· Day 2 kicked off with a double session featuring government’s views on 4IR and frontier technologies with Japanese Minister Naokazu Takemoto, Tina Jabeen, CEO and Managing Director Startup Bangladesh Limited ICT Division and Oleksandr Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for IT Development Ukraine, among others.
· Top Industry leaders and experts helped build a positive narrative about 4IR challenges and opportunities across 8 different panels
· The openbusinessconcouncil summit ended with a plea to ethical tech and highlighted the need for building solutions that are both accessible and inclusive for everyone.
· All the panels can be watched on Dinis Guarda Youtube Channel.

The openbusinesscouncil summit has come to an end after 2 days full of panels, experts and inspiring insights on the role of 4IR and frontier technologies in the world of tomorrow. In total, there were 19 panels, featuring 77 speakers, from which there were 4 ministers, 13 governmental representatives, and 25 top industry media influencers.

Day 2 followed up on the success of the first session, scaling things up as government representatives took the stage. The initial 2 panels put together 3 top government officials: Japanese Minister Naokazu Takemoto; Tina Jabeen, CEO and Managing Director Startup Bangladesh Limited ICT Division and Oleksandr Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for IT Development Ukraine; and 2 heads of startup accelerators, Luisa Rubio Arribas, Head of Wayra X (Telefonica’s startup wing) and Kieu My (Kimiko) Doan, Vietnam Digital Transformational Leader. All 5 panellists, moderated by Visionary Tech Leader Eric van der Kleij, explored the needed collaborations between decision-makers and business ecosystems to thrive in a hypercompetitive and disruptive environment.

Some of the highlights of “The Global Governmental, Business and Startup Tech Landscape Post Covid – Challenges and Opportunities” panel are:

Japanese Minister Naokazu Takemoto: “We are now developing the new Moonshot Research and Development Program that aims to create disruptive innovations from Japan and promotes challenging R&D based on revolutionary concepts that are not simply the extension of existing technologies, i.e. moonshots. The Moonshot Research and Development (R&D) Program aims to solve various difficult issues in today’s society, such as the declining birthrate, ageing population, large‐scale natural disasters, global warming and many others. Japan will promote international R&D cooperation to solve these issues. By aggressively promoting challenging R&D rather than improving conventional technologies, the Cabinet Office of the Japanese Government and other relevant ministries will facilitate disruptive innovation through enhancing researchers’ trials and errors.”

Tina Jabeen, CEO and Managing Director Startup Bangladesh Limited ICT Division: “The Government of Bangladesh is working on an extremely ambitious program based on technology. Because technology is the way to go if we want to transform our society if we want to bring large scale impact and to achieve the 2030 SDGs. So with that in mind technology has been incorporated into all our national plans. We have two very interesting projects: the Bangladesh Hi-tech Park Authority, which is a government agency dedicated to establish, manage and operate all 39 and growing technology business parks throughout the country. The second one is fostering the Startup Bangladesh ecosystem. We know that startups are agile, flexible and bring innovation. That is why Startup Bangladesh was created in the beginning and that is what we are focusing on right now.

Across the 8 panels, speakers had the chance to explore solutions, challenges and opportunities in different sectors but all linked together by disruptive innovation. Overall, the tone was optimistic and panellists focused on creating a positive narrative based on the ethical development of technology.

Some of the panel highlights are:

Marc Buckley | ALOHAS Resilience Foundation, SDG Advocate, Expert for WEF, and Global Food Reformist I Berlin School for Sustainable Futures University of Applied Sciences Professor – about education: “We need to include future thinking and emerging technologies in education systems worldwide. We need to embrace tech to understand better how we can move forward ethically and sustainably. COVID-19 was a pivotal moment in recent education history and showed the gap in technology adoption in education. It was also an accelerator for tech adoption. We are all citizens of this global world and we need to go all together to make sure the future is better than the world right now. Neoliberalism has expired already.”

Jaewon Peter Chun | President World Smart City Forum about building smart cities: “When you build a smart city, you need to think about who is going to benefit from this new infrastructure and technologies. There are cities that don’t have many people living there but they are important transportation hubs or a touristic destination. So the question is what specific technologies, solutions do you need to implement for the needs of your city? These are the questions that not all the cities ask to themselves but are key to the effectiveness of smart city-related technologies.”

The event ran through to 6 pm GMT, being live-streamed from 5 different channels including YouTube, Facebook and Periscope, all 37+ speakers shared their insights about how 4IR and frontier tech is transforming the world as we know it in these times of COVID-19 uncertainties.

The 2-day event openbusinesscouncil summit came to an end with the ‘Future Governments & Cities: what Roads to Smart Sustainable, Accessibility + Inclusive society?’, a panel discussion key for the future implementation of technology, giving us a much needed ethical POV. The panel was moderated by Debra Ruh, CEO and Founder of Ruh Global IMPACT, Human Potential at Work (HPAW) Talk Show Host and Co-Host of AXSChat and it will feature Maya Zuckerman, COO Luman; Richard Streitz, Chief Operating Officer (COO) Ruh Global IMPACT; Marco Robinson, Founder of NAKED technologies and Uriel Alvarado, Co-founder and CEO of Grupo BienAhora and BienFest.

Some highlights from the panel:

Maya Zuckerman | Luman’s COO said: “Innovation is fun, implementing that innovation is when things get complicated. Also, cities and nations have been built around transportation, cars, not humans, so completing that transition is a real challenge. Now we are getting there, but new challenges arise in terms of security, services, etc. That’s why innovation and public conversations are so important right now.”

The event was catalogued as a success and the statistics speak for themselves. The event, in general, reached these numbers:
· panels over 50k live viewers
· total digital outreach was over 2 million people;
· Generated over 600 articles and PR syndication multiple news assets such as Yahoo Finance, WSJ, MarketWatch etc.

Read here the openbusinesscouncil summit day 1 recap.

Dinis Guarda, founder of openbusinesscouncil.org and curator of the event said: “We all appreciate your great expertise and insights, and I truly believe we helped build a positive narrative around the challenges and opportunities of 4IR and frontier technologies.
Grateful to have great speakers and experts share their ideas on openbusinesscouncil.org/summit”.

The summit had a solid focus on businesses and governments’ digital transformation strategies, and it provided a road map of solutions, covering opportunities of how to work and collaborate as governments, businesses, cities, citizens and nations move forward with 4IR – Society 5.0. The summit provided an international business and brand exposure through our media partners.

Hernaldo Turrillo

Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.

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· Learn how Digital Transformation, 4IR and Society 5.0 can be achieved from top ministers including Minister of Technology of Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam and top industry leaders like Eric van der Kleij, former UK Smart Nation Director; Michael Stanley Jones from United Nations and Ben Goertzel, AI mastermind and others

· The openbusinesscouncil Summit starts on December 9-10, offering two days full of meaningful panels. Watch now on Dinis Guarda Youtube Channel.

The openbusinesscouncil summit started at 8.30am GMT and ran through to 18.00am GMT. The first panel featured Saifuddin Abdullah, Minister of Communications of Malaysia, and along Dinis Guarda, CEO and Founder of ztudium, Thought Leader & Influencer and Sanjay Aggarwal, Chairman & CEO at Paramount Communications Limited looked for an answer to one of the most incipient challenges of the ending year: “How can Governments & Businesses manage the Challenges of COVID-19 – Digital transformation 4IR, AI, Blockchain, FinTech?”

Live streaming from 5 different channels including YouTube, Facebook and Periscope, all 40+ speakers shared their insights about how 4IR and frontier tech is transforming the world as we know it in these times of COVID-19 uncertainties.

Here are some of major highlights from the day:

Tony Horrell, Chairman and CEO at Cranium Ventures, at the panel ‘Global Regulatory Government and Business – Fintech Ecosystem’: “What we are seeing now in the payment space is the perfect storm. We have a highly complex environment but regulation is not touching the right points. Here in Malaysia, for example, we have many different regulatory bodies and financial players that don’t talk to each other. What we need to build is an interoperable and a holistic framework that takes into account crypto payments, digital payments, fiat payments, etc and all players involved.”

Dr. Kiran Fernandes, Professor and Associate Dean Durham University UK at the panel ‘4IR: How Cities & Businesses can transform their infrastructure & supply chain with Society 5.0 AI Blockchain Sustainability frameworks?’: “We need to create a system that works bringing together the so-called triple helix: academia, industry and government. That is the only way to reach what Society 5.0 is meant to provide .”

The star panel ‘Technology, Blockchain, AI, Automation. What is the future?’ was the brochure to a packed day full of insights and solutions. Gathering together Ai-Da the robot creator Aidan Meller and Sophia the robot creator Ben Goertzel along with tech thought leader David Siegel and data analytics professor Jamal Ouenniche, this fireside left us some of the most interesting takeaways of the day:

David Siegel, Tech Thought Leader and Founder of Cutting Through the Noise said: “Whenever there is a new technology, it is not about the technology itself, but about the people who made it and how they are going to use it in the future. And in recent years, especially after Bitcoin and blockchain went mainstream, technology developers and creators must first go to a lawyer to see if they can invent that technology or not.”

Likewise, Ben Goertzel | Founder of SingularityNET commented about the future of AI: “We need to create an AI that serves us. We need to democratically lead AI development while fostering creativity and imagination. Those two aspects are key for the future of AI, especially as we are approaching Singularity.”

“There are two major trends dominating our collective brain: first one is about centralization funneled by companies, databases, power, economy, etc. And the other is the advent of decentralization. A movement that is born on the internet and fostered by new technologies like blockchain.”

Day-2 will feature some of keynote speakers, including Eric van der Kleij, Cofounder EdenBase.com, creator of Level39.co, former adviser to U.K. Prime Minister – Technation.io, Naokazu Takemoto, Minister of Technology Japan and Tina Jabeen, CEO and Founder of Startup Bangladesh in the panel “The Global Business & Startup digital and Tech landscape – Challenges and Opportunities?”

Providing solutions to businesses will be a key theme along the summit and the panel “The Global Business & Startup digital and Tech landscape – Challenges and Opportunities?” proves that. This panel will count with the presence of Oleksandr Bornyakov, “Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for IT Development Ukraine”; Tina Jabeen, CEO & Founder of Bangladesh Startup CEO Founder; Tran Van Tung, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology Vietnam and Andrés Saborido, Managing Director at Wayra.

At last but not least, the 2-day event openbusinesscouncil summit will end with the ‘Future Governments & Cities: what Roads to Smart Sustainable, Accessibility + Inclusive society?’, a panel discussion key for the future implementation of technology, giving us a much needed ethical POV. The panel will be moderated by Debra Ruh, CEO and Founder of Ruh Global IMPACT, Human Potential at Work (HPAW) Talk Show Host and Co-Host of AXSChat and it will feature Maya Zuckerman, COO Luman; Richard Streitz, Chief Operating Officer (COO) Ruh Global IMPACT; Marco Robinson, Founder of NAKED technologies and Uriel Alvarado, Co-founder and CEO of Grupo BienAhora and BienFest.

About openbusinesscouncil summit

The openbusinesscouncil summit is a leading 2-day global virtual event that aims to strengthen businesses, startups and governments’ with digital transformation strategies and how to deal with the economic challenges and technology disruption arising from COVID-19.

From December 9 – 10, the leading global virtual event provides access to a unique roster of 100+ leading global speakers from over 30 countries and a direct reach of 10.000 participants and an indirect reach of around 10 million people.

The summit has a solid focus on businesses and governments’ digital transformation strategies, and it will provide a road map of solutions, covering opportunities of how to work and collaborate as governments, businesses, cities, citizens and nations move forward with 4IR – Society 5.0. The summit will provide an international business and brand exposure through our media partners.

Hernaldo Turrillo

Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.

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· From building Smart Cities to the role of 4IR technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT on the industries of tomorrow, openbusinesscouncil Summit offers a 3-day digital event packed with insights and solutions for all the challenges of our society.

· Learn how Digital Transformation, 4IR and Society 5.0 can be achieved from top ministers including Minister of Technology of Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam and top industry leaders like Eric van der Kleij, former UK Smart Nation Director; Michael Stanley Jones from United Nations and Ben Goertzel, AI mastermind and others

· The openbusinesscouncil Summit starts on December 9-11, offering two days full of meaningful panels. Watch now on Dinis Guarda Youtube Channel.

Digital Transformation and 4IR are an unstoppable force of change. Businesses, nations and industries need to adapt to what this digital revolution offers. But there are many challenges and questions that need to be addressed, especially in these difficult times of global COVID-19 pandemic.

The openbusinesscouncil summit is a leading 2-day global virtual event that aims to strengthen businesses, startups and governments’ with digital transformation strategies and how to deal with the economic challenges and technology disruption arising from COVID-19.

From December 9 – 10, the leading global virtual event provides access to a unique roster of 100+ leading global speakers from over 30 countries and a direct reach of 10.000 participants and an indirect reach of around 10 million people.

The summit has a solid focus on businesses and governments’ digital transformation strategies, and it will provide a road map of solutions, covering opportunities of how to work and collaborate as governments, businesses, cities, citizens and nations move forward with 4IR – Society 5.0. The summit will provide an international business and brand exposure through our media partners.

The openbusinesscouncil summit starts off at 8.30am GMT and runs through to 18.00am GMT on both December 9 and 10. The first panel features Saifuddin Abdullah, Minister of Communications of Malaysia, and along Dinis Guarda, CEO and Founder of ztudium, Thought Leader & Influencer and Sanjay Aggarwal, Chairman & CEO at Paramount Communications Limited will look for an answer to “How can Governments & Businesses manage the Challenges of COVID-19 – Digital transformation 4IR, AI, Blockchain, FinTech?”

The first day will close with the panel “Technology, Blockchain, AI, Automation. What is the future?”, with the insights of Ben Goertzel, Founder of SingularityNET; Aidan Meller; Creator of Ai-Da robot and Dr. Jamal Ouenniche, Professor and Chair in Business Analytics at the University of Edinburgh Business School.

Day-2 will feature some of keynote speakers, including Eric van der Kleij
Cofounder EdenBase.com, creator of Level39.co, former adviser to U.K. Prime Minister – Technation.io, Naokazu Takemoto, Minister of Technology Japan and Cato Ochi, Special Advisor to the State Minister, Business and political Consultant in the panel “The Global Business & Startup digital and Tech landscape – Challenges and Opportunities?”

Providing solutions to businesses will be a key theme along the summit and the panel “The Global Business & Startup digital and Tech landscape – Challenges and Opportunities?” proves that. This panel will count with the presence of Oleksandr Bornyakov, “Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for IT Development Ukraine”; Tina Jabeen, CEO & Founder of Bangladesh Startup CEO Founder; Tran Van Tung, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology Vietnam and Andrés Saborido, Managing Director at Wayra.

Join us on from December, 9 on Dinis Guarda YouTube channel.

About openbusinesscouncil summit

The openbusinesscouncil summit is a leading 2-day global virtual event that aims to strengthen businesses, startups and governments’ with digital transformation strategies and how to deal with the economic challenges and technology disruption arising from COVID-19.

The three-day summit provides access to a unique audience of 100+ leading global speakers from over 30 countries and a direct reach of 10.000 participants and an indirect reach digital streaming in social media that reaches around 10 million people. The participants include potential partners and clients, leading global thought leaders, entrepreneurs, startup organisations, accelerators, investors, authors and governments.

Hernaldo Turrillo

Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.

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I look forward to discussing these topics with the esteemed panellists when I moderate the hour long panel on Capital markets, Digital Assets and ESG with 4IR, Blockchain and Society 5.0 at 15:45 GMT on 9 December at the openbusinesscouncil Summit.

By Hirander Misra, Chairman of GMEX Group & SECDEX Group

The cutting edge global virtual event that aims to strengthen businesses, startups and government, with strategies and action plans, to deal with the challenges arising from COVID-19. The summit will explore how the impact of COVID-19 can be addressed by harnessing the 4th Industrial Revolution underpinned by AI and Blockchain to build better solutions for digital transformation, resulting in the emergence of Society 5.0. Wisdom will be shared through a showcase of 20 Governments and 100+ Global Industry Speakers from over 30 countries with a direct reach of 10.000 participants and an indirect reach digital streaming in social media that reaches around 10 million people on the 9, 10 and 11 December 2020.

Capital markets future Fintech

Capital markets will go from analogue to digital harnessing the true power of blockchain and digital assets. The key challenge is how organisations grapple with this change in a way that preserves traditional business but also creates new digital business opportunities. With this backdrop we see B2B and B2C business models converging, which is demonstrated both by the DBS Bank move into launching digital custody and a digital assets exchange in Singapore, as well as PayPal offering cryptocurrencies to its client base.

The real challenge is to optimise retail and wholesale activity in capital markets using the best facets of both centralised and decentralised technology and services. Banks are increasingly taking up digital assets, both on the wholesale and retail side, as well as developing digital custodial services with cryptocurrencies gaining the most traction and security tokens predicted to follow. Digital currencies and alternative forms of digital assets, with seamless smart contract driven cross border exchange between them and their exchange with goods and services, will result in less frictional cost and more efficiency. This presents opportunities to unlock the value of new asset classes in a way that democratises their access to the general public on equal terms to institutional investors.

Some of the topics we will discuss at the panel: Capital markets, Digital Assets and ESG with 4IR, Blockchain and Society 5.0 at 15:45 GMT on 9 December at the Open Business Council Summit

· What will be the key capital markets trends in 2021 leveraging future Fintech?

· How will capital markets go from analogue to digital harnessing the true power of blockchain and digital assets?

· Will there be a convergence of blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with smart contracts getting smarter?

· How will capital markets fragmentation be addressed in traditional finance and new digital finance given the need for traditional infrastructure and multiple blockchains to coexist?

· How will centralised and decentralised finance (DeFI) intersect?

· How is ESG is being utilised effectively in investment management leveraging Fintech?

· How will we move from the 4^th Industrial Revolution (4IR) to ‘Society 5.0’?

4IR and Society 5.0

The advent of new technologies, including Blockchain, AI, Internet of Things (IoT) and Quantum computing, is greater than ever before enabled by an increase in cloud computing. There will be greater convergence of these technologies (e.g. blockchain smart contracts driven by data and AI) to foster the 4IR and a transition to Society 5.0. This will lead to greater opportunities not just for governments and institutions, but also for the individual, fuelling an Internet of People (IoP) rather than merely an IoT.

New technologies, ensuring user control over their information and data, will give governments and their citizens’ ownership over the digital information they create and the economic value that derives from it. This will help achieve Society 5.0’s goals for the use of technology to lead to a better society aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).  Positive social impact will ensue in Infrastructure, Fintech (including blockchain), Healthcare, Logistics and AI.

Democratised social impact

Many old-world solutions are being passed off as game changing blockchain enabled digital asset plays. As those in the market who could really benefit get increasingly savvy, the hype that is being marketed by some will see the cold light of reality. This presents an opportunity for those that can truly harness the power of blockchain enabled digital assets to create tomorrow’s unicorns like the internet revolution did for some firms, but with a wider degree of democratisation beyond just corporate benefit.

This approach will not only be the Fintech future of financial markets, but will also be as positively disruptive as the internet was overall, but in a capital markets context which has wider social impact and financial inclusion.

Watch the full panel at openbusinesscouncil summit at 15:45 GMT on 9 December

Hernaldo Turrillo

Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.

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Delve into the future of business and finance at the openbusinesscouncil Summit Masterclass Day. The masterclass will take place on day 3 of the openbusinesscouncil summit led by mentors Babak Behboudi, CEO of Synchronium, a blockchain ecosystem framework to accelerate innovation, and Dinis Guarda, Founder and CEO of openbusinesscouncil.org and ztudium on 4IR Tech solutions for businesses and the future of crypto and DeFi, along with other experts.

The 4IR is disrupting every sector and industry, and all the businesses within them. From AI to blockchain, the digital has become the new normal and with it comes many challenges: how to gather and use data smartly, boost productivity, improve legacy systems, deploy better cybersecurity systems… Dinis Guarda, a serial entrepreneur and author, will provide you with invaluable insights about how to embrace all that 4IR can offer, including blockchain, AI, IoT, Fintech solutions.

Likewise, the financial system is going through deep changes. Blockchain and Crypto are opening opportunities to create fairer and more transparent finance for all. But they also come with their challenges. Join serial entrepreneur and innovator Babak Behboudi and learn the latest trends in crypto, including the next big thing: DeFi.

This Masterclass will be the final brochure to 3 days of a global digital event. The three-day summit provides access to a unique audience of 100+ leading global speakers from over 30 countries and a direct reach of 10.000 participants and an indirect reach digital streaming in social media that reaches around 10 million people. The participants include potential partners and clients, leading global thought leaders, entrepreneurs, startup organisations, accelerators, investors, authors and governments.

Masterclass: 4IR: Blockchain, Fintech, AI by Dinis Guarda

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is characterized by a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital and biological spheres, collectively referred to as cyber-physical systems. Over the past decade, a number of important technologies such as AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT evolved so quickly that they became the core drivers around which we govern our lives. How are the 4IR and its technologies impacting businesses and governments, and how should these prepare for its inherent opportunities but also challenges? And how to apply these new emergent technologies in your project/business/organization in a simple and effective way?

Dinis Guarda, founder of openbusinesscouncil.org citiesabc.com and leading personality on 4IR, AI, blockchain and smart cities, the curator of the event says: “With businesses and startups facing uncertain times, a recession, drop in sales, and limited funding, the openbusinesscouncil summit will address today’s most pressing challenges with digital transformation solutions and what’s next for industries, cities, governments and businesses.”

Masterclass: Cryptocurrencies, DeFi – Trading & Investment – by Babak Behboudi

One area in the cryptocurrency market attracting huge attention is DeFi or Decentralized finance. This refers to an experimental form of finance that does not rely on central financial intermediaries and instead utilizes blockchains. As DeFi apps are still in early stages, investors and traders face many unknowns: Is investing in DeFi safe? How do I make money with DeFi? When will DeFi go mainstream?

Synchronium CEO Babak Behboudi said about blockchain and crypto: “The main challenges I have seen are regarding regulation and culture. Regulators move very slowly when it comes to financing and new technologies as disruptive as this one. But even more challenging is corporate culture, companies are really reluctant to develop and implement new processes or new solutions if it modifies the ones they have in place. They fear risking breaking things that work, even if that means that their processes can be upgraded and improved greatly. And to change that, what we need to do is to change our mindset to this new technology first and then show them all they are missing by not adopting, or at least researching about it.”

About openbusinesscouncil Summit

The openbusinesscouncil summit is a leading 3-day global virtual event that aims to strengthen businesses, startups and governments’ with digital transformation strategies and how to deal with the economic challenges and technology disruption arising from COVID-19.

The three-day summit provides access to a unique audience of 100+ leading global speakers from over 30 countries and a direct reach of 10.000 participants and an indirect reach digital streaming in social media that reaches around 10 million people. The participants include potential partners and clients, leading global thought leaders, entrepreneurs, startup organisations, accelerators, investors, authors and governments.

The summit has a solid focus on businesses and governments’ digital transformation strategies, and it will provide a road map of solutions, covering opportunities of how to work and collaborate as governments, businesses, cities, citizens and nations move forward with 4IR – Society 5.0. The summit will provide an international business and brand exposure through our media partners.

The openbusinesscouncil summit program includes leading speakers, VCs and entrepreneurs in Digital transformation, AI, Blockchain, COVID19 Impact, Smart Cities, Automation, Fintech, Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity, Corporate Innovation, and more.

The program offers keynote and panels with speakers, Ministers and representatives of European Union, Malaysia, Pakistan, Mauritius, Portugal, Scotland, UK, World Smart City Forum with global influencers and academics such as Debra Ruh, Yu Xiong, Antonio Santos, Efi Pylarinou, representatives from InvestHK, MDEC, UNESCO, Tencent, Siemens, SOSV, Hyundai, Deloitte, and many of the biggest VCs, Fintechs and the fastest-growing startups.

Hernaldo Turrillo

Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.

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Digital has become the new normal. Businesses, governments and citizens are going online to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic challenge, but we need to embrace everything that digital offers to enable economic growth and to become more resilient for the future. Digital events are one of those tools that have been one of the most effective to educate audiences from all sectors about the potential solutions of this future. This is precisely what openbusinesscouncil summit aims to offer on December 9-10. 

The openbusinesscouncil summit is a cutting edge global virtual event over two days that aims to strengthen businesses, startups and government’s strategies. The openbusinesscouncil summit offers action plans to deal with the challenges arising from COVID-19 given all the economic and technology disruptions.  With businesses and startups facing uncertain times, forecasts of a recession with a drop in sales and limited funding, this summit will kick off by addressing today’s most pressing challenges and identify what’s next for industry and businesses.

The two-day summit, on December 9-10, will provide access to an unique audience of potential partners and clients which include leading global thought leaders, entrepreneurs, startup organisations, accelerators, investors, authors and governments.

Read more about why Businesses need to embrace Digital Transformation on the article Digital Transformation: How to Be a Business in a Time of 4IR AI Blockchain Fintech

How can Businesses and Governments Build a Digital Transformation Strategy in a time of Covid-19

Prior to the pandemic, SMEs were the backbone of the economy – they account for 65% of net new jobs – and they not only need to keep up with technological developments but also with the rising consumer trends. As of now, in the UK alone, there are over 5.7 million small and medium sized businesses while in the USA,, the US Census Bureau said they have over 32 million SMEs. While their growth and potential economic impact are enormous, a vast majority of these businesses face complex and often insurmountable challenges: a lack of business connections, limited awareness of digital tools and best practices, limited staff, lack of digital skills training and education, lack of timely information, poor funding and economies of scale, especially now given the devastating effects of the COVID-19 crisis. The new normal is dominated by data and a continuum of digital innovation, where businesses need to keep adapting and upgrading their models if they are to thrive.

Likewise, consumers’ behaviour is also changing. Consumers now invest extensive time in research and decision-making before entering a traditional or virtual store, and their buying decisions can, and will, be influenced by peer-to-peer customer reviews, feedback, loyalty programmes, promotions and savings generated with special offers. Because of these factors, customer and product information matters, now, more than ever before.

Most of today’s companies sales, marketing, customer service and operational efforts struggle to capture the information needed to present a single, common view of customer and product information across the value chain that is presented consistently along all channels. The goal is to have an integrated approach to maintaining both customer and product data.

For these companies that are struggling to adapt their processes to accommodate these changes brought about by digitalisation, the 360-degree model is one of the best ways to begin restoring the company’s ability to keep up with shifting consumer demands.

Innovation is all about the process of taking new ideas from inception to impact whilst solving the problems. Businesses have to focus on an impact of 10x rather than 10%,” said Dinis Guarda, founder and CEO of openbusinesscouncil.org.

The Digital 360 model guides corporate leaders and their different departments to a holistic view of the digital threats and opportunities facing key parts of the business, linking them to an overall vision for how digital is reshaping the competitive landscape? This brings order to a chaos of initiatives and provides a clearer basis for narrowing down priorities and managing the cross-functional interdependencies that the best digital solutions often present. Initiatives like the openbusinesscouncil summit are designed to be the 360 model guide for companies.

The openbusinesscouncil summit will offer a road map of solutions and opportunities of how to work and collaborate as the governments, businesses, cities, citizens and nations move forward with 4IR – Society 5.0. The summit will also provide an AI-powered business digital matching and meeting platform and provide international brand exposure through our media partners. The summit will offer social media outreach to a wide audience of over 2M people and opportunities to engage with speakers through their keynote addresses and panel discussions. Most importantly, the summit will highlight the various ways to adapt, fund, create new jobs and ultimately embrace new opportunities.

“As the world is changing with the 4IR, it is important to reflect on the way we as individuals, nations and businesses respond to the challenges. The only way forward is to look at the situation by harnessing its potential, but this needs to be done in a wise way. Since technologies keep changing, leading to continually emerging trends, there will be a need to adapt quickly, participating fully in the new innovation cycles, creating new driven ecosystems and tech cities, redesigning new business models, products and services, re-skilling the labour force, designing new legislation and doing all of this in a balanced way that thoroughly thinks through what growth means,” added openbusinesscouncil summit curator Dinis Guarda.

openbusinesscouncil was created by the Ztudium group as a Blockchain, AI, Digital Transformation Financial Empowerment B2B2C SMEs businesses and professional ecosystem, that will serve as a business directory, marketplace and payment system.

The summit will feature leading global personalities, entrepreneurs and organisations in the business and startup world, by offering a road map of solutions and opportunities, for startups and the business ecosystems, of how to work and collaborate. The summit will highlight the ways to adapt, fund, create new jobs and ultimately opportunities.

Hernaldo Turrillo

Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.

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