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The Innovative Startups that could bring AI & Blockchain to Smart Buildings
March 2nd, 2017The Smart Buildings Sector Needs to Get Specific on ROI
March 1st, 2017
Can We Live in a Smarter World without Giving Up our Privacy?
“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” said the then CEO of Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy, in 1999. Two key things have happened on this topic in the 18 years since his, then shocking, comments; we have less privacy and we seem to have accepted it. To say that we have accepted it is […]
Webinar: Forget the Internet of Things… Let’s Consider the Internet of Voice!
** Recording of this Webinar can be Found HERE ** Please Join us on Monday 6th March 16:00 GMT for our 3rd FREE Webinar in the 2017 Smart Buildings Series, Kindly Sponsored by Project Haystack. Forget the Internet of Things… Let’s Consider the Internet of Voice! A Q&A Webinar Nick Hunn, Technology evangelist, serial entrepreneur […]
Why Future Smart Technology MUST Avoid Cultivating Walled Gardens of Data!
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” That slightly glib phrase often regurgitated at tech conferences, is perhaps something worth contemplating on for a few minutes. It speaks of course mainly to social media companies, conceived by a generation of technologists who understood and harnessed the viral power of social networking […]
Venture Capital & Private Equity Drives Smart Building Startups Forward
“The reason [why great companies sometimes fail] is that good management itself was the root cause. Managers played the game the way it’s supposed to be played. The very decision-making and resource allocation processes that are key to the success of established companies are the very processes that reject disruptive technologies.” So says one of […]
How can we Future Proof Smart Buildings?
Such is the rate of technological change in the modern era that it is almost impossible to plan for the next innovation or technological revolution. However, the brick and mortar, or glass and steel, of the physical building works on a entirely different timescale. While technologists’ talks about months and years, constructionists’ discuss decades. So […]
Designing Human-Centric Buildings
“If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything? We start to confuse convenience with joy, and abundance with choice. Designing something requires focus. The first thing we ask is; what do we want people to feel… delight, surprise, love, connection? Then we begin to craft around our intention. There are thousands of […]
Corporations Increasingly looking to Smart Building Startups for an Innovation Injection
The Internet of Things, part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, will invoke the most powerful market transition in the Smart Building Space over the next 10 years. This will cause massive disruption opening up new business opportunities that will require not just innovative application of technology but also new business models that can trail blaze […]
Big Data: From Qualitative Guesses to Quantitative Proof
“Big data is like teenage sex, everyone talks about it, nobody knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they do it” said Daniel Utges, Product Director at DEXMA during Memoori’s second webinar of 2017, sponsored by Project Haystack. A more professional definition may be that big data […]
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