Connectedness: A Tale of Two Networks | Robert B. Carter | TEDxMemphis

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How will the increasing interactions of physical networks with information networks reshape our societies?

The connected world drives incredible economic and sociological change. Capital deployment is being disrupted by information about assets that allow them to be utilized more efficiently. The more information that exists about the world around us, the more opportunities there are to create value through that information.

Robert B. (Rob) Carter is Executive Vice President of FedEx Information Services and chief information officer of FedEx Corporation. He is a member of the five-person Executive Committee, which plans and executes the corporation’s strategic business activities. Carter is responsible for setting the technology direction of the FedEx applications, infrastructure, networks and data centers that provide around the clock and around the globe support for FedEx product offerings. He joined FedEx in 1993 and has over 30 years of systems development and implementation experience.

Carter has been awarded many industry accolades, including, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business 2014 and 2010, Fortune Magazine’s Executive Dream Team, Information Week's Chief of the Year Award in 2000, 2001 and 2005, and a seven-time recipient of CIO Magazine’s 100 Award. Carter is also a charter inductee into the publication’s CIO Hall of Fame.