The Convergence of Information and Operational Technology is Powering the Fourth Industrial Revolution Digital Transformation is an Imperative

Mixed reality, Artificial intelligence and Quantum Compute are disruptive technologies that are lighting up new capabilities and enabling new manufacturing business models around the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge. The notion of an application or experience is becoming more distributed across devices. No application or experience will be a single device experience; every experience is going to be multi-device and is going to be multi-sense. Every one of these experiences is going to be deeply infused with AI. AI is going to be everywhere: in our networks, in our datacenters, in our devices and in every application. As we have this more complex AI-infused distributed fabric, we need new breakthroughs to manage our complex issues. This is where an event-driven, serverless compute processing will be very important. And this will be distributed from cloud to edge. Quantum computing takes a giant leap forward from today's technology-one that will forever alter our economic, industrial, academic, and societal landscape. In just hours, a quantum computer can solve complex problems that would otherwise take billions of years for classical computing to solve. This has massive implications for research in energy, environmental systems, smart materials, and more. Digital technologies are transforming business as we see it today.