Edge Conference 2015 in Munich - What do I bring back from the conference?
What do I bring from Netlight Edge Conference 2015?
What a fantastic conference - by consultants for consultants - Alte Kongresshalle with the
very cool typical 50-ties interior in combination with the Netlight boid
decoration made such a great setting. On top of that put the energy, the
engagement, the knowledge, the experience and professionalism of over 500
Netlight consultants and clients.
Netlight Edge Conference 2015 - What is currently Edge?
Welcome Speech
Of course there was a spectacular welcome speech by
Edge Evangelist Mandus Engman (me ;-) And if you don’t know, Edge is the
Netlight word for knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing that is one
fundamental cornerstone in creating together as Genuine Consultants). I spoke
about the "WHY". Why meet up at Edge Conference? I talked about
Evolutionary Purpose and how we all play an important part of our Evolutionary
Purpose in being nothing else but ourselves - in our small daily decisions and
interactions with other world citizens.
Welcome Speech
How wearable technologies and innovations will shape the future of mobile payments
Our friend, Executive Vice Precident for Mobile Services at Wirecard, Jörn Leongrande spoke about wearables and payments. This is a highly interesting area within the exciting Internet Of Things area, where we have only seen the beginning. Jörn showed us ideas and products that possibly will simplify the way we live our lives; How we faster, easier and more safe can do payments in crowed areas; How we by using wearables can get relevant input and data of our health status in real time and act upon that; Or how we can design new clothing collections with lights and light effects letting us to stand out and say something more.Some of the ideas and products within the field of application of wearables, such has health monitoring will of course generate a massive amount of data over time, which slid us into the next topic and key note speaker.
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A very interesting and important discussion to have in
the area is the balance between letting companies know a lot about us to provide
better services vs. integrity. I don’t have the answer but we need a much
higher level of transparency and trust here. As individuals we must be able to
know exactly which information is stored about us and we must be able to alter
or remove it at any time upon will. Of course we must also trust the guaranteed
data security given.
The more data you have the more expensive and complex your solution will be. The data you don’t store you can never get back. So the golden balance between the two quotes is what you must look for. And that will be so much easier if you know what you want to achieve up front.Talking about technical solutions and Big Data Architectural Strategies - it brings us to the next presentation I visited; “BI & Big Data – Building products and large amounts of real time data”, by Max Charas.
Another thing I really agree on, and it’s nice to find it proven by over 28 (I
believe, correct?) agile teams at idealo internet GmbH, is that it’s not the
backlog estimates that tell how much work your team will put down a week, but
the history after at least a couple of weeks of consistency in planning, team,
context etc. And therefor don’t lose time on trying to make exact estimates by
the hour, but go for the t-shirt sizing; small, medium and large and after a
few weeks you get what you’re after to get better accuracy in roadmaps.
Ending the conference was our Key Note speaker, Alf Rehn, Management Thinker & Author. He remained us of our responsibility. In creating the digital future together, we have a great responsibility in taking care of the environment and each other. Everything we do can’t possibly be to delivery another stupid app to the middle-aged, middle-weighted, rich, white, male who already has everything he needs and more. We must think better than that!
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Use of big data in the transformation of Bonnier and about Bonnier Insights
Jannike Tillå, Head of Customer Insights & Development at Bonnier and Per Åström Head of Innovations at TV4-group showed us how they transform their Big Data into business value – a great challenge for many players out there as well as for many of our other clients. To just persisting all the data you have around is quite easy and we all love the word Big Data (or two words actually). But the tricky part is to come up with business value – how can I better drive my business using the data?
The more data you have the more expensive and complex your solution will be. The data you don’t store you can never get back. So the golden balance between the two quotes is what you must look for. And that will be so much easier if you know what you want to achieve up front.Talking about technical solutions and Big Data Architectural Strategies - it brings us to the next presentation I visited; “BI & Big Data – Building products and large amounts of real time data”, by Max Charas.
BI & Big Data - Building products on large amounts of real time data
In this presentation, Max Charas, Netlight BI and Big Data Evangelist, discussed BI and Big Data distributed architectural strategies. The CAP Theorem tells you one can chose only two out of Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance. In other words your strategy will depend on your business goals to achieve. Will you use replication, partitioning, clustering, sharding or a mix? And don’t forget Finagle’s Law – “Anything that can go wrong, will – at the worst possible moment”. So make sure you (and your architecture) are prepared.
Management - Scrumban
as the [R]Evolution of Scrum ... Are #nosprints and #noestimates your next
steps?
Another thing I really agree on, and it’s nice to find it proven by over 28 (I
believe, correct?) agile teams at idealo internet GmbH, is that it’s not the
backlog estimates that tell how much work your team will put down a week, but
the history after at least a couple of weeks of consistency in planning, team,
context etc. And therefor don’t lose time on trying to make exact estimates by
the hour, but go for the t-shirt sizing; small, medium and large and after a
few weeks you get what you’re after to get better accuracy in roadmaps.
BI & Big Data - Digitizing the great indoors
After some Scrumban crunching it was great to go back to pure technology ;-). And I must say, this presentation was the one blowing me away the most during the day. I see many business opportunities and also challenges in both the security aspect as well as managing all the Big Data that comes out of this. The presentation was held by Felix Reinshagen, Co-Founder at NavVis GmbH. NavVis have come up with a trolley that scans the complete indoor environment of a building in hours rather than days or months as before. The result is a complete 3D-model with a level-of-detail which really makes you stunned. NavVis provides tools that based on the model calculates the best, still feasible, walking paths from point A to B including passing through doors, stairs or elevators. Remember it’s quite tricky and requires quite a model for a computer to understand where is possible and most natural to walk comfortable for a human being.We were presented by some environments and business cases like:
After some Scrumban crunching it was great to go back to pure technology ;-). And I must say, this presentation was the one blowing me away the most during the day. I see many business opportunities and also challenges in both the security aspect as well as managing all the Big Data that comes out of this. The presentation was held by Felix Reinshagen, Co-Founder at NavVis GmbH. NavVis have come up with a trolley that scans the complete indoor environment of a building in hours rather than days or months as before. The result is a complete 3D-model with a level-of-detail which really makes you stunned. NavVis provides tools that based on the model calculates the best, still feasible, walking paths from point A to B including passing through doors, stairs or elevators. Remember it’s quite tricky and requires quite a model for a computer to understand where is possible and most natural to walk comfortable for a human being.We were presented by some environments and business cases like:
- Art museum – with the possibility to browse the complete museum and see all paintings in a very high resolution and level-of-details – study the paintings closer than you would ever be let in real-life.
- Huge department store – walk around and do your shopping from home, still being able to zoom in on anything, get detailed information and put anything in your shopping cart.
- Facility Management – get a 3D-model of your facilities where you in high resolution can see and keep track of every power let, sprinkle, lamp etc.
- Warehouses – keep track of your inventory.
- Student campuses, airports etc. – provide guides and directions.
http://www.gizmag.com/navvis-interactive-mapping-trolley/34316/
On Saving Innovation From Itself
Can you possibly get away with a 20-minutes lecture of complete management mumbo-jumbo meaning absolutely nothing at all without being questioned? And can you end that lecture with the stupidest phrase ever – “we should be the box which you’re thinking outside of” and still not being questioned??? Alf tried this as part of a test with a management group of a well-known company…and wasn’t questioned once. At the end he got great applauses and to his question –“What did this really mean” he got the hesitant answer – “ehhh…we should change, eh…shouldn’t we?”
Ending the conference was our Key Note speaker, Alf Rehn, Management Thinker & Author. He remained us of our responsibility. In creating the digital future together, we have a great responsibility in taking care of the environment and each other. Everything we do can’t possibly be to delivery another stupid app to the middle-aged, middle-weighted, rich, white, male who already has everything he needs and more. We must think better than that!
What did you bring back from Edge Conference 2015?
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