Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2013: Will digitalisation change the world?

Last week I attended the Gartner Symposium in glorious Barcelona for four days. It’s the biggest annual IT conference in Europe, with over 6,000 attendees; most of them are CIOs of the world’s leading enterprises. I must say I was very impressed at the level of attendance, co-ordination and genuine insight the conference provided. There were hundreds of different workshops and sessions spanning the entire spectrum of technology across industries and enterprises. In this blog post, I summarise what I found interesting from the Keynote speech.

Keynote: Digitalisation, The Internet of Things & 3D Printing

The keynote was all about the digitalisation of the world and what Gartner calls the “Digital Industrial Economy”. Gartner is convinced the digitalisation process is literally going to change the world we live in.
Other areas that were intriguing to me were what Gartner refers to as the “Internet of Things” and the “Internet of Everything”. This is the concept that in the very near future almost all products will have sensors and smart chips embedded in them which are connected to the internet read more.