Autonomous vehicles could be on UK roads as soon as 2026, the transport secretary has said, as ministers seeks to capture as much as £42bn of the international self-driving market within the coming decade. "This technology exists, it works, and what we're doing is putting in place the proper legislation so that people can have full confidence in the safety of this technology," Mark Harper told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday. Asked if people would be able to travel in self-driving vehicles "with your hands off the wheel, doing your emails" in 2026, Harper replied: "Yes, and I think that's when companies are expecting – in 2026, during that year – that we'll start seeing this technology rolled out." Responding to a question by the former Top Gear presenter James May – who was Today's guest editor – about why the government was supporting the development of autonomous driving, Harper claimed there were "a few" reasons. He said: "I think it will actually improve road safety. We already have a very good road safety record in Britain but there are still several thousand people a year killed on our roads. "It's a big economic opportunity for Britain to get what will be a big global share of market.

The gender equity gap in the tech sector is well-documented. Research has found that women occupy only 22% of all tech roles across European companies, while the proportion of funding raised by female-only teams has dropped from 3% to 1% since 2018. The issue is prevalent at every level of the industry. A 2022 poll by Web Summit showed that 67% of women in technology feel unfairly paid compared to their male peers. Despite this pessimistic picture, technology can also provide a means to close the gender equity gap. That's the mission of acclaimed gender economist and former Global 500 global executive, Katica Roy, who will be speaking at TNW València on March 31.

I spoke last week at a conference in Cardiff on the future of work. It was organised by the law firm Dawson Gray. You can't talk about the the future of work without thinking about the future city, since the shape and structure of work is bound up more or less completely with the shape and structure of cities. Edward Glaeser's book The Triumph of the City (2012) gets a lot of love in these conversations. It's hard to find people who have a bad word to say about it. Cities are the absence of physical space between people and companies.

What exactly is the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- and why should you care? The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a way of describing the blurring of boundaries between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. It's the collective force behind many products and services that are fast becoming indispensable to modern life. Think GPS systems that suggest the fastest route to a destination, voice-activated virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri, personalized Netflix recommendations, and Facebook's ability to recognize your face and tag you in a friend's photo. As a result of this perfect storm of technologies, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is paving the way for transformative changes in the way we live and radically disrupting almost every business sector.

Years ago, while on vacation in the Northwest, my husband and I rented a room in the home of a middle-aged couple, one of whom had recently retired. The house was old, beautiful, and cozily laden with objects that signalled domestic inertia. It sat on a lush, wild sprawl of farmland that immediately inspired fantasies of leaving San Francisco and our tech jobs, foraging for mushrooms, administering to septic systems, and turning over soil. One morning over breakfast, conversation shifted to our host's retirement. He was glad to have more time at home with his wife and their dog.

The economic opportunities arising from the introduction of artificial intelligence are enormous, and there are a number of opportunities that developing countries can currently exploit. Access to the Internet, especially to mobile devices, has greatly increased in recent years, and this is one of the key factors that gives the impression that developing worlds riding on the technological advances of the introduction of artificial intelligence are great. Artificial intelligence creates huge opportunities for developing countries in terms of economic growth and job creation. This is an opportunity for developing countries to capitalise on this progress and use the latest technology and user-friendly solutions to improve people's quality of life and create new economic opportunities. By discussing and exchanging these ideas, this symposium aims to stimulate the development of a more established, broader field of research and development in the field of artificial intelligence.

The economic opportunities arising from the introduction of artificial intelligence are enormous, and there are a number of opportunities that developing countries can currently exploit. Access to the Internet, especially to mobile devices, has greatly increased in recent years, and this is one of the key factors that gives the impression that developing worlds riding on the technological advances of the introduction of artificial intelligence are great. Artificial intelligence creates huge opportunities for developing countries in terms of economic growth and job creation. This is an opportunity for developing countries to capitalise on this progress and use the latest technology and user-friendly solutions to improve people's quality of life and create new economic opportunities. By discussing and exchanging these ideas, this symposium aims to stimulate the development of a more established, broader field of research and development in the field of artificial intelligence.

When I was the Vice President of Advertiser Analytics at Yahoo, this became a key focus guiding the analytics that we were delivering to advertisers to help them optimize their spend across the Yahoo ad network. Advertisers had significant untapped advertising and marketing spend into which we were not tapping because we could not deliver audience, content and campaign insights to help them spend that money with us. And the MOTT was huge. Now here I am again, and I'm again noticing this massive "Money on the Table" (MOTT) economic opportunity across all companies – orphaned analytics. Orphaned Analytics are one-off analytics developed to address a specific use case but never "operationalized" or packaged for re-use across other organizational use cases.

Incorporation of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare enables the scope for innovations and reduced the project cost by 50%, which previously thought to be out of reach due to cost or time constraints. According to Grand View Research, the global artificial intelligence in the healthcare market is estimated to USD 31.3 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 41.5% from 2020-2025. The use of automation enhances the quality of service and smoothen the customer care experience along with the effective project implementations at lower costs. Picture archiving and communication system (PACS) systems are using the integration of automation technologies to automate tasks such as worklist optimization and hanging protocols in radiology. Such implementation can enhance workflow and productivity for the operators.

What exactly is the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- and why should you care? The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a way of describing the blurring of boundaries between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. It's the collective force behind many products and services that are fast becoming indispensable to modern life. Think GPS systems that suggest the fastest route to a destination, voice-activated virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri, personalized Netflix recommendations, and Facebook's ability to recognize your face and tag you in a friend's photo. As a result of this perfect storm of technologies, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is paving the way for transformative changes in the way we live and radically disrupting almost every business sector.