The CEO Magazine Australia — November 2017

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If you want to stay at the cutting-edge of

technology, here are the people LinkedIn

says that you need to be following. All under

35, they don’t just have their fingers on the

pulse, they ARE the pulse.

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Tech influencers

Top

IAN BERNSTEIN Founder and CTO, Sphero

DON BURNETTE Co-founder, Otto

PETER DENG Head of product management, Oculus

YASMIN GREEN (pictured) Head of research and development, Jigsaw

LEXIE KOMISAR Senior lead, IBM Digital Innovation Lab

“ THERE ARE 1.2 BILLION [ADOLESCENTS AGED 10 TO 19] IN THE WORLD,

WHICH IS 1.2 BILLION MINDS FULL OF WORLD-CHANGING IDEAS.”

• Krtin Nithiyanandam, who at 15 developed a test that can diagnose Alzheimer’s
  10 years before symptoms first appear.

The reduction in damage to overseas

deliveries after Dutch bike-maker

VanMoof started putting images of

flat-screen TVs on its boxes.

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MOLESKINE

M AGIC

The iconic notebook favoured by notable

minds like Hemingway, Picasso and van

Gogh has been given a twenty-first-century

facelift. The Moleskine Smart Writing Set

combines a notebook made of thicker

paper that when drawn or written on with

the accompanying aluminium ‘smart’ pen,

creates digital text and images that can be

stored or shared on devices via the app.

moleskine.com

Buzzword: REG TECH

This ROBOT

If your plans to eat a healthy lunch are thwarted by not having enough time

to prepare food before leaving for the office in the morning, then ‘Sally’ can

save you. This salad-making robot can prepare one of a thousand possible

custom salads in around 60 seconds. Its creator, Chowbotics, has been trialling

Sally in offices in the US and plans to launch later this year. chowbotics.com

makes SALAD

Forget fintech (well, no don’t) because the

hottest start-ups in the finance sector right

now are the regtechs. These ingenious

companies take the guesswork out of

compliance by automating

industry regulation updates,

data monitoring and security

checks in response to increased

pressure for transparency and

accountability in the finance sector.

Frontrunners include Trulioo (Canada),

Fintellix (India) and KYC3 (Luxembourg).