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  • October 30, 2020 MIT News

    3Q: Update on MIT’s Task Force 2021 and Beyond

  • 10.27.20-New-Retail-Simchi-Levi

    October 27, 2020Conference Video Duration: 30:16
    This presentation will focus on the evolving applications of digitization, analytics and automation for end-to-end supply chain transformation in the retail sector which has witnessed some of the fastest digital growth.

        Technology Trends to enable Supply Chain digitalization
        Advanced Demand Analytics and its Impact on Business Performance
        Implementation: Global Retailer
        Requirements for Success

  • 10.27.20-New-Retail-Pentland

    October 27, 2020Conference Video Duration: 28:47
    Concerns about data privacy, national localization, and security are driving dramatic change in the digital systems that support commerce and government.  These new systems are distributed, all-digital, natively encrypted, continuously auditable, and feature automatic legal enforcement.  Examples are the UBIN systems being fielded by Temasek and Singapore Monetary Authority, the Swiss Trust Chain fielded by SwissPost and SwissComm (which we helped design), and the Chinese national "smart city" system.  Along with these commercial systems are financial systems that such as Fidelity's Akoya (which helped design), Intuit and EY's internal tax reconciliation systems, and the national digital currencies being test deployed or seriously considered by most OPEC nations.   I will focus on

        what these next-gen systems are and how they change the game
        what security looks like in these new systems
        how all this changes AI and the value of data.

  • 10.27.20-New-Retail-Ortiz

    October 27, 2020Conference Video Duration: 16:29
    For those in the public and nonprofit sectors, the coming months and years will see many challenges that will impact our retail-driven environments, including continued social distancing, budget shortfalls, and hybrid work from home options that will upend the connections that many once had to their central business districts. Place-based organizations, including City agencies, BIDs and Main Street organizations, simply don't have the option of walking away from the communities they serve. Even under challenging conditions, the public and nonprofit sectors must continue to find ways to help businesses and communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. As we consider the rapidly changing retail landscape, how should our public sector partners, whose policies and regulations have a significant impact on retail environments, respond? What role will they have in reinventing the retail experience in partnership with property and business owners?

  • 10.27.20-New-Retail-Sevtsuk

    October 27, 2020Conference Video Duration: 40:25
    Street commerce has gained prominence in urban areas, where demographic shifts such as increasing numbers of single people and childless "empty nesters," along with technological innovations enabling greater flexibility of work locations and hours, have changed how people shop and dine out. Contemporary city dwellers are demanding smaller-scale stores located in public spaces that are accessible on foot or by public transit. At the same time, the emergence of online retail undermines both the dominance and viability of big-box discount businesses and drives brick and mortar stores to focus as much on the experience of shopping as on the goods and services sold. The COVID19 pandemic has further exacerbated the problems retailers already faced, but also opened up new opportunities. In light of such trends, street commerce will play an important role in twenty-first-century cities, particularly in producing far-reaching benefits for the environment and local communities.

    Although street commerce is deeply intertwined with myriad contemporary urban visions and planning goals—walkability, quality of life, inclusion, equity, and economic resilience—it has rarely been the focus of systematic research and informed practice. Drawing on economic theory, urban design principles, regulatory policies, and merchant organization models, Andres Sevtsuk conceptualizes key problems and offers innovative solutions. Prof. Sevtsuk’s work on street commerce provides a range of examples from around the world to detail how different cities and communities have bolstered and reinvigorated their street commerce. According to Sevtsuk, successful street commerce can only be achieved when the private sector, urban policy makers, planners, and the public are equipped with the relevant knowledge and tools to plan and regulate it.
  • October 30, 2020 MIT News

    Technique reveals deeper insights into the makeup of nacre, a natural material

  • October 30, 2020 MIT News

    Democracy in distress?

  • October 30, 2020 MIT News

    Angelika Amon, cell biologist who pioneered research on chromosome imbalance, dies at 53

  • October 30, 2020 MIT News

    Activist and scholar Angela Davis addresses racism in MIT webcast

  • November 1, 2020 MIT News

    A deep look at how financial markets are designed