DTS 2017 – it’s a wrap!

Almost two weeks ago (already!), we held a lively and fruitful DTS in Toronto, just before the start of the first North American BILT conference.  Reflecting the broader mission of BILT, this year our 40+ participants hailed from a wide variety of backgrounds – Architecture, Engineering, Design/ Build, Subcontracting, Software, Product Manufacturing, and Consulting.  Some were locally based, and many came from far away.  And thanks to a south-facing sloped glazed wall, the conversation wasn’t the only thing heating up the room.

Some highlights of our conversation included:

* Innovation/ Invention relationship

* How we might find opportunities in cloud by revisiting mainframe computing

* Current portability and ubiquity of computing

* Evolutionary vs revolutionary disruption

* Fast-change and slow-change organizations

* Opportunity to Commodity

* Where should we look besides technology to spur innovation?

* How to keep the brightest minds thinking about pushing forward?

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