Intralink Insights

CES — just like the city that hosts it — is brilliant, flashy and outrageous. Our team was lucky enough to be at CES 2020 last week, so we sat down to ask what they saw and which tech innovators they think can expect to do well in East Asia this year.

Workforce dynamics are undergoing dramatic shifts in Asia, with big implications for western firms looking to expand in those markets – not only in terms of employment considerations, but opportunities for mobile workforce, remote work and automation technologies.

In the heart of the country that invented the word “entrepreneur”, VivaTech, one of the largest startup events in Europe, kicked off last Thursday, welcoming more than 100,000 visitors from over 100 countries.

At RSNA 2018 in Chicago last week, 150 companies were demonstrating some form of AI technology according to one estimate. I was left with the impression that early commercial adoption of the latest wave of AI/ML diagnostic technologies has begun and startups in this space need to begin factoring Asia into their global expansion plans.

There’s a great deal of interest in blockchain technologies, and the UK has developed into Europe’s foremost hub for innovation in this field, attracting serious interest from Japanese investors and corporates.

The South Korean giant is now the world’s biggest chip maker - and the most important company with which ambitious tech firms need to forge links.