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Welcome to the December Edition of Roundtable
Information 4.0: Inventing the Future
How do we design and deliver information in a hybrid world of human-machine interaction? The Fourth Industrial Revolution (aka Industry 4.0) presents challenges to everyone, and most especially to information specialists. For the first time in history, machines are making decisions that affect humans without human intervention. It is characterised by the spread of connected, autonomous objects (Internet of Things), driven by Artificial Intelligence, with Big Data behind it to train and inform the various algorithms. What is the place of information in this revolution, and what does it mean for practitioners?
– Ray Gallon (Curator for Information 4.0: Inventing the Future)
We kick this roundtable off with an exploration of the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution (aka Industry 4.0), how they affect information production and delivery, and a blueprint for information design and delivery that puts it directly into the DNA of future products and systems. Because without information, the Internet of Things is just a collection of things, and Artificial Intelligence is just artificial.
In week two, Ray Gallon and Andy McDonald, the initiators of the Information 4.0 Consortium, explore two real examples of products operating with Information 4.0 principles and technologies: The original Blippar app, which offered continuously updated information from the entire web in the form of ontologies, providing each user with an individual path based on their needs; and Google Duplex, an AI-based conversational agent that can respond to multiple inputs and customize its responses to a context.
In the fourth industrial revolution, information should be a key design element, but many technologists and business leaders either aren’t aware, or simply don’t know how to enable information in their products. In this panel, we’ll discuss information enabling as a central business need. How can we help raise consciousness about the importance of having information enabling capacity designed into products from day one, not as a tacked-on afterthought? We’ll focus on three areas: technology, people, and social issues, and cover topics such as:
- What does it really mean to enable information?
- Using Customer insight to design information
- Leading Content Strategy by bridging Marketing, Support, Elearning and other teams…
- How can teams of information enablers help the business?
- What are the implications for society of not doing this?
Panel:
Moderator: Ray Gallon, president of The Transformation Society and Information 4.0 Consortium
- Scott Abel, CEO & Chief Wrangler, The Content Wrangler
- Marie Girard, Assistant professor in content strategy and architecture, Technical Communication Masters degree, University of Paris Diderot
- Joe Gollner, Managing Director, Gnostyx Research Inc.
- Paul Perotta, Perrotta Consulting
- Anna Schlegel, Vice President, Global Portfolio to Market Lifecyle, NetApp
To be announced!
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The Future of TechComm
The future of technical communication. It’s a big topic. One that conjures up images of crystal balls and gypsy fortune tellers. But the future isn’t written in a secret language that only clairvoyants can understand. Our future, the future of technical communication, is being written all around us, in a language we can understand: Our own.
–Scott Abel
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