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EnglishInnovation watch & Upcoming trends #481
AI: #Tech4Good or #Tech4Bad ?!
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- Feb
23, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #481
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AI: #Tech4Good or #Tech4Bad ? AI: #Tech4Good or #Tech4Bad ? OpenAI released this week VoiceIA, an AI engine able to regenerate and clone a human voice & speech with less than a 15-second sample. But being afraid of the potential misuses of this new tool, they won’t make it public for now. As a reminder, within the context of US elections, “AI-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden were sent to thousands of voters telling them to stay at home and abstain from voting” ! As a result, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to ban AI-generated robocalls … I wish you an excellent peaceful reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Mar
29, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #480
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Hydrogen on rails ! Hydrogen on rails ! Stadler, a Swizz hydrogen-powered train manufacturer, successfully conducted 2800 km journey in 46 hours in Colorado on a dedicated test line. FLIRT-H2 is fueled by a single tank of hydrogen with 2 passenger cars accommodating 108 people. This new train should enter into service by the end of the year in the US. Enjoy your green reading.Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Mar
22, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #479
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Nvidia is still pushing Moore’s law ! Nvidia is still pushing Moore’s law ! The biggest news this week came from Nvidia. Revealing the latest Blackwell B200 GPU, Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, said this new tool offers up to ‘20 petaflops of FP4 horsepower from its … 208 billion transistors !’ At the same time, cost & energy consumption would be reduced by up to 25x compared to the former H100 AI chip. And what about the cost ? Between $30,000 & $40,000 each. I let you find the Use Case & Bcase to test this new jewel 😊.Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Mar
15, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #478
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Sand battery, a new alternative? Sand battery, a new alternative? Polar Night Energy, a Finnish company, announced delivery of the world's largest sand battery to the Finnish municipality of Pornainen within a year. This big sand battery will store thermal energy using crushed soapstone, enabling to decrease the carbon emissions compared to regular sand. This new plant will store 100 MWh of thermal energy converted from solar and wind sources. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Mar
08, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #477
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AWS goes nuclear. AWS goes nuclear. Hyperscalers have been taking major commitments on decreasing their carbon footprint. Starting by contracting with green energy providers, AWS has now invested in a nuclear-powered data center, part of an agreement with the Texan energy company Talen Energy. Interesting move for the hyperscalers and datacenters, where nuclear carbon-free energy could become one of the standards to keep aligned with the carbon footprint objectives. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Mar
01, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #476
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Explore 5G value or move to 6G ? Explore 5G value or move to 6G ? This week, the big tech event was in Barcelona: the MWC24, Mobile World Congress. Of course, plenty of AI/GenAI innovations applied to Telco. Even if some of them are not clear to me: What is the benefit of managing a car through your phone by eye tracking ? What about safety ? I prefer to keep concentrated on the road, by looking at…the road… An interesting survey conducted by GSMA showed that 47% of Mobile operators achieved the expected benefits on 5G but without significant financial returns. Only 30% of them achieved expected benefits and financial results. Before jumping to 6G, could be interesting to end our 5G Journey by looking at the lessons learnt. Enjoy your 0G reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
Read More- Feb
23, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #475
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AI for free elections ! In 2024, half of the world population will elect a new president through more than 60 countries' elections. Remembering the social network influence over the last years in such moments, 20 tech companies, including Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, TikTok & X announced during the Munich Security Conference that they would work together to prevent deceptive AI content from disrupting voting in these elections. During this same week, the value of NVIDIA surpassed the ones of Amazon & Alphabet ... AI effect ! Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
Read More- Feb
16, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #474
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From Metaverse to Spatial Computing From Metaverse to Spatial Computing 2024 could be the come back of Metaverse. The latest Apple device, the Vision Pro, sold out within …. 18 minutes ! For those who had a chance to test it, we can say it’s entering a new 3D dimension, that of Spatial Computing. Delivering a new User eXperience, the next big thing will have to be battery autonomy & miniaturization to remove the physical limitations. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Feb
9, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #473
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How to steal $25 M in a few minutes with AI ? How to steal $25 M in a few minutes with AI ? This is definitively the biggest hold up of the year. Last week, a multinational was tricked into paying out an amazing $25 Million to hackers after a fake video conference. A real video conference but where all participants (CEO & other CXOs) were ... fake ! Fraudsters used to use emails for phishing before moving to phone calls. We know new technologies & AI now enable deepfake videos which are more than lifelike. More and more, the weakest link is the human part. We will need to accelerate awareness & trainings to build trusted end to end hybrid processes, both human & artificial ... Enjoy your safe reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Feb
2, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #472
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Neuralink starts their first human experimentation. Neuralink starts their first human experimentation. Elon Musk announced a few days ago that the startup Neuralink implanted a chip into a human brain. Few details so far on the expectations & timeline but the FDA delivered their clearance for human clinical trials last May and the startup will start to work on quadriplegia or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Knowing regulation & safety are critical in this domain, it will be interesting to see how Neuralink and the FDA will collaborate & communicate on this new program. Enjoy your safe reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
Read More- Jan
26, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #471
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Innovation for climate ... change.? Innovation for climate ... change. Climate change can be seen on many aspects : temperature increase, firewood, flooding, lack of water, but also extreme cold periods. Many Tesla users have been experiencing this last week in Chicago area as batteries don’t like temperatures below Zero °C. Tesla had to communicate with their users on how to cope with these extremely cold temperatures as many drivers were stuck on the road without being able to recharge their batteries... Enjoy your warm reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Jan
19, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #470
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GenAI or CyberSec ? GenAI or CyberSec ? As usual, a very good report released by the WEF on Cyber Security. Without any surprise, 30% of organizations reported they have been affected by a cyber incident over the last 12 months ... More alarming, the main issue to cope with this situation is coming from a talent shortage as the risks are growing faster than resources ... CEO commitment seems to be mandatory to tackle the problem with the appropriate level. 2022 was the year of Metaverse , 2023 the year of GenAI and we know that 2024 won’t change. Let’s hope the GenAI Buzz will not eclipse the Cyber risks in order to keep CyberSec within company investment priorities ... Enjoy your safe reading.Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Jan
12, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #469
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Welcome to the climate shadow ! Welcome to the climate shadow ! In this CES Vegas Week, difficult to find ‘non CES’ news ! 😊 An interesting new trend is making the headlines : the Climate Shadow to replace the Carbon Footprint. Interesting approach even if not perfect but brings a new perspective for our global environmental impact & behaviour. It won’t replace the carbon footprint but gives more sense to our actions by adopting a more holistic approach. Personally I’m still waiting for a new model taking into account the water impact, at the same level as carbon footprint Enjoy your light reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Jan
05, 2024
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #468
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A wonderful Year 2024 for you and yours !!! A wonderful Year 2024 for you and yours !!! 2024 kicks off with a lot of Innovation news this week ! Space X launched their first satellites embedding the Direct to Smartphone services, enabling the use of Satellite communication through a standard 4G/5G Smartphone. In the cameras industry, Nikon, Sony & Canon are surfing on the AI/Fake trend to develop a new technology to detect fake images ! And last but not least, to optimize AI CoPilot, Microsoft will develop new keyboards integrating a ‘CoPilot Button’ for quick access to the AI capabilities. The first big change to keyboards in over 3 decades ! I wish you all a wonderful year 2024 for you & yours !Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Dec
29, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #467
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Hyperflop ... Hyperflop ... 2023 was definitively the GenAI year ! But it was also the end of a Fake Dream : Hyperloop ... All these promises were more designed for a fund raising than for an Innovation success. Hyperloop TT finally left its European center without any proof of concept and Hyperloop One decided to stop their adventure ... I wish you all a wonderful end of year celebration !!!!Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Dec
22, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #466
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PQC : Post Quantum Crypto as the next big trend for 2024/2025 ? PQC : Post Quantum Crypto as the next big trend for 2024/2025 ? When Cyber meets Quantum ... NIST has released this week, as planned, the first documents to help US organizations prepare their Post Quantum Crypto strategy. Even if the standards are not yet ready, every American company working with the US government will have to take actions on PQC before 2025. Quantum will enable the breaking of the 256 bits algorithms which are protecting most of the encrypted documents used today. The only question is when ... 5 years, 10 years, or 20 years ? Nobody knows but this is why we speak about Y2Q : Year 2 Quantum, the year when Quantum can break the Security walls. One big difference with Y2K : The date was obvious ... I wish you all a wonderful end of year break and a Merry Christmas with your friends & families.Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Dec
15, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #465
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Google invents the deep deep fake ... Google invents the deep deep fake ... Unbelievable. Google created a fake video to promote Gemini, its latest GenAI platform ! Definitively the best bad buzz of the year. At the same time, Mistral AI, the French AI startup raised more than $400M for a first funding round. More than impressive for a Series A startup created 6 months ago. And without any duck video promotion. Enjoy your human intelligence reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Dec
8, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #464
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GenAI or Data Privacy Protection ? GenAI or Data Privacy Protection ? Google finally launched its latest GenAI weapon : Gemini. More powerful than GPT-4, this multimodal tool is impressive. But this version, launched in more than 150 countries, is not yet available in Europe and the UK. Only one reason: GDPR ... Google has to work a little bit more to be compliant with the protection regulations... The Gemini Pro version will be available next week and the most powerful version (Gemini Ultra) in January. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Dec
1, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #463
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My inspiration has gone. My inspiration has gone. Two days ago my godfather passed away, at 88. You might think: Time to go. Unfortunately, Love is endless, timeless. He was a shepherd, working since the age of 14, guiding his sheeps cattle over the Pyrenees mountain every year, over the last 7 decades, with the same passion. No time for rest ! I've always been passionated by innovation. But my models have never been Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or any other famous geek. Why did I get inspired by an old shepherd who was so far from my daily life ? In a period where everybody has to speak about values, sense, mission, he was the one breathing all of these words in a row: Tradition. Respect of the hard work, of the nature, passion for the mountain, experience of the past. That could be the link. What we call 'Innovation 4 Good', 'Sustainable Innovation', 'Innovation 4 the Planet', ... Innovate for a better world, respecting the tradition, the elders, asking ourselves if we are improving our way of life for giving & receiving more emotions instead of building more innovative ephemere goods supporting our buzz world and being finally ... useless. Show must go on, A dichat Michel !Patrice
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- Nov
24, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #462
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Realistic pragmatic Innovation ... Realistic pragmatic Innovation ... I’m a fan of Jugaad innovation, or frugal innovation if you prefer. To reduce the carbon footprint on the roads, we have different options. The most famous is electrification, but would mean getting rid of many vehicles which could last for decades still & we need to integrate the carbon cost of batteries, mineral extraction... Qaptis, the spin-off emerging from the Lausanne Engineering school EPFL is taking another track: capturing carbon from the exhaust pipes ! This innovative system could cut freight truck carbon emissions by up to 90% ! Let’s wait for the real life tests !Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Nov
17, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #461
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Don’t mix priorities ! AI First, Gen AI second ! Don’t mix priorities ! AI First, Gen AI second ! There is always a risk behind a buzz : the instant memory forgets the basics. Gen AI is a good illustration. For the past year, it's been impossible to speak about innovation without addressing Gen AI. I’m always surprised by people explaining the opportunities of Gen AI without having experimented with... AI. The recent communication coming from Google’s DeepMind division is showing the power of the GraphCast AI model to excel in weather prediction. A way to reduce energy consumption by 90% compared to traditional models. Once again, not a way to replace traditional models, but a perfect complement. If you are looking for Return On Investment : AI first, Gen AI Second. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Nov
10, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #460
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Net Zero Carbon on Earth, Zero Debris in Space ! Net Zero Carbon on Earth, Zero Debris in Space ! Sustainability ambitions are not limited to Earth. After Aviation, the Space industry is also committing to new targets. ESA launched a new program to reach a Zero Debris target by 2030 for all their missions. No surprise when you know there is a significant number of debris gravitating alongside the tens of thousands of satellites in orbit. Perhaps the only way to avoid the Kessler theory that could make the humans prisoners of their own planet ! Enjoy your safe reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Nov
3, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #459
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Containers doors go green. Containers doors go green. Aeronautic industry is investing & communicating a lot on the green aviation. New green fuels, hydrogen, electrical aircrafts ... But the transition is also including the supply chain optimization. Airbus announced the production of new chartered vessels used to transport aircrafts parts between their facilities in Europe & the US. These 3 new vessels will reduce by more than 60% the industrial emissions by combining wind turbines and e-methanol. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Oct
27, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #458
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AI + Quantum, the next battle for CyberSec. AI + Quantum, the next battle for CyberSec. We all know the power of AI & GenAI. Opportunities & threats … Opportunities for a computer to manage huge volumes of data very quickly, as a human does during their life. Calculate faster, with very complex dimensions, to envision the next sequence, the next probable action, the next future. Quantum will accelerate this trend & power. We see the benefits of these technologies for research, medicine, science & many other domains. But we also see the risks when technologies are used by dark forces: ability to crack the codes, decode the 256 bits keys… The world's first AI Safety Institute will be created in London to work on these threats. This announce has been made prior to the first Global AI Safety Summit that will be hosted next week in London. All the best to this new institute ! Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Oct
20, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #457
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Starlink announced Direct-to-cell services for 2024. Starlink announced Direct-to-cell services for 2024. With around 5000 satellites already launched, Starlink will go on expanding its communication services. After the deployment of the internet from space, Starlink will sell new services in 2024 available through classical phones (text services/alarms/SMS) followed by voice & data in 2025, as well as IoT services. Another way to optimize the bandwidth while generating new revenues. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Oct
13, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #456
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Zero Trust, Zero Passwords. Zero Trust, Zero Passwords. Over the past years, cybersecurity risk experts have been promoting Zero Trust architectures. But cyber risks are still increasing and new technologies like AI and Quantum are and will crack more and more passwords. Google will deploy new solutions without passwords to increase security levels, based on biometric information. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Oct
6, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #455
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Green carbon free energy but ... out of sight ... Green carbon free energy but ... out of sight ... Everybody agrees : We must go green ! But looking at some projects, we could be doubtful about a sincere conviction. We know that more & more solar plant or wind farm projects are rejected because they are too close to our houses, villages or shores. A new environmental project has been announced as the first artificial energy island linked with an off shore wind farm. But looking at the design of ‘Princess Elisabeth Island’, we could wonder if this is really a good example of environmental integration ... Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Sep
29, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #454
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Raspberry is back with the Pi 5 ! Raspberry is back with the Pi 5 ! 4 years after the Pi 4 announcement, the Pi 5 will be available in October. All Raspberry deliveries have been seriously affected in the past few years due to component shortages. This new Pi 5 is coming with brand new functionalities. Of course, more power (2 to 3 times) but also much more connectivity. 2 slots for cameras or screens, a brand new PCI port, 2 HDMI ports, 2 USB 3.0 ports, and 2 USB 2.0 ports ... All you need to play again developing new applications and products at low cost and low energy consumption. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Sep
22, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #453
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Innovation & retro compatibility. Innovation & retro compatibility. Innovation is not always linked to cost saving & sustainability. Phones & telco are ‘good’ examples. A new telecom standard (3G/4G/5G) forces consumers to buy new devices integrating the latest technologies. One of the latest telco standards, NTN, for Non-Terrestrial Networks will enable terrestrial users to benefit from satellite connections. AST SpaceMobile succeeded in connecting a standard Samsung Galaxy phone through a satellite network. A great example of combining innovation, standard & sustainability. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Sep
15, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #452
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Innovation & Standards. Innovation & Standards. Apple unveiled this Tuesday the new iPhone 15. Many fans were disappointed by the lack of innovation this year. Interestingly, the biggest news was the confirmation of the USB-C charging port, ending the proprietary lightning port Apple feature, firmly asked by EU regulation & consumer associations. This is the first time since 2012 that a new charging port is proposed on iPhones. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Sep
8, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #451
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Electrification & recycling Electrification & recycling Many news around EVs have been unveiled this week during Munich’s IAA Mobility 2023. After fighting over autonomy, car makers are now fighting on prices to win market shares on Electrical Vehicles. But few address the battery recycling topic, a top priority for the environment. Nissan communicated on new partnerships to propose a second life for their batteries. Knowing that Nissan have already sold more than 650,000 Leaf EVs, each of them containing 48 battery modules, let’s hope all car manufacturers will address this topic urgently. Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Sep
1, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #450
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New Chip area : Performance AND Efficiency ! New Chip area : Performance AND Efficiency ! Intel has been leading the race of chips for decades. Performance, performance, performance. With the winds of change, Intel is now making announcement on energy efficiency and not only on chip performance. The new Sierra Forest Chip will be up to 240% more energy efficient than the last generation. Huge improvement and new strategy … Enjoy your reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Aug
25, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #449
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The DSA has been launched today in Europe. The DSA has been launched today in Europe. Social Networks were created to build digital links between people & communities. But more & more, we see the drawbacks of these new networks: DeepFake, Fake news, violence… forcing platforms or governments to change the rules. The European Union has been communicating a lot on these topics and the Digital Services Act has been activated today. All big Techs will have to comply with these new rules to protect their users and avoid the spread of harmful content. Enjoy your safe reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Aug
18, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #448
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Travelling with hyper fast batteries or decreasing aircraft contrails by 54%. Travelling with hyper fast batteries or decreasing aircraft contrails by 54%. Summer time is a good period for travel. Some of you may have taken electrical cars, others have been travelling by plane, some have been simply walking . For the road addicts, China’s battery giant CATL unveiled a new ultra-fast charging car LFP battery that adds 400 km in 10 minutes. This should be available in 2024. In the air, a study led by Google and Breakthrough Energy, supported by American Airlines, has found that by using artificial intelligence (AI) based predictions to make small modifications to routes that were projected to create contrails, their formation could be reduced by 54%, although avoidance burned 2% additional fuel... Enjoy your sunny summer break,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Aug
11, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #447
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NVIDIA keeps leadership in AI chips. NVIDIA keeps leadership in AI chips. Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO) announced a new chip, the Nvidia’s GH200, aiming at reducing massively the cost of running LLMs. This new chip is designed to scale up the world’s Data Centers to support the development of generative AI projects. Even dominating with over 80% market share, NVIDIA is still massively investing in innovations to keep its worldwide leadership. Enjoy your slow reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- Aug
4, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #446
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Generative AI Robots. Generative AI Robots. Google is bringing back the robots to the headlines with IA RT-2. Over the last few months, Generative AI has shown all the benefits we can expect from this new approach but most of the use cases were software- oriented. Google announced a new IA model to improve communication between humans & robots : RT-2 for Robotics Transformer 2. This vision-language-action model was developed using transformer-based techniques and was trained on text and image data taken from the web to facilitate interactions between humans & robots... I wish you an excellent reading,Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- July
28, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #445
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Join to crack ! Join to crack ! An interesting Business association has been created between Meta, Microsoft & Amazon to rival maps services proposed by Google & Apple. After the Gen AI wave that enabled Microsoft to come back into the search business, monopolised by Google, the tech giant is now trying to fight Google on the mapping services. This association is building a massive data lake including 59 million “points of interest,” such as restaurants and landmarks, and was collected and donated by Meta and Microsoft. Summer will be hot on the competition front between the GAFAM ...Enjoy your ereading,
Patrice
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- July
21, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #444
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Innovation & Regulation ... Innovation & Regulation ... 2 interesting news this week. First, Google announcing some new features to shut down 5G emission on phones during flights. Since 5G deployment, we know interferences can occur between 5G communications & aircraft communications. New regulations have been set up in order to avoid trouble between passenger’s phones & Air Traffic Management. On the AI front, the UN Security Council held its first meeting on AI, pointing at the risks of unregulated AI applications. Once again, we see the link between Innovation, Regulation & Adoption...Enjoy your safe reading,
Patrice
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- July
14, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #443
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Tech tools for ESG Compliance Tech tools for ESG Compliance All companies have been communicating on their Carbon Footprint impact & plan to reach the carbon neutrality. But communicating is not enough & regulation is pushing more and more companies to prove the results of their commitment. Oritain, specializing in this business, raised more than $50M to invest in these technologies to help companies prove their achievement. Another way to convince companies to accelerate their road to Net Zero.Enjoy your reading,
Patrice
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- July
7, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #442
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Back to old protectionism ways… Back to old protectionism ways… A few days ago, China decided to set up new limitations on the exports of Gallium and Germanium, these 2 metals being essential to build many electronics products. The decision brings new tensions between China, US & Europe as China is controlling 80% of Gallium production and 60% of Germanium production. This will increase shortages on many physical & digital services using semiconductors, smartphones, solar panels or space systems. The rule is due to be applied from 1st August. As with Covid & energy crises, we see once again our world has become global for all industries…Enjoy your reading,
Patrice
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- June
30, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #441
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A sustainable 5G phone for $250. A sustainable 5G phone for $250. Nokia presented this week a new phone that can be self-repaired for a price of $250 in partnership with iFixit. The first model was presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year. We can expect this trend to be adopted by the major phone manufacturers to accelerate the shift to more sustainable smart phones.Enjoy your reading,
Patrice
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- June
23, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #440
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Sustainable & Urban Air Mobility. Sustainable & Urban Air Mobility A few days after Vivatech Summit, Paris is hosting the Biggest Industry fair in Europe (430,000 m2) , the Paris Air Show, also known as ‘Le Bourget’. Without surprise, decarbonation was the Number One Topic. Going beyond Sustainable Aviation Fuel & Hydrogen, many other areas were exhibited such as new engineering, new structures, new designs, use of new digital technologies like AI or new telecom capabilities provided by the New Space and the latest Low Earth Orbit Constellations (LEO). Urban Mobility was also a key topic with new prototypes & some new contracts for the best of them. For the afternoon aerial shows, classic aircrafts, helicopters & fighters. Let’s see if the next edition in 2025 will see electrical aircrafts taking off !Enjoy your reading,
Patrice
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- June
16, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #439
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Too much AI kills AI ... Vivatech, the biggest European Innovation Summit opened this week in Paris. As with last year, the automotive sector is still more than present, showing car softwarization is a top priority to reach sustainability objectives. In 2022, Metaverse made the buzz. The 2023 edition is definitively putting AI on stage. Perhaps too much. For sure, there is no comparison between Metaverse & Gen AI expectations but the AI buzz should not hide all other digital innovations.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- June
9, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #438
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Deep Fake AI Regulation on track Deep Fake AI Regulation on track. Europe has decided to push the big tech companies to start labeling AI content to identify Deepfakes. We have seen many deepfake articles, photos and videos populating the web and social networks over the last months. Google and Microsoft have been starting discussions with the EU to see how to fight disinformation. Some others, like Twitter, decided to leave the EU’s voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation. Nevertheless, all of them will have to be compliant with #DSA (Digital Service Act) as of August 25th ...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- June
2, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #437
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New record: 200Gb/s for TBIRD ! New record: 200Gb/s for TBIRD ! MIT and NASA researchers broke a new record in transferring 200Gb/s between the Pathfinder satellite orbiting at 530 km and the ground station. This TBIRD platform enables a transfer of 2 Tb within 5 minutes, representing the equivalent of 1000 HD films. The precedent record achieved last year was 100 Gb/s.Enjoy your slow reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- May
26, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #436
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Microsoft invests in Fusion-powered electricity... Microsoft has signed an agreement with Helion, a fusion energy company, to purchase 50 MW of electricity coming from fusion energy by 2028. Making the Seattle Tech Giant the first company to sign a commercial contract to purchase Fusion-powered electricity. The race to carbon Net Zero is opening up new areas for producing carbon-free energy. Nuclear plants are already serving this purpose but with the need to handle nuclear waste. This first agreement is showing the way to future investments in Fusion technologies...Enjoy your clean reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- May
19, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #435
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Quantum over Space! Quantum over Space! The European Space Agency has been launching a new Quantum Project through the ARTes Program with the TeQuantS Project. Satellites could become the best and perhaps the only way to use Quantum Telecommunications. Transporting Quantum Information is a challenge, and optical fibers cannot keep the quantum states over long distances. Satellites using lasers could be the best way to support Quantum communications. The TeQuantS Project aims at proving this statement. Another Space opportunity!Enjoy your terrestrial reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- May
12, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #434
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AI regulation is starting in Europe. The European Parliament has voted different articles to protect the privacy of European citizens following all communications & progress on ChatGPT & Generative AI Technologies. We are far from the AI Moratorium but we see the first AI regulations coming into place. Let’s see how other countries will manage the Generative AI wave.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- May
5, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #433
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Aircrafts stuck on US tarmacs in July… Aircrafts stuck on US tarmacs in July … "Supply chain issues make it unlikely that all aircraft can be upgraded by the 1 July deadline, threatening operational disruptions during the peak northern summer travel season" warned IATA, The International Air Transport Association a few days ago. 5G deployment is on the way everywhere. But in some countries like the US, the 5G frequencies are in conflict with aircrafts ones. All airlines need to upgrade their telecom equipment to be compliant and avoid disturbance near the airports before July 1rst. Once again, Innovation deployment needs to integrate Safety & Regulation…Enjoy your safe reading,
Patrice
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- April
28, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #432
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Cybersec is in the air! Cybersec is in the air! A few days ago, a European Nano was hacked! Hopefully, this was the first ethical satellite hack performed by French Thales space experts, working with the European Space Agency to demonstrate the risks linked with Unsecured Communications... Nowadays, security cannot be delivered without strong telecommunication networks and Satellite Communications are the most resilient that we can find during geopolitical crisis. One more reason to make sure these links cannot be broken or hacked...Enjoy your safe reading,
Patrice
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- April
21, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #431
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Innovation, sovereignty and politics After the COVID crisis, the Ukraine war, and rising energy prices, all governments are now trying to define plans to reduce dependencies and regain sovereignty in many areas: energy, natural resources, semiconductors, electronics, digital and soon water and food... Digital innovation becomes useless if you are unable to build devices, networks and manage them. GDPR was the first rule to win data sovereignty and personal protection. We now need to move to the next level. Every country will now try to define their own policy depending on their history, resources, values and beliefs... This week exploring the South Korean Innovation Ecosystem was incredibly interesting and inspiring...Enjoy your lean reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- April
14, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #430
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The road to space is still not a Business as Usual... Even if SpaceX has already launched thousands of satellites, positioning a new satellite in orbit is still not an easy standard process. In February, dozens of first-generation Starlink satellites got hit by a geomagnetic storm. One month later, some of the latest Starlink V2 mini sat missed their target and were lost during their launch. These new V2 Minis are part of the process of launching the next bigger next-gen satellites to go on increasing the space internet bandwidth.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- April
07, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #429
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Innovation at Scale: No more an option. It's difficult to spend a week without reading about drones’ innovations in the headlines. But it is much more difficult to find industrial rollout of these projects. Amazon’s drone delivery is a good illustration. A decade ago, Jeff Bezos was announcing that drones would change Amazon’s delivery. This major program was finally supposed to start at scale last December. Unfortunately, the D-Day was a complete failure, in front of the FAA. Two weeks later, only 7 houses had received an Amazon package delivered by drone. Regulation, certification, reliability—all these details that make the road from Innovation POC to Industrialization not so easy: Innovation at Scale...Enjoy your safe reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- March
31, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #428
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AI Moratorium: The Joke of the week, anticipating April Fool’s Day! Interesting buzz this week around a letter asking for a 6-month moratorium on the development of new AI systems. I do agree, and have done for a long time, that AI HAS TO BE ETHICAL. But a 6-month moratorium won’t help to reach a worldwide agreement on how to move towards ethical AI, even if it is signed by more than a thousand researchers. Moreover, it is funny to see Elon Musk, one of the founders of OpenAI (Chat-GPT & GPT4), asking to regulate AI, now that the rocket is launched. And last but not least, we all know a new battle has begun: AI Criminality. Asking all ethical companies to stop AI research will only generate a bigger gap between Dark AI & Ethical AI as I don’t see how criminals will stop their own research...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- March
24, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #427
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2023 as the year of Cloud backlash? 2023 as the year of Cloud backlash? 2023 is & will definitively remain the year of Generative AI. Even Facebook is burying Metaverse in front of the AI tsunami, maybe renaming Meta into GPT? . But we start to see new architectures emerging as a consequence of the massive computing resources needed by AI Algorithms. Cloud pricing is not always adapted to these growing needs. Nvidia estimates that ‘moving large, specialized AI and ML workloads back to the premises could result in savings of 30%’. Let’s see how hyperscalers will adapt to this emerging trend.Enjoy your non-AI reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- March
17, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #426
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GPT-4 makes ChatGPT3 obsolete... Three months ago, ChatGPT was amazing. Today, GPT-4 is blowing. The OpenAI model transforms a simple sketch into a software program. Another test showed ‘s-he’ could succeed in a law or a medical exam. The image analysis is opening amazing use cases & business cases. More than ever, "Ethical AI" will become the first priority.Enjoy your GPT4 trials (for $20 a month).
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- March
10, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #425
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Internal combustion engines (ICEs) won’t disappear in Europe in 2035... Germany has decided to change position on the end of sales of CO2 emitting cars in 2035. Hard news for the European Union after their 2022 announcements. A new Industrial consortium is promoting e-fuels as an alternative to Electrical vehicles. These e-fuels are still releasing CO2 in the air when combusted in an engine. ‘But the idea is that those emissions are equal to the amount taken out of the atmosphere to produce this fuel using renewable electricity - making it CO2-neutral overall’. The road will be long to a common agreement...Enjoy your reading,
Patrice
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- March
3, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #424
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Charging time as the next smartphone battle? Mobile World Congress 2023 opened this week in Barcelona. Covid is behind us, with all leaders present in Spain to show their brand new products & services. 5G, 6G, Metaverse, AI, Sustainability, all topics were addressed all over the Gran Fira. An interesting news came from Realme, a Chinese smartphone maker announcing a new device, the GT3, being able to be fully charged within 10 minutes ! We need now to see if this hyper fast charging does not affect the battery lifespan.Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- February
24, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #423
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Tik Tok onboards Mercedes E-Class Mercedes is clearly adressing the Chinese Market with this news. But this trend of bringing more and more apps within cars could look a bit strange when we think about security. Of course most of these new apps are supposed to be unavailable to the drivers but we all see these huge screens invading car cockpits. Disturbance is obvious : new video conf tools, new leisure tools, attracting drivers’ attention. Hope this concern will be addressed at the right level.Enjoy your safe ready, out of cars.
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- February
17, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #422
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IRIS2 : GO for the new European Satellite Constellation ! Earlier this week, EU has validated the 3B€ budget to launch the new Telecom LEO Satellite constellation to provide telecom & internet access in Europe for Public & Military services. 3 more Billions will be brrought by european industrials & startups to launch the first services end of 2024 for a full entry in service in 2027, including sustainability requirements. After Galileo & Copernicus, this third Space European constellation is presenting an amazing challenging planning when you know this Space Business ... Starlink, Viasat, Kuipers and now IRIS2: overconnected space ?Enjoy your reading,
Patrice
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- February
10, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #421
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Microsoft unveils the new version of Bing incorporating... ChatGPT ‘A new race starts today ‘. Satya Nadella was really clear. They expect a lot from this announcement. Probably the first time Google has to see a real potential competitor to the unique Google Search Engine. On monday, Google reacted by announcing the roll out of ‘Bard’, the new chat Google version. ChatGPT was not only the Christmas buzz, it has shown to the public the power, strenght & risks of AI... The perfect AI Accelerator !Enjoy your slow, quiet reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- February
3, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #420
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New Tech Low Tech Volvo set a new record with a new EV truck. They drove 3000 Km to deliver 22 tons of goods in Europe. 7 days were necessary for this trip when it takes 4 days with a traditional truck. The price for moving sustainable?Enjoy your slow reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- January
27, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #419
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Medication Open Bar! Amazon decided to launch a new service offering unlimited prescription medications for a $5 monthly fee. On the one hand, good news to offer a useful service to improve patient health. But on the other hand, do we have to see health services as an ‘Open Bar’ offering, managed by marketing & communication ? Will see how this new service will be used...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- January
20, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #418
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New generation of benevolent Social Media Platforms ? We all know the negative impact of Social Media, especially on young generations. The new acquisition of Gaz by Discord, the gaming focused messaging platform is quite interesting. Gaz App, an app allowing teens to give anonymous compliments to their friends, has sometimes been more downloaded than Tik Tok in the US. If Gaz is following the same trend in 2023, it could give good ideas to other Social Networks to promote benevolent feedbacks instead of useless negative comments . Enjoy your benevolent reading of this 418th Newsletter, started 8 years ago on Jan 21st 2015, without interruption. Let’s go for a 9th season ... .Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- January
13, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #417
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CES is back. 45,000 visitors in 2022, more than 115,000 in 2023, 40,000 of them coming from outside the US, representing 140 different countries, CES is back. For the first time, CES 2023 had a dedicated Metaverse area, showing this trend was definitively the hotest 2022 Topic. Auto, health, retail & entertainment were the major industries exposing the latest innovations & technologies. We will see which techno will be the highlight for 2024, I would bet on AI which is accelerating tremendously these last months ...Enjoy your reading,
Patrice
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- January
6, 2023
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #416
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Chat GPT wishes you a wonderful New Year 2023 !!! You cannot have missed the big buzz over the last 4 weeks around the new OpenAI Tool : Chat GPT. We all know the power of AI, we have seen the paintings & photos generated by AI, DALL- E or others, but Chat GPT is pushing the limits of AI even further. Reaching 1 million users in less than a week, (it took 10 months for Facebook), the use cases are limitless. Some students already used it to take their exams, but Open AI is finalizing a new feature to identify Chat-GPT / AI delivered content... You will find a few articles below on this new tool & I encourage you to test it for yourself. Here is the edito generated by Chat GPT for this week’s newsletter: "Tech lovers, get ready for a week of headlines that will have you seeing stars! We've got news on OpenAI's attempts to watermark AI text that hit a bit of a snag, ChatGPT explaining why AIs like itself should be regulated (talk about self-awareness!), and Microsoft's integration of ChatGPT's technology into Bing that's sure to be a bright spot. Plus, we'll be exploring the potential for space-based solar power to realize our sci-fi dreams of unlimited energy and finding out how a new smart ball is tackling the world of rugby data. It's going to be a week full of technology that's truly out of this world!" Perhaps I will stop my Newsletter in a short time when Chat GPT is able to deliver in a few seconds the Innovation Newsletter you expect ! And perhaps CTOs will be replaced by CGTOs (Chat Gpt Technology Officers) ... OupsSincerely yours,
Non AI Patrice
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- December
30th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #415
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Hackers don’t take a break for Christmas ... Major news this week was the LasPass hacking. 33 millions of users are using LastPass to generate automatic passwords in order to improve security. If you are one of them, you must change all your passwords as Lastpass confirmed it’s clients’ encryped password vaults has been hacked . Nevertheless, I wish you all an excellent new year’s eve !!!!!Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours, see you in 2023 !!!
Patrice
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- December
23rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #414
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The next president will be elected on ... Twitter. Elon Musk will step down as CEO of Twitter. Results of the poll launched by ... Elon Musk on ... Twitter ! Is this a new style of democracy or Socialcraty ? Or simply a new episode of a madcraty ? Nevertheless, I wish you a real, physical & on site Merry Christmas celebrations with your family & nears !!!Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
16th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #413
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Metaverse as the 2022 most innovative topic ? According to the latest report published by CRI, More than 75% of consumers are expecting a better experience in the coming years thanks to Metaverse. But going deeper, we must have a clear definition of Metaverse. Some examples or use cases sometimes used by users to illustrate Metaverse benefits are more related to Augmented or Virtual Reality without using the full scope of Metaverse with NFT & full environment. 2023 will tell if Metaverse takes off or need another year(s) before finding the New Business Models.Enjoy your real reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
9th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #412
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Massive downfall on Laptops sales. Good or bad news ? Laptops exports have been decreasing by 12% over the last quarter but experts ‘expect’ better trends to come. What do we really expect ? Expand the lifespan of laptops to decrease the carbon footprint knowing we don’t need to change or PCs every 3 years to send mails & do visioconfs or go on hyper consumerization on products that don’t need to be renewed. Always the same dilemna, communicate on sustainability while managing growth on all domains...Enjoy your lean reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
2nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #411
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On the road to Hydrogen Many news this week around green aviation & innovation made in Hydrogen turbines by Airbus or Rolls-Royce. But let’s not forget we need a lot of energy to produce this Hydrogen used for any hydrogen engine, being auto, train, boat or aircraft. We must take into account the full cycle, from hydrogen production to hydrogen consumption. Which energy will be used to produce it ? Nuclear, Solar, Wind, Hydro, or fossils fuels ? We will have to make some choices to make sure these new green transportations will be more efficient than the current ones.Enjoy your clean reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- November
25th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #410
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Don’t Fake it untill you make it! Elisabeth Holmes was finally found guilty and sentenced to 11 years in prison. End of the Theranos story, and let’s hope the end of the famous moto ‘Fake it til you make it’. Nevertheless, after Theranos, FTX, the famous cryptocurrency exchange which went bankrupt after being valued at more than 32 $ Billion, seems to being going the same way.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- November
18th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #409
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NVDIA & Microsoft join forces for AI The 2 leaders have announced a new alliance to build one of the ‘most powerful AI supercomputers in the world’. Tens of thousands of NVidia GPUs will be used with their Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking platform to improve AI models like DALL-E. Answering this growing demand cannot wait for pure Quantum new computers ...Enjoy your warm reading
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- November
11th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #408
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COP 27 @ Warm el Sheikh As every year, the Conference Of the Parties (COPxx) will gather all countries since 1992 to find agreements in order to limit the rise of global temperatures. This year, more than ever, everybody tries to explain global warming with simple images, simple words. The famous ‘Warming Stripes’ are now everywhere, being seen as a great innovative tool to explain the concept in one image. Let’s hope we will be able to find technology innovations & global/personal commitments to go beyond these stripes...Enjoy your warm reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- November
4th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #407
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Speed & compression I won’t comment on the Twitter story, you don’t need this newsletter to follow it . Interesting news this week within networks & audio. Danish researchers succeeded to transmit data through Optical fibers & chips at a record speed of 1.84 petabits / Second, knowing this is more than the overall Internet traffic per second .... Another good news came from Meta, not on the Metaverse but on the Audio compression. They used AI to compress 10 times more than MP3 format without loosing any quality. In these times of scarcity, we will be happy to listen light music.Enjoy your quiet reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
28th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #406
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Winds of change. New episode in the Twitter / Musk Story : Elon Musk finally acquired Twitter for $ 44 B, starting to renew the top management and twitting ‘the bird has been freed’. Future will show the flavor of this new ‘freedom’ ... On the environment part, the shift to renewable energies is accelerating to deal with the energy scarcity. The chinese leader Goldwind installed the worldwide biggest rotor ever made for a wind turbine, with a rotor diameter of 252 meters & producing 13.6 MW.Enjoy your silent reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
21st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #405
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Automotive sector embraces the circular economy. Many news this week during the Paris motor show. Both Stellantis & Renault announced initiatives to increase the recycled part in new vehicles, including the EV batteries. Stellantis said this new business could reduce the consumption of material by 80% & energy use by half. This could generate €2 billion revenue by 2030, managing more than 12.000 components over 155 national markets. This action will support the plan to become carbon neutral by 2038. When circular economy & sutainability support business models...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
14th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #404
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Error 404. Lost in Translations Welcome to the Newsletter #404 😊 For those wanting to know why this network error is called 404, you will find some leads in the dedicated article below (Office number, technical reason or pure random ...). On the innovation front, 2 interesting news. First of all, Meta announcing a brand new Meta Quest Pro to embrace the Metaverse opportunities, with new applications within Microsoft Teams environment. In the Dubai’sky, Xpeng made a new public demo of their eVTOL flying car designed to onboard 2 passengers.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
07th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #403
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Tesla presents the new Optimus Robot Elon Musk presented this week the new version of the Optimus Robot. The actual prototype is still far from the promise or from the Boston Robotic's ones. The real new announcement is the target price : below 20k$ ! If this promise becomes real, we can reinvent many Business Cases...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
30th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #402
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Additive Innovation: 1+1=0 Incremental Innovation is definitively a must. But what about combining 2 Innovations as buzzwords? Interesting article this week about 3D printing drones: researchers have been working on A-AM (Aerial Additive Manufacturing). Why not. More interesting is the rational of the Business Case: ‘We’ve had increasingly frequent climate disasters. Drastic road erosions (...) Is there a way to rapidly build shelters—or even houses—in difficult-to-access areas and better tackle these emergencies?’ I don’t see how drones will help to cope with this: How will they bring the massive amount of raw material to build houses? Where will they find electricity to charge their batteries? I see the Innovation buzzwords, I don’t see the Applied Innovation...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
23th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #401
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Green Electric or Supersonic? SAS & Air Canada have signed new contracts to acquire electric regional aircraft from the swedish firm Heart Aerospace with their ES-30. Most companies & Aircraft manufacturers have announced their target to become Net zero by 2050. A good move forward, far from the Boom Supersonic segment.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
16th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #400
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A 400th Innovation Newsletter under the Metaverse trend Welcome to the 400th Newsletter, 8 years of continuous innovation passion. What better present than the Airbus Metaverse Challenge we won this week ? Metaverse has gone beyond the buzz for sectors like Retail which have found clear use cases & business models. Industry is now also embracing new horizons. Far from the Metaverse, Patagonia definitively made the buzz this week. The Founder Yvon Chouinard, a famous mountain enthusiast, decided to transform the company by transferring it to a trust & a non-profit organization, which should generate around $100 million per year for environmental projects.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
9th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #399
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From AI to Artist Intelligence One AI news made the headlines a couple of days ago : An AI won a fine arts competition! As you can imagine, some artists shared their disappointment of loosing in front of a machine. Others considering this is simply cheating. Not being an art expert, I don’t know the value and level of this Colorado State Fair’s fine arts competition. But the debate is interesting. Can AI compeet with humans ? Or do we need to reward the Human Intelligence who created & trained the AI? More contests to come!Enjoy your Human Reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
2nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #398
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A wind of change! 2 days ago, Orsted fully commissionned HornSea 2, the largest offshore wind farm in the world, located east of the UK, producing 1.32 GW. A few numbers to better understand this project: It’s 165 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbines, in a 462 KM2 in size, powering 1.3 million homes! To avoid too much transportation, blades were produced near the shore, in Hull. The power of these new turbines is quite amazing as one single revolution of the blades is powering one UK home for a full day...Enjoy your quite reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- August
26th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #397
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Alstom brings Hydrogen on Rails! Germany is leading the pack for green hydrogen trains. 14 of them will be running next week, fully powered by hydrogen. These trains will only emit water vapour and will have a range of 1,000 Km, large enough to cover most journeys. Another example of move to green for transportation, if hydrogen is produced with decarbonated electricity...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- August
19th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #396
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No Summer Break for Innovation! Lots of interesting news this week on the innovation front. The Concorde successor, Boom, received a new order of 20 Supersonic Aircraft from American Airline, showing once again that the aeronautics sector is fighting on many fronts : sustainability but also speed for passengers. On rail, China is showing a new very energy efficient Maglev prototype. Last but not least, end of full home office for Apple, who is asking employees to come back to the office. End of the game?Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- August
12th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #395
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New self-driving vehicles in China Baidu has opened 2 new cities in China, Wuhan & Chongqing, to deliver robotaxi services. At the same time, Chinese authorities are releasing new guidelines for developping self-driving vehicles in pûblic transport, already deployed in 10 cities. The next coming standard?Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- August
5th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #394
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Airbus Zephyr drone breaking records... This amazing drone have been flying for more than 40 days, breaking its own duration record established some years ago. Flying above 20.000 m, this drone is using solar energy, being fully carbon neutral, piloted through satellites communication, and onboarding lots of paylaod like lidar, radars. Another way to avoid the more than hot earth summer...Enjoy your cool reading, I wish you all an excellent Summer break !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- July
29th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #393
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Eutelsat & OneWeb merging to develop the biggest European Satellites Consortium. One year ago, Eutelsat started this journey by acquiring 24% of OneWeb. Today, these 2 players are merging to create a $3.4 billion company. With 36 Eutelsat Geostationary satellites in orbite and 428 OneWeb Low Earth Orbite satellites, this can be seen as a first competitor for Starlink & their 2500 LEO sats, still waiting for the first Bezos’ Kuipers satellites to be launched. As shared in previous newsletters, mergers & consolidations will go on as competition on the market is increasing & the launching delays are impacted after Ukraine crisis and Soyouz cancelations.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,>
Patrice
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- July
22nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #392
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Lean & Jugaad, the 2022 Innovation DNA! Do more with less or even better : Do better with less. Raspberrys & Arduinos have been designed to build & test new prototypes based on open platforms at very low cost. The perfect Jugaad spirit. With the pandemic & supply chain issues, it has become more and more difficult to find & buy these devices. After Intel, AAEON has announced a new single board computer (the UP 4000) to provide the same functionalities as the Raspberrys Pi 2/3 Unfortunately, price will be far from the 30€ of the raspberrys before the Covid. In these hot summer period, I let you discover the Raspberry Submarine at the end of the newsletter.Enjoy your reading,
Patrice
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- July
13th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #391
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Chief Vibes Officer to save the poor NFT... End of the game for the famous NFT Apes ? After the collapse of Bitcoin & Cryptos, NFTs are following the same treacherous descent to collapse. Some months ago, the first Tweet by Jack Dorsey was bought for $3 M as an NFT and the famous Bored Ape Yacht Club, an NFT depicting monkeys, was considered as Art. Today, the Tweet NFT was sold for.... $7 K & it is not certain the Bored Ape will follow with a Picasso-level valuation . To save NFTs, some Startups are creating a brand new job title : Chief Vibes Officer to create buzz & marketing around these volatile assets. Not sure it will be enough to save the apes...Enjoy your free digital reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- July
8th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #390
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The Electric Shift ... Major announcement made this week by Northvolt, the Swedish battery manufacturer. They raised $1.1 billion in funding, from investors including Volkswagen and Goldman Sachs, to finance the expansion of their Giga factories used to deliver Electric Vehicle batteries. The European plan to get rid of combustion engine vehicles is accelerating the pace of transition for manufacturers & Northvolt has announced more than $55 billion in orders from Volvo, BMW and Volkswagen. Let’s hope the availability of superfast chargers on the roads will follow the same pace...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- July
1st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #389
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Space Investments reach the sky ! In 2021, almost $ 16 billion have been invested in start-up space companies. Amazing growth if we compare to the $3 billion invested in 2015 ... Race to worldwide internet coverage provided by new LEO satellites constellations is definitively one of the reasons but all projects won’t succeed and many people will never see their money back. We cannot forget the Irridium bankrupt 2 decades ago or the OneWeb story more recently. Too many constellations programs will lead to merge & acquisitions while 5G & coming 6G will bring new competition.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- June
24th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #388
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The A380’s Come back ! Many news this week on Crypto currencies & NFT of course. But another interesting news is coming from the sky, linked with all the troubles occuring in the airlines sector. Air traffic has come back after 2 years of lockdown. Passengers are willing to fly again (forgetting the carbon footprint ?) but airlines cannot deliver the promise … Lack of people for the airlines who did not succeed to recruit enough, lack of people in the airport to manage security & customs, all of this resulting in not enough aircrafts flying to support the demand. And big surprise, the companies are looking again at the Airbus super jumbo, the A380, the only aircraft able to transport more than 500 passengers in a row. The A380 is not the most efficient aircraft in terms of consumption but the airlines need to optimize the reduced number of flight slots available in the big airports… And the A380 is definitively the best one in this battle. Companies managing A380s are therefore putting back the double deck aircraft into service …Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- June
17th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #387
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Crypto innovation or crypto buzz ? Over the past days, cryptos have fallen, crashed, and sometimes burned, like the south korean Terra fiasco a couple weeks ago, This week, coinbase fired 18% of its employees (about 1100 people), showing that crypto world is not as stable as we want to believe, some are even talking about a "crypto winter". It is always interesting the see the point of rupture between buzz and innovation. Yet another reminder that Innovation, no matter the topic, must evolve with caution and a sustainable approach, The "fake it until you make it" moto is still alive ... Let’s trust innovation when it deserves it, when it has strong and sustainable foundations...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- June
10th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #386
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Electric Vehicles connected with USB-C The move to sustainability is accelerating, with some positive pressure coming from regulators. Once again, Europe is leading the pack in this race to a more sustainable world, with 2 new decisions taken this week. First, from 2035 all brand new cars sold in Europe must be 100% Electric, even hybrid cars won’t be allowed. Second, all mobile phones sold in Europe will be required to have a universal USB-C plug for wired charging by late 2024 - a big revolution for Apple fans. Whilst I’m quietly confident on the move to USB-C, I think the decision around Electrical Vehicles will be quite difficult to implement, especially if you consider all the consequences of this shift. Equipping all houses and car parks with fast electric chargers and deploying charger networks in remote territories represent a huge revolution for car manufacturers & suppliers. The journey won’t be easy ...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- June
3rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #385
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Tesla and Remote Working. Elon Musk sent a mail to all Tesla employees this week. They can all work from home but ... only if they spend 40 hours a week ( at least) within Tesla offices. What we can call a disruptive HR approach in these days where talent attrition is an obsession for many companies. Future will tell if Tesla's reputation is sufficient to retain the workforces ...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- May
27th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #384
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Broadcom acquiring VMware ! The rumors are confirmed, Broadcom closed a new massive acquisition with VMware. After buying other Software Infrastructure & Security leaders (Brocade, CA Technologies & enterprise-security division of Symantec), the chipset maker goes on with its strategy to expand the footprint on software services. 5 years ago, Broadcom could not conclude the massive acquisition of Qualcomm (for $103 billion), but the appetite stays unchanged.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- May
20th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #383
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Algae as the default IOT energy ? After Hydrogen trend to support sustainable energies, algae could bring new opportunities to provide a brand new green green energy. Scientists from the Cambridge University succeeded to power a small computer for 6 months using ‘a colony of non-toxic photosynthetic algae called Synechocystis sealed within a small container about the size of an AA battery ! This won’t fit for a personal laptop but could be a great energy source to power IOT devices, knowing we will have to manage near to one trillion of these devices very soon, avoiding lithium ion batteries...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- May
13th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #382
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Will you buy your first Quantum computer within 3 years ? Why not ... IBM announced the first Quantum computers will be on sale in 2025, with a capacity of 4.000 QuBits ... When you know that current machines are around 130 QuBits, the road will be long. More reasonably, this market will address mostly Business servers rather than your personal laptop, except for the hyper geeks ! 😊Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- May
6th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #381
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One Coffee with milk & NFT please ! Starbucks announced its entry within the NFT world in 2022. Difficult to have all details of their new offering but they plan to build a new exclusive content for their owners, for a new ‘Digital Third Place’. But they want to go beyond a classical Web3 experience. They plan to build a ‘sustainable environment’ without giving more details on their web or blockchain architectures. If you understand the power of web3 & NFT technologies, you can also apply for the new CEOEnjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- April
29th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #380
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Submarine cables & satellites: Telco providers out of the game ? Within 10 years, Google, Amazon, Microsoft & Space X have become the kings of the Internet highways. In 2015, all submarine cables were financed & managed by major worldwide telecom providers. In 2019, 50% were managed by Gafam, this jumping to 80% today before reaching 95% in 2024. Meta & Google partnered to deploy a 17000 km submarine cable between US & Asia. Meta & Microsoft financed 80% of the cable ‘Amitié’ between US & France (total cost of 250ME). Difficult to ask to the telco providers to invest at the same time on 5G, FTTH, future 6G while investing into these transcontinental cables ...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- April
22st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #379
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Metaverse to avoid COVID expansion ... In Japan, children are starting their new school year in april. Usually an opportunity to organize a great welcoming show, in live. But with Covid risk, many physical events have been canceled. The NSG College League, gathering 29 schools, decided to keep this event while managing Covid risks in an innovative way. They organized the welcome day within a metaverse platform, enabling the 3800 students plus 1200 parents to join the virtual event with digital avatars. Another way to show Metaverse will enable to transform many business cases ...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- April
15st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #378
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Twitter acquiring before being acquired ? Twitter announced last Thursday a new acquisition with OpenBack, a leader in digital social media. And not more than one day later, Elon Musk proposed to buy Twitter for $43 Billion ! The Tesla CEO had recently become the biggest shareholder and now proposes to buy Twitter in cash to remove it from the stock exchange ... Enjoy your reading, I wish you all an excellent Easter Weekend and good luck hunting those chocolate eggs!Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- April
8th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #377
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Innovation, Telecommunication, Digital Inclusion & regulation ... We all know one of the biggest challenges to handle within Innovation is ... Change Management. The fear to change our environment, to go out of our comfort zone, learning & discovering. Telecommunication is a perfect example. 5G, connected objects, tracking systems & now satellites constellations. This week we had a new story with regulators blocking the Starlink deployment in France. Even though thousands of clients have been buying & using Starlink satellite access, to be connected in remote territories where network is not available, licences access have been removed for administrative reasons. Interesting to see that everybody is fighting for Digital Inclusion but we stop innovative services helping to bridge the gap ...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- April
1st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #376
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A380 flying 3 hours without kerosene ! A few days ago, Airbus succeeded to take off, fly during 3 hours and land without kerosene, only using cooking oil ! These tests are part of the SAF program (Sustainable Aviation Fuel), which started in 2021 with A350 & A319 aircrafts. As a reminder, Airbus is planning to deliver the world’s 1st Zero emission aircraft by 2035 before reaching the Net Zero carbon footprint by 2050.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- March
25th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #375
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Partnering with your competitors to deliver business This week, satellite provider OneWeb decided to use the SpaceX rockets to launch its next satellites after Soyouz cancellations. Not an easy choice as OneWeb & Starlink are compeeting on the similar markets. But all LEO satellite constellations must keep their promises & agenda to deliver a worldwide telecom coverage. On earth, the Metaverse trend is still attracting massive investments, Qualcomm deciding to invest $100 M into this field.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- March
18th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #374
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Electric Vehicles as the new standard ? In 2021, the sales on EV has doubled, not only in the US but worldwidely. And the recent rise of oil has increased the number of orders at Teslas in the US as buyers want to avoid the consequences of the Ukraine war. But aside from the oil increase, other resources prices are also jumping like Nickel or Aluminium, which are mandatory to build the EV batteries. After the shortage of chips due to covid crisis, this new crisis will impact drasticly the auto market, including the EV segment. But let’s hope that EV efficiency, mainly due to battery improvements will keep this trend.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- March
11th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #373
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CyberSec as the 2022 main priority? A few weeks ago, everybody was betting on #Metaverse as the Number One Trend for 2022. Within a couple of weeks, #CyberSecurity has become the top priority for most CXOs. To illustrate this fact, Google announced a few days ago a major acquisition to come in this field. The Mountain View leader plans to buy Mandiant (a CyberSec company) for more than $5 billion, which would represent the second largest acquisition ever conducted by Google. CyberSec has become a major topic related to Cloud migration, pushing the 3 Cloud leaders to invest massively in this sector...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- March
4th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #372
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Space Telecom networks make the buzz Many news around security & cybersecurity this week. But in these times of heightened geopolitical tensions, the space telecommunication field can be seen as a major asset. On the one hand, we have seen Starlink deploying Satellite antennas to provide High speed communications in Ukraine where terrestrials networks are broken. But on the other hand, another Telecom Satellite network has been hacked, cutting all Viasat connections in Europe. On a lighter topic, Barcelona hosted the Mobile World Congress, showing 5G is ready to deliver on its promises while telco leaders are starting to build the next 6G.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- February
25th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #371
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Hyperloop goes down Over the last decade, many Hyperloop projects have popped up : HyperLoop One, HyperLoop TT, Transpod ... Designed to replace hyper speed trains, it seems reality could kill some young dreams. This week, Virgin Hyperloop decided to separate from more than 100 people & stopped at the same time any further development to transport passengers while concentrating on freight. Beyond technology innovation, main challenge remains regulation & Strong Business Case... On the air side, the aircraft industry is still concentrating on sustainable planes, powered by Hydrogen or electricity.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- February
18th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #370
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The race to chip makers 2 major acquisitions this week in the semiconductor business. AMD & Intel closed 2 major acquisitions (Xilink for $50 billion & Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion) illustrating the urgent need to manage the supply chain around computer & phones chips. Many other industries are taking the same path in prder to secure their production ramp up.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- February
11th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #369
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40 Satellites lost in a row ! Starlink has been loosing 40 LEO satellites this week, impacted by a geomagnetic storm originating from the sun. A real blockbuster movie scenario ! No risk for us as satellites have been burned coming back to the atmosphere. Hopefully, Elon Musk had more succès with Optimus, its new Humanoid robot ...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- February
4th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #368
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Facebook going down for the first time since ... Day 1 Facebook’s total number of users has declined for the first time since its creation ! Half a million of users left the platform. It could look ridiculous compared to the 1, 9 Billion total active users but it shows a trend. Younger users prefers the Tik Tok than the ‘Old’ Facebook. This gives Meta an even bigger challenge and pressure to succeed on the Metaverse Project ! The Meta share went down by 20% after this news ...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- January
28th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #367
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2022 as the end of the 0G ? Sigfox was created in 2009. A few years later, Sigfox was one of the leaders of the IOT telecom providers, present in more than 40 countries. Low cost, very low consumption, low number of antennas, the perfect techno powered by the IOT opportunities. 12 years later, high competition, 5G on tracks, new Low Earth Orbites Satellites constellations providing the same kind of service at very low cost, future is more than uncertain. 2 days ago, Sigfox asked for bankruptcy protection in order to find a new buyer...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- January
21st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #366
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Microsoft as a gaming leader By acquiring Activision for $70 Billion, Microsoft is finalizing the biggest gaming acquisition ever done. You may not know Activision Blizzard, but you must have heard of Candy Crush, World of Warcraft or Call of Duty, used by hundreds of millions of gamers ... One of the hotest questions is linked to the future of these mega games : will they remain available for Microsoft competitors, as PlayStation for example ? Will Microsoft become the Netflix of the Video Games, in front of Tencent, the other Chinese Giant ? Perfect timing for Microsoft as the chinese government is aiming to reduce young generation gaming addiction with new laws ...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- January
14th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #365
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When Sustainability & Innovation reach Business Value We are all convinced we need to accelerate on our sustainabiliy acts, personally & professionally. We are all convinced Innovation is no more an option. But most of the time, Return Of Investment on Sustainability & Innovation are not so fast ... This week, a young french startup, BackMarket, showed the way. By succeeding in a new $ 510 M investment round, Back Market is now the most valued french startup with a new valuation of $5,7 Billions. This Startup is refurbishing all kind of home devices and propose high quality second hand devices promoting sustainability.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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7th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #364
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Fake It until you make it End of the story for Elizabeth Holmes, the former muse of the Silicon Valley. Guilty verdict. She left Stanford at 19 to create Theranos, the startup that has to change the world, revolutionizing blood testing. After raising almost $1 Billion, Theranos value raised $ 7 Billion ! Before going ... bankrupt. All was tripple F : Fake, Felony & Falsified The famous moto : Fake it till you make it ! Let’s hope some of these startups founders will change their mindset to come back to the real values.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
31th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #363
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The largest facility to pull carbon out of the atmosphere up & runnning ! Let’s end our 2021 year with a flavour of hope. The largest facility ever built to capture carbon began operations in september in Iceland. A very small drop , as it will capture ‘only’ 4000 tons of carbon a year. But every innovation has to start, even small, to show the way, the famous Colibri story ...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- December
24th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #362
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NFT hype 2021 will definitively remain as the year of NFT take off. A couple of days ago, the first ever SMS delivered has been sold over 100K€ as an NFT. Far from the first ever tweet sold in march by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsay for almost 3 M$ … This first SMS message was launched on December 1992, and we could read : ‘Merry Christmas’. So my time to wish you an excellent Merry Christmas ! enjoying these magic moments with your family & nears !!!!Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
17th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #361
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A new European Satellite constellation ... Europe has decided to launch its own Telecom Satellite Constellation to compeet with Starlink, Kuipers and other ones ... 400 new satellites will join the space in the 2030, perhaps a bit too late to have a real competition ? Many other news this week with the last A380 ever delivered & Apple close to be the first company being valued 3US$ Trillion ... I wish you all an excellent end of year break, especially for those breaking today !Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
10th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #360
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Away but always connected ... Over the past 2 years, we have been learning to work OoO - Out of Office-, but never been so much connected ... From home, from hotel, night & days. The very old motto Atawad (being connected Any Time Any Where Any Device) has never been so true. Telecommunications are back with new services, to fulfill all remote territories. The boom of LEO satellites constellations is partially linked to this New Normal. To illustrate this trend, Loft Orbital raised $140 million last week in a new round of funding including BlackRock.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
3rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #359
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2021, year 0 of the Meta Business ? Facebook has definitively launched a new trend with Metaverse. Last Week, a Canadian Company (Tokens.com) announced a massive metaverse land acquisition, representing 2,4 Million US$ for only 6 K square feet, the size of a Basket Ball court ... 116 blocks were sold to buyers investing in ‘Decentraland’s Fashion Street district’, expecting or betting this space will be used “to facilitate fashion shows and commerce within the exploding digital fashion industry.” Future will say if this bet was based on buzz or vision ...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- November
26th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #358
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Do we need to push Innovation to all products ? All new cars in France will be equiped with automated speed monitors, starting July 2022. Of course this decision will have a direct consequence : more expensive vehicles. At the same time, we fight for less consumerization, for lean innovation, for "Jugaad innovation" ... Why not fighting for a Jugaad sustainable car, allowing everyone to make their own choice ? Vehicle camera will use speed signs and GPS location to give visual and audio alerts to drivers who go over the limit. Is it really mandatory ? Not so sure, drivers education should be the first priority ...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- November
19th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #357
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Apple going sustainable ? Last Wednesday, Apple announced they will launch a self- service repair program to anable clients to buy spare parts for Iphone & Macs. Program will first focus on batteries, screen & cameras. Very good news as these 3 parts represent most of cases when you want to repair your Iphone. But a few questions remain. What about the warranty if you repair yourself without going through an official shop ? And even more important, will apple change the design of the Iphone to make these operations easy ? So let’s wait for the details to confirm the good news !Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- November
12th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #356
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The Innovation Buzzword ... A very interesting study has been published a few days ago around IT challenges. Not a surprise, most of IT leaders consider themselves as very innovative, on the leading edge ... But when we dig on their real capabilities and facts, it becomes difficult to find evidence on their Innovation assets. For example, more than half of them admit they would be unable to handle a data breach or cyber attack ... This is once more the limit of the Innovation buzz ... The entire IT/Digital world stakeholders are considering themselves as very innovative without understanding that Innovation is a real asset, going far beyond than the classical State of the Art ...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- November
5th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #355
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147 new Boeing satellites will compete with Starlink. The US FCC (Federal Communication Commission) gave the green light to Boeing to launch its new LEO Satellite constellation. Objective will be to cover remote territories in the US. Elon Musk had tried to protect its own Starlink business by asking to refuse the license to Boeing explaining there will be a risk of collision with Starlink satellites. Intresting, when you know Space X already launched more than 1700 satellites & plan to have more than 12.000 quite soon ... Nevertheless, not sure a new constellation was needed, always the same debate between having competition & protecting earth & space.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
29th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #354
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Alpha, Meta, Versa After Google moving to Alphabet, Facebook is moving to Meta. What will be the new names of Apple & Microsoft ? Metaverse, the new mega Facebook project is a real bet. Most of you may remember Second life, the Opens Source plaform developped in 2003 to propose us to onboard a complete new virtual world, with our own avatars, buying digital virtual assets, creating a shadow life. After a great success, Second life start to decrease in 2007, along with the subprime crisis. Let’s see how Metaverse will sell this new digital virtual dream.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
22nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #353
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Open Source Autonomous cars Tomorrow Oct 23rd, the Indiana Motor Speedway will host a new kind of races. Formula 1 race cars will let the place to 9 autonomous race cars in the IAC (Indy Autonomous Challenge), cars being powered by open source architectures. 21 universities have been working to develop these prototypes, showing the growing interest in opensource mindset.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- October
15th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #352
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Tech companies as the place to be ? Forbes released 2 days ago the latest report on the Best Employer survey. Within 5 years, the tech companies have been taking the top 9 positions of the World’s Best Employers ranking ! The tech & Digital market has been one of the most active during the lockdowns periods. Getting used to work in a distributed way, digital & innovation have been seen as levers to accelerate & adapt to the new normal. We are definitively entering a new digital age, where all companies need to reinvent themselves.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
8th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #351
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The $6 Billion bug ... You cannot have missed this news, Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp going down last monday for 7 hours. A silly mistake in a routing configuration has cost around $6 Billion to its founder ... As a direct consequence, the 2 challengers Signal & Telegram registered millions of new clients, not surprising when Facebook is being used by billions of users. A bad week for Facebook making already the headlines with other affairs ...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
1st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #350
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Raspberry still promoting digital inclusion ... Raspberry raised 45 M$ this week to support their strategy of IT for all. COVID accelerated demand, as in the UK where many families used Raspberry to build low cost PCs to equip kids for attending remote learning. Many others used Raspberry for DIY digital projects. Finally, companies are also using them for IOT low price POCS. Raspberry fundation will therefore develop new low cost devices to answer their clients demands. Innovation for all, #lean innovation, #frugal innovation !Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
24th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #349
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Fying taxis on track ! Airbus revealed this week the new CityAirbus, an eVTOL (electrical Vertical Take Off & Landing aircraft) which should come into service in 2025. A new option to link airports & city centers. This eVTOL will be able to fly 80 Km (50 miles) @ 120 Km/h, onboarding 4 passengers. Noise disrturbance is also managed with no more than 70 dBa. A new project to compeet with all other VTOLs. Time To Market will definitively be the success key !Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
17th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #348
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Welcome to the new Hybrid Learning Zoom was hosting this week their annual conference Zoomtopia, dedicated to education. No doubt that pandemy has been accelerating the pace to move to virtual learning.A few years ago, education was entering the first digital wave with the MOOC – Massive Open Online Course-. Mooc is now quite mature, we all attended at least one MOOC and many have gone to the next step with OnLine MOOC Certification. The next wave will have to integrate & invent the full hybrid learning, with some students being present physically and others remotely. We will have to reinvent the whole learning & teaching experience, reinvent socialization, interaction, and new technologies will help. Real time translation, AI, Virtual Reality to learn faster, blockchains to validate diplomas & experience ... Looking forward how classrooms will look like in 10 years ... if they still exist ...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
10th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #347
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GAFAM are going to build their own chips ... After Covid crisis & outages of electronic chips, many sectors are starting to change their logistic & purchase strategies. Industry leaders like Apple, Amazon, Tesla or Baidu have already announced they will invest to produce part of their own semiconductors to avoid being too dependent on external providers. Another example of the new world we are entering, reengineering the main companies processes from Digital to HR.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- September
3rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #346
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Canada federal Government invests massively in Satellite internet ! After Starlink, One Web and other satellite constellations, Telesat is joining the trend with the LightSpeed Project. 298 LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites will be launched to provide internet & telecom services to Canada's most isolated territories. "The federal government will provide $1.44 billion to support the telesat program"Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- August
27th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #345
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Wind & sun concentrate energy investment & innovations Chinese company MingYang announced this week the biggest wind turbine ever built. This offshore wind turbine is 264 meter tall ... and will produce 16MW, 80.000 MWh per year, enabling to power 20.000 households. A while back, UEA announced the biggest worldwide Solar fied, with 8KM2 and 3,3 millions of Solar pannels powering 90.000 houselholds. Yet, other projects have since then taken up the challenge for the tittle... Green energy is definitively reaching big scales, far from the innovation status of the early 2000s ...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- August
20th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #344
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New Space collision! A new collision occurred between a Chinese satellite & a Russian rocket in march. The 2 last big crashes happened in 2007 & 2009, increasing by 70% the number of large debris in LEO -low earth orbit- ! LEO being the new playfield of latest telecom constellation (SpaceX Starlink , OneWeb, ...). Nowadays, around 130 million peaces of space junks, debris, are surrounding the earth. If we don’t change this habit by managing & destroying all these space debris, some scientists think this could increase the number of collisions & debris, with a risk to create a massive exponential constellation of debris that would prevent any rocket to be launched, making humans prisoners of their own planet ...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- August
13th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #343
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Space as the new place to be polluted ! We could have dreamt that space would remain a place free of pollution and human disasters as Antartica for example. However, 2021 will remain as a big year showing human stupidity still has no limit ☹. After the first space flights launched last month with nothing more than tourism purpose, a Canadian company has signed an agreement with SpaceX to deploy ads on satellites being broadcasted live on earth ... The worst in this story being that people will pay for displaying their ads and others to watch ...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- August
6th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #342
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Human AI ? For the first time ever, an AI has been granted for the authorship of an innovation by a court ! That’s what happened in South Africa & Australia with IA DABUS. This will definitively change the definition of Intellectual Property ... Let’s see how other countries will react !Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- July
30th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #341
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Do we have to always choose between Joy & Sustainability ? Net Zero, Carbon Neutral, Carbon Footprint, Sustainable Planet, impossible to spend a day without adressing these topics, which are a major improvement for our future. Nevertheless, extremism or radicalisation is never good, as major problematics are never black or white, it’s always a matter of balance. We have always heard of people fighting against innovation, by principle, and we see now people even fighting against all kind of pleasure or leisure that could produce Carbon emission. The Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony for example, replaced fireworks by light drones to reduce pollution & noise ... Cancel 1 firework, once every 4 years, being watched for the pleasure of millions of viewers ... Is it worth it ? I’ve been fighting for years to decrease carbon footprint, being very proud of it, for our kids and their future, but we need to choose our battle to keep a world safe but also enjoyable.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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23th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #340
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Space as a tourism playground ? The last 2 weeks looked like a competition between Misters Branson & Bezos. Who would be the first Space tourist ... Up untill now, shuttles were onboarding scientists to do exploration, experimentation, research, but definitely not tourism. Shocking to see entrepreneurs promoting on the one hand sustainability and playing this kind of game on the other hand. ‘A new era for Space Tourism ...’ Let’s hope this vision won’t become reality ...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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16th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #339
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VR has reached maturity in 2020. A recent study reported that VR content revenue has grown by 30% in 2020. Gaming is the first use case but many content are now migrated to VR for marketing & communication purpose, boosting B2B business. The headsets have improved with better image quality and battery weight, enabling new usages. New phones will also embed better VR features to go on boosting this trend.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- July
9th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #338
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Windows 11 as the new anti-apple ? The coming Windows 11 should be a major release in Microsoft’s competition with Apple. Not only the new streamlined design is very similar to smartphones and tablets’ones but Microsoft is also adding many features to take into account the major changes occured during the pandemy with home office & New Normal world. They are also pushing further their Microsoft Store by attracting Google & Apple’s developpers. A great new battle to come !Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- June
25th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #337
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15 years before the end of Combustion engines ? Another big announcement made by Volkswagen is confirming the big pressure on Automotive sector to accelerate transition to Electric. They announced they will stop production of combustion engines by 2035, ... in Europe. But what’s the interest if they go on this production outside Europe ? Half buzz ?Enjoy your safe reading,
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Patrice
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- June
25th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #336
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Incremental Innovation, the way to improve smoothly day after day ... Michelin unveiled a new concept of inflatable sails to decrease boat consumption by 20%. Another concept with Kites is aiming to reach the same target. We could think 20% is not enough, this is not a real innovation. But most of innovations are improving current processes or services, step by step, without being real disruptions. Long life to WISAMO (Wing Sail Mobility Project ) !Enjoy your safe reading,
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Patrice
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- June
18th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #335
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NFT : a new trend or a new buzz ? NFT, for Non Fungible Tokens. NFTs are a type of digital asset designed to show that someone has ownership of a unique virtual item. One of the most famous NFT has been sold by Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, by selling his first tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million ! You can take your chance with the auction for the World Wide Web NFT — titled “This Changed Everything” — The web’s source code will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in London from June 23-30, with bidding starting at $1,000 . A new form of art ?Enjoy your safe reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- June
11th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #334
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End of the lockdowns, end of home office ? With the pace of vaccination, many countries have decided to stop or reduce the lockdowns, for personal life but also for companies. All companies and managers need now to organize & plan the back to normal. Or the new normal ... The 15 last months showed we can work remotely, but one size does not fit all. What is the right balance home/work office ? Depends of course of people ... & mindset. How to come back to really effective hybrid meetings, with 4 people in the same office room, sharing a meeting with 4 other people working remotely from home ? Definitively something to invent, with new world class digital video conference tools, new process & rules to follow. The other aspect will be HR & Social. How to retain talents, best of them being able to work effectively from home, from anywhere, from any country. How to keep digital inclusiveness & avoid discriminations ? A new world & relationship to invent. Rome was not built in a day ...Enjoy your safe reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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4th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #333
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3,5 hours to travel from New York to London & Paris. United ordered 15 Supersonic Boom Ouverture with an option to buy 35 more later. First tests on 2026 for first commercial flight in 2029, 18 years after latest Concorde flight. Boom seems to succeed in transforming this dream into commercial reality.Enjoy your safe reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- May
28th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #332
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Ready for boarding ? You are all aware of driverless cars, but would you be ok to onboard a pilotless aircraft ? This week MerlinLabs announced a new funding of 25M$ to push pilotless plane technology into commercial applications, Let's see if the regulations will evolve to support this project,Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- May
21st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #331
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Satellites to bring energy on earth ... An interesting project has been launched by US Air Force : Use satellites to capture solar energy & forward it on earth to provide electricity to specific isolated areas. Of course, the effectiveness of this first prototype is ridiculous but as all innovations, it brings another vision to be scaled, and serendipity will perhaps bring other ideas opportunities. You will find a nice video below.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- May
12th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #330
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Nature to help Covid detection We knew that dogs could help detecting cancerous tumors with an impressive accuracy. As you will see below, dutch researchers have now been training bees to detect COVID infection ... Once again, nature can show an incredible resilience proving that innovation is not always higly technologicalEnjoy your safe reading,
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Patrice
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- May
7th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #329
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Big shift to renewable energies ! With the acceleration of companies commitments to become Carbon neutral & carbon Net Zero within the next decade, many firms are communicating on their new energy mix. To accelerate the trend, improving the ratio of renewable energies is a quick way to decrease the carbon footprint. Tesla made a new announcement to move all their Super charger stations to Solar energy.Enjoy your safe reading,
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Patrice
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- April
30th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #328
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One Web new take-off ! One year ago, One Web was under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection status, with no visibility on its future. After a nice recovery end 2020, the major Telecom Satellite operator Eutelsat invested 500 M US$ this week to push further the new Low Earth Orbite satellite constellation. This will bring other opportunities to bring High Bandwidth within isolated territories, with low latency & high availability, bringing competition in front of Starlink.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- April
23rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #327
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A new 6 months lockdown ! 4 astronauts onboarded the SpaceX capsule a few hours ago & took off to join the ISS. They are leaving earth pandemic lockdowns to experience another 6 months experience, alone, within a very small space but with a much better view For the first time, a European will be the captain onboard the International Space Station.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- April
16th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #326
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Digital into business ! Many Innovation news this week ! The funniest is without any doubt the first futurist Hydrogen Electric Motorcycle Segway ! All the buzz words to make the headlines ! The most interesting being Axa partnering with Microsoft to provide new services. We see more & more partnerships popping up between Digital & Business Sector leaders. The pandemy & several lockdowns are definitively accelerating these Digital/Physical ecosystems !Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- April
9th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #325
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3D Printing moving industrial A couple of years ago, everybody wanted to have their own 3D printer. While many of these 3D printers are now sleeping within Innovation Labs or even in your cupboards (what’s happen when you mix fun innovation & business innovation 😊 ), we see more and more industrial examples of successful 3D Printing. Safran & SLM solutions have been working on real industrial pieces, part of an aircraft landing system, being 15% lighter than a traditional part. Far from the first small plastic 3D printed pieces ...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- April
2nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #324
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AI & Augmented Reality to facilitate your travels In a time where most of us have to stay home to respect lockdowns, Google announced brand new features for Google map. Google Map will integrate new AI & Augmented reality capabilities to propose new services. Navigating Indoor through Augmented Reality will probably disrupt many other technos based on Radio Indoor Location promoted by Telco Providers. But Google will also integrate a new option to select the Greenest travel. Up to now, the only criterias were time, distance & cost. Once again, green mindset is pushing the limits.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- March
26th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #323
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No more office or definitively new office ? Human & corporate culture, team spirit, collaboration, serendipity. How to keep these behaviours live with a home office new normal ? Digital shift definitively brought amazing benefits during the lockdown, improving productivity for most of sectors. For the time being... We have been entering within a permanent change period where personal perceptions are evolving among months & quarters. After one year, we see now some weariness with a 100% Digital environment. In this context, Google is announcing a massive investment in real estate to build or rebuild brand new offices in the US, allowing Google employees to come back to the office & collaborate again. Another illustration of the new normal: we won’t come back to the office to find a desk but to collaborate, physically...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- March
19th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #322
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Bye Bye A380 ! Two days ago, the last A380 took off from Toulouse Airport. MSN #272 will be the last A380 produced since the first take off in 2005. Many innovation have been developped for this amazing aircraft, for the joy of the end users, completly changing the passenger experience. But unfortunately, bad timing.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- March
12th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #321
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Boats & trains are flying while Aircrafts are stucked on ground ... 1 year ... 1 year ago we entered this new normal area. The whole aircraft industry is trying to move green while trains & boats are trying to fly over rails or waves, in China or in New Zealand. I let you read the details in the below articles .Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- March
5th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #320
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Google will stop personal cookies, or not ... A couple of days ago, we could have dreamt that Google would stop tracking our personal datas. Not really, Google will stop sharing these information to third parties but will go on with personal tracking of course, a huge power in GAFA hands. This will be a major change for the whole ads industry, let’s see how they will react...Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- February
27th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #319
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A digital twin for the planet ? Everybody know the benefits of Digital Twins : Simulate, Anticipate, Virtual Test, Reduce costs, Accelerate Time To Market, and many other oportunities. To go further, scientists have been starting a new project : Build a virtual earth to simulate, predict & anticipate climate changes ! Of course, we have only one earth. But perhaps the best reason to build a digital earth twin to better protect it !Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- February
19th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #318
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Perseverance on Mars ! After a small trip of more than ... 6 months, the Perseverance Rover Landed on Mars Planet yesterday. An amazing travel, based on human scientists dreams. Some could consider it’s useless. But many useless projects have conducted to major innovations & human benefits.Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- February
12th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #317
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Bitcoin or not Bitcoin ? Difficult to avoid bitcoin in the news these past weeks. Reaching 46.000 US $, the Bitcoin value reaches the sky ... After Tesla investing massively in Bitcoin & announcing accepting Bitcoins to buy cars, MasterCard is also making some announcement around cryptocurrencies. On the dark side, the Bitcoin is still the perfect place for Back Market, rising doubts on the credibility of the crypto. On the fun side, the valuation of Dogecoin or Pigeoncoin could make laugh, or not...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- February
5th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #316
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QIMac,Ipod, Iphone, Ipad, ... Icar ? Many headlines this week around the future ... Apple Car. An industrial Consortium is about to be revealed. Of course electric, the question is : can we expect the same disruption of the auto sector as we saw on the phone market ? Not so sure, Tesla already changed the game & automotive ios not the Apple Core Business. On the People side, you could not have missed the big news : Andy Jassy (AWS CEO) will become the Amazon CEO, joining the very closed GAFAM’s CEO ClubEnjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- January
29th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #315
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Quantum jump on cars ! BMW & Honeywell announced a new innovative project based on Quantum computing to optimize the purchase of the multiple parts of their vehicles. The objective is to calculate when they should purchase the parts and to which supplier, in order to decrease the costs without decreasing the production rythm on the Final Assembly Lines. A real industrial use case in the automotive sector. On the financial market, interesting moves on the stock markets this week with, once again, a new generation of investors using RobinHood App to disturb the traditional investors & increasing the value of stocks like Gamestop by ... 500% !Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- January
22nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #314
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WhatsApp in the fog ... The recent announcement made by Facebook & WhatsApp around sharing users informations brought to a complete failure for WhatsApp. Over last 2 weeks, tens of millions of WhatsApp users migrated to Signal & Telegram. Communication was so fuzzy that Facebook had to delay this project from february to may, at least. Once again, this shows that Data Privacy becomes more & more important for final users and even WorldClass leaders cannot deny it ... Nobody can predict how many users will finally leave WhatsApp for another platform but GDPR is definitively a new standard !Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- January
15th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #313
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Holograms as the Innovation Buzz for 2021 ? Even going virtual, Vegas CES brought some nice buzz this year. On the top trends, Holograms were in a good position among the exibitors. After a few years of unreached expectations, some of the holograms showed this past week changed the game. Will 2021 be the year of maturity for Holograms ?Enjoy your reading,
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Patrice
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- January
8th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #312
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RIY as a new standard ? Over the last years, DIY (Do It Yourself) became a new hobby, as we can see by the number of YouTube videos & tutos ... Perhaps the next trend will be the RIY (Repair It Yourself) ! We all want to decrease our carbon footprint & repairing is one of the good principles to adopt. This month, France is showing the way by deploying a label on some electronic & consumer products to identify the level of repairability, scaling an index from 1 to 10. Of course, impact will be low for the begining but let’s hope other countries will join the team to influence the manufacturers.Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
31st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #311
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Mobile phones business going mature ? FIn 2020, mobile phones sales significantly dropped down. 5G should have been a booster in the business but forecasts went wrong. Nevertheles, we can see a good news in this trend. First of all, public pressure pushed manufacturers to increase devices lifespan and especially batteries. Secondly, the new releases are not adding so much innovation to justify & new buy. Last but not least, reaching prices over 1000 US $ for latest mobiles is perhaps a limit that consumers are not anymore ready to spend. I wish you all a wonderful year 2021 for you & your nears !Have a nice last 2020 Innovation reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
24th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #310
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CES 2021 goes green !!! For those who remember, I was shocked last year by the CES Vegas promoting Innovation but ignoring the sustainability aspects. Hopefully, CES 2021 will the greenest massive worldwide Tech event ever delivered . As most of symposiums or conferences, CES 2021 will be delivered fully remote, fully digital. Let’s hope 2021 will bring better digital remote conference platforms as the User eXperience was missing for most of 2020 remote events. I wish you a merry Christmas with your nears and a well deserved end of year break !Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
18th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #309
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Time to go back to the office, happily ? 2020 was definitively the year of WFH - Work From Home - . Before the lockdown, we had 2 teams : The Pro WFH & the Against WFH . After 10 months of lockdown period, everbody had the opportunity to live the WFH mode. This experience had a huge benefit, providing a real User eXperience for all workers. The Against team had to admit (by eXperience) that you can be very productive working from home , even too much sometimes, needing some regulation ... The Pro team had to admit (by the same eXperience) that a 100% WFH mode can be boring, lacking of social interactions. So once again, the truth will be in between, in hybrid WFH, being highly productive for some tasks remotely but going on meeting teams physically to build social relationship & experience serendipity. Many studies have demonstrated that productivity was not affected by remote office but innovation did ... 2021 should be an interesting year to reinvent our new hybrid office environment. And for those who were disconnected this week, Bitcoin is back, hitting a top record of 23.000 US$ this week ...Enjoy your reading,
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
11th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #308
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CyberSec as #1 priority for CXOs in 2021 ? We usually set Business first as Number 1 priority for CXOs and especially for CIOs. Agility, 5G opportunities, move to Digital & Cloud ... But Number 1 Threat is definitively CyberSecurity breach. FireEye, one of world’s largest Cybersecurity firms had to admit they have been hacked recently ... Of course, we cannot guaranty a 100% security, but level of investment has to be aligned with Business Risks ... Other interesting news this week, Hyundai acquiring ... Boston Dynamics !Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
4th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #307
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Space starts its own cleaning... ESA (European Space Agency) has signed a contract with a Swiss startup to launch a new mission in 2025. They will place into orbit a giant claw to grab satellites debris. A green initiative in parallel of the launching of thousands of new telecom satellites to provide high bandwidth internet worldwide. The story does not tell if these new satellites constellation owners will participate to the cost of the project 😊.Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- November
27th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #306
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California goes Driverless ... California has always been the favorite playground for driverless vehicules testing. Last week, they went one step further by allowing companies to provide robotaxis services within the state. Of course it will take a few months for these companies to complete the registration process but California already announced they want to be a leader in the new transportation green business. They intend to ban the sale of non electric vehicles by ... 2035 !Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- November
20th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #305
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What’s up, Amazon Doc ? Amazon goes green this week, but pharmacy green. Amazon announced this week the launch of Amazon Pharmacy. Available in 45 states in the US to start with, Amazon will offer home delivery for prescription medications. Of course, many medications won’t be allowed (Schedule II medications) but it’s opening a new breach in a new highly regulated market : medecine. Let’s see how this news will be received worldwide as many countries will fight against the Giant A to Z ...Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- November
13th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #304
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Beware of the fake Innovation Breaking news ! Name dropping & breaking news are common when we speak of Innovation. When your see Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Virgin & Hyperloop in the same title, it must be Disruptive ! Or not ... ‘Virgin Hyperloop made history Sunday when it completed the world's first Hyperloop passenger test’. One of the newspaper headlines this week ... So what ? Going deeper, this hyperloop capsule succeeded to hit an incredible 48 meters per second with 2 passengers on board during 500 meters ! Why not speaking in Km/h or Mph ? Perhaps because 48m/s is nothing more than 170 Km/h ... The Japan Maglev train reached 603 Kmh in 2015, the Shanghai train transports thousands of passengers daily at 431 Kmh & the french TGV recorded 570 Kmh in ... 1981. We have seen a lot of promises around the Hyperloop concept for years. Beyond the technology bet, journalists should challenge the Business Case : Where these hyperloops have a real market & why Hyperloop should succeed where the Super fast trains failed ...Enjoy your slow reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- November
6th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #303
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Carbon Neutral, Net Zero, what about Trust Zero ? All companies have been committing on their way to decrease their environment impact, mainly on Carbon Footprint. All companies share their ambition and date to become Carbon Neutral first before reaching Net Zero. Carbon Neutral is quite clear : a company compensates the carbon emissions by buying carbon offsets, planting trees. We of course hope all these ‘environmental organizations’ selling offsets are serious enough to make sure these trees are real and well managed to absorb our carbon emissions for at least 3 decades (the promise). But what Net Zero really means ? Net Zero means that all the human & industrial carbon emissions are compensated by the nature through oceans, atmosphere, trees, ... at planet level. So how a company could be Carbon Net Zero ? Scientifically, a company cannot be Net zero as we don’t absorb or eat CO2 ... Carbon Net Zero is a consensus established by a few organizations to convince states & companies to decrease their Carbon footprint with a clear plan and agenda. But being far from a real ‘net zero’, it’s very difficult to compare the real impact of these Net Zero plans depending on firms. Of course, we must go on convincing people & companies to commit on this carbon footprint decrease but a better definition or wording of ‘Net Zero’ would definitively bring more TRUST around this sustainability priority ... Waiting for this, we are all responsible, we can all take personal actions & commitments to increase, or decrease our impact.Enjoy your safe reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
30th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #302
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East Innovation Scaling Power ... After Alibaba, Jack Ma is pushing the limit further. His Ant Group raises 34 Billion US$ in the biggest IPO ever (latest record was the Oil Giant Aramco raising 29 Billion US$). This tech company, the largest Chinese online payment platform, is showing once again China has not only the desire but the power to be one of the largest countries in terms of Technology and Innovation.Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- October
23rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #301
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Atari is back !!! The non millenials remember of Atari’s famous game Pong ! At this time, no virtual reality, no UHD, no 4 or 5G but a monocolor simple game. More lean you die . 40 years later, Atari is back with a brand new Video Game Console based on Crypto currencies. They will sell 1 M US$ of Atari Tokens later this month hoping to set up a new standard for the Gaming sector. Will Atari VCS bridge the gap, huge gap with Microsoft’s Xbox & Sony’s Playstation ?Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
16th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #300
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Welcome to the Innovation Newsletter #300 !!! 6 years ago, Jan 2015, I was starting a new routine : share interesting Innovation News on a weekly basis to show all the aspects of Innovation, the good & bad applications to help us reinventing ourselves every day. 300 weeks later, we are still there, without a single missed week, without lockdown, motivated by all your feedbacks received over these 6 years, with more than 20.000 readers. Thanks a lot for your continuous support 😊. The last article of this newsletter is the one I shared for Newsletter #1 as I am always amazed by the magic of our planet ...Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
9th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #299
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Amazon goes electric ! Amazon committed to become carbon neutral by 2040. Before this, some key milestones go through a complete usage of renewable energy by 2030 & migrating to a full electrical delivery vehicles float. A partnership was developped with a startup to order 10.000 electrical vehicles hitting the road by 2022 before deploying 100.000 by 2030. Next step ? AI autonomous driverless Electrical vans ?Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
2nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #298
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Aircrafts down, Flying cars up ... Over the 2 latests quarters, we have seen most of aircrafts blocked on the tarmacs, without passengers. While the future of aviation is very uncertain, the business around flying cars is still attracting investors. Alibaba, Airbus, Uber & many other leaders are investing in flying electrical taxis. Air Traffic Management regulation seems to be the last obstacle to manage !Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
25th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #297
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Post covid will be green ... Many news related to green & decarbonation. Airbus accelerated its move to green by announcing the first Hydrogen Powered aircraft for next decade. This would not have happened so fast without the current crisis. Beyond the health crisis, 2020 will definitively remain as a key year in the move to green, with much more impact than any of the previous Worldwide Climate Summits . Urgency helps sometimes ...Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
18th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #296
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IKEA goes second hand business ! Many interesting news this week on the tech Business. Massive acquisition with Nvidia and ARM and an incredible opening for Snowflake’s IPO ! But the most interesting is IKEA opening a new second hand business. When all companies communicate on zero emission target for 2025 ou 2030, IKEA is exploring the full cycle by recycling their own products to extend their lifespan. A good use case to replicate !Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
11th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #295
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Quantum computing on tracks Google announced an impressive improvement in its Quantum research. They succeeded to solve an almost impossible complex computation within 200 seconds where super computers would take 10.000 years ... Many sectors requiring massive super computing resources could benefit from quantum benefits. Let’s see how the other quantum leaders will react to this news.Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- September
4th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #294
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Zoom Boom 450 US$ for a Zoom stock a couple of days ago. 500% increase during Covid. Probably one of the most incredible Nasdaq stories. On Business side, Zoom succeeded to convince the Corporate Business by increasing their market share, even after the Security affairs. Client oriented, World class UX, simplicity. Nobody knows how they will manage the stock market but they are perfectly managing their business, Innovation can be simplicity...Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- August
28th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #293
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Exxon leaves the Dow Jones, replaced by a digital leader... 90 years... Exxon entered the Dow in 1928. Another consequence of the Covid Crisis & under the pressure of the Green wave, the Oil Company leader is leaving the US Stock Exchange next Monday to be replaced by a digital leader : Salesforce ! Salesforce realized the best quarter of its history, but will reduce their workforce by 2% (1000 people). Definitively a new Business era...Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- August
21st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #292
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Tech giants at the top ! 2 trillion value ! Apple value raised by 60% in 2020... Covid crisis served all digital services and technical firms to deliver more to their clients, and GAFAM are the big winners. But you need to grow based on very strong basics and fundamentals. Kodak learned it, once again...Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- August
14th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #291
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Everybody pivots … Every Startup founder knows he will have to pivot, sometime, one or several times before finding the best Business Model, to serve the best services to its clients. But nowadays, things are moving so fast that even the biggests firms have to reinvent themselves, to pivot again, as the small startups. During second quarter 2020, Uber’s mobility business collapsed due to Covid while the food delivery bookings doubled to nearly US$ 7 Billion ! Uber’s biggest business is officially no longer ride-sharing ! The most amazing pivot of Q2 !Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- August
7th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #290
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Cybersec on the headlines ! We all know Cyber Security has become one of the top priorities for all CXOs. Perhaps it could/should become the Number 1 priority. Garmin experienced the dramatic consequences of a massive Cybersec Attack and probably had to pay multi millions US$ to recover part of its services. But beyond this Service shutdown for more than a week, quite unusual for such big firms, once again, trust damage is difficult to evaluate. How many users will stop sharing personal info with Garmin ? Very bad timing when Garmin was trying to deploy their new payment business ...Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- July
31st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #289
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Virtual digital events as a standard in 2021 ? CES Vegas, one of the biggest world technology events will be delivered fully virtual in January 2021 ! Many events have already been conducted in virtual mode but with very low quality & User eXperience. A Virtual event is not a physical event where you replace a plenary by a visio ... It has to be completely reimagined, with new dynamics, new tools, new innovative ideas, new virtual collaboration. Looking forward Jan to see how this major event will set the pace for 2021 ....Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- July
24th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #288
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Carbon neutral new challenge. Become Carbon neutral ASAP ... Politics showed the way during latests climate conferences. Public & citizens pressure, accelerated by Covid Crisis pushed all companies to commit on carbone emission reductions. Travel ban, green energy, recycling plan, new mindset, not only firms communicate on their plans but also accelerate the way to become Carbon Neutral. Before Covid, most of companies were announcing 2050. Since Covid, the new date are 2035, 2030 or even 2025 ! All crisis, even the most serious can bring benefits & accelerate the game ...Enjoy your reading !
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- July
17th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #287
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Boom & Concorde, same Innovation stories ? In october, Overture Startup will unveil the prototype of Boom XB-1, the new supersonic aircraft, planned to take off for a first flight in 2021. 17 years after last flight of Concorde, the most famous and public supersonic aircraft. 2 real dream projects, magical designs, World class innovations, technology expertise. But technology is not enough. What about the economical aspects ? Concorde was an amazing project, but launched in the 70’s, in the middle of the Oil Crisis, making the ROI impossible to reach for all airlines . Bad luck, only Air France & British Airways decided to make the bet. 40 years later, Boom is launched, before the Covid, before the Airlines crisis, in the middle of a new Green Deal, aiming at reducing Carbon Footprint. What will be the market for Boom ? Who knows ? Let’s hope for the Boomers a better end than for the Concorde, unless the green wave stops the project before the first commercial flight ...Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- July
10th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #286
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OneWeb as a Phoenix ... OneWeb has reborn. The UK government associated with an Indian Company to invest in the European based LEO Satellite Constellation, put in bankruptcy last month. The Covid crisis gave a new dynamic to WFH (Work From Home) and this new way of working could be an amazing opportunity for all these Satellite companies providing High Bandwidth Internet Access everywhere, and specially where Fiber & Mobile networks are not present. Another opportunity to rethink the Territories politics to distribute business out of huge cities.Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- July
3rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #285
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The art of Innovation Moneytization ... This week, Tesla became the most valuated company in the automotive sector, bypassing Toyota by 4 BUS$ ... Even if Tesla’s revenue are 10 times lower and if Toyata is selling 30 times more cars ... The price of dream or innovation ?Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- June
26th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #284
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Welcome to the new 415 petaflop SuperComputer ! Congrats to Fugaku ! For the first time, a Japanase company (Fugaku = Fujitsu + Riken) won the Top500 supercomputer speed ranking. For the first time a computer based on ARM procesors wins this competition, and for many rankings. Good news for the AI algorithmsEnjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- June
19th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #283
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RobinHood has lost his values. In the fourteenth century, Robin Hood was stealing the rich to give to the poor. Today, the famous trading platform supposed to bring the financial trading market to the young generation against the Wall Street Wolves lost its way. Two days ago, Robin Hood advised its young clients to buy FAANG stocks ( Facebook, Amazon, apple, Netflix, Google ) and so 15000 young traders bought ... fangDD stocks (a small chinese company) increasing the fangDD value by more than 400% for the joy of their founders. Welcome to the new world or tomorrow !Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- June
12th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #282
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The world of tomorrow without AI ? Surprising decision from IBM a few days ago : They decided to stop their Facial Recognition business based on AI to ‘combat systemic racism’. How stopping AI research will stop racism ? Were the IBM AI products not safe enough to avoid mistakes ? Were they too complex or complicated to be correctly used ? We could expect another decision : accelerate R&D to improve AI algorithms and provide safer products and services ... Will we stop medecine research each time a surgeon makes a mistake ? Will we stop drones R&D each time a human uses a drone for bad purposes ? Perhaps we reach the limits of too quick communication ... Let’s wait the ‘world of tomorrow’ ...Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- June
5th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #281
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Private Innovation to sustain public business Latest Space X launch wrote a new page in the Space history. For the first time, a private company brought a human in space, signing the come back of the US after the previous NASA failures. A few years ago, nobody was believing that Elon Musk could launch any simple rocket in space, now he also transports humans ...Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- May
29th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #280
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Green as the new Innovation driver ? The Covid Crisis brought some major companies to ask for public & state help & fundings. Airlines, travels, automotive, manufacturing have to review their growth strategy. As you have heard these past weeks, investors are asking these sectors to accelerate their move to green faster than anticipated. Airlines will have to become greener, therefore asking aircraft manufacturers to deliver greener engines. Cars will have to decrease their carbon footprint, boosting the R&D around electric vehicles. Same approach for green or decarbonated energies. But the biggest influence will come from consumers, or not ...Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- May
22nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #279
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Microsoft goes fluid ... Over the last weeks, many companies had to face any operational issues, putting innovation as a non core business. On the Digital world, not only the GAFAM succeeded to improve their revenue and margin, but also to accelerate Innovation ! Microsoft is a good illustration. After a great reshape of Teams to bridge the gap with Zoom, the Redmond leader announced a brand new Office platform during their Build Conference : Microsoft Fluid. The classical docs, tables, graphs are becoming live lego blocks, collaborative modules to be shared between any kind of traditional documents. They can be edited in real time by anyone in any app. Collaborative, Cloud, Open-Source, Microsoft is reinforcing its strategy...Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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15th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #278
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Home Office as the new standard ? 2 major Digital companies have communicated home office will become the standard ‘forever’ ! Are Google & Twitter anticipating a new trend ? Not sure ... In 2013, Melissa Meyer (Yahoo CEO) had decided to ban remote office to increase productivity. As usual, human life is not fully digital. Moving from ‘No Home Office’ to ‘Full Home Office’ is definitively a mistake. All companies used to Home Office know truth in the mix, Part Home Office. We have now all the digital tools, infrastructure & platforms to work remotely (home or travel) with a very high level of productivity, decreasing by the way the Carbon Footprint and increasing Well Being. But closing the office will bring other issues, starting with a growing distance between employees & companies, decreasing the sense of belonging and power of brand, even more in latin cultures. The only question is what is the best mix ? Few days a week or few days a month ? This depends on jobs, sectors, companies & personal experience of course. Sure we will see a new job appearing in coming months : the CHO ! You knew the Chief Happiness Officer, Welcome to the Chief Home Officer !Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- May
7th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #277
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Light-footprint is following the hype of Carbon-footprint. Over past months, many voices pointed out the light pollution brought by Starlinks satellites constellation. The hundreds of LEO satellites were causing damage to sky observation and SpaceX decided to modify their design to reduce drasticly the light- footprint for next launchs. The growing interest in sustainability is now having a huge influence on business, even the most complex ones, pushing firms to be very agile, being able to modify their engineering in real time. On earth, many new businesses are emerging, to promote reuse, to ban planned obsolesence, Back Market being a nice example.Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- April
30th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #276
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Automation & AI as the limit of sustainable innovation ? The Covid crisis have seen the prices of some basics products (pasta, toilet paper, ...) reaching the sky. Many prices are calculated by automatic algorithms for many online platforms, based on demand, as initiated by the Airlines industry decades ago. During a lockdown period, we could find these approachs a bit weird ... So do we need to regulate dynamic pricing to avoid these behaviors ? The first answer would be to correctly use automation & AI, with human sense & values. Automation & AI are delivering what we want them to deliver, the way we want to offer services. No worth blaming technology if we don’t know how to use them ... As the great Rabelais said : ‘science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul’Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- April
24th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #275
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Covid killed OneWeb ... Early this month, SoftBank decided to stop investments on the OneWeb Project, aiming at providing satellite high bandwidth internet worldwide. The current Covid crisis was the main argument to move OneWeb Bankrupt ... Even if dozen of satellites have already been launched, out of the 700 forecasted to provide full earth coverage. So, what next ? 3 decades after Irridium failure, same story happens again. Billions used for which results ? Do we need multiple satellite constellations knowing the level of investment & risks ? Of course, these systems are not compatible, with the risk of having 70 new satellites flying for nothing for years . Maybe a financial sanity check before starting to launch hundreds of satellites in the sky could be an answer ...Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- April
17th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #274
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Carbon Footprint as a new label for marketing ? Over past few years, many companies & sectors have been communicating on new values to promote and sell their products. CSR, inclusion, diversity, health and other themes are now part of the ‘Quality’ perception. Difficult to sell food today with a bad calory rating. Carbon footprint is now becoming a new label for many products and we see now some brands advertising this topic as the number 1 value ...Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- April
10th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #273
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Innovation, Speed & Scale ... A crisis can always be seen as an opportunity. 2020 will definitively remain as a special year, the year of massives changes in personal & professional sides. Some companies have to stop or reduce their business while others are boosting their activities like Netflix, Sony or Zoom. Nevertheless, sizes matters. For the big corporates, scale is not an issue, as Netflix who perfectly managed this crisis as a great opportunity. But for a startup , Unicorn or even a Decacorn, scaling can be an issue. While jumping from 10 to 200 Millions users within a couple of months, Zoom could not manage some security basics. But which company could be able to multiply by 20 its business without any issue ? Ransom of glory, these massive numbers attract also all hackers who want to break the new king. Interesting to see people blaming and banning Zoom while having used their solution for free, for years , without being able to understand or explain clearly which are the exact risks ... We are now living in a very ephemeral world, where people forget very quickly, where people forgot that 2 years ago Facebook was involved in a massive affair, the Cambridge Analytica, where personal data were shared and sold out of any rules. But not a single company banned Facebook at this time, all kept their Corporate Facebook Account to promote their brands, even if the facts were obvious ... The monopoly power. Two sizes, two interests, two policies... No doubt Zoom will learn from this crisis, they will bridge the security gaps as their UX, telecom & video algorithms are clearly world class. But each company needs time to scale, be patient.Enjoy your reading !
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Patrice
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- April
3rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #272
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Wall Street creates a new Stock Index : The Trump’s Tweet ! Everybody innovates, everywhere, anytime ... Yesterday, 10:32 EST, The President of the United States posted a tweet, a new tweet, related to the Oil Market. Within less than 30 minutes, the value of Brent & WTI Oil have increased by 30 % ! Even if Trump Promoted an Oil deal that May not exist... No more crisis, Tweeter created a new stock index for traders ...Enjoy your safe reading from home !
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Patrice
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- March
27th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #271
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Tech for Good, Tech for us ... This crisis is a new experience for all of us. New ways of working, new ways of interacting but also new ways to share & help. We have seen many nice behaviors & stories where each of us try to find new ideas to help the society with our knowledge. You will see many examples in articles below and we hope our collective intelligence will be the best cure to fight this virus. Even if technology can be blamed sometimes, we know research & innovation will go on to improve our lifes.Stay safe, at home ...
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Patrice
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- March
20th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #270
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Dunant, the Red Cross founder, brings closer Europe & US ... We could not dream of a better timing to launch ‘Dunant’, the new submarine optical cable between France & US ... After ‘Marea’, the Microsoft & Facebook project launched last year to cross the 6600 KM between the 2 continents, Orange started a few days ago the first mile of this huge connection on the french beach in Siant- Hilaire de Riez in Vendee. The last transatlantic cable was deployed 15 years ago. 250 Tbits/s for Dunant, 160 for Marea, no doubt the applications will come to fullfill this giant bandwidth. We are definitively entering a new world, with new models, new ways of working, Digital technologies enabling us today to work remotely, in a distributed manner, to avoid too many travels, forced or not ...Stay safe, at home, for you & your nears, reading does not need traveling or moving ...
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Patrice
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- March
13th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #269
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The next AI will be … sentimental … IBM has been presenting the lastest features of Watson, its AI flagship. NPL is entering the game with advanced sentiment analysis. We know language & sentiments are extremely complex to be managed by AI. IBM is considering these new improvements will help transform how " businesses utilise their intellectual capital that is codified in data" A great limit to reach !Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- March
6th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #268
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Distributed Virtual Meetings on tracks ! With the cancelation of many flights & travels, companies need to reorganize and adapt to maintain their business. When scientists say #ClimateCrisis will kill millions, asking us to change our habits and how to get to work, people simply answer: ‘No Way’. When scientists say we should wash our hands because of #Covid19, people stop flying, work from home & rearrange their life. When most of business are suffering from the crisis, the full digital ones rise to the sky: Netflix or Zoom for example, the VisioConference APPS increasing its value by ... almost 100% within a month ... Perhaps the best time to experiment or shift to innovative efficient visioconf solutions like Zoom or Panacast, to improve our productivity, life balance & take care of the planet, all in a row ...Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- February
28th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #267
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A world definitively ... global. Aside from the dramatic human consequences and casualties, the Coronavirus Covint 19 is showing once again the difficulty to manage a hyper connected world where millions of people and products can travel the planet within a few hours or days and affect any country and business far from the ‘patient 0’. Traceability will become a number one priority in logistics, supply chain, transportation, whatever the technology, blockchain or others. The latest news coming from South Korea & Iran affected all financial markets with the GAFAM loosing for example more than 230 Billions, even if speaking about economy could appear insane in front of this major human crisis. This will probably bring new questions around manufacturing dependency when we know most of industrial products are manufactured in Asia. Butterfly effect in a global connected world ...Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- February
21st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #266
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Tech & Innovation for the Planet, more than ever ! After Microsoft announcing a Carbon negative target for ... 2025, Amazon is following the trend. Jeff Bezos had already announced a zero emission objective for 2040 and he declared this Monday a will to invest 10 US$ Billion for climate change projects. We don’t know yet how & where it will be managed but the buzz is now moving to real acts. Nevertheless, even with these massive amounts declarations, we cannot forget the most important fact : WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE and all our small acts are the best & most actionnable solutions for the present. As Jeff Bezos said: “We can save Earth. But it’s going to take collective action from big companies, small companies, nation-states, global organizations, and individuals." Not sure about nation states but convinced on our collective positive impact !Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- February
14th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #265
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A new flying experience ... Maveric. This project code could become the future aircraft of the coming decades. This Airbus innovative project is exploring the new way to fly, answering the new requirements: less consumption, better passenger experience, ... A nice video to imagine the future aeronautic world. Of course, some will argue we must ban flights for environmental reasons. Yes if we are consistant End To End: no more flights, no more electricity, so no more laptops, phones (Ho no, not my phone ! ...) , no more high tech, no more medicine research. Welcome back to the Stone age !Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- February
7th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #264
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Sustainable space on top of a sustainable planet ? A few hours ago, One Web successfully launched 34 new LEO satellites (Low Earth Orbit, below 2000 Km). Around 650 satellites will be launched within 2 years to provide a worldwide satellite Internet coverage. SpaceX Starlink aims at deploying ... 42.000 satellites for the same goal. Amazon is planning the same project named Kuiper. Knowing we have today 4000 satellites flying over our heads (and 300.000 debris ...), do we really need to have so much competition and so many flying objects when we deploy 4G, 5G or FTTH (Optical Fiber) in most of countries ? We should at least encourage the ‘lean constellations’ to minimize the number of satellites. Not sure the future generations will enjoy the magic pleasure of watching the milky way during summer nights with all this light pollution already caused by the 240 starlink satellites a couple of months ago.Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- January
31st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #263
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Albatrosses to save ... fish ! The new Natural AI ! Here we are, 5 years ! 5 years ago, in Jan 2015, we were launching the first Innovation Newsletter. 5 years of news, every week , with not a single stop, no holidays, 100% SLA . So we start this 6th year with a nice project: Ocean Sentinel. Where we equip the most impressive bird of Oceans, the majestic Albatros, being able to fly 48 days, 20.000 km without any landing, to detect fishing fraud ...! A great example of natural innovation, mixing the magic of nature & human ...Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- January
24th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #262
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Protect your home devices ! A few days ago was revealed a new massive cyber attack: half a billion of devices hacked with bots ! AI, IOT, bots & Cybersec : the new explosive cocktail to hack routers, servers and IOT devices. This attack was possible as too many of us are still using defaut passwords or easy passwords. A simple program with a bit of AI can easily break these passwords. Doing so, the hacker can then access and control all your devices connected to your ‘smart unsafe home’, shutters, webcams, heating, assistants, pcs & servers with all your data ... So IOT can be nice devices, unless you don’t protect them, you don’t protect yourself.Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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10th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #261
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Are CES Vegas & San Francisco the most suitable places to promote the Innovation Next Gen, sustainable ? CES Vegas is over. As every year, we read the same headlines: Less Innovation, less booths, less leadership … I don’t think CES is the best place to discover Innovative products, it’s only a way to see which are the trends promoted by marketing, startups & some global leaders. So this year, AI was in the place, as IOT, 8K screens, not a lot of 5G -waiting for telco to deploy & many Chinese brands absents-. We also saw a recurrent trend: well being with many booths around smart home, smart beds, health, green food, sustainable planet … Nice to see this new trends in CES to promote a better way of life & a smarter sustainable planet, in line with many other approaches all over the world, Tech for Good, Innovation for Good, … But some innovations presented are a bit surprising going against the grain. [...]Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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10th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #260
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AI, 8K & IoT win the CES contest AI was everywhere in Las Vegas CES this week. Even if we don’t really need the 8K definition, we must admit the quality of these huge screens is definitively impressive. Looking at all the connected objects presented at the CES, most of them including cameras or recording massive volume of personal & non public data, we could be surprised by the lack of privacy protection, very far from GDPR … Hype effect ? Or consumers ready to give for free their personal data in order to access low cost services ? A lot of education & security awareness remains to be done …Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- January
3rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #259
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Happy new year 2020 !!! Next week will start the first big innovation event of this new decade, so make your bets on the coming breaking news ! But for now, I simply wish you a wonderful year 2020 for you and your families !Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- December
24th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #258
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Merry Christmas & Winter Break ! A fews days before closing 2019, Verizon announced they reached their target ! More than 30 cities connected with 5G in the US. Unfortunately, the cities coverage are not so consistent & Quality Of Service is still not there. 2019 was more the year of 5G Kick Off, 2020 should be the year of 5G launch 😊. I wish you all a merry Christmas & winter break for you and your nears !Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- December
20th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #257
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30 Millions Raspberry sold !!! 7 years ago, in 2012, Eben Upton was selling the first Raspberry Pi 😊. The world of DIY -Do It Yourself- was entering a new age … Last week was sold the # 30 Millions Raspberry. Congrats & well done Mister Eben ! I wish you all a wonderful Christmas & end of year break ! Sincerely yours, PatriceEnjoy your reading
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- December
13th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #256
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COP25 : Innovation for good ? Tomorrow will end the 25th COP in Madrid, the worldwide Climate rendez-vous supposed to help us solving the global warming. Unfortunately, nothing new, not a single significant decision to help us facing this major Earth & Human challenge. Seems that all the previous Marketing & Communication buzz have been already used and the non-results of the past few years are letting the worldwide leaders without voice. Let’s hope that all innovation brought by AI, edge Cloud, sustainable energies & change of behaviors will help to change the game …Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- December
6th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #255
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The no-code comeback A few weeks ago, Webflow, a leader startup in the No-Code World organized the first No-Code Conference in San Francisco. Investments in this sector raised from 114 M$ to 529 M$ within 5 years. AI is one the technologies helping to accelerate the pace, another good example of AI application.Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- November
29th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #254
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Do we need to regulate the sky ? Hard week for Elon Musk. The SpaceX’s rocket Starship exploded on the pad launch during some tests, the 2 windows of the new Tesla Cybertruck crashed during the reveal and the space community is starting to be really annoyed by the Starlink mega constellation, causing massive disturbance for sky observation ... With only 120 satellites launched, where 42.000 are planned to deliver the Starlink network, the visual impact in the sky is already having a huge impact for observers. Do we need to regulate these new projects? When you know that similar projects are able to deliver Worldwide Internet coverage with less than 1000 low orbit satellites (like OneWeb Constellation), do we have to support the concerns & consequences of such constellations with 42000 flying satellites over our heads? Not sure this is a lean sustainable approach ...Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- November
22nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #253
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Industrials ready for 5G Most of Telco providers will start to deploy 5G in 2020 but many industrial companies have already started to deploy private 5G networks to experiment the benefits of this new technology. 5G will bring brand new services around 3 main pillars: Broadband to reach 1Gbs to 10 Gbs bandwidth, massive IOT capacity & high available low latency networks for sensitive services like autonomous cars. Pirelli announced an interesting project with connected tires to improve road safety ...Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- November
15th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #252
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Tinker Board, the new challenger for Raspberry ASUS & Google decided to challenge Raspberry by creating a similar single board computers to support Edge AI business. We will wait next week to discover the price of this new SBC but this shows the massive opportunities brought by AI + Edge Computing. The other big news of the week is the amazing Alibaba’s Sales record reached during the Singles’ day with more than 38 US $ Billions … voice less …Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- November
8th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #251
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Ehang preparing a 100 Million $ IPO to Nasdaq! The chinese flying taxi Ehang is willing to accelerate its Go To Market. After more than 2000 test flights, they want to launch their first commercial flights in China for goods & people in coming months. Ehang already raised $42 Millions in a previous Series B in 2015 and are expecting 100 M$ in this Nasdaq IPO. This introduction will be key for Ehang and the Flying Taxi sector as it will test the business appetite for this future market...Enjoy your reading
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Patrice
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- November
1st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #250
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Lilium electrical VTOL in the air! A nice video this week coming from Lilium, an innovative project to deliver a new concept of electrical aircraft designed with a VTOL (Vertical Take Off & Landing). But the major difference with classical flying taxis is coming from the ability to also fly as a classical aircraft to cover long distances. Interesting for taking off & landing within the cities but enabling also to connect cities with long distance flights. The major challenge will be of course the autonomy for these hybrid flights. Stay tuned!Enjoy your reading
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- October
25th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #249
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Are Electric scooter fleets a sustainability failure ? A few days ago, Lime announced an operating loss above $300 million, showing they are losing money as quickly as they raise it from VCs ... An other competitor, Bird, is on the same trend ... One of the main reasons being the very short lifespan of their vehicles: 45 days ! 45 days being also the delay for each scooting before delivering revenue, unlucky business model ... Lime did not anticipate the lack of ‘respect’ for their nice electrical tools: pedestrians fed up to find scooters on their way, other ones throwing them into rivers or sea, for ‘fun’, generating massive Lithium pollution into the water, many scooters being stolen or damaged, we are far from the sustainable positive valuable model ☹ Let’s hope the massification and maturity of this new market will help the few survivors to build a new real sustainable model.Enjoy your reading
Patrice
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18th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #248
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Winter is coming, Libra is going downhill... A few months ago, Breaking News! Facebook was launching the first Social Network Crypto Currency! 4 months later, the 3 biggests "partners" are leaving the boat (without being really sure they ever entered it...). Bye bye Visa, MasterCard & PayPal. We all know that any project must integrate now 2 major components: Trust and Ecosystem. After Cambridge Analytica Gate, not sure that Facebook was the best model of Trust, to convince their "happy members" to trust their new virtual currency... Second lesson learned, even if Business has to go fast, words should make sense. A letter of intention from Visa or Paypal or any other company is not a formal partnership, even if you are one of the GAFAM or BATX... Trust & Facebook, 2 different worlds ...Enjoy your reading
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- October
11th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #247
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The start of the Unicorn’s Bubble? The last weeks have been rude for decacorns in the US. WeWork, Uber and many others are showing the limits of massive investments without clear results or objective economic logic. Over last years, the main KPI to evaluate the success of a StartUp/ScaleUp was the level of ... fund raising. Even worse, a startup showing profits without Venture Capital investment is still considered as a failure, a lack of ambition. As the ones rating the startups are most of the time the same funding these startups, we could question the model: is it fair? Can we trust this rating? We could therefore think about another way of qualifying the startups, as a regular business, based on revenue and margin ... But this is perhaps too much disruptive 😲Enjoy your reading
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- October
4th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #246
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Amazon SideWalk as a new Wireless standard? EAmazon has announced a new project to connect objects, supporting IOT huge Business. The objective is to propose an alternative to existing networks, from Wifi, Bluetooth to 5G! Indoor, Outdoor, Good Bandwidth, Low Energy consumption, all this being provided though a brand new meshed network. Very ambitious but we know Amazon is able to invest massively in any project to make it fly. Let’s see how they will handle this new opportunity!Enjoy your reading
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- September
27th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #245
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Blockchain as the future standard of traceability ? Everledger, a young startup created in 2015 raised a new round of 20M US$ in addition to the previous 10M round. Tencent is part of this round and proves once more the interest of the market in blockchain as one of the best technologies to guaranty traceability of valuable goods in complex supply chains involving a high number of partners within the ecosystem.Enjoy your reading
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- September
20th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #244
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Irridium Next, the first real satellites constellation very up & running ! August 1999. 20 years ago. Iridium went bankrupt, one of the worst space stories, Billions US$ being invested in this massive program launching 66 satellites. February 2019. Iridium Next began full operations with 66 crosslinked satellites in low Earth orbit. The system has nine spares in orbit and another six stored on the ground. One year after signing a new agreement with AWS, Iridium announced 2 new contracts with OneWeb & the US Department of Defense showing the success of this new service. Another example of the new world opened by IOT Business …Enjoy your reading
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- September
13th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #243
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Is streaming lean & sustainable? A couple of days ago, Apple announced their new strategy: Streaming. Sells decreasing on Iphones, Apple wants to have recurrent revenues through Gaming & Videos, trying to follow Netflix. Internet, higher bandwidth through Optical Networks, 4G, 5G, Wifi everywhere, GAFAM & BATIX need to provide & sell more & more content. But is this lean? Consuming so much bandwidth & energy to store & send all these data through the telecom networks… We used to store our music & videos on our smartphones & laptops, being available everytime, everywhere. Now Millennials listen to music on Youtube while we are listening always the same music on Spotify… Everybody is fighting for a more sustainable & green planet. We could ask ourselves if we do want to change our habits, really…Enjoy your reading
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- September
6th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #242
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Fiodor in the sky with debris … Last week, Russian Space Agency launched Fiodor, the first humanoid robot to the ISS. Many actions will be delivered by the new ISS host. But we don’t know if Fiodor will help to regulate the traffic on space. As we are launching more and more satellites every month, a weather satellite had to be rerouted this week to avoid a collision with a SpaceX’s Starlink satellite …Enjoy your reading
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- August
30th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #241
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Fake Reality, from VR, AR, MR to ... FR! We saw the first videos a couple of years ago. Fake videos changing the voice of famous politicians to create fake pitchs. But today, with the power of AI, Fake Videos are incredibly realistic, you can create brand new pitchs with real people. Impossible to make a difference between a real and a fake pitch. Fake Reality is there. How AI will help us to make the difference? Frightening...Enjoy your reading
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- August
23rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #240
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The first commercial flying taxi for 2020? Volocopter has revealed its latest version of the first commercial aircraft, the Volocity Air Taxi. The first public test is planned for Q4 this year in Singapore. Regulation will be of course the highest challenge, let’s see how Airports & Air Traffic Management regulators will handle this...Enjoy your reading
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- August
16th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #239
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Social Networks: lost in translation... Less than a decade ago, social networks were bringing a great promise: link people beyond distance, give power to end consumers and bring a total new User Xperience ... Seems that this dream has gone away. Teens becoming crazy addicts, pushing Instagram to perhaps remove the 'like' option, Trip Advisor being biased by fake feedbacks, we are far from the original dream... Time to step back and trust the real physical life and feelings?Enjoy your sunny reading
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- August
9th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #238
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Beware, Boston Dynamics’ dogs leave the lab! A couple of weeks ago, Boston’s Dynamics made the buzz by posting a new video where human were beating a robot! Strange feeling to feel ashamed by a ‘poor robot’ being assaulted by 2 men. This was the intent, to position a robot within the human sphere. After a few years of amazing R&D investments, Boston Dynamics will now start to sell these incredible robots. For which usage ?Enjoy your sunny reading
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- August
2nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #237
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After GAFAs, BATX enter the automotive business... A few days ago, BMW unveiled a new partnership with Tencent, the T of the BATXs ... BMW wants to accelerate development around self-driving cars while expanding footprint in the world’s biggest auto market. New opportunities to the east ...Enjoy your sunny reading
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- July
26th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #236
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A flying man crossing the channel … Or not … This was supposed to be a premiere yesterday: the first man to cross the channel flying with rockets under feet. The challenge finally failed but not so far from the success. We will have to wait a little bit more to see this. 50 years ago, the first man was landing on moon, we should be able to land on the UK ;o)Enjoy your Summer Break reading
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- July
19th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #235
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Electric scooters being far from green … All major cities have deployed electric scooters with Lime, Bird or other providers. They were supposed to be the perfect city green transport, with no carbon footprint, easy service, avoiding traffic jams. But after a couple of years, reality seems to be very far from the promise: lifespan lower than a few months, battery pollution, vandalism, scooters left everywhere, some cities are now starting to regulate this new business …Enjoy your reading
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- July
12th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #234
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The first country fully equipped with a 5G Network! Monaco & Huawei did it! Monaco is the first country to deploy a full 5G Network. Fire Department will use it to provide Video support through drones during operations and many other use cases are popping up. 5G season 1 is opened ... On the environment side, Sweden decided to cancel the Fashion Week to protect the planet, a major courageous decision ...Enjoy your warm reading
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- July
5th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #233
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Tech for the planet Global warming, increasing natural disasters, El Niño, how can we stop these trends ? We see more and more GreenTech, massive improvements in green energies, solar panels deployments but promising is not enough. One of the most impressive (or frightening) photo has been published a couple of weeks ago by Steffen Olsen. In Greenland, ice has melted faster than ever before. Good news for the tankers, very bad news for us ...Enjoy your warm reading
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- June
28th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #232
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Time to Shift to green aviation! Impossible to find a booth without the word Innovation in the Paris Air Show last week. This show is gathering all worldwide leaders of aviation & space industries. But for this edition, the second topic of interest was sustainability & Green technologies. 7 CTOs of these industry giants committed to decrease by half their carbon footprint by 2050. I would bet that for the next Paris Air Show in 2021, the buzz word will be: Sustainable … The second interesting news of the week is for the Raspberry addicts: The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is finally here ! 😊Enjoy your reading
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- June
21st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #231
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Corporate private currencies as the future standard moneys? Facebook will deploy Libra, its own cryptocurrency to develop & bring new business to the brand. All Digital leaders are taking the same direction to be able to control their users purchases ... If Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google are taking control on massive exchanges, we could reconsider the role of the classical money currencies & state regulation ... Interesting for the GAFAM, 51% of the world population is now connected to internet! For sure a good news, but keep in mind 15% of population still does not have access to electricity & 30% (2 billion humans ...) does not have access to potable water ... Sense of priority, change of mindset?Enjoy your safe reading
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- June
14th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #230
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Uber Air Down Under ... Uber Air made a new announcement a couple of days ago. The first flight tests will start in 2020 and should move to commercial operations by 2023! Dallas & Los Angeles were already on track for the US cities but Melbourne joined the early adopters to be part of the first 3 cities ...Enjoy your safe reading
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- June
7th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #229
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Privacy as a standard for Innovation Apple is announcing the new ‘Sign In with Apple’ service to improve your privacy protection. A very good approach to prevent your personal data to be spread through the web with very few transparency & clear approval. Privacy is clearly on its way to become a standard and after Apple announcement, Firefox is announcing a similar approach. Let’s see how Samsung & Google will react, as privacy protection doesn’t seem to be a clear priority when looking at the latest Samsung Android’s release ..Enjoy your safe reading
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- May
31st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #228
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A Laptop with 5G and Quantum Computing ... A few days ago, Qualcomm & Lenovo revealed at Computex 2019 in Taipei the world’s first 5G laptop ! This laptop is a beta version but commercial version will be released next year with a radical change in our usage. On Quantum side, IBM is announcing the first computers within 3 years ... Looking forward seeing our laptops in 2022 ! 😊Enjoy your safe reading
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- May
24th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #227
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When politics meets business... Within a week, Huawei have seen the consequences of politics in business. Google & ARM are stopping their collaboration with the chinese telecom leader with heavy consequences for their clients. Huawei will try to reorganize its partners ecosystem, will probably boost R&D to innovate even more & create their own technologies but Time To Market is critical in High Tech. Other interesting news, Airbus collaborating with Scandinavian Airlines to develop a new hybrid & electric aircraft after the ‘Flying Shame’ movement being launched in Sweden a few months ago ... When Consumers meet business ...Enjoy your reading
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- May
17th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #226
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60 satellites launched in a row ! In a few days, Space X will innovate again by launching the heaviest load ever on its Falcon rocket. 60 nano-satellites launched in a row for its Starlink project aiming at providing a worldwide Hi Speed low orbite Satellites Internet Access with no more than 4000 satellites... If we add the 3000 satellites from Kuiper (Jeff Bezos) & the 600 from One Web, this 500 Km low orbite area will become a bit crowded ... Many technological challenges will have to be managed, one of them being the objects detection to avoid these thousands of satellites to be hit & damaged by space debris already ‘flying’ on this low orbit. When you know that 2 of these debris are falling every day on earth, we could consider ourselves a bit lucky that they never hit a human 😊 ...Enjoy your safe reading
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- May
13th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #225
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San Francisco’s news: massive IPOs and Dinks’ impact Today, Uber is launching the biggest IPO in years, $82 Billion ... Lyft, Uber, AirBnB, Pinterest, many SV unicorns are moving to IPO this year with real impact on the city. Number of Real Estate transactions dropped by 20% over last quarter speculating on the consequences of these massive IPOs. What will be the real impact on San Francisco? Some are expecting a massive demand after the IPOs, coming from the Dinks (Double Income No Kids), working in Uber and others ... Some others remind the early 2000’s where the prices decreased in similar context. Let’s see what is happening ...Enjoy your reading
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- May
03rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #224
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GDPR or not, everybody knows the price of your house now! WOne year after launching GDPR, it’s time now to give a clear definition of a public data ... Since a few days, a new service is available in France allowing anybody to know the exact price of a house or appartment you bought over the last 5 years without asking you if this data is private or public ... Within a few seconds & a couple of clicks, you can discover the value of all houses in your street thanks to etalab opendata. Very surprising when at the same time everybody seems ashamed against Google proposing you simple ads ... Maybe the price of your goods is public but ads are private ... 😊Enjoy your public reading
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- April
26th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #223
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Autonomy as innovation We see more and more news linking innovation and autonomy. Aircrafts, cars or any other automated vehicles, carbon footprint is no more an option. Consuming less, with a preference for green energies, this is definitely the 2019 trend.Enjoy your reading
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- April
19th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #222
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Innovation, the right moment ... Last week, Stratolaunch Systems succeeded the take-off of the world’s biggest aircraft. A flying launchpad for low earth orbit satellites rockets. But is the market still here while Space-X & others have already deployed new amazing launching platforms with new Business Models ? As we saw 2 decades ago with Iridium huge space program, speed in Innovation is key. Iridium was a great exciting idea, but needing 15 years to be deployed, GSM phone systems took the market before Iridium being able to propose any services, resulting in a massive failure, Iridium going bankrupt, being sold for a few Dollars ... Once again, success in Innovation requires fast deployment ...Enjoy your reading
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- April
12th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #221
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BFR made it! Big Falcon Rocket, named Falcon Heavy successfully launched a huge satellite from ArabatSat while completing a triple booster landing for reuse purposes ... A major win for Space X, competing with Boeing, Amazon, OneWeb, or Google for deploying new Internet satellite constellations in coming years. On earth, many interesting news this week as you will read below.Enjoy your reading
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- April
5th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #220
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Trust as the best argument for IP? Last week, the Beijing Court ordered Chinese car company (Jiangling Motors Corporation) to Halt Production of the Copycat Range Rover Evoque, the Landwind X7. Many companies know how difficult it can be to defend patent & IP as time & country laws can be 2 reason to give up the fight. But this time, Land Rover made it. Perhaps a change of mind for chinese court? Trust is becoming more and more a key value for Business. Let’s see if this could become a global worldwide shared vision ...Enjoy your reading
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- March
29th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #219
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Huawei, the 100 billion dollars company... This Friday, Huawei announced amazing yearly results, by reaching the cap of 100 billion dollars revenue... A 20% growth with a 25% growth on margin. No matter all protectionism politics taken by many countries, this company created only 30 years ago is leading the way...Enjoy your reading
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- March
22nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #218
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AI for Art ? Nvidia launched GauGAN, a really impressive prototype software that turns doodles into realistic landscapes. GauGAN, the Artificial Gauguin of course, is showing a very good example of the AI Power, far beyond complex analytics, bringing a real artificial intelligence in art, probably the most complex human skill ... I encourage you to watch the demo of this smart Paintbrush ...Enjoy your reading
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- March
15th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #217
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Standardization to push Innovation towards Industrialization With Electrical Vehicles becoming mass-market products, many car manufacturers have been trying to push new concepts in order to industrialize E V design. Power train Design, Battery Thermal Management are some of the core components of these new EV platforms. Last week, Volkswagen went a bit further by opening up its ‘MEB' Electric Vehicle Platform to other companies. Let’s see if Open Innovation will enter the automotive sector as it did within IT. Perhaps a bit too early ...Enjoy your reading
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- March
8th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #216
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From AI buzz to AI bubble ? A recent study showed that nearly 50% of AI startups are not using AI at all ... Not very surprising when you see that most of people don't make any difference between Analytics experts robots and artificial intelligence... One more limit to the buzz. Time to come back to basics and technology fundamentals to extend AI.Enjoy your reading
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- March
1st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #215
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Foldable screen & 5g within a full chinese platform, as a standard. Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona. 2 words on every booth : 5G & foldable screens. Once again, user experience will make the difference. Even if you are not convinced -yet- by the amazing change brought by 5G, downloading a 1 G Movie on your smartphone within 1 second will make the difference. Huawei is king, king of 5G. Difficult to see who will be able to compete, even more when you see Europe & US fighting internally against major acquisitions & consolidations between worldwide leaders to keep a ‘better competition’ ... that will kill these leaders becoming soon too small in front of Chinese tech giants ...Enjoy your reading
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- February
22nd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #214
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The limits of Innovation buzz ... Is it still possible to sell a new product without over using the buzz principle? SeaBubbles could be a good example. Shown for the first time 3 years ago in Paris, this very good idea is using the foil concept to provide a better taxi experience over rivers. So why Seabubbles is making so much buzz using the flying taxi concept when they are simply using the foil concept? Industrialized for years in sports like Kitesurfing or windsurfing, the co-founders Alain & Anders used to be worldwide champions in these sports … The limit of the buzz.Enjoy your reading
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- February
15th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #213
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Quantum Computing: invest or monetization? After Blockchain, AI & IOT, Q is the new buzz. But what is the real value of Quantum Computing? Faster computation but to do what? An R&D topic to faster complex algorithms in mathematics, pharma, physics? All processor manufacturers are trying to onboard Business clients but the Business Cases and Value must be explored ...Enjoy your reading
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- February
8th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #212
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Chinese Techno leaders in the US Innovation ground ... Tencent, one of the major Chinese Tech leaders has announced to invest $ 150 M in Reddit, one on the major US rising Tech companies, nears $ 3 B valuation... Reddit is the fifth-most visited site in the US, trailing only Google, YouTube, Facebook and Amazon. Even if Huawei is struggling entering some protected foreign markets, the BATX are showing the way... Other interesting news, one bitcoin website Loses $137 Million after its founder died and took his passwords with him... New Business Model should never forget the fundamentals: how can a company let all his assets depend on a simple password? Amazing...Enjoy your reading
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- February
1st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #211
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Fostering innovation by releasing IP? Protecting the Intellectual Property was the priority of all companies. Not sure this is still relevant in our today’s environment where Speed, Scale & Secure is the new standard ... Interesting to read the latest Elon Musk’s vision deciding to share all Tesla’s IP... Accelerating innovation by sharing your ideas could be the key to expand the market. On a very different topic, let’s take one step back by understanding how we are using our smartphones as a constant companion without even realizing it, pretty far from Steve Jobs’ vision when he launched the IPhone. Are we able to be released and unchained from our ‘smart’phones...?Enjoy your reading
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- January
25th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #210
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How Innovation could save the Monarchs ? Western monarch butterflies might be gone for good in a few decades. The population of these majestic monarch butterflies has plunged by 86% since late 2017 in coastal areas of California... In 2018, Innovation enabled us to send a Tesla to Mars, to see a robot succeed making a perfect backflip, to see the incredible benefit of AI in image recognition or Driverless Vehicles. And if 2019 was the year when Innovation definitively help us saving our planet diversity ?Enjoy your reading
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- January
18th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #209
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Blockchain in Newspapers, AR & IOT in CES ... Many articles this week on AI & Blockchain. But when we look at the main innovations presented in CES Vegas or NRF in New York, Augmented Reality, AI, autonomous vehicles, 5G & IOT are the most shining stars. After the Factory 4.0, the House 4.0 is fully connected, fully digital, perhaps too much. Sure the House 4.0 will embed soon a ‘non connected’ room to enjoy some non digital rest 😊Enjoy your reading
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- January
11th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #208
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AI @ Cybersec as the 2019 trend ? 2018 was definitively the year of Artificial Intelligence. But AI value is coming when applied to a specific Business Case. AI to improve Predictive Maintenance, Medical care, trafic jam, Self Driving Vehicle, ... Always surprising to see so few interest in Cyber Security. Even more when we know that this topic should be the number 1, embedded within all IT & digital components. How to secure these Billions of Connected Objects, these Billions of Mobile Phones, all our data stored in the cloud ? And what if the first value of AI in 2019 were AI serving CyberSec Services to provide more safe & secured digital world ? Let’s see ...Enjoy your reading
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- January
4th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #207
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Have a wonderful innovative year 2019 ! First of all, I wish you all the best for you and your nears for 2019 ! Pleasure, success, fun and of course a better world powered by great Technologies & Innovation. And up to us to make the good sustainable choices, buy better goods, probably less, and think more ‘to be’ than ‘to have’ :-) . The first week of January is always the Vegas Week with the CES expo. Let’s wait for next tuesday 8th to discover the 2019’ trends !Enjoy your reading
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- December
28th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #206
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CHave a great & wonderful Christmas & end of year break ! Dear readers, a few days before closing the 2018 year. A lot occured this year in the innovation space. Without no doubt, if I had to enlight 3 news, I would select these following : AI King. Artificial Intelligence has become the Number 1 topic to study for all companies & sectors Bitcoin soap opera. Up & Down, the most impressive Roller Coaster Tesla flying to Mars. A.M.A.Z.I.N.G, let’s keep us dreaming ! I wish you a wonderful end of year well deserved break. 😊Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- December
21st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #205
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Can we Innovate with old ideas ? Innovation, Disruption, these terms resonate most of the time with technology. But we see more and more innovation answering to new needs, to new expectations, to provide better way of living. And as we see with fashion, old ideas can come back after a few decades of silence and be seen as innovation, with amazing success. Once again, impact of innovation is not coming from invention but from speed of deployment, sustainable deployment ...Enjoy your reading
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- December
14th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #204
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Emotion + Speed + Social Networks : Digital Reality is not the real reality ... Facebook & Social Networks seem to become the new only source of information for many people. No time (or no will) to dig into a real complex situation, lack of context, subjective view of information, social networks could become a new danger for democracy. Even more when you know how Facebook is presenting you ‘information’. We receive information from our Facebook ‘friends’, most of the time people sharing the same point of views, leisure, way of life, ... We receive what we like ... A photo, a video, real or fake, outside its context can be seen as reality & spread the World Web within a few hours to reach millions of readers ... Frightening if this is perceived as Information ... Perhaps AI will help soon to solve this burning issue. But for the time being, Diversity, Difference & Curiosity remain our defense.Enjoy your reading
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- December
7th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #203
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The more blockchains, the less Bitcoins … 20.000 US$ in december 2017, 3.600 US$ in december 2018. Bitcoin downhill goes on … During the same period, the number of pilots & projects based on Blockchain is growing everywhere, in all sectors. Securing the supply chain, bringing traceability to complex processes, supporting experts hiring, bringing trust to clients, no limit for creating new use cases. Which will be yours ?Enjoy your free reading
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- November
30th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #202
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Alibaba Single Day, what’s next ? Difficult to avoid the massive numbers when you hear about these special days , billions of Dollars being spent during these 3 days … One benefit could be all these products being sent at the same time allow optimizing logistics. But global carbon footprint must be insane … Interesting to see the antagonism between the growing need for lean, going back to our roots, to better human values, will of simplicity, promoting ‘to be’ instead of ‘to have’, and these crazy crowd waves of ‘special days ‘ … Not sure this is the best side of the Digital Consumption Revolution. Could be good to promote a 2019 No Buy Day, or ‘Enjoy Day’ 😊.Enjoy your free reading
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- November
23th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #201
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Welcome to the Robotic World ! Robots, Bots, CoBots (Collaborative Robots), ChatBots, WorldBot … 2 years ago, robots started to leave the factories, where they have been massively used for decades, drasticly improving productivity on the Assembly Lines. With AI, IOT & 3/4/5G, we are now able to create new services to go far more than classical robots. Boston Dynamics has shown the way with the amazing – frightening ?- Atlas. But all callcenters have now deployed chatbots and you will find below interesting other use cases in Delivery business for example.Enjoy your non ReadingBot.
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- November
12th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #200
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200 Innovation Newsletters ! 200 weeks, almost 4 years since 2015 Jan 22nd ! 😊 Hot topics at this time were Cloud, DevOps, Big Data, ... These became fundations of our Digital world today, helping to deploy AI, IOT to the Edge, serving all Business for the new trends : Autonomous vehicles, Collaborative Robots, Predictive Maintenance ... The new Digital World, the new Mobile Digital World ! You will find below many interesting news around mobility, the new normal ... Enjoy your 200th Innovation Newsletter !Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- November
9th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #199
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Innovation, Risk & SafetyInnovation is the world of new, or how to accelerate the future by using the latest technologies, methods & tools. Difficult to innovate or disrupt without taking any risks. The real question is : how many risks are we able to take, to accept ? And one of the limit is Safety ... One good example could be the ‘Route du Rhum’, one of the famoust Sailing Races. 2 of the 6 leaders (Ultimate Class) have already left the race. Always going higher, bigger & faster, these boats are now reaching the limits of technologies, the limit of safety, human safety ... On Business side, interesting article below pointing out China has now much more Unicorns than the US .... What will be -or is- the next Silicon Valley ... ?
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Patrice
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- October
30th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #198
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From FAANG to Blockchain Eldorado...You knew GAFAM & BATX (Google Amazon Facebook Apple Microsoft) (Baidu Alibaba Tencent Xiaomi). But What about FAANG ? FAANG are the 5 major Tech companies in the Silicon Valley (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google). Over the last years, all young engineers wanted to join this club. Before the Blockchain Wave... Many young talents are now leaving the Tech Giants to live their own dream : try to fill in their crypto wallet reaching millions or billions value... As usual, a few will win a lot to cover the headlines. But most of them could come back soon to their old tech life. Nevertheless, all of them will try to build a new decentralized blockchain world influencing the existing architectures...
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- October
26th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #197
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Welcome to the Sigfox Bubbles !Everybody knows that Billions of Connected devices are being used today. Most of them are connected through WIFI but other billions are Mobile IOTs, being deployed for supply chain or traceability purposes. Other being located in areas with poor network connectivity. 2 major standards have been defined to connect all these devices with very low power energy consumption (LPWan): LoRa & Sigfox. Sigfox announced yesterday in Berlin a major innovation: the Sigfox Bubbles. Or how to connect billions of devices outdoor & Indoor with Geolocation services.
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Patrice
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- October
19th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #196
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Next AI Robot GenerationBoston Dynamics has published the latest video showcasing its Atlas robot performing ... amazingly ... Very far from the first video in 2017, embedding the latest technologies, applying AI to move and manage obstacles. We all have the same questions: how will Atlas be used, for which purpose, which use case ? Optimistic or pessimistic ? Would be very happy to receive your view & feedback 😊
Sincerely yours,
Patrice
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- October
12th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #195
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Should we trust social networks ?After Facebook, Google is now making the headlines after a major security flaw in Google plus. Even the Digital leaders keep fragile in front of cybersecurity attacks or privacy rules. As we cannot deny this risk anymore, how responsible are we by sharing too much sensitive information with third parties ? Probably a question that should raise in the future soon ...
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Patrice
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- October
5th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #194
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5G on the starting blocks !Even if the 5G standard is not still finalized, many experiments are being done. Huawei, Samsung are announcing the first 5G mobile phones for 2019, the Telecom providers are already conducting the first 5G trials in many cities and countries in order to be ready for the next coming worldwide events like Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020 with brand new services. On Musk planet, not an easy week with a serious fight engaged with the US SEC … Patrice
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- September
28th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #193
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Twitter has lost its voice …For the first time ever, the number of Monthly Active Users on Tweeter has been decreasing last quarter, from 336 to 335 Millions … Bad year for Social Networks after Summer Facebook news … Interesting to see the rapid evolution of Social Networks usage. What is the future of Tweeter ? Can we still share valuable information with so few characters ? At the same time, LinkedIn is growing up, transforming a simple giga CV DataBank into a new Professional Network more and more used to share & communicate. With more than 260 Millions Monthly Active Users, should not take long to beat Tweeter …
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Patrice
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- September
21st
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #192
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Who will be the king of 5G ?No need to argue, 5G will be one of the biggest shifts in coming years, transforming Information flows in many industries. But who will lead the 5G business ? We could think Telecom Providers of course ! Not so sure with the new eSIMs ... eSIM ? eSIM for embedded Subscriber Identity Module, your unique telco ID. a major change in Telco Business Model with a full digital process. No need to change your physical SIM to switch operator. Change your Telco Provider in a click ! Not a good news for them. Apple implemented eSIM in the latest IPhone last week to keep control on their clients... A major change, transparent for now but sure that the 2 first worldwide mobile phone sellers (Samsung & Huawei) will follow ! Enjoy your eReading,
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- September
14th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #191
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One week to discover hundreds of Innovative projects !27 cities, 17 countries, 5 days, hundreds of Innovative sessions ! Plenaries, Panel Discussions, Projects testimonies, Visionary point of views, Hackathons, real demos within our Applied Innovation exchanges. Thought Leaders, Worldwide experts, CTOs, CIOs, DTOs, Industry leaders, Startups, Brillant Students, even an Olympic Champion ! AI, Blockchain, AR/VR, Robotics, IOT, Cloud, Digital Future, Sustainability, Workspace of the future, … Do you want to join the +5000 attendees and share your experience while discovering other universe in order to shape your own personal or company future ? Time to stand back, once a year, to build your strategy ? Join us & register ! https://www.capgemini.com/capgemini-week-of-innovation-networks/ Wish meeting you within one of the cities, in real or virtually through one of our numerous webcasts ! #Passion #Innovation #CWIN18 ! Patrice
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- September
7th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #190
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Who needs a 8K screen ?Samsung and LG both unveiled new 8K TVs at the IFA 2018 expo in Germany. Great news ! Really ? Interesting to see that almost no video content (TV or Video broadcasts) is available right now for the public as the 4K TVs are quite recent in the stores. Another interesting point to look at is the energy consumption. As you could imagine, the power needed by these brand new devices is not really aligned with sustainability aspects at global level ... Some could argue that the coming 5G networks will be able to bring these high quality content soon. Yes, with the same energy paradigm. Do we need always to watch 8K content, every time & from every device everywhere ? Not convinced that CNN ‘breaking news’ deserves it ... a poor 2K screen would make the deal ... And you will discover below that a few days ago, Amazon joined Apple in the very closed club of the ... Trillion Dollar valued companies ... Enjoy you 0,5 K reading😊 Patrice
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- August
31th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #189
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The end of Social Network Generation 2.0 ?By launching Watch - its Video platform worldwide - Facebook is trying to save its Business Model. After losing more than 20 % of value on July 26th, Facebook is trying to recover. Very far from the previous target, Facebook will try to catch a new audience. Perhaps the end of the 2.0 Social Network ... Enjoy your slow reading, Patrice
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- August
24th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #188
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5G: The Telecom of the future5G will definitely be the network of the future. Many experimentations have been made by Telecom providers and vendors. By providing bandwidth above 1Gb, decreasing latency by 10, we can wonder what is the need of deploying optical fiber everywhere. Even if the 5G standard is not yet finalized ( 5G NSA and 5G new Radio), many telecom actors have started the race. The First commercial networks will be deployed in coming 2 years. Enjoy your slow reading, Patrice
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- August
17th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #187
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Let'discover the sun mysteries !Last sunday, Nasa launched successfully the Parker Solar Probe ! A fabulous journey to meet the sun. Let's hope Parker will be more successfull than Icare :-) Enjoy your sunny reading ! Patrice
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- August
10th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #186
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4 days a week as an HR innovation ?Quality Vs Quantity ... This is the 2018 trend ! Lean, Slow Life, Slow Food, we seem to move to consuming less but better. This new life Style is moving to Business. A company from NZ has tried the 4 Day Work Week with significant results. Less meetings, more pragmatic tasks, more responsabilities, have a look at this story below ! Enjoy your sunny reading ! Patrice
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- August
3rd
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #185
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Bye Bye GAFA, Welcome MA3 !By loosing more than 100 Billions US$, Facebook value collapsed a few days ago under the cap of 500 Billions US$. Gafa has gone, with the dream of the free products & services paid by advertisements. Only 4 companies values are above 850 Billions US$ : Apple, with almost 1000 Billions ! Then Amazon, Alphabet & Microsoft ! The MA3 ! To bring some fresh air this week, we will travel under the pole for a new expedition reading the first article ! 😊 Patrice
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- July
27th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #184
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Welcome to the Phygital World !Digital is everywhere. But don’t think that Digital will replace Physical. Digital needs Physical as Augmented reality needs our ‘real’ reality... More and more digital innovations in our industries are coming from massive amount of datas we can collect on the physical world through sensors & connected objects. To better analyse our past and present to anticipate or improve our present or future. After Microsoft promoting Azure Sphere for IOT world last week, Google is announcing this week Edge TPU, to provide Artificial Intelligence capabilities within connected products, without using real time cloud resources. Cloud to the Edge, a sustainable architecture, pushing intelligence & processing power at the edge of clouds, embeded within micro chips... Patrice
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- July
13th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #183
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Digital Natives: Generation Z is knocking at the door !Many studies & reports have been presenting the Generation Y (Millenials) as the first digital native. But looking closely, seems that the real digital natives are the ones beginning now their business lives, the Generation Z ... Looking for leaders, not managers. Looking for mentors, role models, no teachers. Most of theoritical & methodological content can be now found through digital platforms, moocs, networks. But seniors, experts, thought leaders bring a real different value : experience, collaborative experience ... A great opportunity to build brand new teams, diversity, for those who are ready to share, listen & learn ... whatever the age ! Enjoy your digital reading & take some time to register for our annual Innovation event coming soon, the CWIN, to learn even more, native or not ;o). Patrice
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- July
13th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #182
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ICOs: all Innovations don't bring the same values...If blockchain was doing the headlines in 2017, no doubt that ICO is taking the lead in 2018. Even if more than 50% are failing very soon... So watch out! Jumping to the environment, not sure that the new indoor ski slope in new jersey is a good news for the planet. Hopefully, many other positive news to read below! Lesson learned, never forget to reinvent your future, everyday! Enjoy your digital reading Patrice
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- July
6th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #181
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When a physical retail leader partners with the digital king ...In 2012, Best Buy value had decreased for 75% within 2 years, in front of Amazon Tsunami. No future for classical old retailers in the US. Until a new CEO, the frenchy Hubert Joly, changed the trend. Massive disruption, big changes. Within 6 years, value increased by 500% ... while partnering with his best enemy: Amazon. Best Buy is now the only retailer selling Amazon Echo in the US and signed a new partnership to sell the Fire TV betting on Innovation & smart home technologies. Lesson learned, never forget to reinvent your future, everyday! Patrice
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- June
29th
Innovation Watch and Upcoming Trends #180
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New virtue of Blockchain : traceability !A couple of years ago, all blockchain news were refering to Bitcoin. Nowadays, most of blockchain topics are linked to TRUST, securing traceability. For all sectors, industry, manufacturing, healthcare, farming, goods, … A good opportunity to secure the entire process, bringing trust and clarity to the entire ecosystem and stakeholders , preventing someone to deny or modify a validated action or decision … Patrice
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