Introduction to Emerging Technologies

Description

Course description:

This course is focused on the technologies that enable the companies to stay relevant or even thrive in a turbulent business environment and their practical application. Emerging technologies are characterized by novelty, relatively fast growth, prominent impact, and uncertainty. They are the tools that enable upstarts to disrupt whole industries.

During the course, we will develop an understanding of enabling technologies, their impact on business, and applicability in different business scenarios as well as how to ensure their scalable implementation and proper architecture planning.

Modern Web, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Robotics and Virtual Reality are some of the topics we will go through.

Course structure:

The course is structured as a full-time 3-day assignment, each day having its own format.

The 1st day is the seminar-discussion about the modern business environment, the way digital products are designed and developed today, technologies, software architecture, operations model and engineering culture aimed to reveal the interconnections of these aspects and the way they influence each other.

On the 2nd day, students will work in groups on the different aspects of Cloud strategy – the topic that is actual for a majority of enterprises.

The 3rd day is a collection of modules. Each module is dedicated to a particular technology and structured in 3 phases. First, the short lecture introducing the technology. Then brainstorming in small groups on the ways how technology can be used in business. Finally, presentation and collective evaluation of brainstormed ideas.

Course prerequisites:

• To read before the course this article: https://www.infoq.com/articles/cynefin-introduction/

Learning outcomes:

At the end of this course, the student should be able to:

• form a holistic picture of the role of technologies in modern business;
• reason about the applicability of particular technology in a business context;
• work on a business technology strategy;
• effectively collaborate with technical departments and/or external vendors.

Course outline:

• What is enabling technology: AI, Machine Learning, Big Data
• Trends and Evolution of business environment
• Rethinking product development: Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Jobs to be Done; A/B testing, Bandit Algorithms, Analytics, Data Science, Big Data
• Rethinking product engineering: Agile, DevOps, Continues Delivery; Micro-services, Containers & their orchestration, Cloud, Serverless
• Rethinking user experience: Modern web, mobile, wearables, conversational interfaces, omnichannel
• Mechanics of digital disruption
• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Public cloud providers
• Economics of the cloud (x2)
• Multi-cloud & hybrid cloud strategies (x2)
• AR/VR
• Computer Vision
• Internet of Things
• Robotics
• 3D Printing
• Quantum Computing

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Price: UAH 24 000

Date: April 24-24, May (to be confirmed)

Language: English