Event review: LESI Annual Conference 2017
The Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) Annual Conference 2017 took place from April 23 to 25 in Paris. The opening speeches were made by Patricia Bunye (immediate past-president, LESI) and Anne Charlotte Le Bihan (LES France). Bunye highlighted the significance of such face-to-face meetings and Le Bihan explained why the topic of the IP revolution was chosen for the conference. They wanted a subject on which discussions is needed and appreciated by LESI’s members. The growing importance of IP rights also contributed. LESI introduced a carefully prepared and rich programme of outstanding speakers.
The opening speeches were followed by a keynote speaker, Thierry Breton from IT services company Atos. He stated that more than 40 zettabytes (ZB: 1 ZB equals 1021 bytes) of data will be produced by 2020—an unimaginable quantity. This figure should double every two years, according to assumptions. If we put this data on CDs, the CDs stacked on themselves would be six times higher than the distance between the earth and the moon.
This fact was elaborated on by Adrien Basdevant, who chaired the “Big Data” workshop. We live in a time of digital and information revolution, when mobility and social media are two key words. There are more than 1.86 billion monthly active Facebook users in the world, which is a 17% increase year on year. There were 1.15 billion mobile daily active users in December 2016, an increase of 23% annually.
Breton also advised: “Keep your data and take care about it. Do not allow somebody else to process it for you.” It seems that big data processing has a huge business potential.
