Industry 4.0 has been in the works for more than a decade but is finally reaching critical mass. As OT professionals prepare to safely and securely ramp up industrial digitization initiatives, there are a range of new, probably unfamiliar technologies they must become acquainted with to have a shot at success.

Here are the top three.

Technology advances have delivered major benefits to the global health and medical segments. Still, much of the medical systems and devices are based on previous generation of technologies. The challenges such as computing from Edge-to-cloud, leveraging AI, transforming digitally, updating systems, providing hardened security, utilizing open source, rapid data transfer and meeting FDA regulations are high priorities for medical equipment companies.

Protecting Can't-Fail embedded systems from tampering, reverse engineering, and other cyberattacks. 

The field of AI is evolving rapidly. So rapidly, in fact, that the state of the art will likely advance between the start of your development lifecycle and when you're ready to go to market. This is not only true of machine learning models, algorithms, and development tools, but AI acceleration hardware as well.