Digitalization

• [New] Terrafuse AI, a climate and weather risk forecasting tool developer, has launched a new platform for assessing and mitigating the growing property risk from wildfires in California, called Wildfire AI. ReinsuranceNe.ws
• [New] China has been able to use its peacekeeping deployments as a platform for its own development activities and, likely, information - gathering for local business opportunities. Institute for National Strategic Studies
• [New] Can you imagine a world where software and digital technology eliminates or augments the need for certain type of therapies. the weekly ledger
• [New] Proponents of a digital currency say the U.S. risks falling behind China, which has already unveiled a digital yuan. MarketWatch
• [New] Vodafone has announced plans to add nearly 7,000 software engineers to its European workforce by 2025 in an effort to develop more digital services in-house. Telecom Paper
• [New] Facebook cannot be trusted to manage a payment system or digital currency when its existing ability to manage risks and keep consumers safe has proven wholly insufficient. Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News - FintechNewsCH
• [New] Professionals from a range of disciplines will network and gain insight into the increasing confluence of their worlds, providing even more opportunities to support the next generation of digital technology. MySecurity Marketplace
• [New] Digital Motorsports is always forward-thinking about the next generation of technology that will enable drivers to be prepared for the next season of motorsports. Proactiveinvestors NA
• [New] Digital Organization Structures and Roadmaps Mature By 2023, 75% of organizations will have comprehensive digital transformation (DX) implementation roadmaps, up from 27% today, resulting in true transformation across all facets of business and society. Navigate the Future
• [New] Over the next five years, all growth in traditional technology spending will focus on four platforms: Cloud, mobile, social, and big data/analytics. Navigate the Future
• [New] Bitcoin has rallied close to the record high it hit earlier in 2021, fuelled in part by expectations that bitcoin ETFs will pull new money into the digital asset market. Financial Times
• [New] FIGFCU's deployment of the Constellation platform represents another way for credit unions to quickly launch specific digital services, alongside and without disruption to their current digital banking services. FinExtra
• [New] The Digital Twin will utilise a Single Synthetic Environment (SSE) platform which was developed by Improbable in partnership with Strategic Command, and a number of leading industry and academic partners over the last 2 years. armyrecognition
• [New] The Virtual Tour sets up a new platform model that enables buy and sell globally without time and space limitation, offering new opportunities for global buyers to discover Chinese intelligent manufacturing and explore the Chinese market. China Money Network
• [New] Scalable Network Technologies is a privately held company in Culver City, California, and provides software, simulation and network digital twin platforms that enable users to analyze and predict the performance and cyber resilience of communication networks. GovCon Wire
• [New] Characteristically manually intensive and slow to adapt to the converging worlds of physical and digital, manufacturing has played a central role in serving demands for products and materials throughout lockdown periods and will be pivotal to global economic recovery in the months and years ahead. Connectivity4ir
• [New] Alongside the internal threat, is the risk that foreign internet service providers, largely based in the US, could turn off cloud servers and social media platforms etc., if America decided to act on the threat to impose sanctions on Afghanistan. netpreserveblog.wordpress.com
• [New] The digitisation that India has done is truly impressive and it will be one of the major hubs of digital trade and digital services in the world and a standard-bearer going forward. ETCISO
• [New] As the number of data and application silos continues to surge, there will be a need for data fabrics, which allow for a flexible, resilient integration of data across platforms and business users. ZDNet
• [New] Cloud-native platforms will play a major role in delivering capabilities anywhere and everywhere in 2022 as enterprises move away from lift and shift migrations. ZDNet
• [New] AI engineering, cloud-native platforms and autonomic systems were just a few of the trends that topped Gartner's list of the strategic technology trends that organizations need to explore in 2022. ZDNet

Last updated: 24 October 2021