Roger Camrass Research Director at CIONET Birth of the Digital World: a personal journey

Published: Nov. 16, 2022, 2:33 p.m.

b'"I hope my legacy is leaving some thoughts about how to really take advantage of our digital world which will be so different to the world we grew up in."\\n\\nLet us take you to a journey across five decades. In this special edition of Leadership Deep Dive, Roger Camrass, International Research Director CIONET talks with Hendrik Deckers, Founder and MD CIONET on how the digital world of today has been shaped and how he contributed to this exciting technological revolution.\\n\\nListen to the full interview now! With degrees from Cambridge University and MIT, Roger had the opportunity to get the first-hand experience in numerous technological endeavors across telecommunications, IT consulting and outsourcing. Having worked with first start-ups on the market and initiating IT consulting, Roger has witnessed the true technological change:\\nThe roaring 70s: ARPANET, the precursor of Internet \\u2013 the real game changer\\nThe 80s: explosive growth of IT\\nThe 90s: hyper-connectivity\\nThe new Millennium: the start of digital era\\nSecond decade of XXI c.: hyper-personalisation\\n\\nListen to this amazing testimonial, Roger\\u2019s personal journey that took him across Europe and USA. Having participated in seminal tech developments such as call centres, ERP, Cloud and 5G, Roger anticipated in nineties that hyper-connectivity would transform the industrial landscape. Today Roger stresses that the data is the new Gold and the big question to all of us is how do we protect and monetise our own intellectual property?'