Digital Transformation: Challenges, Implementation, and Impact During COVID-19
This webinar will be focused on Digital Transformation and, in particular, discuss the challenges pertaining to the process and pace of implementation, as well as the impact on the local culture.
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- Date: 17 Feb 2021
- Time: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
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Roberto Saracco
Featured Speaker: Roberto Saracco, IEEE Digital Reality co-chair
Biography:
Roberto Saracco fell in love with technology and its implications a long time ago. His background is in math and computer science. Until April 2017 he led the EIT Digital Italian Node and then was head of the Industrial Doctoral School of EIT Digital up to September 2018. Previously, up to December 2011, he was the Director of the Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice, looking at the interplay of technology evolution, economics, and society. At the turn of the century, he led a World Bank-Infodev project to stimulate entrepreneurship in Latin America.
He is a senior member of IEEE where he leads the Industry Advisory Board within the Future Directions Committee and chairs the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative. He teaches a Master's course on Technology Forecasting and Market impact at the University of Trento.
He has published over 100 papers in journals and magazines and 14 books.
He writes a daily blog with commentary on innovation in various technology and market areas.
Agenda
Subject-matter-expert, Roberto Saracco, will discuss the acceleration of the Digital Transformation throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and will share important and relevant findings extracted by the recently published IEEE Digital Reality whitepaper. This whitepaper focuses on multiple aspects relating to Digital Transformation, and several of the IEEE Future Directions committee members collaborated in order to cover the continuously evolving technologies, and how they can and may continue to be used in the future.
The corresponding whitepaper is loacted at: https://digitalreality.ieee.org/images/files//pdf/DRI_White_Paper_-_Digital_Transformation_-_Final_11Nov.pdf