Smart Cities, Public Policy, Urban Planning , Autonomous Vehicles
In this session, participants will learn how young companies are achieving outstanding commercial success by using rapidly-growing technologies to address pressing global challenges. Billions of people face issues with fundamental needs of food, identity, energy, and climate. Providing solutions to these problems not only promotes our common good but also presents tremendous business opportunities.
The presentation guides participants through real-world examples of successful young companies with a focus on their strategies, market models, technical innovations, and market results to date. This session has a strong entrepreneurial tilt and will review core new venture tenets such as discerning the users' true needs and focusing on solutions as opposed to technologies. These lessons are equally applicable to initiatives inside large, established organizations.
Professionals and students with a burning interest in attacking big problems with commercial solutions and taking a risk on a new venture, either inside an existing organization or as a stand-alone entity, will benefit from the session's examples and analyses of like-minded change makers.