Join us for the MIT ILP Paris Symposium hosted by Groupe Bouygues to explore the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation in the corporation. While the road to digitalizing our business processes is long underway, it is still necessary to commit to investing in people and technology to ensure long-term strategic business transformation for the good of the customer. Remaining agile in a rapidly-changing business environment not only keeps you competitive, but also allows for greater innovation. In order to remain innovative, should your company utilize intrapreneurship, collaboration with startups, or even both? How can this innovation bring success for the whole organization, and not just the sum of its parts?
In this talk, I will present a new computational design and manufacturing workflow that draws inspiration from computer architectures, programing languages, and program synthesis. I will describe how designs can be synthesized from their functional specifications to the corresponding low-level instructions that are executed on intelligent manufacturing hardware.
Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are poised to influence the rate and direction of innovation. By allowing firms to perform costless verification, blockchain lowers the cost of auditing transaction information and allows new marketplaces to emerge. Adding a distributed ledger to the mix allows marketplaces to be bootstrapped without the need for traditional intermediaries. How will this technology challenge existing revenue models? What impact will it have on the regulation, auction, and provision of public goods, software, identity, and reputation systems? With research grounded in economic theory, Catalini will discuss how blockchain is poised to upset the global market.