- Launched at the end of May 2024, the Let’s Talk Tech newsletter is published in French and English on the Orange Business LinkedIn feed. In just one year, it has become one of the leading France-based tech newsletters on LinkedIn with more than 400,000 subscribers.
- Every two weeks, Let’s Talk Tech brings you insightful analysis of the latest technology news with interviews and articles featuring experts and researchers at the heart of innovation in artificial intelligence, networks, cybersecurity, digital transformation and more.
- Talking to Orange experts, entrepreneurs, and academics from France and abroad, Let’s Talk Tech offers a platform to professionals who are ideally placed to understand the innovations of tomorrow’s world.
The newsletter Let’s Talk Tech celebrates reaching 400,000 subscribers on Linkedin. Published every two weeks since May 2024 on the Orange Business feed, it features articles, videos and podcasts from the Orange Innovation website, Hello Future, which provide rigorous and accurate coverage of current research and innovation in artificial intelligence, robotics, networks, cybersecurity, health, and more.
Over the past year, subscribers to the newsletter have had the opportunity to explore innovation in fields as diverse as organs on chips for medicine and the agri-food industry, and artificial intelligence systems to prevent accidents in mines and industrial sites.
The newsletter reports on Orange’s drive to accompany the day-to-day progress of the digital transformation in companies, which are dealing with the growing threat of generative AI to information systems, AI-driven organizational change, and innovation in code testing.
Every two weeks, Let’s Talk Tech reports on some of the many subjects that are the focus of research and innovation projects at Orange, such as Orange’s CSR initiative to reduce electronic waste, technological innovations that make it easy to install fibre optic cable, and industrial maintenance solutions that combine AI with private networks, 5G and IoT.
Let’s Talk Tech is also a podcast with almost 20 episodes, which deal with artificial intelligence in a wide range of sectors: from cutting greenhouse gas emissions in industry to digital therapies. Several leading entrepreneurs, researchers and Orange experts have shared their specialist knowledge in dynamic and thought-provoking discussions on the programme which is available on all the major platforms including Spotify, Deezer and Apple Podcast.
Last but not least, the newsletter helps to share and publicise global research. Scientists interviewed in these pages over the past year work at universities and organisations as renowned and diverse as Inria, the University of Cambridge, the Tufts Institute for Artificial Intelligence (TIAI), the University of California, and the Water Institute. Many Orange researchers specialising in networks, IoT, sustainable development, sociology and, of course, artificial intelligence have also shared their expertise.
This wide range of views on innovation provides an overview of technological developments at a time when advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are changing scale. Closely monitoring this transition, these experts offer a unique perspective in deciphering academic and industrial fields to understand the opportunities and ethical challenges of tomorrow. Here are some of their convictions:
- “New risks have emerged, notably data leaks caused by the misuse of GenAI tools by employees who unwittingly upload files and information to these models.” Vivien Mura — Global CTO for Orange Cyberdefense
- “We need to demystify AI and explain that there is nothing magical about it, so we’re talking to them about concepts like prompts, hallucinations, and the limits of models. We want to encourage Orange employees to get to grips with these tools and to be fully aware of problems associated with the biases and limitations of AI, so that they can develop a critical understanding of them.” Roxane Marsan — Orange Campus Tech Director
- “The demand for real-time interaction with AI systems will continue to weigh on energy distribution systems, but the overall impact of artificial intelligence can be mitigated by training models at off-peak times and by training them with electricity from local power generation facilities that can supply energy to the grid when they are not in use for this purpose.” Guillaume Gérard — a Green IT datacenter consultant at Orange.
- “Launching technologies at the wrong time can spell disaster for otherwise promising innovations. It is essential for technology leaders to do things in a certain order if they are to maintain their credibility and dominant position. This is not just a matter of patenting new technology: they have to wait until all of the right conditions are fulfilled.” Thomas Derek Robinson — Associate Dean of the Bayes Business School, City St George, University of Londres)
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