Energy decision makers, experts, product suppliers, solution providers, project developers, innovators, and investors may differ on which distinct energy technologies and solutions will likely dominate the energy markets of 2020 and beyond, yet they will undoubtedly agree on one thing:  an energy system fit for the 21st century will be carbon light, waste free, and resilient. Those innovations that subscribe to this reality, and contribute to its advent, stand a chance to shine and occupy centre stage, and those that don’t will most likely be relegated to the margins of relevant innovation

The challenge of providing the most efficient care at the lowest cost possible in the healthcare industry is likely to amplify in the coming years and decades. Population aging in the western world, ever more modernizing lifestyles in much of the developing societies, and the rise of unpredictable health epidemics, form the perfect storm for a dramatic increase in the demand for care against a backdrop of supply insufficiencies across the entire value chain from treatment facilities, to health personnel, to research skills, to shrinking public spending budgets.

We live in an era where social, mobile, and local seem to be the gateways through which all relevant innovations must pass and the lenses through which we must peek to understand ongoing and future transformations across many industries. Localisation, peer reviewing, and real time scheduling are rewriting the rules of commerce and traditional client vendor relationships. Banks and credit companies risk loosing control of their future as our mobile devices become credit cards. Enterprise social networking is connecting the ever elusive dots between product development, marketing, sales, and operations teams and their clients, suppliers and end customers, ubiquitously and dynamically, driving radical efficiencies and speeding business..