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Food2020
How Food Innovation Hubs will scale technology to transform our food system
To ensure everyone in the global food system can benefit from technology, Food Innovation Hubs will drive solutions to meet local challenges and scale impact.
Global Issue
Industry
Economy
4th Industrial Revolution
Global Issue
Industry
Economy
4th Industrial Revolution
Technological Transformation
Pioneers of Change Summit 2020
The woman who created the technology behind internet calls explains what it takes to innovate
Marian Croak on what it takes to innovate, why kids are an inspiration and how not fitting in can be an advantage.
Virtual and Augmented Reality
This new LED glove could let you touch things in virtual reality
A team of scientists at Cornell University has created a stretchable fiber-optic sensor that detects exactly what you’re doing with your fingers that could revolutionize virtual reality.
Information Technology
Then and now: A bizarre history of the world's biggest tech companies
Samsung spent much of the 1950s and 1960s testing market waters. The South Korean company tried everything from insurance to textiles, and most oddly, trading dehydrated fish.
Technological Transformation
How has technology changed - and changed us - in the past 20 years?
From smartphones to social media and healthcare, here's a brief history of the ways in which technology has transformed our lives in the past 20 years.
Pioneers2020
These countries spend the most on research and development
Spending on R&D can help an economy out-compete its rivals, attract more investment, boost its exports and more – but some countries are stagnating.
Data Science
Researchers have developed an underwater navigation system powered by sound
Researchers at MIT have built a battery-free pinpointing system dubbed Underwater Backscatter Localization, that opens up a realm of possibilities for underwater exploration.
Agriculture, Food and Beverage
This new soil can water plants all by itself
A research team from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new type of soil that can extract water straight from the air.
Electricity
China joins list of nations banning the sale of old-style fossil-fuelled vehicles
From 2035, the only new cars for sale in China will be electric, hybrid or fuel-cell. Europe has similar plans aimed at decarbonizing the transport sector.
Pioneers2020
These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2020
Want to know about the tech set to change the world in the near future? This list is a good place to start.
RacetoZero2020
America's truck and bus manufacturers are set on a zero-emission future
A new report shows that every major truck and bus manufacturer in North America is developing an all-electric vehicle or is part of collaboration to do so.
Tech for Good
How to transform your business model for a post-COVID future
If companies adopt only small changes, they run the risk of digitizing the past instead of innovating and transforming for the future.
COVID-19
The Global COVID-19 Fintech Market Rapid Assessment
Tune in to this virtual session on 30 November 2020 from 7am EST – 830am EST. (13:00-14:30 CET).
Japan
This is what Japan's future spaceport might look like, and it's pretty stylish
A team of Japanese architects have designed a futuristic concept for a spaceport, in Tokyo Bay, in anticipation of the expansion of the Japanese space programme.
Technological Transformation