Global tech trends that businesses and students should learn from include: - The rise of ride-sharing and mobile payments, with services like Uber providing billions of rides globally and mobile wallet transactions in China valued at over $15 billion in 2017. - The shift from closed to open systems in technologies like programming languages and frameworks, which are now largely open-source. - The transition from simple to intelligent networks with advances in areas such as personal assistants, home automation, self-driving vehicles, and artificial intelligence. - How technology companies are disrupting traditional industries, as seen when Amazon launched delivery services that competed with FedEx and UPS, lowering DHL's market value by over $5.5 billion.

1. GLOBAL TECH TRENDS
AND
WHAT BUSINESSES & STUDENTS CAN
LEARN FROM THEM

2. • Global Tech Trends
• Global Business Trends
• How these are important for businesses and
students

3. Mobile Payments
Ride Sharing Landscape

4. In 2017
• 7.43 billion rides
• 450 million users
• 400 cities across China
In 2017
• 4 billion rides
• No reliable user stats
• 600 cities across 78 countries
Sources: Recode, Crunchbase Sources: China Daily, Crunchbase

5. Source: Strait Times
Total value of mobile
wallet transactions in
China in 2017
US$ 15.06 Billion

8. Move from proprietary to open systems
• Development frameworks are completely open
• .Net is fully open source now
• Laravel (PHP), Angular (JS), React (JS), Ionic (JS),
Scala (Java)
• Design frameworks are completely open
• Bootstrap, Material UI, Semantic UI

9. Shift from Dumb to Intelligent Networks
• Intelligent Personal Assistants
• Home Automation
• Self Driving Cars
• Weaponised AI

10. Tech Companies are disrupting
traditional businesses.
Here’s an example…

11. Source: “Amazon to Launch Delivery Service that would vie with FedEx, UPS”, The Wall Street Journal, 09th February 2018

12. That led to...
Source: Yahoo Finance

13. Market Capitalisation of DHL
from
19th January 2018 to 04th June 2018
Source: Yahoo Finance and http://www.dpdhl.com/en/investors/shares/share_price_information.html
From €46,204 million
to €40,700 million
A loss of
€ 5,504 million
Or
€40.470 million a day
(136 days)

14. So, where
are
all the
opportunities
?

15. Forecast of the global middle class population
from 2015 to 2030, by region (in millions)
Source: https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/

16. This is where the money is going to be...
Source: qz.com

17. Why Businesses can’t consider tech as a separate ‘thing’?

18. Picture Credit: Forbes
• Uses data analytics to improve
production process of Rocell.
• Uses business analytics to create
dashboards for all the companies.
• Collectively, all his companies are
gaining massive efficiencies.
• Is getting better at forecasting,
especially when combined with
macroeconomic variables.

19. Distinction between tech and business is
fast getting blurred.

20. The 10 largest companies in the world by
market value in 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
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21. How does all this align with businesses and startups in
Sri Lanka?

22. • Don’t be afraid of technology.
Find vendors who will try to understand your business problem.
• Keep an eye on tech businesses that work in your business verticals.
• Always try to see how you can use technology to scale your business.
• Think way outside the box.

23. Thank You!