Intro to exponential technologies for teachers

1. The future of Tech: Survival
Guide
Teodor Panayotov
7.9.18

4. Today:

7. About me:

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Mission
• Become the starting point of the training journey for individuals and
organizations
• Bring together, curate, compare and present the optimal mix of
training resources and formats for the particular journey
• Apply innovative methods of delivery and user experience
Vision
• Become one of the largest IT training companies without the
overhead of owning instructors, data centers and content
• Democratize corporate training/education
• Enable organizations to be more adept to the changing realities of
the digital world

9. Coursedot
The one-stop shop for technology training
• The biggest marketplace for IT training with
480+ providers and publishers
• All the content from all the players, without
competing with them - we are a new channel
• All vendor technologies
• All training formats (on-site training, VILT,
videos, e-books, custom training)
• Global community of 2500+ certified IT
instructors
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10. We’ve achieved global outreach in 3 years

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Some of the companies who trusted us
Leaders in IT training, financial institutions, telecoms and more

19. 24
Larry Page – Google
24
“If I were a student, this
is where I’d want to be”
- Larry Page

21. 30 steps
Source:
medhacker.com

23. Source: reddit

29. Source: giphy

31. A cyborg with an exocortex

32. Digitization as a
basis for
exponential
growth
• “Anything that
becomes digitized
enters a period of
exponential growth —
manufacturing, biology,
medicine, data,
photographs” – Peter
Diamandis
Abundance framework
The early days of exponential growth are deceptively slow.
When technologies transition into a disruptive phase, they
cause dematerialization, demonetization, and
democratization.

36. Pneumatic
Robotics

39. Wired.com ; 24 April 2015

46. Internet of Things
50B devices by 2020

47. Google Confidential and Proprietary
M2M communication will be
> 50%
of data traffic by 2030
1 trillion
connected devices
using low bandwidth

48. Mirai
• https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code

50. Slide by Yuri Ven Geest

54. Newspapers

56. Netflix
4 billion
hours in Q1 2013

67. willrobotstakemyjob.com
Source:
hawaiibusiness.com

77. There is always room for good abstraction in
programming
• Someone needs to create the world. Everybody here can be a creator
• Dev and IT need the business perspective to enable it to achieve
competitive differentiation
• “The reality is that neural networks are not a silver bullet.” - Ian Huston,
Pivotal
• Design for exponential growth of a number of technologies
• Dumbing it down will fail – you need to understand many complex
concepts

79. 21 Future Jobs the Robots Are Actually
Creating, Inc.
1. Data detective
2. Bring-your-own IT facilitator
3. Ethical sourcing officer
4. Artificial intelligence business
development manager
5. Master of edge computing
6. Walker/talker
8. A.I. assisted health care technician
9. Cyber city analyst
10. Genomic portfolio director
11. Man-machine teaming manager
12. Financial wellness coach
13. Digital tailor
14. Chief trust officer
15. Quantum machine-learning analyst
16. Virtual store sherpa
17. Personal data broker
18. Personal memory curator
19. Augmented-reality journey builder
20. Highway controller
21. Genetic diversity officer

80. Source: World Economic Forum

81. Skills needed for devs / Hackernoon
• Empathy
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Approachability and
Helpfulness
• Patience
• Open-mindedness
• Problem solving
• Accountability
• Creativity
• Time management

83. teodor@coursedot.com
+359 885 52 95 05
+44 20 32 86 88 55
Teodor
Panayotov
Founder, CEO