Day 1Tuesday, 1 September 2020

• Aggregating anonymized data to allow for interactive AR experiences in the real world
• High levels of accuracy are hardly achievable with a phone more than GPS: How can spatial dynamics, 3D mapping and LiDAR overlay geo-data for more accurate AR gameplay?
• What opportunities does this unlock for smart tourism, gamification and digital twins?

• 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?

• Through optimizing AI within immersive environments, learn how to enhance and streamline creative content from data collected
• How navigating data in training experiences can help track learning and development
• Open new business services with data collected from ARVR

• Know your infrastructure investments: What IoT enabled data is crucial to building digital twins
• Amalgamating with AI: Making room for real-time predictions and responsive insights with machine vision
• Maximise value: Understand how to complex process of creating a virtual double of entire supply chain with digital twin technologies – and why it is worth it

• How crucial is utilizing touch and sound within immersive environments, and how far away is realistic, real time implementation
• Augmenting the Narrative: How can content creators retain control over narratives in 3D environments
• Using AI to build real-time reaction into immersive learning experiences

• 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.

• Using ARVR to deepen community connection to public areas, encourage citizen 'buy in' to projects, and promote digital inclusion
• Deep-dive into cultural heritage case studies that have successfully utilized AR VR technologies
• How can ARVR help navigate collective story telling around cities as an asset for tourism
• Using AR to influence wayfinding and city movement

• 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 the cloud strategy matches your business strategy
• 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

• CapEx and OpEx: Moving to an agile funding model
• Shifting left: The benefits of cloud security
• Enabling businesses to scale up efficiently and rapidly their technology teams
• Enhanced mobility
• Data loss prevention

• Transforming roles and responsibilities in order to create new approaches to work
• What needs to be done to organisations to make them DevOps friendly?

• Kubernetes:
  • Simplifying the developer loop
  • Continuous security and feedback: Shifting critical practices earlier in the development lifecycle to enable developers to identify and prevent defects sooner
  • Achieving higher granularity and control over the stack implementation
• Serverless:
  • Powerful stack
  • Higher levels of abstraction to enable enterprises to focus on business logic

• In this session, Kevin will dive into the unique challenges of keeping your Kubernetes workloads highly available while keeping costs low. You will learn about how to leverage cloud-native autoscaling, pod requirement right-sizing, resource buffer definition, cost allocation and more

• 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

• 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

• Differences and similarities between ‘Agile’ and ‘DevOps’
• Combining DevOps and Agile
• The organisational transformation required to leverage DevOps and Agile
• Improved development processes
• Achieving reliability, scalability and sustainable applications

• Challenge: Operating at "enterprise scale" challenges traditional DevOps approaches by multiplying the number of stakeholders and opinions and adding layers of control and governance
• In this talk find out how ITV's Common Platform team supported widespread adoption of Kubernetes amongst 30 Product Development Teams.
• See a demo of the Aplo tool we created to allow deployment of containers to Kubernetes in a scalable, reliable, secure manner with only a deployment name described in a file held with the application code.

• 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)

• 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

• Multi-cloud explained
• Avoiding vendor lock-in
• The pros and cons associated with a multi-cloud approach
• Abstraction techniques to select the right tools and services

• 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

Join one of our roundtable focus groups to deep-dive into specific industry challenges, get together with industry peers from across the IoT ecosystem to help piece together solutions.

• Connectivity – Zafer Sahinoglu, Vice President, Business Innovation, Mitsubishi Electric US
• Edge/Cloud 
• AI 
• Security – Raj Rajarajan, Director Institute for Cyber Security, City, University of London

• 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

• Ensuring that IoT data is as valuable to the end user as possible for the most value add
• Key obstacles to overcome when it comes to collecting the “right” data: What does that whole journey look like from end to end?
• Don’t drown in the data acquired by connectivity and AI through IoT: Understand how to utilise and refine excellently

• 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?

• Tracking heart rate, blood pressure and vitals through IoT sensors to not only allow more autonomy for patients over their own health but also to give doctors more information than ever before
• Improving cost efficiencies for hospitals and reducing hospital bed demand through remote patient monitoring using video tech and IoT wearables
• Get to grips with where real failings have happened for monitoring patients, how can we implement better in the future?

• Optimise safety on the roads by ensuring that autonomous vehicles are only being sent the most necessary data thanks to Edge and Cloud
• As autonomous vehicles can generate tens of terabytes per day, how much should they be relying on the processing power at the Edge?
• Understand what’s left to do to build out edge infrastructure and make driverless cars a reality

• Operating the data collected through IoT to predict potential outages and reduce loss
• The shift from reactive maintenance to predictive for saved downtime

• 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

• Collaborate or die: a look at how the biggest tech organisations are transforming business models to work together and create end-to-end solutions
• Recognise the importance of growing an ecosystem with the key building blocks of IoT beyond the hype curve
• Explore how to intertwine different technologies to achieve all-encompassing solutions

• Developing smart contracts through blockchain to ensure authenticity and transparency which boosts trust from customers and the public
• What’s the end goal of integrating IoT into blockchain? A closer look at proof of payments and the ability to generate results immediately

• Improve the usability and accessibility of devices with one another by honing new standards for data handling
• Discover what standards are available to make IoT easier to implement into systems and devices
• How can you ensure that your data is in line with GDPR and other strict regulations?

• Creating smoother processes in healthcare with wearables for virtual experiences, digitised clinical trials, and personalised health insights
• 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