FALL 2020 / REAL-LEADERS.COM 49 FUTURE 2030 5GWILL ENHANCE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AND SAVE LIVES Overnight, we’ve experienced a sharp increase in delivery services with a need for day-of goods from providers like Amazon and Instacart — but it has been limited. With 5G networks in place, tied directly into autonomous bots, goods are delivered safely within hours. Wi-Fi can’t scale to meet higher capacity demands. Sheltering-in-place has moved businesses and classrooms to video conferencing, highlighting poor-quality networks. Low-latency 5G networks resolved this lack of network reliability, allowing for more high-capacity services like telehealth, telesurgery, and ER services. Businesses offset the high cost of mobility with economy-boosting activities, including smart factories, real-time monitoring, and content-intensive, real-time edge-computing services. 5G private networks made this possible — in fact, they changed the mobile services economy. The roll-out of 5G created markets that before we only imagined — like self-driving bots, along with a mobilityas-a-service economy — and others we can’t imagine yet, enabling next generations to invent thriving markets and prosperous causes. Maha Achour, founder and CEO, Metawave A BLURRINGOF PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SPACES One thing the COVID-19 pandemic showed us is how important technology is for maintaining and facilitating communication — not simply for work purposes but for building real emotional connections. In the years following the pandemic, we saw this progress accelerate, with AI technology built to connect people at a human level and drive them closer to each other, even when physically they’re apart. The line between physical space and virtual is forever blurred. We’ve seen capabilities for global events — from SXSW to the Glastonbury Festival — to provide fully digitalized alternatives beyond simple live-streaming into full experiences. However, it’s not as simple as just providing these services — data privacy has been prioritized to create consumer confidence. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw a lot in the news about concerns over the security of videoconferencing companies. These concerns are still here, and as digital connectivity increases, brands simply can’t afford to give users anything less than full transparency and control over their data. Tugce Bulut, CEO, Streetbees MENTAL HEALTH IS A LEADERSHIP SKILL This last decade has shown profound and massive changes in how mental health issues are dealt with in the workplace. Research within psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience has made leaps and bounds, and new medication, counseling, and treatment methods have much higher success rates. Much of this success has been within the workplace, with business leaders trained in the practical application of the most up-to-date and relevant mental health knowledge. This has had a massively positive impact on the workplace, with employees showing much greater satisfaction rates and being more productive. Emotional education in schools and early career counseling has become a cause for greater employee retention as young people are getting better at choosing the right careers for themselves, and educators have a better understanding of how children think. This has had a positive impact on business, and it’s apparent that innovation is more widespread due to increased employee satisfaction. Adam Garcia, founder, The Stock Dork
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