Your learning journey
New technologies for your business transformation
Hands-on, experiential learning
TransformTECH is not just another technology conference. In an interactive, experiential environment, you will undertake a journey through the exciting world of new technologies and innovation, placing these in the context of your business. You will leave with a pretotype (a working prototype) for your business transformation.
Explore AI, IoT, robotics, blockchain and the new frontiers of computing
Maybe you could design new products with artificial intelligence (AI)? Deliver new customer experiences using the Internet of Things (IoT)? Or boost efficiency/safety with intelligent robotics or blockchain? You’ll get up to speed on these exponentially improving technologies, you will learn how to select the most appropriate ones to enable digitization, assess the impact on your business and how you can harness their power.
You identify a business transformation challenge/ opportunity to work on during the program with support from IMD.
You get familiar with the latest digital technologies through a designated platform.
You will explore business opportunities in 3 key areas.
- Design new products, services and solutions
Are you dealing with stagnating sales or even serious disruptions in your market? Perhaps you’ve succeeded in partially streamlining your cost structure. In this session, you will be challenged to design a new customer offering (product, service or solution) that can bring new sources of growth for your business and imagine ways to test your assumptions in the market.
- Deliver new user experiences
Technology provides us with amazing new capabilities, but ultimately, the implementation of a new technology depends upon an audience wanting to buy it, use it and be wowed. In this session, you’ll learn about users to better understand their “pain points”, the benefits they’re seeking and the value they’re willing to allocate.
- Develop operational efficiencies
Are you under relentless pressure to make operations more efficient, reduce costs or improve internal services? Technology can improve an organization’s competitiveness by offering people powerful tools to access the right information at the right time, in turn, to facilitate their decision-making.
Get the latest from EPFL and other technology experts.
- IoT: cover the three main themes that enable the IoT to be deployed in any business.
- Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence: fast-forward to the near future, discuss the next wave of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and anticipate their impact on data-enabled corporations.
- Robotics: take a journey into the workplace of tomorrow and discover intelligent applications for robots.
- Blockchain: explore new use-cases for all your digital interactions.
- New frontiers of computing: discover what lies beyond our current paradigm of computing.
Create and refine your pretototype through experiential learning.
- Get first-hand exposure to new technologies with a visit to EPFL labs.
- Develop a pretototype with feedback from business, innovation and technology experts. Come as a team to develop a pretotoype for your specific business opportunity.
By the end of the program, you will be ready to test your technology-enabled business case within your organization.
Continue technology prototyping for your business transformation initiative and get feedback.
