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Future of Knowledge, Systems, Skills, and Intelligence
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How does the work of running a successful company change when: * Algorithms outperform human experts in more and more domains? * Computers can be creative and personable? * Asset-light platforms spread across industries? * Even extremely sophisticated products become commoditized? * Many organizations can be bested at their core competence by an online crowd? * Blockchains, smart contracts, and other technologies of extreme decentralization promise the demise of the corporation? Drawing on insights from Machine | Platform | Crowd, his most recent book with Erik Brynjolfsson, Dr. McAfee will address these and other questions. He'll provide a vision, sure to spark lively discussion, of what successful companies will look like in as we move deeper into a time of brilliant technologies.
How can you protect yourself against threats you don’t know about? What measures can you take to assess your risk before a breach? How can you protect yourself against an attack that originates in an innocuous object like a toaster? Professor John Williams will discuss how organizations can prepare themselves to defend against cybersecurity threats to protect their enterprises. He will discussrisk a modeling and data analytics tool (Saffron), that helps to identify risk tolerance and strategies for assessing, responding to, and monitoring cyber security risks.