Keynote

Can You Predict the Future?

Dejan Milojicic, VP at Hewlett Packard Labs

Predicting any future is hard, but predicting technological advancement and megatrends is especially hard because they entangle economic, socio-political, and ecological factors. We have been working on technology predictions for more than 15 years. Compared to market analysts and other forecasters, our predictions are aligned with the IEEE tagline of advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Our predictions have made a large impact across IEEE, industry, and the world in general. I will present some of our most recent insights on technology predictions and megatrends, enablers and suppressers, and how technology advancement affects workforce.

Bio: Dejan Milojicic is an HPE Fellow and VP at Hewlett Packard Labs, Milpitas, CA [1998-present]. Previously, he worked at the OSF Research Institute, Cambridge, MA [1994-1998] and Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”, Belgrade, Serbia [1983-1991]. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (1993); and his MSc/BSc from Belgrade University, Serbia (1983/86). His research interests include systems software, distributed computing, systems management, and HPC. Dejan has over 250 papers, 2 books, and 94 granted and 67 pending patents. Dejan is an IEEE Fellow (2010), ACM Distinguished Engineer (2008), and HKN and USENIX member. Dejan was on 9 Ph.D. thesis committees, and he mentored over 100 interns. Dejan was president of the IEEE Computer Society (2014), an IEEE presidential candidate in 2019, editor-in-chief of IEEE Computing Now and Distributed Systems Online and he has served on many editorial boards and TPCs. Dejan led large industry-government-university collaborations, such as Open Cirrus (2007-2011) and New Operating System (2014-2017).