6G Technology Will Have a Major Impact on Devices, Materials, and Communications — Here’s What’s Ahead

6G technology will have a big impact on devices, the market, and on communications in remote areas and beyond and Futurum’s Shelly Kramer takes a quick look at the market and some of the players. While we’re a ways away from the realities of 6G, it’s exciting to think about what’s ahead. It’s also exciting to see many leaders in Big Tech already making progress and getting involved. Some early industry players in the 6G space include Nokia, who heads project Hexa-X, the European Commission’s flagship 6G research initiative, and Ericsson, who will manage the technical aspects of the program. Other partners (today anyway) include Siemens, Intel, Telefonica, TIM, and Orange. 5G’s all the buzz today, but 6G, that’s going to be a whole different ballgame.

Microsoft Launches Microsoft Viva, an Employee Experience Platform – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Daniel Newman take a look at Microsoft Viva, a newly launched Employee Experience Platform. Microsoft Viva is comprised of four basic components (today anyway), designed to facilitate connection, learning, topics/discovery, and insights, all designed to heighten and improve the employee experience, facilitate improved knowledge sharing, communication within the organization, teams, and groups, deliver insights designed to help employees and leaders, and provide learning management solutions that help facilitate creating a culture of continuous learning.

Building a High Performing Engineering Team: What’s the Secret Sauce – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this interview as part of our Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, host Shelly Kramer sat down with Josh Teitelman, VP of Customer Experience at Allstacks and John Steinmetz, CTO of Convo Communications, for a conversation about building a high performing engineering team, and what the secret sauce is that makes that goal a reality.

From Mobile Devices to the Automotive Industry, Chips Play an Outsized Role — and a Global Chip Shortage is a Very Big Deal – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Olivier Blanchard explore the role that chips play in everything from mobile devices to the automotive industry. They touch on Honor’s recently announced partnerships with chipmakers and what’s likely ahead there (and the role we suspect Qualcomm might play). They explored news out of Qualcomm’s two-day Automotive Redefined: Technology Showcase 2021 and what we see happening with regard to Qualcomm’s Automotive sector strategy. And they wound up the last part of the show exploring the very real issue of supply chain as it relates to semiconductors, what is causing the current global chip shortage, and how that is impacting the Automotive industry.

How Automation is Being Used in Exciting Ways in the Oil & Gas Industry – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this roundtable discussion as part of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, Futurum co-founder and lead analyst Shelly Kramer sat down with Brad Onofrio from Calumet, Frank Wilson from Patterson-UTI Management, and Jon Gilman, founder and CEO of Clear Software for a conversation exploring how automation is being used in exciting ways in the Oil & Gas industry, the challenges these industry leaders have faced, the advice they have to share for others exploring automation and intelligent automation, and what they see ahead for the industry and this technology in the coming years.

Women In Tech: A Dive into Dell Technologies’ Project APEX with Dell’s Akanksha Mehrotra – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this new episode of her Futurum Tech Webcast, Women in Tech Series, Shelly Kramer sits down with Dell Technologies’ Akanksha Mehrotra for a conversation about Dell’s Project APEX, the nuances of the offering, and the trend to everything-as-a-service and end-to-end aaS that we’re starting to see a lot of in the marketplace.

The Vaccination Credential Initiative: Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce and Healthcare Majors Partner to Develop Vaccination Passport

The Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) announced Thursday brings together a number of stakeholders including tech giants Oracle, Microsoft, and Salesforce, the Commons Project Foundation, MITRE, along with healthcare major players like Cerner, Epic, Mayo Clinic, CARIN Alliance, Safe Health, Change Healthcare, Evernorth to develop a vaccine “passport” that enables individuals vaccinated for COVID-19 to access their vaccination records in a secure, verifiable, privacy-preserving way.

Women in Tech: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women with Oracle’s Lisa Joy Rosner – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Women in Tech Interview Series, Futurum co-founder Shelly Kramer joins forces with Oracle’s Lisa Joy Rosner to discuss the impact that COVID-19 has had on women in the workforce. Their conversation explores the different ways that leaders can help ease the strain that employees are feeling and what all of this means for the future of work.

SAP SuccessFactors Users Reap Big Benefits from Axonify for Improved Efficacy of Frontline Employee Training Programs

Employee training is a critical part of any workplace with many organizations turning to SAP SuccessFactors Learning to boost employee skills. Axonify, a learning solution integration that is built specifically for frontline employees will take an organization’s SAP SuccessFactors investment to the next level.

The Three As of the Russian Government Hack: Acquisition, Aggregation, and Activation of Data – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans break down the Russian government hack of U.S. government agencies and the role that the three As played in this, and every cybersecurity event.

AT&T Business CEO Anne Chow Keynotes the Economist Event Series —A Whole New (contactless) World: The Rise of Digital Identity

Last week AT&T CEO Anne Chow keynoted The Economist Event Series — a Whole New (contactless) World: The Rise of Digital Identity. In her conversation with The Economist’s Vijay Vaitheeswaran, they discussed the convergence of the physical and digital worlds and the need for connectivity to support a distributed infrastructure. Their conversation also touched on the impact of a rapid pivot on corporate culture, what business leaders need to consider, as well as what some key industries are focusing on right now.

New Research: The Culture of Digital Transformation Today, a Conversation with Pega’s Don Schuerman – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, which we streamed on LinkedIn Live, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer is joined by Don Schuerman, the CTO of Pega for a conversation about the culture of digital transformation based on a recently published Futurum Research report commissioned by Pega. The Futurum report: Four Insights on the Culture of Digital Transformation Today, explored what workers throughout the organization as a whole thought about their company’s digital transformation efforts, how different roles contribute to driving digital transformation initiatives, what barriers to success exist, and where organizations are finding success. This is one episode of the webcast you won’t want to miss.