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Innotribe @ Sibos – Newsflash 5 – Cloud debate

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In this fifth Innotribe Newsflash, we’ll highlight the Cloud debate. Please read on till the end, as we would like to collect your input to help the moderator prepare the debate.

During Innotribe @ Sibos, we have scheduled a number of Face to Face discussions (a more close to the audience type of debates). One of the Face to Face discussions is on "The economics of Cloud" on 15 Sep 2009 from 12:30 till 14:00 in the Innovation Dome (follow the signs for Sibos Labs).

This is a quite exceptional debate. For the very first time, we have been able to gather an impressive panel of all key players in cloud-space:

  • Jeffrey Barr, Senior AWS Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
  • Willy Chiu, Vice President of IBM Cloud Labs & High Performance On-Demand Solutions
  • Russell Daniels, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EDS, Hewlett Packard
  • Nick Davies, Global CTO, Lombard Risk Management
  • Amir Halfon, CTO Global Financial Services, SUN Microsystems
  • Stephen Morse, Senior Director – Sales Engineering APAC, Salesforce.com
  • Clare Porter, Senior Vice-President, Technology Solutions, SUNGARD
  • Roland Slee, VP Banking & Capital Markets, Oracle Asia Pacific
  • Neil Vernon, Senior Product Manager, Smartstream
  • Stevan Vidich, Industry Technology Strategist, Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft 
  • Joe Weinman, Strategy & Business Development VP, AT&T

This Face to Face discussion will be moderated by Peter Hinssen, Managing Director, A-Cross Technology and London Business School.

The discussion will be introduced by Joe Weinman, Strategy & Business Development VP, AT&T and facilitated by Philippe Coullomb, Facilitator, The Value Web.

Call for action:

Peter Hinssen, the moderator for this Cloud debate posted a blog to collect your input in advance of the debate. He is listing 5 questions for you to respond to and to give direction to the debate.

Please have a look at the 5 Cloud Questions, and let Peter Hinssen know your opinion, so he can structure his moderation in the best way possible to address your feedback.

This is a must-see debate. Very unique in the quality of the panel and in the discussion format we have prepared for you at Innotribe.

Please let us know if you plan to go by surfing to our events page, and let us know if you’re coming to this debate by clicking the "I’m Going" button.

Welcome to the Innotribe !

Innotribe starting blocks

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Cross-posted from:

https://www.swiftcommunity.net/blogs/blogDetail.cfm?id=1547

Posting by my boss Kosta Peric:

I’m just walking out of the Innovation team corner here at SWIFT.

Only one topic on everybody’s mind – Innotribe@Sibos – and the atmosphere is the same as just before a big race at an athletic event: I guess the best description is "electric"…

The event is – I’ll be candid – way bigger than what we thought some 3-4 months ago. Just look at the final agenda Peter has published a few days ago: business and technology, information sessions and interactive labs, debates and meetings. Incredible.

So the stage is set (or almost – as usual, just a couple of small things to be ironed out )

The key however is YOU – member of the financial community, SWIFT customer, partner, journalist – and how you can participate to this event. For you to start feeling comfortable, I thought I’d introduce the team who has put this together and who you will be able to meet and work with at Innotribe.

First of all, we have the Innotribe Leaders. There are 6 of them, two per theme:

– for the Cloud theme – Nick Davies (Lombard Risk Management) and Peter Hinssen (Across, London Business School).
– for the Mashup theme – Casper van Amelsvoort (Rabobank) and Mary Knox (Gartner)
– for the Crowd theme – Chris Skinner (Financial Services Club) and Tim Collins (Wells Fargo)

What is their role?

They are knowledgeable on the subject, they have experience of innovation management, they are recognised voices in their communities. They will be the leaders of the Innotribe Labs – the interactive workshops where you will be able to work with your fellow delegates to produce and/or refine new ideas. 

Prior to Sibos, our Innotribe Leaders are animating innotribe.com, the innovation forum where ideas are already brewing and getting polished for discussion at Sibos. Look at the Innotribe Leaders as your coaches as you work on new ideas.

Second, our facilitator. Animating interactive workshops at big events like SIbos in such a way that people feel confortable and engaged – in other words where people have fun while working – is not to be taken lightly. We have asked Philippe Coulomb to help us with this. He works for Matter Solutions, and is part of the Value Web – a number of professionals in interactive workshop facilitation.

Third, our reporter – blogging, twittering and spreading news about Innotribe and what is happing will be the job of Jeroen Derynck, from a company called Thinking Ape (I’ll leave to him to tell the crowd the story about red monkeys ).

Finally, the SWIFT team:
– Mariela Atanassova – she is the master of the Innotribe floor, the place (in the exhibition area) where a number of Innotribe activities will happen.
– Peter Vander Auwera – he is in charge of the Innotribe agenda and he is also going to be working in the Cloud Lab.
– Matteo Rizzi – the engine behind collaborative innovation, he will  also (of course) participate to the Crowd Lab.
– Kosta Peric – I’ll be your host at Innotribe@Sibos, and will also participate in the Mashup Lab.

Feel free to contact any of us, on innotribe.com or elsewhere – we want you to be fully informed and hope to see you at Innotribe@Sibos!
One last request – please let us know which Lab you would be interested in joining – head over to the event area (here) and click on the appropriate event (the "I’m Going"  button). Thanks in advance – this information will also be useful for us to plan the number of lunches to be served in the Innotribe area.

Human Evolution Future

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Found a really interesting post today on Accelerating Future blog of Michael Anissimov.

He refers to the technology optimism of Kevin Kelly (KK). If you’re not familiar with KK, you should and definitely to his blog.

Kevin Kelly’s Panglossian optimism is exactly the type criticized in Nick Bostrom’s paper “The Future of Human Evolution”. The PDF version of this paper can be found here.

I read the paper and was blown away by some strong starting points, assumptions, statements and conclusions.

Some teasing extracts to further encourage you to download the paper and – more importantly – read and consume it.

The past few hundred years have seen enormous improvements in human life‐span, labor productivity, scientific knowledge, and social and political organization, which have enabled billions of people to enjoy unprecedented opportunities for enjoyment and personal development. On a historical as well as on a geological timescale, the big picture shows an overarching trend towards increasing levels of complexity, knowledge, consciousness, and coordinated goal‐directed organization, a trend which, not to put too fine a point on it, we may label

 “progress”.

… this past record of success gives us good grounds for thinking that evolution (whether biological, memetic, or technological) will continue to lead in desirable directions. This view, however, can be criticized on at least two grounds.

First, because we have no reason to think that all this past progress was in any sense inevitable‒‐much of it may, for aught we know, have been due to luck.

And second, because even if the past progress were to some extent inevitable, there is no guarantee that the melioristic trend will continue into the indefinite future.

… then the only way we could avoid long‐term existential disaster is by

taking control of our

own evolution.

Doing this, I shall further argue, would require the development of a “singleton,” a world order in which at the highest level of organization there is only one independent decision‐making power (which may be, but need not be, a world government).

Second, new methods of reliably communicating information about oneself might be available to technologically mature creatures, methods that do not rely on flamboyant display. Even today, professional lenders tend to rely more on ownership certificates, bank statements, and the like, than on costly displays such as designer suits and Rolex watches. In the future, it might be possible to employ auditing firms that can

verify through direct inspection that a client possesses a claimed attribute.

Signaling one’s qualities by such auditing may be much more efficient than signaling via flamboyant display. Such a professionally mediated signal would still be costly to fake (this is of course the essential feature that makes the signal reliable), but the signal could be much cheaper to transmit than a flamboyantly communicated one when it is

truthful

… not all possible costly or “flamboyant” displays are ones which we should regard as intrinsically valuable…

Just as current human beings benefit from other species, which pose no serious threat to the human species, so too may technologically more advanced agents benefit from the existence of an ecology of non‐eudaemonic agents

Moreover, by contrast to current human political competition, where alliances shift over time, it might be possible for more advanced life forms verifiably to commit themselves permanently to a particular alliance (perhaps using

mind‐scanning techniques

and

technologies for controlling motivation

All this makes me think about Kosta Peric’s posting on www.innotribe.com on developing a vision for 2020. Initial posting and debate can be found here.

Back from the future – tell your story

Consider the following "thought experiment" – imagine yourself in the future (let’s say somewhere in the 2020’s) and describe how the world looks like – and also how we got there. Something like this:

http://idorosen.com/mirrors/robinsloan.com/epic/

Some predictions are off and some are … quite close and still unfolding. In fact as we speak there are examples of newspapers attacking google or the internet in general.

(There is another movie applying the same trick for the financial industry known as "amazonbay"  but unfortunately all the links to it on the web are all off)

As a matter of fact that video is here:

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I find this type of thinking very useful and creative – you can drop all constraints and just let the imagination loose!
Any candidates for visionary story telling?

If you look at the stories posted, they are just lacking a bit of imagination on what’s going to happen by 2020 or 2030. Most of the the things posted there are already possible today !

I have a couple of days off and will try to write some sort of trailer on  what i believe is going to happen based on the singularity principles of Ray Kurzweil, and other great thinkers like Kevin Kelly and Nick Bostrom.

Stay tuned for some amateur SiFi.

NIST definitions and powerpoint on Cloud

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NIST definitions and powerpoint on Cloud

2 great documents on cloud posted in the document section of this community.

  1. NIST updated definitions on Cloud Services can be found here. This is the godfather’s set of definitions of cloud
  2. NIST updated presentation on Cloud Services can be found here. This presentation includes a section on security, and besides the security challenges on cloud, it also lists the security advantages of cloud. The presentation includes some interesting case studies (for ex GE moving 400,000 desktops to Google Docs / Zoho) and some references to Cloud economics and statistics. Very good primer is you are completely new to Cloud

The original files can be found at: 
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html
NIST is the US National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Innotribe @ Sibos – News Flash 3 – Final Agenda Published

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https://www.swiftcommunity.net/blogs/blogDetail.cfm?id=1525

We have just published the final detailed agenda of Innotribe @ Sibos 2009.

An overview of
– Innotribe Opening and Closing details
– All keynotes
– All Face to Face panels/debates
– All Innotribe Sibos Labs sessions
– All R&D Insights sessions
– Names and business titles of all speakers, moderators, and facilitators.

You can download the PDF here: 
https://www.swiftcommunity.net/communities/download.cfm?id=5114

You can see the on-line version here: 
http://www.swift.com/sibos2009/conference/Forumsandstreams.page?

Enjoy !

Innotribe News Flash 2 – Innotribe Sibos Labs

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Exactly one month to go ! Then Innotribe @ Sibos will kick-off for an exciting week of inspiring presentations, face to face discussions, interactive workshops, and special challenges – all aimed at one single goal: enabling collaborative innovation.

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Feel the heat building up at www.innotribe.com. The community is buzzing of new ideas. As you will see, our Innotribe Leaders have changed gears and are now posting very actively to collect your ideas to work on them during our Innotribe Sibos Labs from 14-18 Sep 2008 in Hong-Kong.

Some quick links:

Mash-up:

https://www.swiftcommunity.net/communities/blogdetail.cfm?id=1512

Corporates needed:

https://www.swiftcommunity.net/communities/blogdetail.cfm?id=1511

So, here is our 2nd News Flash on Innotribe.

Today, more detailed information about the Innotribe Sibos Labs.

The Innotribe Sibos Labs are one of the key components of Innotribe. These are interactive workshops, fully equipped with tools and connectivity, to brainstorm on new ideas but more importantly to make these ideas tangible in application mock-ups or prototypes. These Sibos Labs will be led by the Innotribe leaders helped by professional facilitators from The Value Web. Additional help is offered to the participants by two Venture Capitalists acting as "consultants" to the teams. The Value Web will simultaneously scribe to advice / assist groups in packaging their idea. We will also have a number of PC’s with internet connectivity available to help documenting the ideas and to possibly make some mock-ups of applications illustrating the ideas.

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The objective of the first Innotribe Sibos Lab on 14 Sep 2009 is to generate ideas and selection criteria to be used for evaluating the ideas. First we will create working groups per theme: Cloud, Crowd, Mash-up. Participants are asked to join the group of their "prime interest". "Prime" implies that the topic is not exclusive and leaves space for transversal ideas. Each team goes in a dedicated space, and find an assignment. The groups will brainstorm with the Innotribe leaders on how the Cloud, Mash-up and Crowd trends can transform the industry. "knowledge kiosks" will propose food for thought in free access: Hand-out with ideas from the swiftcommunity.net, any document collected upfront, etc. Groups will reflect on the criteria that would best qualify the ideas proposed. New assignments will be brought in, to shift the focus of the discussion. The challenge is to introduce the filtering process without restraining the creativity of the group. Assignment shall be more of an invitation. Expected outcome is a first draft of idea/ideas and a documented set of relevant criteria

The objective of the second Innotribe Sibos Lab on 15 Sep 2009 is to narrow down ideas to likely candidates to be developed further and “sold” to buyers panel during the Innotribe Closing. The groups will go back in same configuration as day before and iterate and their ideas. The assignment will invite to select one idea before going forward (if not already done). This session will be about refining your ideas – give them spin & shine. The Value Web facilitator will suggest many different tools and techniques to sell their ideas (glossy add, marketing with the public, raising capital, getting developers to mock up, using the VCs etc…). We will also use Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 rule for making good pitches. Expected outcome is to have framed idea(s) – the core of what the teams will present to the buyer’s panel should be clear.

During the third Innotribe Sibos Lab on 16 Sep 2009, we will mock the ideas up in order to get them ready for a presentation to the jury on the next day. The groups go back in same configuration as day before and iterate and their ideas. Facilitation will invite to further refine outside of the time & space that is offered in the Lab.

During the dry-runs on 16 Sep 2009 late afternoon, participants will refine their presentation and prepare for the oral with the buyer’s panel.

The Innotribe Sibos Labs will culminate into the presentation to the buyer’s panel during the Innotribe Closing on 17 Sep 2009. Each team will get maximum 8 minutes to give a condensed power presentation. More on the Innotribe closing in one of our next Innotribe News Flashes.

Innotribe Leaders:

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Practical:

Where: The Innotribe Sibos Labs take place in the Innotribe Dome (located in the Sibos Labs room).

When:

– First Innotribe Sibos Lab: Monday 14 Sep 2009, from 12:15 – 13:45

– Second Innotribe Sibos Lab: Tuesday 15 Sep 2009, from 14:30 – 16:00

– Third Innotribe Sibos Lab: Wednesday 16 Sep 2009, from 14:30 – 16:00

– Dry-Runs: Wednesday 16 Sep 2009, from 17:30 – 18:30

– Idea pitches during Innotribe Closing: Thursday 17 Sep 2009, from 10:30 – 12:00

To let us know if you will be coming to this event, login to www.swiftcommunity.net, go to the Innotribe Sibos Labs event and click I will attend button next to the event. You can also see who else is coming.

Innotribe @ Sibos – Newsflash on Opening

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Within a little more than one month to go, Innotribe @ Sibos will kick-off for an exciting week of inspiring presentations, face to face discussions, interactive workshops, and special challenges – all aimed at one single goal: enabling collaborative innovation.

From now on, we’ll post regular news flashes about the details of the Innotribe program.

Today, more detailed information about the Innotribe Opening: “Beyond Web 2.0 – what will YOU create?”

We have chosen this title 1) to make the connection with last year’s Sibos Labs where the theme was Web 2.0, and 2) because we really wanted to have YOU work together to collaboratively generate and flesh-out ideas before, during and after Sibos.

The Innotribe Opening will give 4 perspectives on the future. It will set the scene for a joint journey with the audience -exploring how current and emerging trends will shape our industry and landscape. With vibrant and stunning examples our speakers will energize you to join the Innotribe, innovating and crafting the future as it emerges throughout the Sibos week.

· Innovation 2.0: It’s OPEN, not closed

Peter Hinssen (1969) (www.peterhinssen.com ) is co-founder of ACROSS Group and Managing Director of ACROSS Technology. An entrepreneur, lecturer and writer, he is also the chairman of Porthus.com and has been an Entrepreneur in Residence with McKinsey & Company. He will kick-off with a 15 min presentation on the need to innovate together with customers, partners, and the eco-system at large. Peter is a regular keynote speaker. Those who have seen him before will certainly agree with me that he is our ideal speaker to give a thundering wake-up call on this subject.

· The Future of IT: Driving Innovation across Financial Services

Bindia Hallauer is the Chief Technology Strategist for Worldwide Financial Services Sector at Microsoft Corporation, based in Redmond, Washington, USA.  In this leadership role, Bindia owns shaping Microsoft’s technology strategy in financial services industry across banking, capital markets and insurance. She owns the overall technical vision, architecture and roadmap, coordinating a single point of view for FSI solution offerings IP development and productization.

Session abstract: Bindia will talk about disruptive technology trends are shaping the future of IT.  Increasing software complexity and the shift to many-core architecture, consumer-driven IT, Petabyte storage and Petaflop processing power, and cloud computing are some of the key technology trends.  This session will focus on profound changes that the future of IT will bring to Financial Services industry.  Thought provoking ideas will be presented.

· The Shape Of Banking Architecture In 2023

Jost Hoppermann is Vice-President of Forrester Research. Jost serves Enterprise Architecture professionals, particularly around financial services. As an analyst, he is an expert on a number of global banking technology topics, including banking platforms, software infrastructure, multi-channel platforms, architecture, and application strategy planning. He also covers enterprise architecture from an organizational and process perspective on an industry neutral basis.

Session abstract: this session will summarize the key findings of a global Forrester research project focusing on potential changes in the banking and financial services space in 2023. It will show how financial services firms will interact with each other and with their customers in the future; which core competencies banks expect to need; how information technology and its successor business technology will need to help the business to differentiate from competition. While 2023 looks like a very concrete date, some banks will only need five or eight years to arrive in 2023 — to some degree — while others may have to take a 10 or 15-years-long path. Bulletized agenda:

– Business scenarios

– Customer interaction

– Business technology scenarios

– Peer advice for the future

· Innovating  Around the Customer

Cindy Murray is Global Banking and Wealth Management Ecommerce Executive at Bank Of America.

Cindy Murray is responsible for designing, building and launching new credit and treasury products across Global Corporate & Investment Banking to drive the acquisition and deepening of client relationships. Her team also leads the Ecommerce portal strategic direction and development for the bank’s corporate and commercial clients.

Session abstract: It was less than 5 short years ago when we heard the term Web 2.0 used for the very first time. If you fast forward to today, it’s clear that Web 2.0 is already morphing into Web 3.0. This session will not only highlight the basics of these technology trends, but more importantly show how they are enabling companies to “innovate around the client”. You will learn how ethnographic research can transform client needs assessments, how best to leverage clients’ discussion forums, and how the financial services industry will continue to be transformed by these new methods of client engagement.

· What’s up this week @ Innotribe ?

Kosta Peric – Head of Innovation at SWIFT, and Philippe Coullomb – Facilitator from The Value Web.

Kosta will introduce the 3 themes of this year’s Innotribe: Cloud, Crowd and Mash-up and the creativity challenge. Philippe will introduce the process and rules of engagement of the first Innotribe Sibos Lab, immediately following the opening. More about that in a next newsletter.

· Innotribe Leaders pitch their Sibos Lab

We plan 3 parallel Sibos Labs: one on Cloud, one on Crowd, and one on Mash-ups. Our Innotribe Leaders will introduce the ideas that emerged pre-Sibos on Swiftcommunity.net and will pitch their Sibos Lab as the best to attend.

Where: The opening will take place in the Innotribe Dome (located in the Sibos Labs room).

When: Monday 14 Sep 2009, from 10:30 – 12:15

To let us know if you will be coming to this event, login to www.swiftcommunity.net, go to the opening event and click I will attend button next to the event. You can also see who else is coming.

Holographic Week-End

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Looks like i have a holographic week-end 🙂

At our Sep 2009 Innotribe, we’ll also have something holographic.

Michael Warner (CEO Quantum4D) and Ed Sesek (InfiniteZ), will show Holographic Analytics and Banking:

Holographic Analytics goes beyond pages and files to open a new universe of interconnected insights.  

Mike and Ed will show dynamic 3D holographic models of SWIFT’s global banking networks on a national scale. They will then fly into regional views and on down into a individual bank and its internal network topology.  The tour will include – among a number of potential tour stops – models of banking markets that ‘mash-up’ demographic and industry data with SWIFT traffic. 

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They also aim to show a visual model of the bank enterprise itself from several dimensions (staff activities, IT networks, etc…)  and how that those domains interact with each other and the larger banking ecosystem we help illuminate.

This includes the addition of a display platform which will allow the audience to cue up to view the same views displayed on the big screen in an experimental holographic 3D display. Users wearing polarized sun-glasses will be able to  see the above described animated network graphics ‘floating in space’ in the air between them and two screens.

Users will also be able to wear a head tracking hat and use a pen device to literally look around and manipulate the network visualizations.

The InfiniteZ Website has a fantastic tagline:

“Transforming human-computer interaction”

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They will speak during our R&D Insights on the Innovation Floor on 16th Sep 2009 from 15:30 – 16:30, and the audience will be able to wear special glasses and play around with holographic pointers.