Presentation to startup groups at Finders New Venture Institute (NVI) Smart City/Venture Dorm Summer Accelerator 2017 (http://www.nviflinders.com.au/what-we-provide/smartcityventuredorm/). Overview of technologies to keep an eye out for.

1. Future (ICT)
Technologies
Overview - Flinders NVI / Smart City Studio

2. Everything that carries
power will be connected
to the Internet eventually.
The Things Network Manifesto

3. Growing Data Foundation
The Growing Data Foundation develops
and supports Open Source projects that
support community and environment.
Create Open Data and learning
resources which help communities
flourish and become more resilient.

4. Brightcookie (The Day Job)
Educational Technologies (EdTech)
company supporting .
Collect Learning Experiences
WHEREVER they happen.

5. The Hype Cycle (2016)

6. Future Tech Examples Internet of Things (IoT)
1. Smart-WHATEVERYOULIKE
2. BIG Data
3. Robotics
4. Money as code (FinTech)
5. Codified Trust (Social Graph)
Clean-Tech (!)
Some of the things covered in this
overview. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
Many more out there.

7. The
Internet
Of
Things
By example of #TTNADL

8. The Things Network is open, decentralized
and crowd sourced.
The Things Network

9. TTN Overview
gateway
Nodes Gateways /
Concentrators
Network Server Storage / Application
Layer
°C
% Humi
Radiation
NOC
Lux
Actuate
LoRa gateway
LoRa gateway

10. Two hundred
billion things.
Intel & Cisco Research

11. ‘Smart’-everything ● Smart ‘devices’
● Smart Cities
● Smart Contracts
● ‘Smart-washing’
● ...
Moore’s law is still holding and allowing
ever smaller computing power.
There is a big difference between
connecting something because it is
possible versus connecting something
because it is useful.

12. Big Data ● Raw material for new industries
● Cheap storage
● Growth in (cheap) computing power
● Cloud computing
● Machine Learning
● ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI)
“Extremely large data sets that may be
analysed computationally to reveal
patterns, trends, and associations,
especially relating to human behaviour
and interactions.”
Thank you Wikipedia

13. Codification of ... ● Money as code (Bitcoin et al)
● Blockchain
● Smart Contracts
● Codified Trust (Social Graph)
● Web of Trust
● Learning to code
Program or be programmed.
Douglas Rushkoff

14. Robotics ● Robot vs. drone
● Who’s job ?
● STEM education
● Bionics
● Singularity
When engineers and computer scientists
get together ...

15. Clean Tech
Not really just another separate
category.
It has to be part of anything you do.
Image Credit: Matteo Penzo - Flickr

16. It’s not all about tech 1. Collaboration
2. Open vs Closed
3. Bleeding edge vs Leading edge
4. Ethics
5. Privacy
… some might even say it’s not all about
tech.

17. Let’s do this ‘thing’
together & may the force
be with you ...

18. Thankyou
Growing Data Foundation Ltd
GPO Box 1125, ADELAIDE, SA 5001
leo@growingdatafoundation.org
growingdatafoundation.org.au
Wanna get in touch ? LMGTFY:leogaggl