34 01732 759725 use it, so you need to start integrating AI and make yourself use it,” she said. Future trends These comments speak to a trend that Amelia Kallman believes is going to have a major impact on AI adoption in 2025. “One thing that’s going to make a difference next year is that we are moving past how we use AI on a personal level and moving into how we’re using it for managing teams and managing projects. We’ll see co-assistants that have an overview of everyone working on a project and are able to prioritise, do real time adjustments, give real time updates and take over some of the menial tasks we might still be doing today. From that team management perspective, we are going to see a difference in productivity next year,” she said. Anatoliy Polyanker, too, is looking forward to big AI productivity gains next year, along with a rise in multi-modality, using AI for text to image, voice to text and voice to video, as well as for text to text. He also anticipates a move away from labelling everything as AI, as has happened with GPS. “Back in the ‘90s, GPS was groundbreaking, but now we don’t say I use GPS. We refer to Maps, Google Maps, Waze, Strava, all these apps that have GPS. Maybe not within the next year, but in the future people won’t be saying I use AI, they’ll say I use this feature in Word or this feature in Google.” Looking ahead to 2029/30, Amelia Kallman responded to a question about quantum computing by describing it as computing’s move from 2D to 3D. “Today we crunch ones and zeros, but tomorrow we’ll be crunching protons and neutrons and electrons, giving us multi‑dimensional capabilities and the ability to crunch data and get results even faster than we can with AI today,” she said. “Where quantum could be quite disruptive is that the encryption we rely on to keep all our personal and professional data private is going to be able to be instantly broken with quantum computing, and there is one country that is investing in this way more than any other in the hope of being the first to get there. AI has sucked all the air out of the room for the moment, but we cannot lose sight of other technological advances that are coming down the pipeline. We can learn from how reactive we have been with AI and be a bit more proactive about the opportunities and the risks we know are coming.” A topic for a future LogiWORK panel, perhaps. Ask the experts Book and release Logitech is bringing enhanced levels of automation to room booking with a triad of new tools As more businesses mandate a return to the office, Logitech is enhancing its Logitech Room Booking solution announced in May with new smart office tools designed to slash the amount of time office workers spend searching for meeting spaces – up to 30 minutes per day for 40% of employees according to a Steelcase Workplace Survey*. Logitech Room Booking allows users to book a meeting room through their work calendar or directly on a Tap Scheduler touchscreen panel outside a meeting room. New capabilities announced this month for meeting rooms equipped with Rally Bar or Rally Bar Mini all-in-one video collaboration devices make room booking even more frictionless by minimising the impact of bad practices such as occupying meeting rooms without booking them, remaining in rooms beyond the allocated time or booking a room and failing to show up (aka ghosting). Book and release Leveraging the ability of AI sensors within Rally Bars to detect when a room is occupied (without identifying people or storing any facial images), Logitech is introducing two tools to streamline room booking via any meeting platform – Logitech Room Meeting, Appspace, Envoy, Microsoft Teams, RICOH Spaces, Robin, Zoom and others. These are: Auto Book, which allows employees to book a free room simply by occupying it, whereupon Auto Book will automatically amend the calendar and turn the light on the room’s Tap Scheduler from green (free) to red (occupied); and Auto Release, which frees up rooms automatically when participants don’t show up or a meeting is cancelled. If this happens repeatedly, future meetings that might have been booked every week for years in advance can automatically be deleted from the calendar and on Tap Scheduler. Auto Release also registers when a meeting has finished early, freeing up that room to be booked by someone else. With Auto book and Auto Release, managers can specify the amount of time between sensing presence/absence and making changes via settings in the Logitech Sync management portal. Logitech View These new tools are complemented by a third new solution, Logitech View, which allows a colour-coded digital map of the office, showing real-time availability of meeting rooms, along with workstations, amenities and exits, to be displayed on large touchscreen monitors, kiosks or TV screens connected to a Logitech RoomMate appliance, as well as on Tap Scheduler panels and the Logitech Tune smartphone app. This gives users the ability to book rooms directly on the map and use the wayfinding capability to find meeting rooms and colleagues more easily. Hybrid workers and visitors who may not be familiar with a site can interact with the map in numerous ways, from zooming in and out and exploring the layouts of different floors to using the search function to locate a specific desk, room, colleague or point of interest. Enhanced analytics Like Auto Book and Auto Release, Logitech View is compatible with other platforms and with Logitech Sync Insights, which enables IT teams to optimise their investment in meeting room technology by providing analytics on space utilisation, room occupancy and the use of video conferencing equipment. The Auto Book function is very useful in this regard, as it allows an organisation to capture ad hoc, unplanned meetings that would have been missed before, providing a more accurate record of meeting room usage. Logitech View, Auto Book and Auto Release are available with a Logitech Essential or Select service plan, priced at £154 and £307 per room, per year. www.logitech.com/business *The New Era of Hybrid Work: It’s Time to Give People What They Want, Steelcase Global Research Study, 2022 ...continued
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