Leslie Shannon

Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting, Nokia, based in San Francisco, USA

I’m a “Novophiliac” – someone who’s in love with the new. In the world of technology, that means so many wonderful things – 5G, Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality, Visual Analytics, Next-Gen Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and on and on. I specialize in standing at the center of all of these innovations and understanding how they will influence and encourage each other, and what our future world will look like as a result.

If we’re not paying attention, we’re not going to have the world that we want, and I am actively working to shape a Baymax/collaborative relationship between humans and computers, as opposed to the Terminator/destructive relationship that it’s all too easy to imagine. 

Podcast

Episode 215 – Virtual Reality, 5G and other innovation trends – Interview with Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting, Nokia