Published: April 3, 2024                   ID: 2040

Analyst(s): Doreen Galli, PhD MBA

ABSTRACT

Internet 2.0 Conference is one of five conferences that makes up 2.0 Conferences. In total the conferences had seven hundred attendees over 3 days packed with solid keynotes. Attendees seemed to agree that small but mighty was a good description of the event. Common themes including where is society going with technology as well as how these changes will impact society.

Highlights

• Five conferences all in one meant this tiny conference packed a powerful punch.
• This event was all keynotes with speakers rotating between the 5 shows.

Cautions

•  This conference packs the sessions back-to-back. One must plan on your own for bio and physical movement breaks to avoid excessive sedentary day.

Conference Vibe

As a member of the collection of strategy conferences that create 2.0 Conferences, Internet 2.0 and all the conferences could best be described as small but impactful.  The event took place at Caesars in Las Vegas in their Augusta rooms. All the attendees bragged about the amazing food both for breakfast and lunch. Readers may experience the entire Conference Whispers Internet 2.0 Conference playlist.

Where are we going?

The biggest theme at the conference focused on where innovation in technology is going to take us. One keynote on the evolution of intelligence had a panel discuss the paradigms that go beyond AI and ML This session also included an interested example of how Yazzmoney was leveraging blockchain. Specifically, they are helping Zambia government to tokenize cattle, minerals, wildlife and renewable energy. This enables the cattle ranchers, for example to access the value of the cattle. Another keynote with an all-male panel discussed how AR, VR and MR can revolutionize customer experience.  Michael Koch keynote was a great discussion on the evolution of work, life, and play. Michael Koch discussed how technology has changed and is going to continue to change even faster with wireless power closer on the horizon than we imagine. Parts of this keynote reminded us of the 100 years of innovation exhibit at CES. One of the fascination aspects of Michael Koch’s keynote was the discussion around moving from creative and getting the ideas to adoption and conversion. There was to be another keynote on AI that looked like great potential at the start. Unfortunately the speakers time was cut in half and the deck didn’t work, thus Gary Y. Wu went Beyond AI in his talk. Futurist writer Jeffrey James Seyferth shared his vision of tech nirvana with attendees.

One thing all agreed on is there will be an adaptation that must occur. Cyber burnout was a real concern in the keynote on wearables, robot and IoT. That session hilariously drew the parallel of the conference attendees not having breaks in between all the sessions to describe how cyber burnout occurs. With all this change, technologist need to be great communicators. To that end, Archer Now CEO, Trung Q. Pham brought his keynote, “The art of Communication Jiujitsu” to meet the demand. Trung emphasized that we retain 90% of what we teach.

Social, Cultural and Environmental Impact

On the keynote titled, “Leveraging tech for environmental and social Impact” the panel emphasized doing the right thing should be rewarded. Vincent Allen from VA-AV industries discussed how new and smart spaces can increase diversity and equity in the global economy. Admittedly, due to the speakers background and slant, we were having flashbacks from our coverage of last year’s NABShow. An inspirational keynote that featured Dee Jones from L3C Esports organization was hosted by gameplay. It was fascinating to learn how they are using esports and gaming to change the lives of inner-city kids in Michigan.

Several panellists mentioned the concern of impact around generative AI hallucinations. To that end, one panellist shared that hallucinations are to be expected as the technology is in its toddler phase of reasoning. An interesting second concern on generative AI was raised concerning the massive computational requirements for a simple answer is surely not good for the planet.

Security

We were able to catch one interesting keynote on security. David Ronn from Zecurity shared their on-premises and edge solution to ending ransomware that blocks and examines all commands outside of a simple read command.

Next Year’s Conference

2.0 Conferences 2025 conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada at Caesars in April of 2025.

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