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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN

From the Editor

We are celebrating our work with such great talent, Brooks even explains the
leading thinkers and outstanding achievers from across need of humans to be able to
the globe. With great pleasure we share with you collaborate with Robots, he
their new thinking and visions helping to master risks consequently created more
and turn potential into success; we are in particular gentler, more aware ‘Cobots’
looking at physical and digital collaboration and the (see page 18…) Few people
geopolitical risks all across our whirlwind world. Some have done more to bring
of the multiple challenges which are jostling for our humans and robots together than him.
attention are: How to capitalize on technology driven
disruption, turning data into actionable information I hope that the many compelling contributions in this
(Sony Kapoor page 19…) and the effects of the issue will help us all to celebrate the ever accelerating
emerging Blockchain technology as a new paradigm changes around us. A colleague of the astronaut
shift (see Peter Vessenes, page 12…) The January 2018 Michael Foale (page 23) very rightly once said: we
World Economic Forum in Davos (WEF) focuses on are all natural explorers, we need to look over and
‘Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World’ (page above the horizon whether we are looking at Mars or
22…). I have noticed the word ‘sharing’ has become a somewhere else…..
consistently used word in all kind of activities around
the globe. Looking at the World of Robotics, Rodney Dagmar O'Toole
dagmar@csaspeakers.com

Contents

1 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT 6 THE SQUARE AND THE 16 AI AND THE FUTURE OF
Daniel Sieberg, Aric Dromi, TOWER HUMANKIND
Lord Spencer, Diego Niall Ferguson Ray Hammond
Masciaga, Zoltan Istvan
7 KEY PREDICTIONS FOR 2018 18 GENTLER, MORE AWARE
3 CSA VIDEO WALL
Noreena Hertz ‘COBOTS’ ARE COMING
4 THE SILENT MAJORITY
THAT FAVOURS FREE 8 HOW DO YOU ACHIEVE Rodney Brooks
TRADE SUPERB CUSTOMER 19 SUSTAINABILITY &
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
SERVICE? TECHNOLOGY
5 DAMBISA MOYO
ANNOUNCES Cav. Diego Masciaga O.M.R.I. Sony Kapoor
FORTHCOMING BOOK
12 BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY 20 GREEN ENERGY
THE PANDORA’S BOX OF
THE DIGITAL AGE HAS BECOME THE PARADIGM Bertrand Piccard
Carl Bildt
SHIFT IT PROMISED TO BE 21 EDIBLE DRONES ARE
Peter Veseness

A REALITY!

14 FUTURE OF NEWS: WHAT’S Bruce Dickinson

NEXT? 22 WEF MEETING 2018
Daniel Sieberg

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