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The UN projects that the world population will grow from around 7.5 billion to around 9.7 billion by 2050 and that food production must increase by 70% by 2050 to feed the world—this is where the power of Automated Vertical Farming comes in as a potential solution to the increased need for innovative food production.

Automated Vertical Farming | Disruptive Innovations IX 

Allogeneic Cell Therapy is poised to disrupt the oncology market over the coming decade.  Learn about how far we’ve come and the future of cancer treatments. 

Allogeneic Cell Therapy | Disruptive Innovations IX

Chances are you have heard some buzz about 5G, but what isn’t being talked about as much is how much this innovation will change the broadband market for homes and businesses.  

5G and Fixed Wireless | Disruptive Innovations IX

How credentialing is undertaken and the purpose it serves is rapidly evolving and disrupting the global economy and industry. It’s taking professionals to the next level and helping employers attract the best talent.

Credentialing | Disruptive Innovations IX

To sustain today’s growth in electric vehicles, new battery technologies are vital. Sodium-ion batteries could be a game changer in the continual transition towards a decarbonized world. 

Sodium-Ion Batteries | Disruptive Innovations IX

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Healthcare is changing. With new technology platforms, sensors, big data, and mobile connectivity, we’re seeing a rapid digital transformation in the way we receive care. In Asia, this transformation is significant. 

Digital Healthcare | Asia as a Time Machine to the Future

In some ways, the future is already here. On Citi GPS: Global Perspectives and Solutions, a new podcast from Citi, we’ll dive into the economic trends and drivers of leading innovation to help you embrace the changes on the horizon. From new vertical farming to AI, we’ll give you the insights to navigate in a fast-changing and interconnected world. 

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Super apps, basically a bunch of apps in one, are all over Asia and could make their way to the U.S. The products and services offered by super apps are closely tied to the everyday life of a consumer — designed to enhance every minute of the user’s day and their ability to spend money.

Super Apps | Asia as a Time Machine to the Future

You can use your phone to pay for a lot in the U.S but in Asia, mobile payments are even more ingrained in consumers’ daily lives. It’s contributed to the explosion of social commerce.

Mobile Payments and the Rise of Social Commerce | Asia as a Time Machine to the Future

When most of us hear sports, our first thought is most likely a giant football stadium completely filled to the brim with fans decked out in merch cheering for their team, but we should be thinking about the fasting growing tournaments world wide: eSports.

eSports | Asia as a Time Machine to the Future

The ways we consume media have evolved along with our increasingly digital and mobile world.  CDs, Cable, and gaming systems aren’t something we use as much, if at all—Now we stream music, watch videos on-demand, and play games online. And now that same evolution is happening to comics, in the form of “webtoons.”

Webtoons | Asia as a Time Machine to the Future

So, what exactly is the Metaverse? It's the next generation of the internet, attracting both attention and investments and holds the potential for endless use cases. Yet, it isn't easy to agree on an exact definition of it. That's what we tackle in this episode.

Metaverse 101 | Metaverse and Money

Digital property in the Metaverse looks like a lot of different things: skins, avatars, emotes, fungible tokens, and collectibles—and that’s just what we imagine now. But how do we know we own them? Enter, the NFT. 

Digital Assets & NFTs | Metaverse and Money

As the Metaverse develops, a spectrum of financial services can play an important role in the evolution of the next generation of the internet. We explore what it would mean for the Metaverse to truly function as an alternate economy through decentralized finance.  

Decentralized Finance | Metaverse and Money

 Excitement is building around the Metaverse, but it's not all fun and games, as there could be potential environmental and social impacts. We review the positive growth and potential harm that could be amplified in today's Metaverse and what this impact could mean for the future.

Environmental and Social Impact | Metaverse and Money

Before the fullest expression of the Metaverse can flourish, it will require countless new technologies and infrastructure to come together. Learn about the design choices that are being debated — and their impact on the future of the Metaverse.

Open vs. Closed | Metaverse and Money

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is not new and has origins dating back to the 1950s. The evolution and growth of AI over the past decades has brought a host of potential opportunities, setting the stage for the next turning point: Generative AI. 

The History of AI | Unleashing AI

Despite its importance and the impressive technological change that has taken place in the recent past, productivity growth has been slowing down for decades across advanced economies. It is not surprising that industry leaders and academics often refer to the potential of AI technologies as a way to end this downward trend.

AI and Productivity | Unleashing AI

While AI is embedded into every layer of technology, Generative AI is a category of AI that is not only trained to recognize patterns and make predictions but generates new outputs and novel insights from the datasets it was trained on. 

The Next Era: Generative AI | Unleashing AI

The emergence of Generative AI has positioned AI as a focus for policymakers around the world. However, the regulatory path taken so far has varied. Given the stakes involved, we believe policy and governance evolution will play a defining role.

AI Regulations | Unleashing AI

The total cumulative AI research output—that means the number of papers, reports, studies that touch on AI—increased 1,300% between 2003 and 2021. Given the importance of AI as a foundational technology, the race is on between countries for scientific and technological dominance. 

The AI Arms Race | Unleashing AI

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