The AAMA Silicon Valley & Silicon Valley Bank are excited to invite you to join The AAMA Digital Healthcare Connect Conference, an innovative half-day event on how healthcare technologies are being disrupted globally. Healthcare & LifeSciences are projected to be multi-$Billion industries in 2030. In fact, the Global Life Science Tools Market is projected to be $259B in 2030 alone! As a fellow industry executive/entrepreneur, come join us & meet the Disruptive Innovators in LifeSciences & Digital Health such as: - Dr. David Rhew, MD, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Microsoft - Dr. Kyu Rhee, MD, Chief Marketing Officer, CVS/Aetna - Jennifer Friel-Goldstein, Managing Partner, Life Sciences & Healthcare, SVB Capital - Leaders from Amazon/Alexa, HealthQuest Capital ($1.5B fund); Stanford Medical Center; American Heart Association & more! Attendees to our AAMA Global Healthcare Conference will learn about Leading Edge Insights in Digital Health, Life Sciences, Investments & Breakthrough Career Opportunities for Now & the Future.

While digital technologies have continued to evolve, certain industries have had to adapt their cultures to continue innovating successfully. Financial institutions, insurers, real estate companies and regulators have found themselves playing catchup, as skill sets and mindsets have proved insufficient for getting the best out of the cloud, data science, AI and other capabilities. But the emergence and evolution of disruptive innovation sectors have enabled companies to leverage digital to keep up with competition. Many of the use cases present in these industries were especially prominent at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as people worked remotely, as well as obtaining services from home. Below is a guide to some of the most prominent emerging sectors of disruptive innovation, exploring how they came about and some of the biggest trends in each space.

Owing to the lessons learned throughout the COVID-19 crisis, it is about time to design a better world that is characterized by empathy, personal integrity, no corruption, no racism, respect for nature, working smarter, circularity, a changed role of HR, good governance, and ethical leadership. The significant feature in this better world entails SUSTAINABILITY, that is, sustainability in innovation, design, HR, leadership, diversity & inclusion, family businesses, corporate governance, and higher management education, as shown in this figure. The first rule of sustainability is alignment with yourself, to continuously perceive what you do sustainability and be aware of the influence of your behavior and actions on human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. This is personal integrity, which is the foundation of empathy and eco-design thinking. In my articles "HOW TO DESIGN A BETTER WORLD" and "Sustainability Starts With Yourself", I discussed in detail how to design this better world sustainably. In this article I will focus on sustainability in innovation. This is based on my new book "Eco-Design Thinking for Personal, Corporate and Social Innovation; How to Become a Disruptive Eco-Design Thinker Like Elon Musk". Read the excerpt of this book, which is about reimagining design and innovation. Designing a better world requires a new way of thinking.

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Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma and a Harvard Business School professor, died last month. Normally, this word suggests a negative connotation. The talkative student was disruptive to the rest of the class, or the reckless driver was disruptive to the flow of traffic. Dictionary.com lists the following words as related to disruptive: upsetting, disturbing, troublesome, rowdy, troublemaking. Yet this word is used routinely in society and business, often with a positive, or at least neutral, connotation.

Working in technology and software can be one of the most rewarding experiences as a marketer. It's an exciting and fast-growing space but it comes with its fair share of challenges. This is particularly true when it comes to disruptive innovations. For the purposes of clarity, I will break it down this way: innovation is doing something that already exists but doing it faster or better than anyone else, and disruptive innovation is doing some completely new and solving a problem that people may have but they certainly don't know there is a solution. Many software companies are truly disruptive innovators for example companies like Mind Foundry, an Oxford-based AI company that brings to market automated machine learning (AML).

Our Chief Product Officer Chris Francia's insights on the aspects of AI and how it drives our disruptive innovation in digital advertising…. You would be hard-pressed to find any company with roots in the digital space not mention it as part of their current or future growth plans. Yet, as with any new technology that burst onto the marketing scene, there is a fair amount of misinformation about it. For starters, AI will neither be the doom of our society nor will it magically solve all of our problems. But outside of those two umbrellas, AI can assist and improve current workflows and technologies.

My wife's father was a perfect mix of Walter Mattheu & Fred Flintstone. He didn't talk much so when he did you tended to listen. My wife's name is Kate but he called her Kay. When we first met, in the mid-1970s, I remember Ivan asking her about our relationship: "Now Kay, I always raised you to make the right decisions; now are you sure that you want to marry this guy?" There was something to his statement because, at that time, I didn't have two nickles to rub together and my prospects didn't look good.

The Personal Computer and the Internet have, without a doubt, revolutionized business in the last 25 years. For most of us, it's now impossible to think of the business world without all of the technology and the services built on top of these two innovations. Yet, what if these innovations are just teaser of what is to come in the next couple of decades? While it's certainly true that innovation isn't always a purely positive force, technological innovation has still been the biggest factor in driving long-term economic growth and improving the quality of life since the dawn of mankind. The agricultural and industrial revolutions, as well as the adoption of electricity have clearly been huge drivers of productivity for our society.

Given the increasing prevalence of data today, machine learning has evolved rapidly to advance computing a step forward. Enabling computers to automatically learn and improve performance using data, ML is viewed as a disruptive technology with the potential to transform areas like enterprise, manufacturing, healthcare, e-commerce etc. Global ML adoption rates points to huge investments and diverse use cases in the coming years making it one key technology to focus your efforts. This infographic focuses on the essentials of machine learning together with how it helps in uncovering insights from huge data stacks. Besides, its applications, global adoption rates, and future developments are also dealt with to give you a basic understanding of machine learning so that it can be put to use for uplifting your business processes and operations. Deploying proper machine learning systems can uplift your business and maximize the ROI.