Join the MIT Industrial Liaison Program for "COVID-19 and Crisis Management / Business Resilience" with MIT Professional Education Senior Lecturer Dr. Steven Goldman. This one-hour informative and relevant webinar will discuss several important pandemic crisis management/business resilience issues that executives should understand and embrace – from both the proverbial big picture and the “feet on the ground” perspective. Dr. Goldman will also discuss the importance of leadership during a crisis and he will take a look at the eventual road to recovery.
The digital future is here, and the threat of disruption looms large. In a rapidly expanding digital marketplace, legacy companies without a clear digital transformation strategy are being left behind. COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the transition to a digital future. To succeed companies must embark on the difficult path of digital transformation…and that doesn’t mean creating another app. But what does digital transformation mean for your company and your business? How can we stay on the top of these rapid changes? What challenges have many high-profile companies faced? How can you prepare to succeed in a changing digital climate?
Join the MIT Industrial Liaison Program for this webinar series to discuss the successes—and failures—of digital transformation from taking the right approach to squeezing the most value out of your data to embracing and maintaining the transformation.
Join the MIT Industrial Liaison Program for a Webinar COVID-19 and the Future of Work with Prof. Thomas Malone, Founding Director, Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) and McGovern Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic will be like a bullet train to the future, dramatically accelerating many trends involving digital communication that were already underway and that will never return to the way they were before the pandemic.
- Perceptive Automata: AI understanding of human intent for autonomy - BlinkAI: Imaging AI for autonomy, robotics, sensing - General Radar: High resolution 4D radar for autonomous machines - NextDroid: Autonomously measure & predict self-driving capability - Transit X: Public transit with automated pods on micro-guideways
- Vecna Robotics: Autonomous mobile solutions prioritizing workflows - Akasha Imaging: Vision AI for optically challenging parts - Realtime Robotics: Motion planning for autonomous robots & vehicles - Everactive: Self-powered wireless industrial sensors - Lightelligence: Photonic AI accelerator chip
Total transition to full autonomy in manufacturing is unlikely. While “lights out”, fully-automated factories requiring no input have long been a utopian/dystopian vision for the future, even the most automated electronics or production plants still require a large number of workers to set up, maintain, repair, and spearhead the innovation of equipment. Production systems must constantly adapt to rapidly changing conditions. With current technology and even developments in AI, human presence is often superior at providing that flexibility - which will likely remain the case for years to come.
In this talk, David Mindell, MIT Professor and CEO/Founder of Humatics, will discuss how automation has evolved the manufacturing industry, the critical technologies playing a role in this transformation – including the Humatics microlocation platform, which is driving productivity and safety by providing full visibility into intralogistics vehicle operations – and why full autonomy in manufacturing is a distant, unlikely future.