My submission is among the five finalists at the Deloitte Canada TMT Prediction, with Vincent Abry, Jenna Hoffman, Jean-Luc Sanscartier and Guillaume Bouchard. For the first time, Deloitte opened up predictions to the public, through a Wildfire application integrated with Facebook.
The event is tomorrow at the Fairmont – The Queen Elizabeth in Montreal from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
You can see all 5 finalists and their predictions over here.
The submission by the NVI founder, Guillaume Bouchard smacks of marketing as the conversation underneath the submission sounds fake, which shouldn’t be surprising seeing that NVI does just that. However, it is true that the competition among mobile telecom manufacturers will heat up. In fact, all mobile devices will be implicated, including notebooks and tablets.
My own submission has a very bad description on the page, which I tried to get corrected but visibly the incorrect description is still online:
Additionally, Josh predicts that Google’s offering of the free turn-by-turn GPS, Chrome OS, along with free wi-fi service in 47 airports, will greatly impact the telecommunications industry.
Totally not what I said as actually, this disruptive behavior by Google tells me they are not scared to disrupt industries at all and therefore they could disrupt the Telco industry. I just hope that the visual presentation makes that clear.
It’s going to be a lot of fun attending and also seeing the main TMT prediction event tomorrow.
Well done to the other participants too, Louis Cleroux, Kim Auclair, Ron Bunn, Arun Kirupananthan, Bernard Dahl. Laurent Marcoux also submitted a video, but unfortunately I could never see it for some reason.
All in all, the Wildfire app. is great. However, some people have had trouble with their videos’ thumbnails not displaying properly in some sections, including me.
