Strategy Analytics predicts that 2021 will be another bumper year for infrastructure vendors in China. The launch of the 700Mhz new frequency band and the offering of over 480K 700 MHz 5G base stations this year will be a catalyst for further 5G development in...
UK AI Reaches New Heights: Tech Nation Announces 32 Transformative Tech Companies Joining The Applied AI 3.0 Growth Programme • 32 AI tech scaleups from across the UK have been accepted into Tech Nation’s third Applied AI growth programme •The news comes as the government...
A ground-breaking project at the iconic Brooklyn Navy Yard site in New York City will show how a Digital Twin platform enables buildings of any size, type, or age to significantly cut operating costs and carbon emissions. An Ernst and Young report confirms that Digital...
The Web Summit has become an unmissable conference for the tech world. The event is coming to Lisbon for the first time in five years and it features a large number of key industry members. Microsoft's President Brad Smith will give a keynote speech, also...
NFTs are the first iteration of the blockchain uprising in an increasingly virtual world. NFTs are the first passage of the offline world of assets to the online open DeFi world of digital twins identity and digital assets narratives and economy. NFTs Uprising NFTs are...
Thursday 20th March 2021 marked the tenth Global Accessibility Awareness Day, created to prompt the discussion about digital access and inclusion across technology, digital tools, assets and software around the world. Following a day of talks and awareness-raising, inclusive user design experts are encouraging organisations to...
Pioneering work in the Digital Twin sector by Cityzenith has won a major accolade: a Smart City Business Award at the openbusinesscouncil’s (OBC) COVID-19 summit. Cityzenith wins Smart City Business Award The event award recognised Cityzenith as one of the “most progressive thinking companies, demonstrating...
The next wave of connected and intelligent technologies—sensors, 5G, and artificial intelligence (AI)—promises to improve the energy efficiency of urban systems. AI, in particular, can help cities save money, address infrastructure needs, and reduce emissions. Yet cities face significant challenges in researching, developing, demonstrating, and...
From 8-12th March, the Digital Week Online will highlight the biggest digital must haves for 2021 and offers a global cutting-edge Digital Transformation program that highlights the latest trends and issues regarding Women Leadership, DeepTech, Digital Transformation, Blockchain, COVID19 Impact, Smart Cities, FinTech, Privacy...
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) aims to recreate the traditional financial system with fewer frictions. It is mainly composed by open source platforms, accessible by anyone and driven mainly by automated computer programs and less and less by centralized entities and humans. What is DeFi? DeFi, short...
· The openbusinesscouncil Summit and Awards, in partnership with citiesabc and World Smart Cities Forum, is an online event with the aim to strengthen businesses, startups and government’s strategies post COVID-19. · The awards jury panel is made up of technology influencers and academics in...
[caption id="attachment_3211" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Ericsson Launches 5G RAN Slicing To Spur 5G Business Growth[/caption] New software solution enables communications service providers to deliver innovative 5G use cases to consumers and enterprises with guaranteed performance Built on Ericsson radio expertise and a scalable and flexible architecture,...
For the first time the challenge is a global competition, which seeks to identify and accelerate the most ambitious ideas developed by cities in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Bloomberg Philanthropies has launched the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, which seeks to identify and accelerate the...
The impact of the pandemic on businesses in facts, figures and statistic As we enter the new year, some trends seem to carry over. That includes the pandemic of 2020, which speeded up the digital transformation of many businesses and changed the way we work....
Damu Winston is an international digital advisor, serial entrepreneur, founder of Finteachable.com, and lead fintech trainer for all of the banks within the United Arab Emirates. In this interview with Dinis Guarda, he discusses how 4IR technologies like blockchain, AI, and fintech are set to...
Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, celebrated the Nobel Prize ceremony by honouring one of the most prominent Lithuanian pioneers in life sciences - Prof Virginijus Šikšnys - whose contributions led to important discoveries in the Nobel Prize-worthy CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Vilnius is funding a scholarship in...
Smart cities are all about people and digital twins - creating digital avatars of the city - property, infrastructure & connections which transcend geography with data + governance, emotional architecture serving people, businesses. All the challenges and opportunities will be discussed in the upcoming event...
Tech company Synthesized is offering a freemium version of the platform immediately, called Community Edition The platform also supports the ability to rebalance data, removing bias within a dataset No coding or deep technical expertise is required, simply upload a spreadsheet with structured data or...
openbusinesscouncil summit showcases 20 Governments and 100+ Global Industry Speakers on the 9 & 10 December 2020 and reflects how to build better solutions in an environment impacted by Coronavirus. The openbusinesscouncil summit is a leading 2-day global virtual event that aims to strengthen businesses,...
Leading roboticist Dr. David Hanson and AI pioneer Dr. Ben Goertzel announce the launch of Grace, the world’s first human-like robotic assistant for elderly care and biodata management. The product of Awakening Health Ltd. (AHL), a joint venture between Hanson Robotics (HR) and AI firm...
Gallery Director Aidan Meller is a specialist in modern and contemporary art and runs a gallery internationally. With over 20 years’ experience in the art business, he works closely with private collectors and is often consulted by those who wish to begin, or further develop...
Dinis Guarda interviews the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist Ai-Da in this new citiesabc YouTube Podcast series. Ai-Da combines the latest computing and AI innovations intertwined with what humans best excel at: creativity. Created in 2019 and envisaged by visionary art gallery director Aidan Meller,...
New Mexico is launching a new ‘smart infrastructure’ and carbon-neutral energy era on a grand scale, after its 2019 Energy Transition Act (ETA) positioned the US state as a global leader to fight Climate Change. Its ambition will be enabled by partnership between The Agile...
Secondmind report reveals potential for AI and human collaboration to strengthen supply chain resilience Secondmind, The Decisions Company, today released new research indicating that 82% of supply chain decision-makers have been left frustrated by AI-powered systems and tools during the COVID-19 crisis. Secondmind commissioned independent...
Building on the success of the first global gathering in May 2020, which attracted 170 top-level speakers, Digital Week Online will be expanding this global event to Governments, innovators and entrepreneurs on 12th-16th October with the focus on keeping the digital world united - changing...
Dinis Guarda interviews Qiaoyin Yang, Senior Industry Solution Manager at Huawei Technologies, in this new interview for citiesabc. The interview focuses on the role of innovative ICT solutions that are applied to the electric power industry and the challenges that companies face when dealing with...
Cityzenith CEO Michael Jansen has launched a global ‘Clean Cities – Clean Future’ campaign to help our most polluted urban centres become carbon neutral, by donating the company’s Digital Twin platform SmartWorldPro2 to key cities, one at a time. Cities produce more than 70% of...
· Community programme rewards customers and improves service · Reduction in cost & carbon footprint by avoiding unnecessary visits by engineers · Vyn’s short video AI and Analytics platform couples with Limitless’ crowd-based workforce to service more remote areas Limitless, the AI-driven gig customer service...
Efforts to improve the early detection of cancer have received a significant boost with a £2.4 million funding deal to support the further development of innovative testing technology. Glasgow-based ClinSpec Diagnostics Limited (ClinSpec Dx), a spinout from the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry at...
Dinis Guarda interviews Alexander Kern, a Ph.D. in Corporate Finance Innovation Management Science and Managing Partner of the Euro-Institute Monaco about shared capitalism, the current state of Europe's business ecosystem and the road to sustainability. Dr. Alexander Kern is currently the Managing Partner of the...