A trip through time, examination of technology trends, the speed that they move, what holds us back from adopting them and how we can leverage them. Focus on Blockchain Technologies.

1. RVA BlockchainConference – October 19, 2019
Barry Condrey,CIO
ChesterfieldCounty,VA

5. IST has demonstrated the ability to invest technology dollars well!

7. Samuel Morse 1844
What hath God Wrought?
TheVictorian Internet,Tom Standage

8. 1899 – Charles H. Duell
Commissioner of U.S. Patents
urging President McKinley
to abolish his office.

9. Attributed to Thomas J. Watson
Chairman of the Board of
International Business Machines
1943

10. Popular Mechanics 1949

11. 1975

12. Bill Gates
1975

13. Ken Olsen (founder of DEC)
1977
It took 1977 years to get to 1 million computers and 20 more years to get to 91 million

14. Bill Gates 1981

16. To the
victor go
the spoils!
Predicting
innovation is
profitable!
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/19/business/the-executive-computer-mother-of-all-markets-or-a-pipe-dream-driven-by-greed.html

18. http://newatlas.com/dermal-abyss-smart-tattoo/51572/

19. https://www.autoblog.co
m/2017/06/21/workhorse-
surefly-drone-helicopter-
flying-car/

20. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hottest-phones-for-the-next-billion-users-arent-smartphones-11563879608

23. 55k+ e-residents
6k+ Companies created
$15m+ Taxes paid to Estonia
136 Countries represented
Barry.Scott.Condrey@eesti.ee

24. Ideas
Potential
Emerging
technology can
be an asset or a
danger to your
organization.
Your approach
determines which
it is.

25. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
Consider:
Bandwidth
Transportation
Camera Resolution
Video
Music Library
Gordon Moore, 2004

26. Cyber Security
2. Hire and Retain Competent IT Personnel
3. Mobility / MobileApplications
4. Open Government/Transparency/ Open Data
5. Disaster Recovery/ Continuity of Operations
6. Budget and Cost Control
7.Virtualization: Server, Desktop, Storage,Applications
8. Shared Services
9. Portal/ E-government
10. Cloud Computing
Source: Survey of counties by Center for Digital Government, partnering with NACo. July, 2015

27. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/digital-mckinsey/our-insights/disruptive-technologies
And …
 BlockchainTechnologies
 Virtual &
Augmented Reality
 Data, Data, Data

28. https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/
https://richtopia.com/emerging-technologies/11-disruptive-technology-examples

29. http://www.bar-oriyan.com/Portals/0/mega%20trands%20exec%20summary%20v3%20(1).pdf
Technologies enable the megatrends
Rate of tech change = Rise of Megatrends

30. If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old - Peter Drucker

31. Top CIO Challenges - Blockchain Technology:
41% - Education, complexity, lack of understanding
35% - No Use Case for Pilot / Lack of Need
22% - ChangeAversion / Conservative Culture
17% - Other Modernization Needs
15% - Lack of Executive Support
15% -Vendor Dependence
13% - Limited Staffing /Time
13% - Customer Buy-in
9% - Cost / Funding
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/124TNYbw-Qpf6kYcXRhJWYso5EIHXd-6k7hRPoR_EiKE/edit#responses
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it - Aristotle

32. CIOs that do not engage with their customers over emerging
technology risk having someone else do it for them.
Yes
22%
No
78%
I have talked to my
customers about
blockchain
technologies
Yes No

33. Any organization needs experts. Organizations also need passionately curious employees.
Curiosity is far more valuable over the long haul to an organization than expertise.
Yes
61%
No
30%
I Don't
Know
9%
My staff have asked
about or researched
Blockchain
technologies
Yes No I Don't Know

34. The public sector CIO needs to communicate
about new and emerging technology, to
balance the need to keep the lights on with the
need to prepare for the future and to overcome
the inertia that creeps into our organizations.
Yes
20%
No
80%
I have talked to my
CEO about blockchain
technologies
Yes No

36. CondreyBa@Chesterfield.gov
Barry@Condrey.org
Barry.Scott.Condrey@eesti.ee
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