Disruptive Emerging

Technologies

Rod Davenport, Chief Technology Officer

Michigan Digital Summit Lansing Center
September 29-30, 2015

Homo Evolutis

What comes to mind when you hear

Disruptive Emerging Technologies..?

Emerging Disruptors in Technology

Weve already begun Cloud Computing
and
The Internet of Things surrounds us

Cloud Strategy
Percent of Data in the Cloud

Next Generation Digital Infrastructure

(SOM Cloud Program)
Enhance You Capability:

Build Virtual Machines

Enable Continuity
Store and Protect Data
Secure Infrastructure
Streamline Deployment & Operations

IoT
What are the Internet of Things???
A network of dedicated
physical objects that contain
embedded technology to
communicate with internal
and external environments.

(Gartner, 2015)

Impact/Business Disruptors
New revenues/cost reductions
Improve enterprise process and asset
utilization
Work and life patterns

Cyber Physical System

Exoskeletons: Wearable Robotics

Human Performance Augmentation

LS3 Robotic Pack Mule

 J. Craig Venter is a national leading

scientist and founder of the J. Craig
Venture Institute
Constructed the First Self-Replicating
Synthetic Bacterial Cell
First self replicating species whos parent
is a computer

CRISPR/Cas9
Clustered
Regularly
Interspaced
Short
Palindromic
Repeats

Gene-editing technology
that can change the DNA
in nearly any organism,
including Humans.

(Ledford, H., 2015)

How CRISPR/Cas9 Works

ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Let the force be with you.

Thank You.