A talk from the Work Track at AWE USA 2017 - the largest conference for AR+VR in Santa Clara, California May 31- June 2, 2017. Carl Byers (Contextere): Contextual Computing and Augmented Reality to Build the 21st Century Workforce The 21st Century Workforce is being increasingly characterized by multi-skilled, cross-skilled, and dynamically adjustable talent. At the same time, McKinsey estimates that 30-45% of the global working age population is currently economically underutilized. The combination of contextual computing and augmented reality-based workplace guidance provides the potential for real-time enhancement of worker skills and knowledge to increase worker capability, flexibility, productivity, and safety. The session will discuss the challenges faced in global workforce development as well as innovative contextual computing and augmented reality capabilities that are improving the performance of blue collar workers in the field and on the factory floor today. http://AugmentedWorldExpo.com

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Carl Byers, Chief Strategy Officer
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Santa Clara – June 2017

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Contextual Computing and AR
Building the 21st Century
Workforce

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300,000,000

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300,000,000
Number of youth worldwide that are not in
employment, education, or training
(McKinsey 2015)

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30-45%

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30-45%
Percentage of global working age
population that is economically
underutilized (McKinsey 2015)

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We can’t train people fast enough and … “education
spending in emerging economies is significantly less
than in advanced economies” (Bain 2011)

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There is >1 safety
incident per day at
industrial companies.
In-Service Support accounts for
>70% of the total lifecycle cost of
an industrial asset.
>50% of an industrial
employees day is 'non-
productive' time.
1 in 4 times when an industrial employee
attempts to install, repair or maintain
complex equipment they fail.
Industrial Pain
45m skilled worker shortage (McKinsey)

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Autonomous
Machines
(PLC Programmers)
Augmented
Human
(Industrial Workers)
Automated
Planning
(Data Scientists)
Command &
Control
(Operation Managers)
Human
Centric
The Center
Machine
Centric
The Edge

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The Next
Technology-Enabled
Workforce

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The Augmented
Worker

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The Augmented
Worker
Visual

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The Augmented
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Visual
Auditory

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The Augmented
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Auditory Haptic/Touch
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The Augmented
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Auditory Haptic/Touch

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The Augmented
Worker
The Right Information
the Right Way

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Machine Learning

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Machine Learning
Constant Adaptive Contextual Relevance

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Machine Learning
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Augmented Worker

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Machine Learning
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Augmented Worker
The Right Information in the
Right Way at the Right Time

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Machine Learning
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Augmented Worker
The Right Information in the
Right Way at the Right Time
Always!

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An intelligent personal agent
delivering curated guidance and
actionable insights to the last
tactical mile.

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Using human-centric machine
learning and intelligent contextual
data curation to answer the
simple question – Now What?

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@contextere
+1.613.851.1712
carl@contextere.com
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Ottawa, ON, Canada
Blue Collar AI – Making Every Worker Skilled