Biomimicry proposes designers, scientists or engineers to seek solutions to human challenges by emulating Nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The San Diego Zoo created the Center for Bioinspiration to leverage the world’s largest and most diverse living collection of plants and animals by collaborating with organizations around the world to develop bio-inspired products and designs.
Car companies cannot conquer the future of mobility alone. Collaboration across the automotive industry will be critical to address challenges ahead. But who to collaborate with and how? If “sleeping with the enemy” is hard enough, it is even harder to determine for start who the real enemy is.
Besides knowing about the most interesting projects based on Blockchain already in place or how this technology can change the way energy is distributed, our 30th Co-Session originated other interesting insights, as when we had the opportunity to learn how Blockchain really works or to discuss what’s in it for the company and industry of each of the attendees.
We held our 30th Co-Session on the day that Bitcoin monopolized media headlines for being close to reaching an exchange value of 10,000 dollars. It is therefore appropriate that we dedicated the day to Blockchain, the technology on which this and other virtual currencies are based. But we did so trying to flee from the “hype”, not always based on proven realities, generated recently by this technology.
Consumers are gradually getting used to replace their local mall by their living room couch to do their shopping. Brands and companies that were successful in offline shopping, now struggle to be relevant online. Being a key competitive factor, Know How needed to success in e-commerce is far from easy to obtain or just copy. This is why, winning the future of retail is becoming yet another source of what previously could be considered unthinkable partnerships.