Enabling Technology Announcement: Results from the Enabling Technologies Survey 2018

The output and analysis from the Enabling Technologies Survey is in the attached pdf. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the survey. The findings are fairly self explanatory, but the key points are: AI and BigData/Analytics are the most popular topics, and have featured in recent workshops and webinars. We will run future events on these topics, including one of the quarterly workshops scheduled for 2019. Members wanted to know more about Blockchain. A very successful and well-attended Masterclass was arranged for the 3rd July at the PwC offices in London. Presentations and other knowledge assets are available from the KIN Memberspace event page, or alternativley, KIN Members and WBS Alumni can contact me if they want copies. There is a lot of interest in collaborative tools & technologies and Office365, so it makes sense combine these into a single event, which will be a blend of Masterclass (with an expert on O365) and Roundtable, for peer knowledge sharing. This event - Supercharging Collaboration with O365 - has been scheduled for the 16th October. We're looking for a venue for this event, so please let me know if you can accommodate. Immersive Technologies (Augmented and Virtual Reality applications) is the topic for our forthcoming Autumn Workshop on the 11th September. We are have also arranged a visit to the WMG labs for the afternoon of the 10th September to see some of the leading-edge developments, including AI, robotics, 3D imaging etc. We will be joined by KIN Alumni for this visit. We ran a webinar on Chatbots & Virtual Agents on the 14th June, organised by Nancy Kinder in conjunction with the  Knowledge & Community Network. The webinar was recorded and is available on Youtube and the event page. I will follow up with the organisation that has expressed an interest in G-Suite. If anyone has any additional feedback on the survey, or would like KIN to consider running an event on a topic not mentioned in the survey, please contact Steve Dale (steve.dale@mail.wbs.ac.uk)