President’s Speech
INTRODUCTION
Dear reader, The focus topic of this, the ESTIEM Magazines’ 51st issue, is disruptive technologies. Disruptive technologies, upon release, impact the entirety of our society and change the way we see the world. They can do that by transforming business, global economy or life itself. This issue of the magazine will delve deeper into this topic and explore how these particular technologies shape the industry and approaches to it. ESTIEM and the ESTIEM Magazine have been around for a long time now, both of which have been greatly impacted by the emergence of different disruptive technologies. Both have had to be flexible and adapt to the changing environment around themselves. Even right now the world is changing in a manner that neither can stay the same and flourish. The only thing
opportunities available for one. Therefore I invite all of
left to do is staying on our toes and taking action once
the ESTIEMers to take a proactive role in improving the
the time has come to unlock the potentials which the
network, because this is how you improve yourself and
said technologies bring to us. Being active in ESTIEM
your surroundings.
is the perfect way for a student to get a first hand experience in learning about how to deal with changing
With all this said, I invite You to keep reading this issue
circumstances and therefore have an upper hand when
of the ESTIEM Magazine and discover the content it
entering their professional life.
holds,
ESTIEM started in a time when the most common communication between the Local Groups was sending
In high ESTIEM,
a physical mail, which could take weeks to arrive at the destination, making even the smallest collaborations between Local Groups very challenging. It would be out of the question to have a large multi-national team working on a single project together successfully. Yet just a handful of years later, it is the everyday life for
Taavi Valgerist
an active ESTIEMer, greatly widening the spectre of
ESTIEM President 2016/2017
ESTIEM Magazine |51st issue - Distruptive Technologies
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