Rachel Free, Partner and Patent Attorney, CMS If you thought that “Cathedral with pink sky” was the text prompt used to generate the image below you could well be right. This type of photorealistic image can easily be generated by AI models such as Rombach et al.’s Latent Diffusion1 today2.…

Lucy Lombardi, Director, Head of Technical and Operational Partnership and Contracts, TIM Artificial Intelligence is not a new phenomenon. It has had a long gestation period going back to the 1950s and decades of exemplary research that followed. It wasn’t until 2005, however, that the pace of research and development…

Mirko Voltolini, Vice President, Strategy and Innovation, Colt Technology Services The metaverse will generate exciting new opportunities for business and society. 71% of business executives in a recent Accenture survey said the metaverse would be good for the enterprise. 42% believe it will be ‘breakthrough’ or ‘transformational’. JP Morgan identified…

Karine Dussert-Sarthe, EVP Global Product, Marketing, Design (UX) and Open Innovation, Orange Group At Orange we know that the metaverse will be a next transformative step for our industry and we are increasingly invested in exploring the potential of the metaverse. We have established a dedicated team to explore how…

Derrick de Kerckhove, author and journalist, Media Duemila; former Director of the McLuhan ProgramMaria Pia Rossignaud, SVP TuttiMedia and Editor Media Duemila The metaverse as digital destination and destiny Since 1992, when the term was invented by Neal Stephenson, the metaverse, after several false starts such as Active Worlds or…

Keri Gilder, CEO Colt Technology Services My vision for network services is based on the need to be able to provide our customers with extraordinary connections with on demand services at scale, by extending Colt’s infrastructure to new geographic markets, boosting the services and capabilities it delivers to enterprises and…

Bridget Cosgrave, Global President Emeritus GTWN, NED Sinch Everyone has experienced the inconvenience of chargers that are incompatible with your mobile phone – and typically when you need one most – with no battery and a conference call starting in five minutes! Add to that the pile of cables and…

Olga Belyakova, Partner and Co-head of the Technology, Media and Communications sector group in Central and Eastern Europe, CMSVictoria Gaskell, Partner and Co-head of Media Practice, London, CMS The online content market – from SVOD to AVOD and beyond The entertainment landscape has changed beyond recognition in recent years. Across…

Sallye Clark, Head of Space Law & Satellite Group, Mintz Activity in outer space has never been busier and more crowded. How will we handle issues that arise with planetary colonization, space tourism and asteroid mining? Will the existing rules from the 1960s work in a crowded space in the…

Dario Betti, CEO Mobile Ecosystem Forum Standardisation within the mobile industry plays a vital role in ensuring that mobile devices and networks work together seamlessly. Without these standards, consumers would have limited choice in devices and networks, creating a lot of friction within the market. Fortunately, the mobile industry has…

Isabelle Paradis, President and Founder HOT TELECOM; Member of the Board, GTWN and PTC While attending the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) from 15 to 18 January 2023 in Hawaii, I was pleased to meet up with a number of younger professionals who have chosen to make their career in our…

Isabella De Michelis, CEO & Founder, ErnieApp The fine in relation to personalized advertising imposed on Meta by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) of EUR 390 million (USD414 million) announced in early January 2023 has gained much media attention, for its potential to require Meta to make costly changes…

Ana Tavares Lattibeaudiere, Executive Director, GlobalPlatform Every day as I read the news, I keep an eye open for stories about quantum computing. As the Executive Director of an organization dedicated to developing, deploying, and managing trusted digital services and devices, I take data security very seriously. However, like many…