WebSummit 2022 Keynote

?Remote work

⚡You need to create a value of visiting an office, not requirements
⚡Remote management is maintaining personal relationship, personal connection. CEOs visit their subordinates personally to check up how they feel
⚡You have more accessibility of CEO as he/she speaks on Zoom to everyone

?How do you manage productivity working remotely:

⚡Coaching, teaching, mentoring teams
⚡Trust is key. If you don’t trust your people, then something is wrong with the system
⚡Empowering your employees
⚡Organizational trust is critical
⚡If there is office dependency, then there is something wrong with workflows
⚡If you want to hire the world’s talents, you have to work remote
⚡Tools: PWC rolled out Teams in 2 months throughout the whole organization
Slack – communication with developers
Notion – documentation of every product and processes
⚡Values question of management team whether you write questions in chats after hours
We have to respect after-hours of work
⚡As an employer you have social responsibility to create the right working conditions for your employees, also remotely
⚡PWC asked all their employees, how they want to work
⚡We have to embrace people
⚡It is important to give remote workers the same experience
⚡You can only differentiate on culture, when there are no physical advantages of your office

Neuroelectrics

?Studying the brain
Everyone will get digital copy of the brain
There will be possibility to work with mental health

?Microsoft. The world’s climate crisis
The path from pledges to progress
An energy change
Big carbon problem
⚡We need carbon accounting and then we need to move from carbon accounting to efficient measurement
Committing to transparency
⚡We can’t measure anything at scale until we automate it
⚡We need a new ecosystem for carbon measurement build on data
⚡We need new carbon technologies
Microsoft established 1b$ Innovation fund
⚡We need to build new industries
⚡We need to build new foundation: Carbon math, carbon accounting, carbon measurement

Talk Robot section

?Social robots
⚡Will speak your language and will be easy to use for non-tech people
⚡Social robots are used for:
Unbiased recruitment
Scanning of unidentified diseases
Travel help
Museums guide
Assistant
⚡Robot is more engaging emotionally than a voice assistant

?Skydio drones
⚡Autonomy is missing link of why drones are not widely used
⚡Skydio produces autonomous drones, which you don’t need to tune
⚡Drones can fly where nobody can
⚡Predictive path planning 3 seconds before you
⚡3D scanning inspection – smart drones scan your assets and create digital twin model

Amazon

? Innovation takes place as part of everyday work

TAP Portugal

Business travel will be back in 3-4 years
? We need to build collective immune system. Vaccination is too slow
Airlines are taking the safety of the passengers very serious

SAP

? Modern world should have
0 emissions
0 waste
0 inequality
Enabling faster supply chain management with agile transformation

? Creating a culture of innovation (DHL, IDEO, CI&T)
⚡Innovation is design thinking
⚡Inclusion is what drives innovation.
Inclusive culture. Including anybody makes Innovation efficient. Frontline people create a lot of innovative ideas
⚡Design thinking workshops create Innovation
⚡The more different people are in one team, the more there are opportunities to find the right solution, than listening to all the same people
⚡Give more freedom to local teams to drive innovations
⚡Innovation agenda should be the main agenda every day for every company

?AI is answering a call of sustainability (Shell, Databricks, Kongsberg)
⚡Energy transition is possible with AI
⚡Data glues everything together
⚡It is becoming more accessible and cheaper to have technology
⚡Accessibility makes it getting from data to decisions faster
⚡There should be created an open source ecosystem where all countries could come to and develop a common solution to deal with climate change