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Future business models and managing digital risk

Published on August 31, 2026   23 min

Other Talks in the Series: Digital Risk

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Hi, my name is Amalia Barthel. I'm an adviser, consultant, and an educator in the areas of digital risk, digital data risks, privacy, compliance, and governance. In this talk in the digital risk series titled: Future Business Models and the Role of Managing Digital Risk, we will explore future business models and the role of managing digital risk within these future business models.
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The World Economic Forum has published a research on the future of work and the future of business models. We will explore how these match and what skills, hence, knowledge of digital risk and how to manage it to support the realization of business benefits will help you stand out. Data and connectivity are not just important tools to access overseas markets and customers but are also key ingredients for industrial production. An effective supply of data, connectivity, and software already supersedes the importance of labor and electricity for most industries, and is still growing thanks to the emerging technologies like machine-to-machine, M2M, next-generation mobile networks, 5G, Internet of Things, IoT, and digital automation. Data flows continue to rely on telecommunication services, and the lack of competition in telecoms markets stifles the flow of data, especially for businesses. The emergence of IoT, where devices, sensors, and automated systems communicate with each other, often leveraging on 5G networks with 20 times shorter latencies and 1000 times better energy efficiencies than previous networks will seamlessly connect sensors on industrial equipment, vehicles, and infrastructure. In turn, IoT unleashes an unprecedented large-scale collection of data that enables big data analytics and artificial intelligence to optimize business processes, logistics, planning or pricing in real time. Deploying connected devices across the supply chains enables concepts like smart factories, smart retrieval of warehouse products and digital manufacturing that will radically change the manufacturing locations of the future. National strategies and visions already exist,

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