Month: June 2019

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 3, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The rise of new semiconductor innovators reimagining silicon’s potential to meet the pace of today’s emerging tech-dominated world outshone as the #1 tech trend over the next few years – as established by Churchill Club, Silicon Valley’s venerable thought leadership forum.

Presented in partnership with Accenture and Forbes Media, the 21st edition of Churchill Club’s annual Top 10 Tech Trends debate evaluates trend predictions for the years ahead and uncovers those that will drive the most change. A panel of five notable venture investors each present two key trends, discuss their potential impact and welcome a live audience to weigh in with the help of polling partner, Poll Everywhere.

“Our mission at Churchill Club centers on strengthening innovation, economic growth and social good,” said Churchill Club CEO Karen Tucker. “This annual debate advances our aim by exposing our entrepreneurial, enterprising audiences to important ideas and opportunities for beneficial change.”

Olan Kenneally, managing director at Accenture, echoed this sentiment, reinforcing how tech trends discussed at Club events past have offered the tech community first-hand insights into the impact emerging influences would have on tomorrow’s society.

“As leaders look ahead toward the future of their businesses, it’s critical that they examine where and how emerging technologies can drive disruption and growth,” said Kenneally, “The Churchill Club’s annual event is an important indicator for forward-looking organizations in the Bay Area and beyond.”

This year’s event in Santa Clara, CA, brought together partners from Canvas Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Mayfield and Venrock to submit their strongest forecasts. Returning to the stage as the lively debate’s “referees” were Forbes Media’s CEO Mike Federle and publisher Rich Karlgaard. Attendees were treated to a ground-breaking exhibit of portraits created with artificial intelligence by Churchill Club artist-in-residence Pamela Davis Kivelson and her collaborative called, Neur-on.

The Top 10 Tech Trends for 2019, ranked by percentage of audience agreement, are:
1.    The renaissance of silicon will create industry giants
2.    Federal defense and intelligence budgets will dramatically unlock for startups
3.    Biology as a technology will reinvent trillion-dollar industries
4.    Flexible fertility management will become mainstream
5.    Rise of functional medicine
6.    Distributed workforces will become the norm
7.    Digital technology makes positive inroads on mental health
8.    Physical space: The final frontier
9.    A democratized network of trust
10.    VR-AI-bioelectronic wearables program our emotions in healthful and intentional ways

To learn more about these trends and what fueled the debate from both ends of the spectrum, stay tuned for a deeper dive from the Churchill Club blog. In the meantime, you can find a complete video recording of the event at the Churchill Club YouTube channel.

About Churchill Club
Churchill Club is Silicon Valley’s top independent thought leadership forum, with the mission to strengthen innovation, economic growth, and societal benefit. The 7,500-member, 33-year-old, 501(c)(3) non-profit regularly convenes dynamic, future-focused events where global business and thought leaders meet to discuss and debate, inform and educate, forecast and evaluate the timeliest trends of the day. To learn more about Churchill Club, visit http://www.churchillclub.org.

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ABINGDON, England, June 3, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — B2M Solutions today announced it has been awarded a substantial loan from the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to further its research and development in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning used to support Enterprise Mobile Devices, Applications and workers.

“Innovate UK is supporting B2M Solutions with an innovation loan for a project to use artificial intelligence in its software to meet the needs of its customers,” says Tim Sawyer, Chief Investment Officer at Innovate UK. “We are pleased to support such an ambitious and market-driven technology business.”

This new round of funding will be used to advance Elemez, the company’s industry-leading real-time mobile device analytics software. Specifically, the company will use AI methods to work with large sets of unstructured data to advance our Elemez platform around:

• Detecting unusual behaviours and anomalies in mobile devices and applications
• Discovering key relationships between different metrics
• Adapting to changing operational conditions
• Predicting problems before they occur and automatically making recommendations to optimise performance and avoid failure and downtime of mobile devices

“B2M is pleased to be awarded further Innovate funding having previously been awarded a number of grants and therefore recognized as a leading technology vendor,” says Julie Purves, Founder and CEO, B2M Solutions. “This funding allows us to expand our research and application of new AI and Machine Learning techniques to further predict and prevent the outages of mobile devices which today negatively impact mobile worker efficiencies and costs.”

About B2M Solutions:

B2M Solutions™ is a global software company dramatically improving how enterprise mobility is operated and managed. The company’s flagship product, Elemez™, provides real-time actionable analytics and operational intelligence for enterprise mobile devices and applications. Unlike traditional enterprise mobile software management tools used for MDM, EMM and UEM, Elemez proactively identifies, isolates and predicts issues to help enterprises prevent and avoid problems, improve enterprise mobility’s performance and lower the True Cost of Ownership™ of mobility. mprodigy® is B2M’s mobile enterprise management platform (MDM/EMM) and offers a proven, cost-effective management layer for line-of-business enterprise mobility.

Founded in 2002, B2M is a privately held company based in Abingdon, UK, with North American operations in Atlanta, Ga., U.S.A. For additional information, visit http://www.b2msolutions.com.

About Innovate UK:

Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation, a non-departmental public body funded by a grant-in-aid from the UK government.

They drive productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas, including those from the UK’s world-class research base.

Visit innovate UK at https://www.ukri.org/

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WASHINGTON, June 3, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Terbine announced today at the ITSA Annual Conference the full rollout of a specialized version of its Internet of Things data exchange system, featuring over four thousand data feeds generated by ITSA public agency members.

The Intelligent Transportation Society of America has over 300 member-organizations ranging from major automakers to federal, state and municipal highway authorities. The ITSA Data Exchange, as it is called, offers a frictionless environment for participants to share, and in some cases monetize, their IoT data feeds with the goal of improving road safety and transportation efficiency. It is searchable now at https://itsa.terbine.io

“Advanced mobility is driving the demand for curated data sharing,” said David Knight, Terbine Founder and CEO. “The ITSA Data Exchange has all of the functionality of the Terbine Exchange with the association’s branding. It’s a powerful tool for the growing data-based ecosystems that are forming around autonomous aerial and land vehicles, smart cities, smart grids, next-generation infrastructure and related technology-driven sectors.”

The ITSA Data Exchange system is akin to having a private commodities exchange, with many input feeds and many participants operating within a large closed user group. It provides advanced data curation, automated handling of regulatory and licensing matters, tracking of transactions and a highly advanced policy engine that gives administrators full control over who can access any given IoT data feed. The offering includes a web-based console that is used to manage member accounts, control data feeds and assign pricing when desired. Terbine hosts and operates the exchange for ITSA, facilitates onboarding of both the member-organization who produce data and end user organizations, along with training and customer support.

About Terbine

Terbine is building the first global ecosystem for the seamless exchanging of machine-generated/IoT data. Over two years in development, the IoT Data Exchange is capable of characterizing, categorizing, licensing, monetizing, tracking and securitizing the flow of billions of IoT data feeds emanating from public agencies, academic sources and commercial entities. Designed to leverage key advances in artificial intelligence, blockchain and edge computing, Terbine will scale with the growth in IoT data generation and solidify its usage within and between industries, to the benefit of global commerce and people alike. For more information visit https://terbine.com/

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