Networked Society: Dwight Witherspoon

Sketchnote by Emilia Blom

Agenda

Dwight Witherspoon, Director, Communications, Ericsson. Key takeaways: - The Internet of things. – Understanding the importance of the eco system for growth. – Convergence of media, Telecom and everything else. – Innovation in the connected society.

Summary

Ericsson’s Director of Communications Dwight Witherspoon kicked off day two with a chat about exploring the world with 50 billion connected devices. Tweets were enthusiastic: “Kicking off #sime11 day 2 talking about visions of the future according to Ericsson! Fantastic!”. Yesterday’s top tweeter Jesper Bylund wrote: “Dwight is talking about Ericsson being enthused to innovate by working with entrepreneurs. Sounds awesome to me!”: an opinion reflected and repeated in many tweets, Swedish and international:  “Witherspoon is a very stunning chief evangelist for ericsson – excellent outlook on networked society at #sime11”. The film Networked Society ‘On the Brink’ from Ericsson proved very popular.

- Summary by Mediapilot

Read more

- “Bara fantasin stoppar oss”, dagensmedia.se

- “Andra dagen i punktform”, blog.halvarsson.se

One Response

1. Jesper Bylund says:

   December 5, 2011 at 10:55

   [...] through the entire conference was going mobile. Google spoke of being a mobile first company, Ericsson spoke about communicating in a world where every device is interconnected. But what does this have to do with [...]

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