Top Ten Strategic Technology Trends for 2025
Date: Wedn Feb 19, 2025 6:30 - 8:30 PM , at ITRI 2880 Zanker Suite 103. Seminar talk will start at 7PM.
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Talk title “Top Ten Strategic Technology Trends for 2025” by Dr. William Kao
Abstract:
The 2025 Top Ten strategic technology trends are organized across three major themes: AI imperatives and risks, New frontiers of computing and Human-machine synergy.
Theme No. 1: AI imperatives and risks
Trend 1: Agentic AI: Autonomous AI can plan and take action to achieve goals set by the user.
Trend 2: AI Governance platforms: Technology solutions enable organizations to manage the legal, ethical and operational performance of their AI systems.
Trend 3: Disinformation Security: An emerging technology category aimed at systematically discerning trust.
Theme No. 2: New frontiers of computing
Trend 4: Post-quantum Cryptography (PQC): Data protection that is resistant to quantum computing (QC) decryption risks.
Trend 5: Ambient invisible Intelligence: Technology unobtrusively integrated into the environment to enable a more natural, intuitive experiences.
Trend 6: Energy-efficient Computing: An approach to increasing sustainability
through more efficient architecture, code and algorithms; hardware optimized for efficiency; and the use of renewable energy to run systems.
Trend 7: Hybrid Computing: Combines different compute, storage and network mechanisms to solve computational problems. Examples include quantum, photonic, etc.
Theme No. 3: Human-machine synergy
Trend 8: Spatial Computing: Digitally enhances the physical world using technologies like augmented and virtual reality to offer immersive experiences.
Trend 9: Polyfunctional Robots: Robots capable of performing multiple tasks and seamlessly switching between them as required.
Trend 10: Neurological Enhancement: Improving cognitive abilities with technologies that read and decode brain activity.
All three major themes above and top ten tech trends for 2025 will be presented and discussed in this seminar.
Come and join us for this informative technical talk on top 2025 Tech trends .
Speaker Bio:
Dr. William Kao received his BSEE, MSEE and PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He worked in the Semiconductor and Electronic Design Automation industries for more than 30 years holding several senior and Executive engineering management positions at Texas Instruments, Xerox Corporation, and Cadence Design Systems.
Dr. Kao has authored more than 40 technical papers on IC CAD at IEEE Journals and Conferences, and holds eight US software and IC design patents. He was an Adjunct Professor at UCLA Electrical Engineering Department where he taught courses in computer aided IC design.
Dr. Kao is a Senior Member of IEEE, and was one of the founding members of IEEE-Circuits and Systems - Silicon Valley Chapter.
Dr. Kao teaches Clean Technology and Emerging Technology courses at the University of California Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley Extension.