Over the last decade, iMinds has experienced significant growth in revenue and the digital world has grown exponentially, with nearly 3 billion people now online. The presentation discusses how the number of connected devices is increasing dramatically and will soon outpace the world's population. It also notes that the amount of digital data is doubling every two years. The rest of the presentation describes iMinds' work in several areas like transportation, healthcare, media, and security as digital data and connected devices continue to grow abundantly.

1. A WORLD OF ABUNDANT
DIGITAL INFORMATION
Wim De Waele, CEO iMinds
Dec 5th, 2013
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2. A LOT HAS CHANGED AT iMINDS OVER THE LAST DECADE
50.000.000
45.000.000
40.000.000
35.000.000
30.000.000
25.000.000
20.000.000
15.000.000
10.000.000
5.000.000
Revenue Evolution
0
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
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2013

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4. AND IN OUR INDUSTRY: NEARLY 3 BILLION PEOPLE ONLINE
Source: International Communication Union, Google
3B
2,5 B
2B
1,5 B
1B
Global Internet
Population
0,5 B
Billion
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
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5. THIS IS NOT
ABOUT TO CHANGE
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6. WHAT IF THINGS START TO COMMUNICATE?
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7. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS…
60
Billion
50
USERS
Devices < Users
40
DEVICES
Devices ≥ Users
THINGS
Devices >> Users
30
20
10
0
2003
2010
CONNECTED DEVICES
2015
2020
WORLD POPULATION
Source: iMinds analysis, @imindsApril 2011
Cisco IBSG, #imindsconf

8. ABUNDANT DIGITAL INFORMATION
Exabytes
THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE = X2 EVERY 2 YEARS
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Source: IDC's Digital Universe Study, sponsored by EMC, Dec 2012
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10. Capture &
transfer
Store, secure
& share
Search, analyze
& visualize
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11. Capture & transfer
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12. TRACK4C ADDS INTELLIGENCE &
VISIBILITY TO CONTAINER TRANSPORT
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13. 6 IoT CHALLENGES
Sensors and
battery life
Open data
policy
Access control
& privacy
iMinds
Partners
Constrained
communication
Configuration,
updates
Standards
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15. CLOUD SECURITY: MORE THAN ‘ADD-ON’
dependability & trustworthiness
whole system
not only vulnerabilities & threats
development & deployment
not an afterthought
end-to-end
not just front- and backdoor
full life-cycle
needs monitoring & management
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16. CUSTOMSS
MIDDLEWARE SERVICES FOR MULTITENANCY PLATFORM
nurse call
applications
Document
processing
applications
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17. MICROSOFT ACADEMIC RESEARCH
RANKING ORGANIZATIONS EUROPE – LAST 5 YEARS
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18. 2 MAKES
SDN
YOUR NETWORK
PREDICTABLE
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20. WHAT’S THE BIG DATA FUZZ?
Source: #imindsconf
@iminds Gartner 2013

21. WE ARE ENTERING A WORLD OF ALGORITHMS
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22. ONTOFORCE
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23. ZETICON
helps media-intensive
companies manage their
digital media content
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24. OUR STRATEGY GOING FORWARD
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25. RESEARCH TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP: RESULTS
(2013)
APPLICATIONS
& FIRST ROUND
INTERVIEWS
28 NEW
COMPANIES
163
82
28
SECOND ROUND
INTERVIEWS
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26. EXTENDING ICON: MEDIA INNOVATION CENTER (MiX)
Made with Wonder
HALEWYNSTICHTING VZW
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28. iMINDS HEALTH INNOVATION CENTER
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29. iMINDS & OUR FIVE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
TECHNOLOGY BOARD
HUMAN CAPITAL
JOINT RESEARCH
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30. BUILDING CLUSTERS OF INNOVATION
iMinds
Research
iMinds
Incubation
MiX
Library of the
Future
Mediawijs.be
VIAA
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32. WIM DE WAELE
@WimDW
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