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What innovations are leaping out of the labs to shape the world in powerful ways? Identifying those compelling innovations is the charge of the Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, one of the World Economic Forum’s network of expert communities that form the Global Agenda Councils, which today released its Top 10 List of Emerging Technologies for 2015. This year, our Meta-Council chair is Bernard Meyerson, chief innovation officer of IBM; I serve Vice-Chair.
You can also see a conversation I moderated with four of the WEF’s community of experts in the video just below. They are: Justine Cassell, associate provost for Technology, Strategy and Impact, Carnegie Mellon University; Lee Sang Yup, distinguished professor, director and dean, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); Mark Lynas, visiting fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University; and Jeffrey Carbeck, specialist leader, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, DC Innovations, Deloitte.