FinTech At The World Economic Forum 2016
World Economic Forum 2016 in Davos on January 20-23, promises to pay great attention to cyber-physical systems and FinTech revolutionary solutions. This year a lot of sessions will be dedicated to emerging technologies changing the world’s economic ecosystem and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. According to one of the latest agenda by Klaus Schwab on the WEF official website: “Like the revolutions that preceded it, the Fourth Industrial Revolution [cyber-physical systems] has the potential to raise global income levels and improve the quality of life for populations around the world.”
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