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The Rising Billions: Business Networks and the Digital Economy

Published: Feb. 10, 2016, 8 a.m.

The buzz: Acting hyper. Peter Diamandis predicts the most dramatic positive change in our global economy will occur between 2016-2020, when 3\u20135 billion new consumers\u2013who\u2019ve never purchased, uploaded, invented or sold anything\u2013come online, sparking a hyper-connectivity mega-surge. Who are they? The Rising Billions. Tech giants Google, Facebook, and SpaceX are working to make this happen. How will your company turn the resulting complex hyper-connectivity into sustainable growth opportunities? The experts speak. Frank Diana, TCS: \u201cThree billion new minds are about to join the global conversation\u201d (Peter Diamandis). Dennison DeGregor, HP: \u201cBy end of 2017, the CMO will have larger budgets for technology than the CIO\u201d (Gartner). Paul Donovan, SAP: \u201cThe day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence\u201d (Nikola Tesla). Join us for The Rising Billions: Business Networks and the Digital Economy.