Isle of Man Grand ChallengeHow can we remain relevant in a world that’s

changing faster than we can comprehend?

Exponential Technologies

• Artificial Intelligence

• Robotics

• Biotech

• Manufacturing

• Computation / Networks

• Synthetic Biology

• Digital Medicine

Our Advantages• A need and desire to innovate

• Natural resources / environment

• Agility, size and access to regulators

• Natural size for serendipity

• No legacy

• Be cutting-edge, ignore the rest

Focus

• Supporting environment

• Education

• Computer use is not literacy

• Change attitudes and culture

• Positivity + entrepreneurship

• Healthy attitude to risk and failure

Focus

• Fertile and attractive for startups

• Don’t penalise failure

• Access to capital

• Focus on global opportunity

• Incentivise graduates

"Borders are porous"

People, ideas, finance, jobs ...can flow in or out

What influence can we apply?

Links

• Bits and Billions - A blueprint for high-impact digital entrepreneurship in the UK

• Lessons from the World's Most Tech-Savvy Government

• Paul Graham’s Essays

• Why Silicon Valley Can’t Find Europe (TechCruch)

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“Being afraid to fail is almost a guarantee of putting a glass ceiling

on the success that can be achieved.”

Dr Astro Teller “Captain of Moonshots” @ Google [X]

BBC 24 January 2014