While recognizing the greatness of the human mind, it is impossible to deny the limitations of our physical capabilities when it comes to dealing with big data or the visual monitoring of vast spaces. Advances in technology have made it possible to overcome these limitations, and drones have become one of the most effective tools for efficiently performing data collection and monitoring automation tasks in various fields. The Dronehub team of enthusiasts has created an innovative solution to maximize the effectiveness of drones using artificial intelligence. This unique product was recognized by the World Future Awards research team and was named the winner in the category of Best Drone Automated Monitoring Solutions.
World Future Awards is a global award selecting, recognizing, celebrating, and promoting the best products, software, and services that will transform the global economy and define the landscape of the future. The organization researches inventions across all categories, including technology, beauty, health care, food, home, and entertainment, that are making the world better, smarter or even a bit more fun.
Dronehub offers products that expand the horizons of drone applications in various fields of human activity. The company introduces innovative solutions that significantly simplify labor-intensive tasks and open up new prospects for the effective use of drones in the foreseeable future.
Dronehub is the leader in comprehensive Drone-in-a-box solutions in Europe. The company’s product includes drones, drone infrastructure, and software based on artificial intelligence. The innovative hub ensures the complete autonomy of the drone thanks to a unique docking station that automatically replaces the battery in the drone. The Dronehub solution also takes on the tasks of ensuring the drone takes off and lands, charges its battery, supports climate control to maintain optimal battery health, and protects the drone from theft.
The outstanding technical features of Dronehub products allow drones to be used remotely 24/7 or run on demand, providing full automation of drone services. Such systems can be used for monitoring, inspection, and measurement at industrial sites, as well as in public safety and security services. The technologies used by Dronehub make it possible to speed up monitoring and data analysis in companies with large territories and developed infrastructure by 100 times. Artificial Intelligence super-efficiently processes large amounts of data from the drone and generates a detailed report. The main areas of application of Dronehub solutions are oil and gas, energy market, railway, security, and precision agriculture.
Chairwoman MVD Invest Group S.A. and Sr. Advisory Consultant at The Private Office of H.E. Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Duaij bin Khalifa al Khalifa
A low-key figure, Ms. Isabel Jiménez prefers to stay largely out of the spotlight, although she has received media attention and accolades over recent years thanks to her involvement in several trade and inve stment deals and philanthropic activities.
MoralModa: It’s not easy being “low-key” in today’s world… Isabel Jiménez: This is because we live in a society that values overconfidence and exuberance. Maintaining a low profile does not give others a sense of threat, and it can also prove very useful in business. There is nothing wrong with being a private person.
M.M.: How do you split your time between Panama City, Barcelona, and Monaco? I. J.: I’ve been in Monaco now for almost two years. Before that, I lived practically everywhere — I was in Spain for school, Geneva for university, back home to Barcelona for a bit, then went to France and Panama City, where I have been living for 12 years. I am really a global citizen and I love it. As with many of us, COVID-19 reminded me of what truly matters in life. In March of last year, I escaped to Monaco to be closer to my parents and sister, who live in Madrid. So now I spend summers in Monaco and split my time in the winter between Panama and the Caribbean. My life does not revolve around work, and I have the luxury of being able to take care of my business from wherever I am in the world.
M.M.: You are an entrepreneur who has had a very successful career. How did you achieve this? I. J.: I founded my first company when I was 28, which was a translation agency specializing in finance and legal affairs. Thanks to all I did and learnt at SLS International, I was later able to join and invest in Milengo, a multilingual services provider with offices in 16 countries, which became one of the world’s top 100 language service providers. In parallel with this, I started investing in residential real estate in South America and am working on a few trade deals all over the world, and I am involved in a few projects now. I have always had a very enterprising spirit, and I love learning. When you do what you love and you love what you do, it does not feel like work. And I have always surrounded myself with a great team and those whom I trust, and asked for advice or guidance when necessary.
M.M. How did you get involved with the Private Office of H.E. Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Duaij Bin Khalifa Al Khalifa? I. J.: I represent the Pacific Rim Business Council (PRBC) in Europe, and the Pacific Rim Chamber of Commerce for the MENA region, which has led me to many key interactions. Last year, the Private Office got in touch with me to explore synergies between our organizations and H.E. told me about the upcoming Royal Investment Summit, taking place in Dubai from January 22-24, 2022. We realized that we share many values and principles, and I was offered the opportunity to collaborate as a Senior Advisory Consultant. It is a real pleasure and great honor to work on the upcoming Summit, and to accelerate the organization’s presence in the GCC countries, especially in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the UAE.
M.M.: You are often seen attending art events, supporting many different kinds of artists and musicians, organizing philanthropic events. I. J.: If I hadn’t conducted business, I would be an artist, a singer, or a dancer… a sort of Lady Gaga (smile). My love for art and music has been a huge part of my life. I have a very creative side, which is quite fulfilling and meaningful to me. And I love being surrounded by artists, watching the world through their eyes. When I am creative, I feel I am living more fully than I have during the rest of my life. Last year, during lockdown, I supported two Dutch musicians to promote a classical music CD that was distributed for free to care homes and hospitals. Now I am collaborating with a Japanese digital finger painter, Yusuke Akamatsu to spread his message and make his great artwork well-known all over the world. Yusuke is a very talented and humble artist and a very inspiring human being. Their Excellencies Sheikh Abdulaziz and Sheikha Emanuela are great supporters of arts and culture, and they have kindly allowed Mr. Akamatsu to exhibit his unparalleled artwork during the upcoming Royal Investment Summit, for which I am extremely grateful.
M.M.: Your clear passion and contagious enthusiasm are inspiring as well. What other similar projects have you planned for 2022? I. J.: In 2022 I am quite excited about collaborating with the Future For Humanity Foundation (FFH). FFH is hosting a series of events internationally which will bring together the best of entertainment, music, media, sports, industry and impact with a focus on solving the world’s greatest challenges and the UN’s Global Goals. Together with Melinda Woolf, the Foundation’s visionary and Founder, and an equally passionate team, we are going to bring together our network of celebrities, global leaders, ambassadors, top scientists, award winning recording artists and the brightest minds of our time with the goal of not just raising awareness, but also create the action as impact solutions. Our group is planning event in several cities and countries, including New York, California, Monaco, Bahrain, London, Ras al-Khaimah, etc. We are updating the FFH website at www.futureforhumanity.org with the latest news and event schedule. You are most welcome to join the movement, I’ll send you an invitation, and my sincere thank you for this wonderful opportunity to connect with your eco-luxury readers!
The evolution of electric transport is in full swing, and its further progress depends largely on how the infrastructure develops. The number of charging stations for electric vehicles is growing all over the world, but we have to admit that there are still not enough of them, which, combined with long charging times, causes inconvenience to owners and users of EVs. For this reason, the L-Charge team’s efforts to develop and manufacture scalable and mobile ultra-fast charging solutions are especially valuable. This year, the company’s accomplishments were recognized by the World Future Awards research team, and L-Charge was named the winner in the category of Best Charging Solution for Electric Vehicles.
World Future Awards is a global award selecting, recognizing, celebrating, and promoting the best products, software, and services that will transform the global economy and define the landscape of the future. The organization researches inventions across all categories, including technology, beauty, health care, food, home, and entertainment, that are making the world better, smarter or even a bit more fun.
L-Charge solutions mark a unique approach to electric vehicle charging that provides a significantly more convenient infrastructure for the global operation of electric transport. Thus, L-Charge charging stations are an important component of the foundation for accelerating the mass transition to electric vehicles and bringing the electric future closer.
L-Charge products and services are the result of more than 20 years of research, development, and testing in the field of power generation. The company has been able to develop a platform that is expected to be a game-changer for the entire industry. L-Charge offers powerful ultra-fast charging stations that operate independently of the grid and can be implemented in fixed and mobile formats. Such stations can be used to provide a complete charging infrastructure in a large city or a rural road network.
L-Charge stationary chargers are self-contained, modular power plants that generate electricity with a generator and use liquefied natural gas and hydrogen as fuel. The brand’s mobile chargers are also self-contained power plants, functioning on the basis of vans, which can deliver the option of charging to any location on request. Delivering high power from 300 kV to 2,000 kV, L-Charge chargers meet the growing needs of individual and commercial customers for fast charging and contribute to the popularization of electric mobility.
For most businesses, success is the success and satisfaction of their customers. Generations of entrepreneurs, analysts, and marketers have been looking for ways to attract customers, retain them, and provide the most favorable experience possible for continued, mutually beneficial collaboration. Today’s information technology has made it possible to approach this issue with a whole new vision and tools. When it comes to enthusiasts who are changing the industry and expanding business opportunities, Involve.ai deserves the highest praise for its product. The innovative platform, designed to increase companies’ revenues by intelligently working with customers through the use of artificial intelligence, brought Involve.ai a win at the World Future Awards in the category of Best AI-powered Business Solutions Platform.
World Future Awards is a global award selecting, recognizing, celebrating, and promoting the best products, software, and services that will transform the global economy and define the landscape of the future. The organization researches inventions across all categories, including technology, beauty, health care, food, home, and entertainment, that are making the world better, smarter or even a bit more fun.
It is already obvious to entrepreneurs who are keeping up with the times that competent work with data transforms business and allows you to bring its efficiency to the next level. Involve.ai demonstrates how applying artificial intelligence to customer data is creating the conditions for long-term, mutually beneficial collaboration and shaping the business landscape of the future.
Involve.ai has been helping companies create customer risk profiles using artificial intelligence since 2020. The team created a platform that analyzes information about companies’ customers and uses a system to identify weaknesses in customer relationships, prevent customer churn, and increase revenue through smarter renewals & upsells. Involve.ai empowers teams to scale, prioritize, and make decisions that help customers succeed.
The Involve.ai team is responsible for proprietary machine-learning models that deliver unprecedented functionality. Based on quantitative and qualitative customer data, the platform continuously provides intuitive insights into options to prevent churn and drive revenue growth. Involve.ai ensures the security and confidentiality of all data; information is protected by key management services and audit logs.
Over centuries the forms of interaction between people in society have changed, and the search for the optimal organization of community management has been conducted. And for a long time, decision-making determining the lives of large communities was the privilege of a small circle of people, while the opinion of the majority of the population, for various reasons, was not taken into account. Zencityuses advanced tools and techniques to engage the public and create effective interaction between the public and public institutions. The innovative, community-driven decision-making solution was recognized by the World Future Awards research group, and Zencity was named a winner in the category of Best AI-powered Community Engagement Platform.
World Future Awards is a global award selecting, recognizing, celebrating, and promoting the best products, software, and services that will transform the global economy and define the landscape of the future. The organization researches inventions across all categories, including technology, beauty, health care, food, home, and entertainment, that are making the world better, smarter or even a bit more fun.
The development of high technology and tools for processing large amounts of data have changed the global information landscape, and the sphere of public opinion and the work of local governments is no exception. Zencity uses cutting-edge advances in data processing to solve the problem of interaction between the public and local governments and make a significant contribution to solving social problems on a global level.
The Zencity team has developed the Zencity 360 platform, which includes a wide range of high-performance tools to help local governments hear from the public and incorporate them into their decision-making. By consolidating large amounts of data, the platform makes sense of it and allows you to highlight key messages for good governance and building public trust.
Zencity 360 enables real-time media monitoring and online discussions to track public reactions to certain events. The platform’s options also include an inclusive digital collaboration center, community surveys, a module for measuring and improving services, and other tools with which authorities can increase public trust and justify it through well-established interaction and informed decision-making.
The challenges faced by the food and catering industry in recent years have challenged leading market players to look for innovative solutions for further successful development. The advanced approach provided by the PreciTasteteam is aimed at changing the industry and helping to address key issues for quick-service restaurants, including improving the customer and employee experience and reducing food waste. The effectiveness of PreciTaste’s products and services has been successfully proven in practice when they have significantly improved the performance of food service establishments of various types. This year, the platform’s success was validated by the World Future Awards research team, which named PreciTaste the winner in the Best AI-driven Foodservice Platform category.
World Future Awards is a global award selecting, recognizing, celebrating, and promoting the best products, software, and services that will transform the global economy and define the landscape of the future. The organization researches inventions across all categories, including technology, beauty, health care, food, home, and entertainment, that are making the world better, smarter or even a bit more fun.
The development of artificial intelligence technology has boosted various fields, and for the food service industry, it has also marked the opening of new horizons. PreciTaste has leveraged cutting-edge technology and best practices from food service leaders to set the standard for the management and pave the way for the future of QSR.
PreciTaste is an innovative food tech company that uses deep-tech computer vision and machine learning to provide real-time recommendations to food service kitchen crews. With its proprietary Vision AI platform and deep learning, it assists crews in three key areas – «What to Cook When,» «What to Prep When,» and «Order Accuracy Assistance.»
The solution uses cameras installed around quick-service restaurants to track customer demand and match it with food inventories in the kitchen. Using a variety of data, the platform makes recommendations to workers on how much food to prepare and which dishes will be in demand. With the help of cameras in the kitchen and touchscreens, PreciTaste also gives clear instructions on how to prepare food.
The PreciTaste team has already deployed more than 1,750 food artificial intelligence systems, each of which, in turn, helps improve the platform. The practice has shown that its use helps eliminate up to 86% of food waste, reduce the average storage time of freshly prepared ingredients by 35%, and consolidate up to 40% of kitchen tasks.
One of the greatest benefits of high-tech has been that it has allowed machines to do things that only humans could do, freeing up resources for more important things. Enthusiasts continue to explore the potential of AI and develop software that, without exaggeration, pushes the boundaries of document processing and takes business to the next level. One of the leaders in this direction is Automation Hero, which has offered a unique solution for comprehensive automation of document-related processes. This year, the outstanding achievements of the Automation Hero team were recognized by the World Future Awards research team, and the company was named the winner in the category of Best AI-driven Document Processing Platform.
World Future Awards is a global award selecting, recognizing, celebrating, and promoting the best products, software, and services that will transform the global economy and define the landscape of the future. The organization researches inventions across all categories, including technology, beauty, health care, food, home, and entertainment, that are making the world better, smarter or even a bit more fun.
With the ever-increasing volume of data, the issue of rapid and high-quality processing, structuring, and analysis becomes crucial. Automation Hero makes a significant contribution to the future by offering technology that opens unprecedented prospects in optimizing company operations, improving customer service, and finding new sources of revenue.
Automation Hero is a comprehensive SaaS platform that uses artificial intelligence to process and automate documents. The creators of the platform have developed an AI engine capable of efficiently performing manual tasks related to viewing, understanding, extracting data, and taking action on documents. Particular emphasis is placed on processing semi-structured and unstructured documents, including handwritten text, photos, PDFs, claims, invoices, etc.
A proprietary optical character recognition engine converts scanned documents into data and uses contextual cues to recognize the most complex handwriting. And Automation Hero, as an end-to-end platform, doesn’t limit itself to individual aspects of document processing but encompasses the entire process. Its ease of use and functionality makes the platform extremely user-friendly and accessible without the need for IT specialists. This allows Automation Hero to successfully fulfill its core mission of democratizing access to AI and automation.
The phrase “metaverse” was first invented and used in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 Sci-fi novel Snow Crash. The word «metaverse» is a combination of the English word «universe» with the Greek word «Meta,» which means «after» or «beyond.» In that novel, characters use virtual reality goggles to move through a three-dimensional cityscape constructed entirely with computer code, while experiencing a full spectrum of immersive sensory experiences.
With a compound annual growth rate of 47.2%, the worldwide metaverse market will increase from USD 61.8 billion in 2022 to USD 426.9 billion in 2027.It is anticipated to grow at the fastest rate in Asia Pacific, with an average annual growth rate of 49.6% over the next five years. While practitioners in the space currently have varying definitions of the metaverse, we agree in general that the metaverse needs to have three ingredients to be considered as a metaverse: It needs to be immersive, social and interactive.
Opportunities for Brands
What then, are the opportunities for brands in the metaverse? Let’s take a deeper look into three opportunities for brands here:
Opportunity #1: Additional sources of revenue
The metaverse can be additional sources of revenue for brands.
There are many ways of creating additional sources of revenue for brands. Brands on the metaverse can sell their intellectual property as NFTs, and build Web3.0 brand equity and collectibles with brand storytelling. Some brands may even sell NFT lands!
With innovative decentralised finance tools, brands can also create character gaming worlds on the open metaverse and monetisze accordingly.
Opportunity #2: Zero physical inventory, higher profits
Especially for the luxury and retail industries, physical inventory planning and management can be a major cost center and when mismanaged, can even cost the company to incur heavy losses.
Through NFTs as a vehicle in the open metaverse however, brands enjoy zero physical inventory that is subject to wear and tear, and depreciation. The marginal cost of producing an additional NFT as a product is almost negligible if we are using generative AI to create the artwork; yet the marginal revenue of the NFT can still be the same as that of the physical product.
This leads to an increased probability of exponential profits.
Opportunity #3: A brand new way of storytelling and enhancing of consumer experience
Brands can also make use of the emerging technologies associated with the metaverse to create better, alternative immersive experiences for their users. Some interesting tools that have the power to positively influence end-user engagement include metahumans, augmented reality, virtual reality and even haptic suits.
The increased deployment of 5G in Southeast Asia is likely to speed up networks to such an extent that marketers will be able to build dynamic digital worlds that can change in real-time. Truly, as marketers, we are only limited by our imaginations!
Increasingly, phygital is becoming a bigger and bigger phenomenon in retail. Utilizing virtual try-ons and AR-enabled commerce makes it simpler for customers and increases their confidence in their buying decisions. The true secret to keeping their interest is to curate and design an unexpected retail experience and make it more enjoyable.
Immersive storytelling enables viewers to move from «observation» to «experience,» allowing customers to figuratively «put themselves in another’s shoes» and feel that they are part of something larger than themselves. It opens up an opportunity for brand storytellers to develop closer relationships with customers. Immersive experiences that create a shared experience can enhance the relationship between the customer and the brand, especially in this age when customers are more interested than ever in learning about the purpose of brands and how those values are aligned with their own.
Level Up: Use your Brand DNA as an Anchor
It is clear that most brands are generally currently experimenting with the metaverse, which gives rise to the popular conception that it could just be a hype and nothing sustainable.
Technological cycles of change are getting shorter and shorter. As marketers, we have to learn how to make better choices with faster and less complete, highly asymmetrical information. This could mean getting used to dynamic states and pivoting along the way, rather than expecting things to go as plan.
Overall, with the huge capital flow going into the space, there is also a high probability that the metaverse will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Therefore, the right question that a brand should be asking could be how to “be okay with” risk while still boldly experimenting in the space.
Have fun, good luck!
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Soh Wan Wei CEO & Founder IKIGUIDE Metaverse Collective
Bio:
Wan Wei is CEO and co-founder of IKIGUIDE Metaverse Collective (IMC). As the top media, education, consulting and co-creation collective, we work to bridge the knowledge & resource gaps in the Asian metaverse industry.
IMC counts NYSE-listed Nutanix, Philips, Hitachi, DBS, Crypto.com and non-profit alliance ChangemakersXchange as some of the key clients and partners in its portfolio. Wan Wei is also a guest-trainer at Singapore Management University Academy and Aventis Graduate School.
Wan Wei is also one of the founding team members of the dWeb Southeast Asian node and the Metaverse for All: Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity Movement.
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