2024 Edition – Digital Generation

Three GTWN Board members share their insights as digital tech pioneers and offer some advice to current and future digital generations, on creating a valuable legacy by following your career ambition while holding fast to your human values. Incubating change Walda W. Roseman, Chair, Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Looking back…

Victoria Hernandez, Financial and Telecom Executive. C-level and Board serial member. Digital Humanist, Business Angel, and International Speaker In the relentless pursuit of progress, the force of technological progress has reshaped our world fundamentally. Amid this transformative whirlwind, the concept of Digital Humanism is emerging as a guiding light, prompting…

Prof Tilly Blyth, Professor and Head of Museum Studies at Leicester University, UK If you don’t know where you have come from, you don’t know where you are going. – – Maya Angelou I have been fortunate in my career to be able to combine all of my key interests into…

A discussion facilitated by Maria González Gordon, Managing Partner and Head of IP, Industrial Property and Digital Business at CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo. María González Gordon heads up the Industrial/ Intellectual Property & Digital Business department at CMS. She specialises in advising domestic and international companies on intellectual property,…

Claire Sibthorpe, Head of Digital Inclusion, M4D, GSMA As we consider the digital legacy we are leaving to current and future generations, we need to be mindful not only of the immense benefits that broadband and mobile connectivity have brought to the world, but also of the persistent digital divide…

Paul Brodsky, Senior Research Manager at TeleGeography While artificial intelligence (AI) has been the most hyped demand driver in recent years, its impact on international internet capacity is not entirely clear. A large amount of AI-driven demand is likely to be carried over the private networks of Google, Microsoft, Amazon,…

Michele M. Merrell, President, GTWN, Americas and President, Merrell Consulting Group In October of 2023, the United States government issued a landmark Executive Order1 on safe, secure, and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI). This order marked a significant step forward in the development and implementation of ethical AI practices in the United…

Dóra Petrányi, CEE Managing Director and Co-Head of the TMC Group, CMS and Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader The following is an edited transcript of a GTWN/CMS webinar on AI which took place on 8 November 2023. Dóra: AI is a very hot topic nowadays. Francesca, could…

María González Gordon, Head of Intellectual Property, Industrial Property and Digital Business at CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo Watch out: Businesses all around the world are facing a Digital Regulation Tsunami! There are significant global developments in digital media policy and regulation which all companies urgently need to learn how…

A TMC interview with six stars of the Space Bureau In April 2023, the US Federal Communications Commission launched the Space Bureau to reflect the growing needs of the next-generation Space Age. This change and new emphasis on space innovation was led by FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, the first woman…

Sallye Clark, Head of Space Law practice and Member, Mintz Artificial intelligence (AI) is providing numerous benefits to society in the context of space. Developments in manufacturing, remote sensing, spacecraft control, and coordination will ease constraints to boost productivity and growth in the satellite industry. AI can drive down costs,…

Guest blog from Dr Mike Short, CBE Chief Architect, Satellite Applications Catapult, UK This article tries to identify the specific areas of keen interest mainly from a Satellite industry perspective. When looking out towards 2030 some of this QT based Innovation can be seen now through a new lens of Quantum…

Dóra Petranyi, CEE Managing Director and Co-Head of the TMC Group, CMS I have been working on the legal and regulatory context of Artificial Intelligence for at least 5 years now, well before it was considered a priority issue. During that time, I have often considered the arguments relating to…