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In this edition of The Innovator's Radar non-subscribers will exceptionally have full access to our weekly deep dive. This week's in-depth story focuses on the power of knowledge graphs, the topic of a December 7 round table discussion organized by DataSeries, a global network of data leaders led by venture capital firm OpenOcean. and moderated by the Innovator's Editor-in-Chief. The Innovator's article on the topic is being published on the websites of both The Innovator and DataSeries, as part of a partnership agreement. The article is meant to serve as a primer for business executives who need to know how other businesses are using graphs and understand how their own companies might benefit. Free access to this article will give non-subscribers a taste of what they are missing by not subscribing to Radar. End 2020 on a proactive note. Subscribe today to get insights that will help you navigate the year ahead.

Thank You and Best Wishes for the Holidays,

Innovator Founder and Editor-in-Chief Jennifer L. Schenker

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Designing The Future
Of The Connected World

The World Economic Forum announced four initiatives this week aimed at designing the future of the connected world: one is an action plan that seeks to streamline regulations and build transparency and trust into Internet of Things (IoT) technologies; the second, called the Data for Common Purpose Initiative, is being billed as a first-of its-kind global attempt to accelerate trustworthy use and sharing of data across the public and private sector; the third aims to unleash the power of emerging technologies through agile regulations and the fourth outlines steps organizations can take to ensure the ethical use of technology. Read on for more on this story and to learn about this week's most important technology stories impacting business.

How Knowledge Graphs Will Transform Data Management And Business

The power of graphs was the focus of a December 7 round table discussion organized by DataSeries, a global network of data leaders led by venture capital firm OpenOcean. and moderated by Innovator Editor-in-Chief Jennifer L. Schenker. Until recently knowledge graphs and graph neural networks were mainly leveraged by young companies like Benevolent AI or tech companies like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Amazon. But large corporates in traditional sectors such as chemicals and finance are starting to use them and, as their number grows, it is expected to cause a paradigm shift in data management. Read on to learn more about how graphs are helping companies move away from relational databases and use the power of natural language processing, semantic understanding and machine learning to better leverage their data and run their businesses.

Pascal Gauthier,
Ledger CEO And Crypto Currency Expert

Who: Pascal Gauthier is CEO of Ledger, a Paris-based company that develops hardware-based security products to protect users of cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications. The company made headlines earlier this month when it announced that it hired Ian Rogers, LVMH's head of digital, to run Ledger’s consumer division, another sign that cryptocurrencies are becoming more mainstream.

Topic: How businesses should think about cryptocurrencies.

Quote:"There are always waves of adoption of new technology. The music industry went from the stone age to Apple music and the Internet transformed from what it was in 1995 to what it is today. Bitcoin is the next revolution."

Thimble, a U.S. startup, is targeting opportunities most traditional insurance companies are missing. It is offering flexible and short-term business insurance to SMEs and micro-entrepreneurs, a class of customer that is showing explosive growth during the COVID pandemic, and it is supplying APIs to clients that want to bundle insurance policies with their offer, a burgeoning market in its own right.

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€41 Billion

Amount European start-ups are on track to raise in 2020, a new record, according to venture capital firm Atomico’s annual State of European Tech report, which was released this week. Europe’s tech industry is often seen as lagging the U.S. and China, but it has grown rapidly over the years. This year, payments firm Adyen and music streaming service Spotify both surpassed a market value of $50 billion for the first time. Europe also produced two so-called “decacorns”, tech companies with valuations of $10 billion or more, automation software company UIPath and fintech firm Klarna.

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Knowledge@Wharton

How An Energy Startup's Plan To Disrupt The Grid Got Disrupted
Wall Street Journal

Five Traits Of Companies That Use Tech Responsibly
World Economic Forum

The Davos Agenda, 25-29 January, 2021

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Singapore, 13-16 May 2021

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