KALEIDOSCOPE 2018 THEMES THE INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ECOSYSTEM RAISED Businesses are making big bets on intelligent environments via robotics, AI and immersive experiences. But to bring these intelligent environments 1) Is your business taking advantage of ‘the edge’ of the to life, they must extend their infrastructures into the dynamic, real world infrastructure? / What richness environments they want to reach. are you missing from not playing at ‘the edge’? THEME OVERVIEW: 2) Is it time to renew your The capability of smart devices is rapidly growing – not just for consumers – but also in industry. approach to hardware? E.g. through custom They have the processing power to make intelligent decisions on the ‘edge’ of the infrastructure; hardware or hardware in dynamic, real-world environments. Internet of Thinking means: accelerators? 3) What new products/services can you deliver without INTELLIGENCE Devices ‘on the edge’ tremendous computing and services in the surrounding using the cloud? EVERYWHERE: provide instant insights, power demands of edge- world, and harness the 4) By 2023 the amount of Extend the infrastructure decisions and actions, while based decision-making and power of AI, robotics, edge processing power used to reach into the dynamic cloud computing generates real extended reality and IoT. by companies will eclipse physical environments you the meta-insights to drive time ‘thinking’ In the internet of thinking, the processing power they use want to serve - from central strategic direction. REDESIGNING businesses must create from the cloud. space such as offices, RENEWED APPROACH TO INFRASTRUCTURE: their unique intelligent How will you prepare? factories and sites where HARDWARE: Extend current distributed network, 5) What does your intelligent systems traditionally reside Leverage custom hardware infrastructures and embracing the cloud, distributed network look like? –to any environment where and hardware accelerators transform architecture the edge, and everywhere Do you understand its potential? users and activities are located. like GPUs to meet the to embed devices and in between. INTERNET OF THINKING 50