Learning Outcomes
2019 Theme : Harnessing Global Digitization to Empower Startups and SMEs
The global adoption of digital technologies has undeniably changed the way organizations operate. The shift in consumer expectation, the growing need for new technologies and the prospect of greater economic benefits are driving digitization and digital transformation. The trend has been reshaping the economy thereby creating the need for a specialized expertise to help organizations navigate their way through digital transformation.
As an example, AI technologies offer a way for many companies to reach most or all of their audience. They have improved operational efficiency, reduced costs associated with customer service and supported sales and marketing functions. So far, these applications are merely scratching the surface of what technologies could offer an organization. Yet digitization has already created the need to invest in blockchain, process automation, digital workforce and cybersecurity to name but a few areas.
Though these interactive systems are taking a number of forms and are existing as part of numerous ecosystems and platforms, they are still underutilized by organizations. This phenomenon exists not for the absence of the technologies, but rather due to unfamiliarity to the technology and the fluctuating manner of the existing ones, combined with the lack of strategic management of resources to adapt to this new era’s market demands. For several years, business trends leaned toward digital transformation without any monitored action plans This has created a widening gap between organizations that are taking the leap towards adoption and ones that are watching conservatively and cannot fully understand and utilize this alien technology.
But no more.
AIM Startup 2019, themed “Harnessing Global Digitization to Empower Startups and SMEs”, will not debate the Sci-Fi like possible future that technology could bring us, but will rather critically discuss the benefits, challenges, and opportunities that being at the frontline of the Industry 4.0 holds. AIM Startup 2019 brings together policymakers, industry experts, innovative entrepreneurs and financial institutions under one roof with a view to bridge the gap in the utilization of technology and set forth the action plans for the next decade. Furthermore, the event aims to maximize real and current opportunities at a time when a range of technological ideas are ripe for commercialization.