Hannover, Germany. Young, fresh and abuzz with business: The all-new CEBIT concept was enthusiastically received by exhibitors and visitors alike. “The revamped CEBIT has been a big success,” said Heiko Meyer, Chairperson of the CEBIT Exhibitors’ Committee and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, on Friday in Hannover. “Congratulations to the entire CEBIT team on the…
Can artificial intelligence (AI) help us to better recall our lives? At the upcoming CEBIT (11 to 15 June), memory researcher and legal psychologist Dr. Julia Shaw will report on her pioneering research at the interface of memory and AI, revealing how, in the future, it will be possible for us to remember lifetime events…
The new, revamped CEBIT kicks off on Monday, 11 June, with an action-packed, star-studded conference program. That’s right: the exhibition halls don’t actually open to visitors until the Tuesday, but there will be plenty happening on Take-off Monday with a top-notch digitization-themed program that includes an array of speaking events in the conference area of…
With hacker attacks and cybercrime making the news with almost the same monotonous regularity as weather reports, robust IT and data security are essential in all areas of life, whether you’re in government, business or at home. Security is certain to become even more mission-critical in the year to come, and will therefore feature as…
The major trends in digitization are increasingly finding their way into local government. For the first time the new presentation “Digital Administration”at CEBIT 2018 gives businesses a showcase for their solutions that allow local authorities to manage their finances with the aid of artificial intelligence. Hannover, Germany. Nevertheless, the fact remains that many public administrations…
Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize the corporate landscape. The World Economic Forum is predicting that, by the year 2027, worldwide about 10 percent of GDP will be processed using blockchain technology. In its highly noted “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies”, Gartner Research concurs, pointing to an impending blockchain breakthrough within the next five to…
“I remember it like it was yesterday.” Well, maybe not, for as memory hacker Dr. Julia Shaw knows from her own research, human memory can be manipulated. In June 2018, the London-based memory researcher and criminal psychologist will be showing CEBIT attendees how this works and what it means. Shaw will be speaking on the…
Malware, ransomware, viruses and phishing e-mails – the list of cyber security threats faced by businesses, institutions and individuals is long and growing all the time. F-Secure IT security expert Mikko Hypponen will be explaining the latest threats on the Net and how to safeguard against them when he takes the stage at CEBIT 2018…
Sporting his trademark dreadlocks and beard, Jaron Lanier is the barefoot philosopher of the digital world, known both as a pioneer of virtual reality and one of the fiercest critics of the Internet. Lanier is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, composer and author. Currently a scientist at Microsoft Research, his fundamental criticism of the business…