Part I: Frontiers of Technology - Secure AI Labs: Streamlines data access for business analytics - Lightelligence: Optical chips for machine learning - Zapata Computing: Algorithms for quantum computing - Labber: Firmware for quantum computing - Top Flight Technologies: Heavy lift, long range hybrid-electric UAVs - DeepMagic: Vision & AI for frictionless retail
Part II: Smart Manufacturing - Inkbit: Vision-based 3D printing - Righthand Robotics: Robots for piece-picking and packaging - DUST Identity: Trusted physical identity with diamond dust - Sentenai: Optimizing operational data for equipment monitoring - BlinkAI: Imaging AI for autonomy, robotics, sensing
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.
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