2022 First-Half Major Conference Schedule (Feat. Tech Trends)
2022 First-Half Major Conference Schedule (Feat. Tech Trends)
Hello, this is Chris & Partners.😊 January 2022 has already passed and February has arrived! Looking at this year's major conference schedule, the event industry's time also seems set to fly. 🕐🕑 Looking at the conferences' themes and content, we could also read the flow of tech trends. Today, let's explore the 2022 first-half major conference schedule and tech trends.
2022 first-half major conference schedule
January
CES 2022 [Jan 5–8, 2022 / Las Vegas, USA]
Source: Computer Bild
The world's largest electronics/IT expo, ‘CES 2022,’ was held. CES 2022 was dominated by mobility, robots, the metaverse, convergence tech, eco-friendliness, and more, and indeed showed great attention to the metaverse and NFT in particular. 🔗Go watch the recent CES 2022 keynote
February
Kakao Mobility NEMO [2022.02.10 / 13:00~18:00]
Source: Kakao Mobility
Kakao Mobility holds its first tech conference ‘Next Mobility: NEMO 2022’ on/offline on February 10. NEMO 2022 begins with a welcome address from Kakao Mobility CEO Ryu Geung-seon, followed by keynote speeches from speakers leading global mobility technology; Chris Urmson, CEO of US autonomous-driving company Aurora, also joins to share its autonomous-driving strategy and future vision. 🔗Go to the Kakao Mobility NEMO site
March
NVIDIA GTC AI Conference [2022.03.21~24]
Source: NVIDIA
GTC is an event covering diverse topics. From AI-based business to deep learning, machine learning, data science, autonomous driving, and more, it runs sessions delivering the latest news across diverse tech areas—a global community that innovates all major industry workflows and explores powerful next-generation ideas together. 🔗Go to the NVIDIA GTC AI Conference site
6th AI Next-Generation Contact Center Conference 2022 [Mar 25, 2022 / 09:30–16:30 / online]
Source: Electronic Times
The 6th AI Next-Generation Contact Center Conference 2022 covers, under the theme ‘Better Customer Experience (CX) and Corporate Innovation in the New Normal,’ changes in contact centers after the pandemic. It will examine new business strategies to respond to a changing era, plus digital transformation and a metaverse- and AI-based digital-first strategy. 🔗Go to the 6th AI Next-Generation Contact Center Conference 2022 article link
April
2022 AI EXPO KOREA [Apr 13–15, 2022 / COEX]
Source: Korea Artificial Intelligence Association
AI EXPO KOREA has established itself as the AI industry's most effective marketing platform. 2022 AI EXPO KOREA is Korea's largest AI-specialized exhibition, spanning the entire AI industry—from data services to AI solutions, AI+X convergence services, and business infrastructure. 🔗Go to the 2022 AI EXPO KOREA site
World IT Show 2022 [Apr 20–22, 2022 / COEX]
Source: COEX
Korea's largest information and communications technology (ICT) exhibition, ‘2022 World IT Show (WIS),’ under the theme ‘Transform Everything,’ introduces cutting-edge new tech and products related to AI, ambient intelligence, next-generation mobile, autonomous driving, the metaverse, and more. 🔗Go to the World IT Show 2022 site
2022 tech trends
1) The metaverse craze and competition set to accelerate
Source: Google
The Washington Post named, as the first of this year's tech trends, ‘big tech's competition toward the metaverse.’ Forbes also set ‘entering the metaverse’ as a major consumer-tech trend this year. That said, not a few voices question how substantial that virtual world will be. Tech outlets like TechRepublic predicted ‘a proper metaverse won't arrive in 2022.’ But just looking at this year's conference content, the metaverse is clearly still a hot keyword.
2) Launch of AR/VR-based mixed-reality devices
Source: Google
Apple, Meta (formerly Facebook), and other major tech companies are expected to launch AR (augmented reality)- and VR (virtual reality)-based mixed-reality devices optimized for the metaverse within the year. Mixed-reality devices already failed to go mainstream due to issues like heavy weight and dizziness from long wear, but depending on the new devices' usability, they could be a catalyst for metaverse expansion or remain the preserve of some enthusiasts. The new products are expected to incorporate technology that reads facial expressions and eye movements to precisely match the real you with your virtual-world avatar's movements.
3) Expansion of the EV market
Source: Google
The US's CNBC forecast that this year EVs will make up 10% of the entire auto market. On January 3, Germany's Mercedes-Benz unveiled an EV capable of 1,000 km on a single charge, breaking the ‘range wall’ that was the biggest obstacle to EV purchase. The Washington Post said ‘this year EVs will shift from cutting-edge to an ordinary issue,’ meaning EVs will be considered an important option even by ordinary people, not just early adopters. It's also of interest how EV-startup latecomers—including the US's Rivian, which succeeded splendidly in its IPO last year but hasn't yet produced vehicles in earnest—will appear this year.
4) Hybrid work environment
Source: Google
As jobs are reshaped in COVID's wake—doing multiple jobs instead of one, and working by moving between reality and the metaverse instead of a company— ‘hybrid work’ is expected to become common. The tech market keeping pace is also growing. Beyond the accelerating shift to cloud (virtual storage) and collaboration-program-based work environments that let you work anywhere with an internet connection, related new tech is being developed one after another—converting call content to text, summoning participants in other spaces as holograms, and more. Last year, the tech industry enjoyed an unprecedented boom despite the COVID-19 economic crisis. Big-tech stocks soared and many companies achieved record results. It would be good to keep a careful eye on this year's tech trends and major-conference movements that experts have picked, to see which technologies and companies will surprise the world this year. 😉
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