An overview of technological trends in 2017 that will dictate how we live, work and entertain ourselves. Sorted by technology and sector

1. Tech & Innovation
Trends 2017
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7. Innovation
Act of generating more value for the customer
and the business by fulfilling a JOB TO BE DONE
better than anyone else“
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8. How fast are things changing?
TECH TRENDS IN CONTEXT
Compared with the Industrial
Revolution, we estimate that this
change is happening ten times
faster and at 300 times the scale,
or roughly 3,000 times the impact.
“
“The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends”
McKinsey & Co.
http://ow.ly/7BfT308xAz6
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9. How fast are things changing?
TECH TRENDS IN CONTEXT
TELEPHONE
50 years to
reach half US adoption
RADIO
38 years to reach
50M listeners
WECHAT
300M users
> US adult population
FACEBOOK
6M users in Year 1,
100X growth,
next 5 years
CELL PHONES
< 3% world pop, 1995
66% world pop, 2015
IPHONE
150K apps, 2009
1.2M apps, 2014
75B downloads, 2014
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10. Technology Trends 2017
BY SECTOR
AI Assistants
Innovative
Wearables
Smart(er)
Homes
VR
Digital Twin
IoT Market
Drones 2.0
Autonomous
Vehicles
AI/Advanced ML
(predictive
enterprise)
Data as a Service
Chatbots
Blockchain
Unchained
B2B AR Halal Economy
Weed Startups
Sci-Tech
Trumpification
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11. Technology Trends 2017
BY SECTOR
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AI Assistants
Innovative
Wearables
Smart(er)
Homes
VR
CONSUMER
Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri across devices,
Cortana in Microsoft and Alexa in Amazon
Business case: Spectacles from Snapchat
Spectacles:
https://youtu.be/uks7LtBRSyw
Amazon’s Echo, Google Home,
Facebook Jervis
https://youtu.be/AFvPeZXqU5A
Tilt Brush (Google), Alibaba’s Buy+
Tilt Brush
https://youtu.be/TckqNdrdbgk

12. Technology Trends 2017
BY SECTOR
Digital Twin
IoT Market
Drones 2.0
Autonomous
Vehicles
INDUSTRIAL
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“With Amazon expected to complete its first drone delivery in the UK and Walmart expected to
begin deploying them in the US next year, 2017 will be a turning point for the skies”
Walmart Drones
https://youtu.be/BXcZqWc_YYg
Model of physical assets. Optimize before you deploy
GE
https://youtu.be/5TTAKvn-APQ
“Hope on, I’ll take you home”, said my car
Google, Ford, Microsoft, Toyota, Mercedes Benz, Lyft, Uber and pretty much all car manufacturers.
Business case:
MIT’s NuTonomy aims to bring self-driving taxis to Singapore by 2018
App stores for Internet of Things applications
https://youtu.be/vc8v7aL5cQo

13. Technology Trends 2017
BY SECTOR
AI/Advanced ML
(predictive
enterprise)
Data as a Service
Chatbots
Blockchain
Unchained
B2B
AR/MR/VR
ENTERPRISE
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In banking, you could use AI and machine-learning techniques to
model current real-time transactions, as well as predictive models of
transactions based on their likelihood of being fraudulent.
Services that will identify new revenue streams by exploiting
both volume and variety of data, emerging data brokers, and
increasingly accessible analysis interfaces
Tableau:
https://vimeo.com/117442391
Contextual chat interaction:
https://youtu.be/P4Z8Sevz5GY?t=9s
Create a chatbot for Facebook Messenger in 10 min (ChatFuel)
https://youtu.be/mD6I1dXgzvA
Business to Business
Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality
Daqri Helmet:
https://youtu.be/Bv_S5upj5dk
Hololens (Mixed Reality):
https://youtu.be/_3Y7BXEbqcg
Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger in which
value exchange transactions (in bitcoin or other token)
are sequentially grouped into blocks. This tech
promises a model to add trust to untrusted
environments and reduce business friction by
providing transparent access to the information in the
supply chain
HyperLedger
https://youtu.be/EKa5Gh9whgU

14. Technology Trends 2017
BY SECTOR
Halal Economy
Weed Startups
Sci-Tech
Trumpification
FRINGE
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From food to fashion, the Halal market is emerging as a new growth
sector within the global economy
https://youtu.be/1-Hi_Sw-EuY
Startups focused on marijuana are expected to proliferate in 2017,
leading to "innovation on the technology side of the cannabis industry,"
http://ow.ly/AXu6308y15W
NAFTA, energy sector, clean energy, international policy restructuring
with Asia and Europe, pick your flavour.

15. Technology Trends 2017
BY SECTOR
AI IoT
BIG DATA
DEVICES
Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things
Big Data Next-Gen
Devices
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16. Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things
Big Data Next-Gen
Devices
Technology Trends 2017
BY CORE TECHNOLOGIES
Halal Economy
Weed Startups
Sci-Tech
Trumpification
AI IoT
BIG DATA
DEVICES
AI/Advanced ML
(predictive
enterprise)
Chatbots
Drones 2.0
Autonomous
Vehicles
AI Assistants
Smart(er)
Homes
VR
IoT Market
Digital Twin
Data as a Service
B2B AR
Blockchain
Unchained
Innovative
Wearables
CONSUMER
INDUSTRIAL
ENTERPRISE
FRINGE
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hard place to make friends.
One-third of the people we surveyed
say it is difficult to make new friends here.
And one in four say they are alone more
often than they would like to be.
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”Connections & Engagement. A survey of metro Vancovuer
Vancouver Foundation

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