Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.

This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.

The best run business is run SAP.

Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham. You'll hear from

the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help

move today's businesses in new directions. Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham. Welcome, welcome. And if you

want to run with the game changers, I can promise you are in the right

place. The buzz today? I promise not to sing it, but I'll read it. Let's get together. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. Trivia question. What 1960s Disney film featured this tune? I'm going to ask my

panelists in a little while and see if they already know,

but that's part of our theme today. So let's talk business. What does it really mean for you to have

a connected business? Get it? Let's get together connected. I knew you would. Analysts estimate that by

2020, and you all know that's one of my favorite future years. I don't know what I'm going to do when we get there. I'll have to pick a new one. By the time we get to 2020, which is less than five years away, social networks will be connecting 2.5 billion people. That's right, billion. The number of connected devices will total 75 billion, and the volume of global business trade between

connected businesses will reach a whopping 65 trillion.

We left the billion and we moved into the trillion at this point.

So as we move to true hyper-connectivities, we like to call it, in our digital economy, questions

arise for your company, wherever you are in the world, whatever your footprint is,

whatever your industry is.

How can you turn these exciting challenges, and indeed they are challenges,

and your business networks into sustainable, profitable opportunities that have a human connection?

Come on, you've all been hearing about robots taking over jobs

and people getting rid of the idea that we have to work.

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