Podcasts about strategic technology trends

In this episode of ThinkCast, we dive into the disruptions that you might not see coming between now and 2029. Each year, Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst Daryl Plummer unveils his list of disruptions to watch out for at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™. He's with us today to walk through all seven disruptions, including AI avatars, water scarcity, personalized cinema experiences and the rise of guardian agents. Discover how these changes will impact technology, business strategies and even the way we live — and learn what leaders need to do to stay ahead of the curve. Dig Deeper Watch Webinar: 7 Disruptions You Might Not See Coming https://gtnr.it/4hcnM6w  Discover: Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025 https://gtnr.it/3Ag0Y6q 

In this episode of Gartner ThinkCast, we're giving you a quick breakdown of agentic AI — one of our Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2025 — and the rapidly evolving world of AI agents. As part of our Top of Mind video series, Gartner Global Chief of Research Chris Howard explains what truly defines AI agents, how they can operate autonomously in both digital and physical environments, and why multiagent systems will shape the future of business.   Dig Deeper Learn More: Intelligent Agents in AI Really Can Work Alone. Here's How. https://gtnr.it/4g04QHY Download Now: Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025 https://gtnr.it/3CU3h0v

In this latest episode of Gartner ThinkCast, we chat with Gartner Senior Director Analyst Tom Coshow to explore agentic AI, one of the key trends featured in the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025 report. Hear how AI agents are transforming industries with their ability to autonomously plan and execute tasks — and what distinguishes them from GenAI language models. Tom shares real-world examples, insights on emerging opportunities, like guardian agents and long-term memory in AI, and guidance for executive leaders looking to build secure and scalable systems.  Dig Deeper Download: Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025 https://gtnr.it/3Ag0Y6q  Register: Watch the Top Strategic Technology Trends Presentation https://bit.ly/3AJTM2U  Read More: Intelligent Agents in AI Really Can Work Alone https://gtnr.it/4g04QHY 

Episode highlights:Overview of Gartner's 2025 Top Strategic Technology Trends (01:26)Why CIOs need the top strategic technology trends (02:46)Hybrid computing – The “Good” (05:05)Disinformation security – The “Bad” (07:55)Neurological enhancement – The “Wow!” (11:45)Use top strategic technology trends as early signals (15:00)What CIOs are saying about the 2025 trends (16:51)Pros and cons of the selected trends (17:59)Actions CIOs can take today to prepare for their technology futures (19:04)About the Guest:Gene Alvarez is a Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst, who helps clients with technology innovation and strategy topics such as CRM, Customer Experience, Composable Applications, Modernization, Digital Commerce Technologies, and trends and disruptions. He is the key initiative leader for Gartner's Technology Innovation and Strategy research agenda. Mr. Alvarez leads Gartner's Top Strategic Technology Trends research and is a member of Gartner's Top Strategic Predictions Team. Mr. Alvarez has over 40 years of business and IT experience leading business impact assessments, vendor management, project management, software development and delivery of complex business applications. He has spoken at many international events and industry-related conferences worldwide and has been published in various media and trade publications.

Today, we are exploring the emerging world of digital twins — particularly twins of a customer — with Gartner Global Chief of Research Chris Howard and Gartner VP Analyst, Michelle DeClue, on the retail-consumer goods industry team and cross-practice leader on the subject. They parse out how to define a customer, what makes a digital twin and how the relationship between the two could revolutionize the customer experience — from predicted actions and reduced friction to enhanced personalized experiences. Dig Deeper Download: 2024 Emerging Tech Impact Radar https://gtnr.it/3UbiIH0  Download: Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025 https://gtnr.it/3Ag0Y6q   

Amid the challenges of navigating social and economic disruptions and trends, the 2025 Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends will help you set a path forward to anticipate and prepare for future success. Fresh off debuting his research at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ conference, Gene Alvarez, Distinguished VP Analyst and leader of Gartner's Top Trends team, breaks down how each trend — from AI imperatives and risks, to new frontiers of computing and human-machine synergy — will drive innovation while upholding ethical responsibility and trust. Dig Deeper Download: Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025 https://gtnr.it/3Ag0Y6q  Apply to Join: CIO Leadership Forum – The Premier Gathering of CIOs https://gtnr.it/3UpD6Ei 

Digital Twins are considered so important to business that they were named three years in a row among Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends. It is widely accepted that Digital Twins lead to high savings along the entire lifecycle and will allow for novel services such as on-site diagnostics, prescriptive maintenance, or operation optimization.

Joining us for this new episode of Supply Chain Now is Mike Griswold, Vice President of Research for Retail at Gartner. Here, we discuss Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2024 – a list of key innovations that can help organizations accelerate towards their business goals in the fast-evolving age of AI. Of these 10, Griswold deep dives into the three that he believes supply chain professionals and supply chain organizations need to be most aware of:#1 – Sustainable Technology: With customers paying ever greater attention to DE&I, environmental and governance practices, one wrong step could have catastrophic consequences. So, how can technologies play a role in enhancing sustainability practices and ensuring enterprises don't end up in the limelight for the wrong reasons?#2 – Democratized Generative AI: Goldman Sachs reports that investment in AI globally should approach $200 billion just by 2025. So, how can everyone leverage AI to achieve more and be more successful, not just the technologists? What are the risks, and what are the opportunities?#3 – Augmented Connected Workforce: One of the biggest challenges facing the supply chain industry is attracting and retaining top talent. So, what role can technologies play in improving competency rates, optimizing the value delivered by human staff, and keeping people excited about their jobs?Listen to the full episode to find out more about these vital trends, how they interlink, and why they are expected to be so impactful in the supply chain profession in 2024.Additional Links & Resources:Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2024: https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2024Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comWEBINAR- Data-Driven Decision Making in Logistics: https://bit.ly/49lt102WEBINAR- Navigating Logistics Disruptions with Advanced Technology and Automated Collaboration: https://bit.ly/42KfZazThis episode is hosted by Scott Luton. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/future-proofing-supply-chain-unveiling-top-technology-trends-1240

The subject of today's episode is a form of technology that's halfway between artificial intelligence and blockchain. What's more, American technology consulting company Gartner included it in its list of the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2024. The word is a combination of "customer" and "robot." Gartner say that custobot systems are capable of autonomously negotiating and purchasing goods and services in exchange for payment. They're intelligent enough to behave like customers, buying services and supplies for both their owners and themselves. Do you have any concrete examples of how one could use a custobot? Is there any use for regular people? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here: What's the meaning of rizz, the 2023 word of the year? Can we really multitask effectively? What is the Honours list and who is on it this year? A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we are talking about the future of tech with the Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends 2024. Also, Allen is looking into the crystal ball, Joe is getting lo, and Outlaw is getting into curling. The full show notes for this episode are available at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode224. News Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends 2024 No surprise, […]

This episode we are talking about the future of tech with the Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends 2024. Also, Allen is looking into the crystal ball, Joe is getting lo, and Outlaw is getting into curling. The full show notes for this episode are available at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode224. News Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends 2024 No surprise, […]

As the end of a transformative year approaches, enterprises are under pressure to determine their approach to generative AI and other technology trends. In this episode, which first aired as part of the Gartner original video series, Top of Mind, Global Chief of Research Chris Howard discusses three broad themes that emerged in the Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2024. Then he outlines how businesses can move beyond experimentation with what AI could be used for, to a comprehensive implementation plan that ultimately creates enterprise value.   Dig Deeper   Watch Now: More Episodes of Top of Mind With Chris Howard https://bit.ly/46Jr109   Download Now: Your Detailed Guide to the 2024 Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends https://gtnr.it/46N2VBV  

As customer expectations and business models evolve alongside AI, the 2024 Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends will help you cut through the noise and focus on what can meaningfully impact your business over the next few years.   Each trend relates to one or more key themes for business: protecting and preserving past and future investments, building the right solutions for the right stakeholders at the right time, and delivering value both internally and externally.   In this keynote, originally delivered at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™, Global Chief of Research and Distinguished VP Analyst Chris Howard reveals the trends, why they were selected and how business leaders can act upon them going forward.   Dig Deeper: Download Now: Your Detailed Guide to the 2024 Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends https://gtnr.it/46N2VBV   Explore the 2024 Conference: Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ https://gtnr.it/3tUZNFS  

Coming off the seismic shift to virtual learning during the pandemic, education is facing another wave of transformation, this time from technology. Although the rise of generative AI — specifically ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) and example of generative AI — has many educators worried about plagiarism, it actually holds the potential to revolutionize the way students learn and academic institutions operate.    According to Tony Sheehan, a Gartner VP Analyst focused on education, generative AI tools can make large swaths of information accessible in ways we never imagined. Educators and institutions first need to build trust in the technology and determine how to handle short-term anxieties. Then students can learn how to interact with generative AI tools, and use them to emphasize creativity and improve their time management to learn more efficiently.    Dig Deeper:   Download Now: Your Detailed Guide to the Gartner Top Technology Trends 2023 in Higher Education https://gtnr.it/42dg9Fk   Download Now: See the 2023 Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends https://gtnr.it/3ggaj3W  

The most crucial step you can take is to be aware of Strategic Technology Trends in 2023 and design approach for achieving goals.

Technology trends are expected to impact enterprise strategies in the coming three years by enabling organizations to address four key priorities:    - Optimizing resilience, operations or trust - Scaling vertical solutions, product delivery or everywhere - Pioneering customer engagement, accelerated responses or opportunity - Pursuing sustainable technology solutions   In this episode, David Groombridge, a Distinguished VP Analyst within the IT Leaders and Technical Professionals team at Gartner, discusses the top strategic technology trends that are critical to understanding how to optimize, scale, pioneer and pursue a sustainable technology roadmap. The intent is to assist in the development of relevant roadmaps to enable reliable and sustainable business growth and outperform the competition.   Dig Deeper   Download: Your Detailed Guide to the 2023 Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends https://gtnr.it/3ggaj3W   Explore: Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ https://gtnr.it/3OwBoga

Today, I&O leaders encounter many opportunities to drive change across all facets of their broader organizations. How can IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) deliver rapid transformation across all industries, meet increased need for productivity and remove organizational friction or barriers to change?   In this interview, which first aired on the Gartner Live video channel on YouTube, Daniel Betts, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, covering DevOps, PlatformOps and DevSecOps, and Roger Williams, VP Analyst at Gartner, covering configuration management database and IT asset management, discuss the trends in automation and platform engineering fueling the next stages of digital transformation. They also provide a preview of the keynote themes planned for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2022, “Leading the Next Phase of Growth,” which will be held December 6 – 8, in Las Vegas, NV. Dig Deeper:   Register: Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2022 https://gtnr.it/3U5eyhf   Download: Your Detailed Guide to Platform Engineering and Other 2023 Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends https://gtnr.it/3ggaj3W

What is the metaverse? Where is it heading next? Businesses, consumers, finance and the public sector all stand to gain from the many opportunities and new approaches to engagement offered by the metaverse. First, early adopters should understand how to prepare and all that's required to get started.    In this episode, Tuong Nguyen, a Director Analyst with the Gartner Emerging Technologies and Trends team, who leads research on immersive technologies, metaverse, computer vision and more, speaks with Robert Hetu, a VP Analyst with the Gartner Retail Industry Services team, to relay answers to early metaverse questions around purpose, technology and expectations. Dig Deeper   Download: Your Detailed Guide to Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2023 https://gtnr.it/3ggaj3W   Discover: The Gartner 2021-2023 Emerging Technology Roadmap https://gtnr.it/3D5rUEK  

These top 12 strategic technology trends for 2022 will assist you in scaling your digital transformation initiatives.

The Gartner Top Strategic Technology trends will act as force multipliers over the next three to five years. These trends are critical to business, enabling the growth, digitalization and efficiency that organizations need in today's world.  In this episode, ThinkCast host Kasey Panetta is joined by Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP analyst, to discuss some of the trends, including hyperautomation, generative AI, distributed enterprise, privacy-enhancing computation and cloud-native platforms. Arun also explains the three overarching themes that drive the research and shares which technology is his favorite to talk about.

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There are a number of strategic technology trends that every organization should be aware of when navigating rapid change in the 2020s. This episode provides a pragmatic and vendor-neutral assessment of the most important information technology (IT) strategies and trends that you should be aware of when defining your long-term digital strategy and roadmap.   DOWNLOAD THE 2021 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION REPORT: https://www.thirdstage-consulting.com/ TOP 10 ERP SYSTEMS RANKING: https://www.thirdstage-consulting.com/the-top-10-erp-systems-for-2020/ TOP 10 ERP SYSTEMS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES: https://www.thirdstage-consulting.com/top-erp-systems-for-small-businesses/ TOP 10 CRM SYSTEMS: https://www.thirdstage-consulting.com/top-10-crm-systems-for-digital-transformations/ GUIDE TO ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT: https://www.thirdstage-consulting.com/organizational-change-management/ DOWNLOAD 20 LESSONS FROM 1,000 ERP IMPLEMENTATIONS: http://resource.thirdstage-consulting.com/lessons-from-1000-erp-implementations-ebook FOLLOW THIRD STAGE ON LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/third-stage-consulting-group LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE TO OUR WEEKLY PODCAST: https://stratosphere.podbean.com CONTACT US TO BRAINSTORM IDEAS FOR YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: info@thirdstage-consulting.com  

This year's top strategic technology trends highlight those trends that will drive significant disruption and opportunity over the next five to 10 years.  Hyperautomation, AI engineering and distributed cloud are among the nine technologies that have significant transformative potential.  In this episode, Kasey Panetta, Gartner ThinkCast Host, hears from Mary Mesaglio, Distinguished VP Analyst, and Brian Burke, Research VP as they discuss the trends. Mary and Brian share the trends they find most interesting and what will have the most impact.

In this episode, Mike Walker shares the importance of understanding market trends, where to find them, and a quick review of the Gartner Strategic Trends Report for 2020.  Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020   Follow Mike on Twitter @mikejwalker     

Shaun speaks with Holly Anderson, senior director of product marketing at K2 and lifelong Star Wars fan. They look at Gartner’s "Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends" for 2020 with specific emphasis on the new buzz word "Hyperautomation". They also discuss digital twins and whether RPA and DPA technologies are the perfect marriage for automation harmony.Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATIONFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidmation/Website: www.rapidMATION.com

Ryan sent us a blog post that just didn't hit home with him. Dave breaks it into three pieces and then shreds it. Wherein we note that The Google can't lie. Then we slip into a very serious discussion of business models and business model generation. Book: Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur. They define the business model based on nine things (all of which contribute to value): - Customer Segments - Value Propositions - Channels - Customer Relationships - Revenue Streams - Key Resources - Key Activities - Key Partnerships - Cost Structure Taken together, all of these define your value proposition. But, we seem to argue with each other, most of us don't have a clear focus on the most important elements of a business model when we use the term "business model." Question: Do you buy into your own value prop? Final analysis: Don't use the term "Business Model" to mean some small subset of what's important in your business. . . . Then we segue . . . to who's who . . . Is it useful to create a menagerie of the IT industry? Wherein we explore the ways that we all use labels and titles and categories? How do we get a big picture of the universe when we KNOW that most of the universe is invisible to us? . . . And then, suddenly, we move to a discussion of the Gartner report on what we need to pay attention to. See https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2018-10-15-gartner-identifies-the-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2019 Gartner's The Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019: Autonomous Things Augmented Analytics AI-Driven Development Digital Twins Empowered Edge Immersive Experience Blockchain Smart Spaces Digital Ethics and Privacy Quantum Computing For comparison . . . Here are Comptia's Top Ten Emerging Technologies for 2019: Internet of Things Artificial Intelligence 5G Serverless Computing Blockchain Robotics Biometrics 3D Printing AR / VR Drones Please give it a listen. Share with your friends. Subscribe. And give us your feedback below. :-)  

Forget the unicorns and rainbows. We all don’t have to sing “Kumbaya” to establish a good company culture.  “We think of good cultures as these places where people are happy, happy, happy all the time, where there’s no arguments. That is not true. Good cultures are places where people have strong, vibrant, energetic arguments all the time.” (Dan Coyle, Best-selling Author) We won’t be argumentative, but we always want to challenge to standard notions for driving success, and this time on Gartner ThinkCast, we look at what elevates the best groups and teams above the rest of us. Spoiler alert – it does not mean making everyone feel comfortable. Then, marketing guru, branding expert and author Afdhel Aziz helps you elevate your brand above the noise in today’s marketplace: “Know your purpose. Know why you exist as a company beyond just making money.”  And many companies are taking the approach of, “Ask not what you can do for our brand. Ask what our brand can do for you.” But Gartner expert Rick DeLisi says you might want to ask it differently: “It already feels like a smarter, more contemporary, most sophisticated approach. The problem is, so many companies are taking the same, exact approach simultaneously, it’s real hard to differentiate.”  RELATED LINKS Tell an IT Value Story that Executives Will Care About  The Future of Data and Analytics: Tales and Trends from the Center to the Edge  Transform Security and Risk into a Business Function (Panel Discussion)  The Looming Impact of the Emerging Digital Society (Panel Discussion)  Managing the Risk of Artificial Intelligence  The Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019  Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo 2019  Gartner Conferences homepage THE CONVERSATION RUNDOWN 00:00 – Opening Thoughts 01:53 – Daniel Coyle: Groupthink – Building Great Teams 02:47 – What’s holding our teams back? 04:32 – Three universal rules of successful groups 07:05 – The most important element 08:57 – The Pixar Story 11:34 – Reflecting on the U.S. Navy SEALs 14:08 – The Gartner Webinars 15:30 – Daniel Coyle (continued): The San Antonio Spurs’ champion dynamic 18:40 – Building sincere trust 22:21 – How do we encourage true collaboration? 25:33 – Gartner Conferences 26:54 – Afdhel Aziz: Good is the New Cool 28:39 – Why “good is the new cool” 30:35 – Market like you give a damn 34:01 – They’re not consumers, they’re citizens 36:19 – People are the new media 40:32 – Don’t advertise; solve problems 44:15 – Steps to being a purpose-driven organization 46:40 – Ahead on Gartner ThinkCast 47:38 – Rick DeLisi: Brands Need More Than Values 48:02 – What distinguishes the “corporate brand”? 49:13 – Rising above the brand crowd 52:07 – Are companies aware they need a new approach? 54:28 – How do we differentiate our brand? 57:01 – Nine categories of personalization 1:00:20 – Where do you focus your efforts? 1:02:18 – Closing thoughts We’re all about winning teams and attractive brands this time on Gartner ThinkCast.

Gartner's report on technology trends is here. What does it mean for the classroom? Emerging technology trends in education: Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends list is here again this year. There are a few repeats from the 2018 list and a few newcomers to the list. Some of these may just turn out to be fads, but some could have a lasting impact on education over the next 30 years. I decided this year to take Gartner's technology trends for 2019 and apply them in the context of education and the classroom and how these technologies could potentially change how we reach students in the classroom every day. In the podcast, I discuss the things I found on how each of these technologies could have an impact on education. In the show notes, I am listing the notes I took from my research, links to articles I found, and also a list of citations of various website articles and research publications I found helpful. Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle 1. TREND: Autonomous Things Definition: Gartner defines autonomous things in five different types: vehiclesroboticsdronesappliancesagents These five types all exist across four different environments: sealandairdigital Impact on education: Drones are a fantastic way to teach all areas of STEM. Just a simple google search for “Drones in Education” brings up a ton of different resources for teachers to bring drones into the classroom. I’ve been patiently waiting for the price of drones to come down so that there’s equitable access to this wonderful way to teach kids about coding, robotics, aerodynamics, physics, the four forces of flight (lift, weight, thrust, drag). The price is slowly coming down, but we still have a ways to go for schools to be able to supply entire classrooms with drones. Skills needed: Indeed put together this report on the companies, locations, and skills needed for jobs in autonomous vehicles.  Top 10 skills for autonomous vehicles jobs    Wired has good article on the past, present, and future of autonomous vehicles. 2. TREND: Augmented Analytics Definition:  The term Augmented Analytics was first introduced on Gartner’s 2017 report as a method to automate insights into data using machine learning and natural-language generation. This article does a great job explaining what this actually means. Analytics by itself is useless in a business. There needs to be some insight, supplemented with additional data to find reasons for changes in the data, and actionable insights need to be created. Without these, all the data in the world is useless. Impact on education:  Learning analytics - Teachers, administrators, and other educational leaders will have access to more and more data to make informed decisions, which can have a  massive impact on individual student performance as well as school performance to help close achievement gaps. Data analytics is already present in finance, medicine, science, and business. Use of data analytics or learning analytics in education has grown in recent years due to an increase in the amount of data and advances in computing (Baker, 2014). Bringing learning analytics to education has the potential to have a dramatic effect on outcomes. 3.TREND: AI-Driven Development Definition: John McCarthy has long been credited for coining the term “artificial intelligence” at the 1956 Dartmouth Conference   as the study and design of intelligent agents, where the agent observes its environment and takes appropriate actions to maximize success (Moore, 2006). Impact on education:  How AI can be used to achieve learning outcomes through the foundations of teaching and learning, understand the options to realize the benefits to support teaching and learning, there are unanswered questions, such as the acceptable use of the data that AI collects (MagicBox, 2018) There are still some obstacles to bringing AI into education, such as cost and computing power.

What lurks in the dark corners of the internet? Will you, as a lawyer, ever need to access the dark web on behalf of a client? In this Kennedy-Mighell Report, Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell discuss the need for lawyers to have a basic understanding of the dark web – both its uses and dangers. They give an overview of the types of content that exist on the dark web and caution lawyers to utilize experts when navigating it for their clients. Also in this episode: Dennis and Tom discuss the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019. Have a technology question for Dennis and Tom? Call their Tech Question Hotline at 720-441-6820 for the answers to your most burning tech questions. Special thanks to our sponsors, ServeNow and TextExpander.

This episode is made possible by our sponsors, Loyal, Influence Health, Binary Fountain & dotHealth. Celebrating their 50th episode, hosts Reed Smith and Chris Boyer decide to analyze top-10 lists of digital, social media and technology trends that will impact marketers in 2018. From articles from Forbes, Gartner, Entrepreneur.com and others, the hosts explore these lists to aggregate their own list of the top tools, technologies and trends that hospital marketers should address in the upcoming year. What makes the list - chatbots, augmented reality, Snapchat, AI? Tune in to this episode to find out what makes the grade. Mentions from the Show: Michael Venske's website Good & Gold's Top 10 Digital Marketing Trends of 2018 Digital Marketing Magazine's Top 10 Digital Marketing Trends of 2018 Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018 Entrepreneur.com's 10 Social-Media Trends to Prepare for in 2018 Forbes' Top 10 Most Transformative Technologies For Marketing In 2018   Find Us Online: Touchpoint podcast Twitter Reed Smith Twitter Chris Boyer Twitter Chris Boyer website

In this episode of #ThisOldMarketing, Joe and Robert discuss the recent exodus at Twitter and what it means for the future of the infamous unicorn. IBM buys Ustream, and the boys discuss the merits of an article that hates on content marketing. Rants and raves include "The Hot Seat", Kevin Spacey and the Fab Four. This week's TOM example: WTWH Media. This week's article links: The Revolving Door of Twitter Executiveshttp://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-execs-katie-jacobs-stanton-and-kevin-weil-leaving-company-2016-1IBM Acquires UStreamhttp://techcrunch.com/2016/01/21/ibm-confirms-acquisition-of-ustream-forms-new-cloud-video-unit/#.d9phxs:sjo5Why Brands As Publishers Trend Is Utter Nonsensehttps://econsultancy.com/blog/67426-why-the-brands-as-publishers-trend-is-utter-nonsense/Gartner Identifies The top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/2016-predictions-for-smart-marketing-technology/ Sponsor: Demandbase and Account-Based Marketing www.demandbase.com/thisoldmarketing Robert's Ravehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjg0kGQFBY Joe's Raveshttp://techcrunch.com/2016/01/21/at-davos-kevin-spacey-predicts-that-tech-firms-will-follow-netflix-into-mediahttps://blab.im/ryan-hanley-everything-in-digital-marketing-is-dead    

Strategic technology trends have the most potential to drive significant enterprise impact over the next three years — and IT cannot afford to ignore them. This session presents Gartner’s annual list of the top 10 trends you should be reviewing and factoring into your strategic planning for 2016-2017. • Which trends will drive the greatest disruption to the IT landscape over the next three years? • What critical technologies must be explored to support the move to digital business? • How are these trends and technologies evolving and what actions must be taken today? To view additional videos from Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, visit http://eod.gartner.com/sym25