OLIVIER COLINET: Good afternoon everyone.
My name is Olivier Colinet and I'm Technical Director
for Google Enterprise.
I'm delighted to spend the next 20
minutes to talk about disruptive innovation, radical innovation,
as we've seen it in a Google.
But also to describe the culture behind it.
Thanks, Dave.
But at the end of it, I'll share with you
some of the amazing, outlandish, crazy ideas and projects
that we've been lending at Google.
So it's a known fact that Larry has a healthy disregard
for the impossible.
And by focusing on 10% improvement,
we realize that actually we all [INAUDIBLE]
doing all same things.
So it's very unlikely you're going
to obviously fail spectacularly in front of everyone.
But you almost guaranteed not to provide any success long term.
So looking through the developed economies that we're in,
a lot of organizations today are really tuned
not to take any risk.
They're tuned to really provide the numbers
for the next quarter.
They're tuned to provide incremental margins--
incremental improvement of margins, sorry.
We're tuned to really focus on the competitive advantage,
but we're not really inspiring people.
We're not really taking any risk.
We're not really trying to accelerate
where technology could help, the slowing down the getting old.
So we're really at the early stage
of where technological innovation could barely
change our world, but we should not slow down now.
We should accelerate.
We should definitely look for places
where we can innovate and provide radical changes.
And by doing so, we'll be able to harvest
amazing opportunities.
So what does it take to really get there?
Well first, it takes us to change the culture.
You need to really learn and how to fail fast and to fail often.
You need to on nurturing a culture
inside the organization where people
feel safe to trying things out.
And for 99% of cases for sure, you'll fail.
But one out of the 100 will succeed,
and this is where you should invest.
At Google X, which is Google innovation [INAUDIBLE]
we're not looking towards how we're going to make money.
We're looking towards on how we can
change thousands, millions, eventually billions of lives
and make the world a better place.
And this is the way we've been investing for years.
This is the way we provided search to the consumers.
This is the way we also provided street
view and many other services that will come in.
We believe that if we can improve the world
and make a better life for many people,
money will come and find us.
The good thing at Google as well,
and at Google X in particular, is
we're very disciplined at killing projects very early on.
When the teams are small, where the prototypes don't really
land where we're expecting them to land.
We're looking for 10x improvement.
And should we find that actually we're
more on track for 2x improvement,
reality will bring us down to potentially
a 5% increase, which is not good enough for us to invest.
But if we're shooting for 10x, we'll
find places where eventually reality will bring us down
to 2x, and these will be amazing things for people.
So what does it take to really think that way?
And this is what we're calling internally moonshot thinking.
What we mean by moonshot sits basically
in the gray area in between audacious technology, but also
science fiction.
We're all Star Trek lovers at Google.
But it takes a few parameters to really set what is a moonshot.
The first one, obviously, is to get
people to work on amazing, hardly, almost
impossible problems to solve.
It also takes to find and imagine some radical solutions
to these programs.
You've seen it earlier with self driving cars
and how we can save millions of lives.
And last, it takes about finding breakthrough technology that
could make, might make that solution possible.
This is basically what the essence of the moonshot is.
And reality shows us that if you bring people behind the hardest
problems to solve, if you get them
to [INAUDIBLE] out of the most radical solutions ever
and get them to play with technological magic,
you will inspire people behind Google, your mission.
I've been lucky enough in my life
to start my career at the CERN in Geneva.
And I've seen, for a couple of years, thousands of technicians
and engineers to work endlessly behind one single project,
the Large Hadron Collider.
So really, when you're setting people behind large mission,
you can really inspire them for the long term
and commit them to success.
So let me share with you some of the amazing, outlandish
projects we've been working on.
And please pay attention to the pace of these innovations.
We launched in January 2014 this year
what we're calling the smart contact lens.
What this project is about is about saving and providing
technology to help millions of people
in the world who all affected with diabetes.
And what the smart contact lens is doing in here
is basically measuring, monitoring constantly
the glucose level in your tears.
So the smart contact lens contains a different set
of technology pieces.
The first one is a wireless chip.
The second one is obviously a miniaturized glucose sensor.
The two of them work in pair and obviously fit
embedded within two thin layers of lens material.
But the whole intention is the electronic sits outside
of your pupil and iris, so there's no danger
whatsoever to the [INAUDIBLE].
What we're doing, obviously there
is a small pinhole inside the lance,
so the tear liquid can seep through to the sensor
and measure constantly your glucose level.
There is a third component coming to this technology
piece, which is a small antenna which
is as big as a human hair.
That antenna really helps us to collect, to analyze,
to read data constantly, and send that information over
to your wireless device.
The prototype contact lenses that we have today
are able to measure every single second, your glucose level,
and obviously might benefit in the future
to millions of people.
This is really a good example of moonshot project.
A month later, we announced another one,
which is to be, I guess, even more impactful.
This is Project Tango.
And what Tango does is basically provides a software
and a hardware platform for you to collect
3D dimensional information around you.
So as you're walking through a space with Tango,
we can record immediately all different 3D information
around you, so we can also reconstruct a 3D
model of the space you're in.
This has obviously a lot of benefits for us
long-term, because this is a way where we can easily democratize
the ability to build 3D-- indoor 3D models
and provide indoor navigation to many users in the future.
So these are just two examples.
But there is one which is much closer to my heart,
and this is Google Glass.
Dave and I have been lucky enough
to use Glass for a few months now.
But can anyone spot what's wrong on that picture?
Well I guess we're all living in a highly technological
environment where we've got many social tools to play with.
But actually, we're all becoming more and more antisocial
as technology is being brought in.
And the reason why we decided to really invest in Glass
is we wanted the way people were interacting with each other.
So other potentially able to now access to information
just at that moment.
I can still keep the eye contact with all of you.
But at the same time, what we wanted with Glass
is providing you a way to access information while you
can keep your hands free.
You can keep your attention free.
But you can also make it seamlessly--
you can also provide easier and seamless access to information
or the ability for you to collaborate
with your peers, your colleagues, your family
and friends.
What Glass does on top of that, it
makes it almost effortlessly for you to tap into information.
So by the time you start finishing thinking
of doing something, it's done already.
And we're going to share with you some examples
in a couple of minutes.
Glass is really aiming to provide one single thing:
to bring technologically which is useful and available to you
when you need it, but which steps out of your way when you
don't.
This is where we expect Glass to play
really strong in the future.
Glass really allows you, as I mentioned,
to keep you hands free.
And this can be particularly useful
in many different activities.
I'm using Glass when I go cycling, when I go running.
You can wear Glass any time, even in sunny London.
I've been wearing Glass when it was
raining a little bit outside.
So really, Glass allows you to do a lot more things
that you could think of today.
So to best illustrate how much use
you could make it as of today, I wanted
to switch to the next video, to Alex,
one of the Glass explorers.
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ALEX BLASZCZUK: Being disabled is the first thing people see.
And of course it's a big part of my reality.
But it's not who I am.
It's not the only thing I am.
Disability doesn't define me.
Two weeks ago, I became a Glass explorer.
In a minute, I could do things I thought I
wouldn't be able to do anymore.
Take a picture.
And that's forever.
The last time I tried to go camping
was the time I was in a car accident.
OK Glass, Google what is a felling axe?
And here I am, a year and a half later.
This trip will be the first time I am apart
from a caregiver for more than just a few hours.
GOOGLE GLASS: In 600 feet, turn left.
ALEX BLASZCZUK: Glass allows me to regain that confidence.
And when I overcome a challenge-- hey,
we're here-- like becoming the navigator-- that's
how I did it-- I gain a little bit of my confidence
I had before the accident back.
And that doesn't go away.
We need marshmallow sticks.
Are there bears in the Catskills?
Take a picture.
Being here with my friends was really meaningful.
See, this is awesome.
Because these people have supported me and been with me
the whole time.
OK Glass, take a picture.
It's been amazing to feel a sense of independence
and nature with people I love.
OK Glass, share with family.
I'm Alex Blaszczuk.
I'm a law student, I'm an amateur photographer,
I'm more than meets the eye.
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OLIVIER COLINET: So Alex is one of the Glass explorers.
We've been launching this program about a year ago.
And we've been collecting a lot of feedback
from a lot of these users.
One of the interesting aspects of Moonshot projects
is the ability for us to discover also new technologies
which might help.
So just to illustrate this point,
Glass is using-- Glass is designed to help you
in any kind of environment.
Even in places where it might be really loud,
it might be really noisy, for you to receive information.
So we looked at technologies which
could help us provide an audio signal while you're
wearing Glass.
And we identified a technology called the bone transducer,
the bone conduction transducer, which basically helps
us resonate the bone in the back of your skull
to recreate a signal that basically
your ear normally would create.
By doing so, we identify that a lot of people
could also benefit from Glass while they can today.
If you think about deaf people, they cannot hear the signals we
can create with this [INAUDIBLE].
Also as you've seen here with Alex,
people affected by tetraplagia can now use the geoscope--
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
--can also use the geoscope to basically tilt their head
and start Glass, which really allows them
to access to information and collaborate with people,
changing significantly the life of its users.
But Glass, like any other projects at Google,
has been through a long set of iterations.
We've been investing more than three years into this project.
And as you can see in here what used to be a mask,
we have a backpack and a motherboard in there,
turn into something in highly elegant,
beautiful which hopefully, many millions of users
would be wearing in the future.
But Glass is much more than what we just mentioned so far.
Glass is really an application platform
which can allow you to tap into a new set of applications
and use cases.
So obviously, wearable technology is a huge topic.
And Glass is just one part of it.
As you've seen, Google has been investing
in different parts of wearable technology,
wearable technologies.
And one of which is Android Wear, which we announced
a few weeks ago, made available to developers
so developers could start building applications
on Android Wear as well.
So Glass and Wear are significantly different.
But they just provide two investment from Google
in this technology, which we expected to be
transformative for many others.
In early January 2014, [INAUDIBLE]
published a study in wearable technologies.
And basically recognizing how much these technologies will
help transform enterprise organizations by the way
that we can automate and simplify business processes.
By the way they're going to help people
to collaborate with each other, and especially field workers.
We identified three verticals where wearable technologies
will have a significant impact.
Health care is the first one.
Public safety is the second one.
And any other places or customers
who have a large set of field workers
and need interactions in between field works and back office.
So we're very early stage in terms
of what value will bring wearable technologies.
But Google is investing a lot in bringing not only noise
and innovative technologies in these sectors,
but also in bringing applications which
can truly change our workplace.
So before moving on to our conclusion,
I wanted to share with you an example of a partnership
that we've done with Accenture in the US and Phillips
in the US.
And we work together on how we could transform
the experience of the surgeon and his ability
to consult his patient before entering the ER room.
Could you please roll out the next video?
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DAVID FEINSTEIN: OK Glass, patient status?
DOCTOR: [INAUDIBLE].
DAVID FEINSTEIN: OK Glass, check vital signs bed four.
OK Glass, increase [INAUDIBLE] 2%.
Very cool.
I've been reading about it.
I've wanted it, to see what it was all about,
and it was even better than I thought it would be.
DIVYA MAHAJAN: At Phillips, we believe
that the future of healthcare requires innovations that
can really make a difference.
BRENT BLUM: At Accenture Tehnology Labs,
we work with companies like Phillips and Google
to make these digital connections happen
smoothly and quickly.
DIVYA MAHAJAN: What makes Accenture
our perfect partner is that collaboration allows
us to build custom features for innovative digital technology,
like Google Glass, that work seamlessly
with our medical solutions.
BRENT BLUM: To be able to use a wearable display
in a medical setting, to give doctors the chance
to operate or coordinate with their peers
in a hands free environment is just not
anything we've seen before.
This is what digital transformation is all about.
DIVYA MAHAJAN: For example, a young patient
comes into the hospital with severe abdominal pains.
Let's see what Google Glass can do.
DAVID FEINSTEIN: I'm going to check on the patient's status.
OK Glass, patient status?
Looks like he's in OR 6.
Ready in about 12 minutes.
DOCTOR: Perfect.
DAVID FEINSTEIN: As the new healthcare
information technologies start emerging
and they'll stop [INAUDIBLE] patients
and having this sort of technology tethered to it
would be very nice.
Hey Rob, almost ready?
ROB: Yeah.
DAVID FEINSTEIN: OK, I'm going to check
on the patient's status, see if they're in the holding area.
ROB: OK.
DAVID FEINSTEIN: OK Glass, check vital signs bed four.
If you have to turn away to look at the monitor,
it makes it a little bit more difficult. If someone
is that critical that you have to keep on looking,
it's nice that with one glance, you can
find that information again.
BRENT BLUM: Phillips and Accenture
envision this innovation providing many opportunities
to support the complex tasks of healthcare professionals,
both in the operating room and beyond.
DAVID FEINSTEIN: OK Glass, record picture
in [INAUDIBLE] chart.
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OLIVIER COLINET: Thank you.
So this is just one of the examples of projects
where we're working together and pair
with partners and customers.
, Obviously potential is huge for us in this market.
What I wanted to share as a conclusion,
is I hope we convinced you and excited you
with the future of Google X at Google.
That you've seen some of the amazing technologies
we can bring in.
But more importantly, we hope we inspired you as well,
in your organization to really welcome
radical innovations which might be
specific to your environment.
I've got one ask for you tomorrow.
I hope that all of you are going to walk back to your office
and ask yourselves, what are my moonshot projects?
Thank you very much.
Thanks for your attention.
Bye-bye.