Iowa SMART Conference
York Exponential CEO, John McElligott will be in Des Moines, Iowa at the CCCU Convention Center on April 28th, 2016 for the Iowa SMART Conference. The world is amazing! Everyday there are more and more remarkable discoveries, inventions and technologies being developed. It can seem overwhelming trying to plan for every possible scenario; trying to decipher the impact each new innovation will have on our businesses, communities and our joint future. Industries that have seemed steady and unchanged are being rocked to their core. But for those of us willing to look deeper we will not only begin …
Fourth Industrial Revolution
“Previous industrial revolutions liberated humankind from animal power, made mass production possible and brought digital capabilities to billions of people. This Fourth Industrial Revolution is, however, fundamentally different. It is characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human.” – World Economic Forum Today everything is connected. We see it more and more as thermostats, lightbulbs, appliances, etc. in our homes come equipped wifi-ready paired with a smartphone app. “The resulting shifts and disruptions mean that …