PharmaTech, GeneTech, MedTech, BioTech, NanoTech, InfoTech, AI / Artificial Intelligence - fuse all these together and the result will be an astonishing jump in health care innovation.  Just the Genome Project alone has the power to completely transform medical diagnosis and treatment over the next 30 years.  In the year 2000 it cost over $850m to read one person's entire genome.  Today the same task costs only $2000, and we can expect this to fall to only $10 by 2035.

As a result we will soon be able to compare the genetic code of millions of people, to their own medical records, to identify gene sequences that are associated with disease.  We will be able to predict the future of your health, and plan early drug therapies to keep you well.

We will also learn rapidly about genes which stop ageing in animals - some of whom live for over 450 years (some species of clams). Scientists are learning from animals like some types of Rockfish that show now signed of normal ageing processes.  They die of infections and other problems, but their patterns of disease do not change with age.  Very different from humans, where we can predict risks of many illnesses just by knowing how old they are.

Media interview before Prime Minister's Global Forum in Latvia - Patrick Dixon's opening keynote at Riga International Leadership Summit

Topics: global economy, social media, sanctions against Russia, future of Baltic companies, Scottish independence, green tech, altering the human race using biotech, intuition in business decisions, dangerous obsessions with shareholder value, and what companies will most succeed in tomorrow's world.

"Our world will be increasingly interconnected and we will see key examples where a single event has triggered a wide range of unexpected results.  Expect successful corporations to develop more agile and dynamic leadership, with alternative strategies for innovation and change."

The keynote will create a broad 5-10 year vision of tomorrow’s world, based on fundamental trends which will dominate corporations and governments.