This December will have a lot in store for the customization enthusiasts amongs you. The MIT Smart Customization Group will host another edition of the Smart Customization Seminar on December 4th (following a welcoming and networking event on December 3rd), with its central topic being
You can download this year's Smart Customization Seminar's agenda here!
Micro|Macro|Customization
From Custom Genes to the Personalized City: Emerging Strategies and Technologies for the Personal Economy
The MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2012 provides a unique opportunity for a deep dive into one the largest trends shaping our economy today: the move towards personalization and the customization of products, services, health care, mobility, and urban infrastructures.
The seminar's foremost idea is to connect CEOs, new business developers, consultants, corporate entrepreneurs, innovators, the investment community, and leading researchers from MIT and other leading institutions in peer-to-peer interactions to foster an intense discussion and to co-create an agenda for the Personal Economy.
Conventionally, mass customization has been seen as the efficient creation of products and services meeting the demands of each individual customer. But this still emerging development on the micro level – the level of the individual firm-customer relationship – has recently been supplemented by a strong application of customization and personalization principles on the macro level. Enabled by new methods of imaging and analytic testing, personalized medicine is replacing the blockbuster approach that has dominated the health industry. Anonymous cities with mass scale infrastructures are getting personal by real-time data apps, personal mobility, and a stronger participation of citizens in the planning process. Mass production is being supplemented by a distributed and local infrastructure of digital manufacturing and open hardware.
These and other applications are strong drivers of disruptive innovation and value creation in many industries. We are at the advent of the Personal Economy that changes the dominant logic of business from a mass society characterized by homogeneous customer segments and mass production of products and services towards a value system that creates profit opportunities from the reality that all people are different.
The objective of the SCS 2012 is to educate and inspire critical thinking on the Personal Economy on the micro and macro level and to set an agenda for future debate and value creation in this domain. This event offers great networking opportunities for everyone interested in mass customization, personalization, and customer co-creation – inspired by the creative environment of MIT and the MIT Media Lab.
The presenters of the SCS 2012 will share their latest research and business insights of trends, strategies, business models and enabling technologies that are the foundations of profiting from personalization and customization on the micro and macro level.
The 2012 agenda will present divergent and complementary voices along four of the core areas where personalization today is shaping our economy and society most: Consumables, Health Care and Medicine, Urban Living and the City, and the new production system based on digital technologies and easy access to hardware and data.
We will publish more information on the event, the agenda, its topics and speakers here as they become availible, so stay tuned!
You can download this year's Smart Customization Seminar's agenda here!
For up-to-date information and registration please also head to http://scg.mit.edu
and follow our conference twitter hashtag, #SCG12!
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