scaling up and maximising true business innovation alongside. This talk distils the essential disciplines for establishing team models for scaling Cloud and DevOps capability, while improving product innovation. Along the way, addresses how to develop the migraton strategy, tackling culture and process challenges in driving to completion.

• A case study on how The Star Media Group, a 47-year-old print company, pivoted towards a more digital and data driven agenda

• The tools and strategies to enable business agility
• The security implications associated with work-flow migration
• Best practice: managing cloud assets

• What do successful partnerships between enterprise and technology industries look like (or not)?
• Fuelling change and growth in age-old industries such as health and energy through transformed business models: What works and what doesn’t?
• Tackling key struggles in enterprise digital transformation: Recognise the main KPIs and how they are being met

• Getting stakeholders on board to steer the Smart Dublin and Docklands programme of work
• Explore the underlying connectivity options in the Dublin Docklands area (LPWAN, Fibre optics, 4G, 5G, etc.): How do these allow key segments of the city, from energy to mobility, to thrive?
• Understand key takeaways from the programme so far, and a look to the future of Smart Dublin

Join our session to hear:

• how connected and intelligent assets can optimise performance, adapt to changing circumstances and help ensure business continuity, building resiliency and reliability into operations.
• how ‘digital twins’ can pair the virtual and physical world to anticipate asset performance today, when it might fail in the future and under what conditions.  
• why moving beyond reactive maintenance enables innovation.

• Utilise the power of asset tracking to monitor stocks across the entire supply chain
• Operate sensors excellently in agriculture to take advantage of the predictive nature of farming
• Building a smooth-running smart city through monitoring technology which can optimise processes such as bin maintenance 
• Monitoring wind turbines to help reduce energy consumption and create a more sustainable way of living
• What’s next for sensors and monitoring in the next 2-5 years?

• Harness the processing power of Edge to ensure that your IoT is delivering the best, refined data
• What does an edge device look like in an IoT network?
• A look at how Cloud and Edge platforms can work together with IoT to push the right data through to the customer

• Improve energy efficiency in smart buildings and cities through space utilisation and IoT monitoring technology
• Integrating various systems into one whole within an organisation for digital process optimisation