The forum, themed 'Digital Economy and Industrial Integration: Industry-wide Transformation Accelerated by AI', invited 18 heavyweight guests and industry experts. It brought together industry leaders, experts, and investment institutions to focus on new opportunities in digital economy investment and financing, and jointly discuss the capital and industrial forces that enable enterprises to navigate cycles.
Mark Dougan, Managing Director of Frost & Sullivan
At this forum, Mark Dougan, Managing Director of Frost & Sullivan, delivered a keynote speech titled Top 50 Emerging Technologies: 2023 Edition (Analysis of New Technology Challenges and Future Industry Trends from a Global Perspective). Starting from a global perspective, he delved into relevant issues concerning the analysis of new technology challenges and future industry trends.
I. Factors Hindering Corporate Growth
Mark & Dougan stated that the increasing pressure on corporate growth is the result of multiple factors working together. These factors include the compression of the customer value chain, transformative trends, innovative business models, industry convergence, internal challenges, disruptive technologies, geopolitical chaos, and competitive intensity. These factors are intertwined, posing complex challenges to corporate growth.
II. The correlation between market trends and technological development
Mark DuGan points out that there is a close connection between trends and technology. In the technology field, by systematically observing and analyzing future possible trends, technologies, and market demands, businesses and organizations can predict and adapt to future development trends ahead of time. This provides businesses with unparalleled industry application breadth, giving them a greater advantage in a highly competitive market environment.
III. Opportunities and Challenges of Emerging Technologies
Mark DuGan emphasized the importance for businesses to identify and focus on disruptive technologies. He pointed out that by paying attention to the world's top 50 emerging technologies, businesses can more easily discover overlooked disruptive technologies that can significantly increase future growth potential and reduce risks.
Subsequently, Marc DuGuen mainly introduced the market prospects and opportunities for edge inference chips and quantum sensors.
During a global economic recession, businesses should reduce costs, improve production efficiency, cope with market uncertainties, source locally and reduce transportation costs through procurement, decrease dependence on global supply chains, and enhance supply chain resilience. However, the energy crisis may lead to rising energy prices, and businesses need to find energy-saving solutions. Edge computing chips can perform data processing and intelligent reasoning locally, reducing dependence on cloud services, lowering operating costs, improving efficiency, and reducing uncertainties and security risks; quantum sensor technology can provide high-precision data and is widely used in manufacturing, healthcare, energy, and other fields.
