In this portion a group of Business Leaders discuss the future innovation and competitiveness environment in the u. S. Good morning. Since the councils beginning in 1986, weve seen over and over and time and again how technology has transformed our lives, and unleashed new challenges and opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was such a period of change. 17 years after our founding, our Council Members recognized that the nation stood at a florida infliction point. We needed significant chance to enhance our innovation capacity which lead to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative it, and now another 17 years later here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Throughout the day as debra mentioned in her opening remarks well hear stories about the changes as they are foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by t
Work of our National Innovation initiative. Now, another 17 years later, here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Today well hear stories about these changes as theyre foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by the Council Board on this stage is a multiyear effort to reimagine americas innovation potential and to chart a new path for competitiveness in the 21st century. And as this slide shows, just a little less than a year ago, with our core leadership team, we began to build this effort. And by august we had pulled together a powerful and diverse set of commissioners, nearly 60 leaders from across this country from industry, from academia, from our Labor Union Community and our National Labs. And the commission has already started their work. As deborah mentioned, todays launch is our 2020 roadmap of activities that we hope will change the future traject
Mark onwhat the trumpet ministration is doing in the energy sector. Good morning. The count since the councils beginning to seen over and over time and again how technology is has transformed our lives and all these new challenges and new opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was such a period change. 17 years after our founding our councilmembers recognize that the nation stood at a particular inflection point. We needed significant change to enhance our innovation capacity that led to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative and now another 17 years later, here we are again. Once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change area throughout the day as debra mentioned in her remarks are going to hear stories about these changes as they are foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness. The commission cochaired by the Councils Board on this stage is a multiyear effort to reima
A jam packed show today so lets go ahead and dive right in. The ongoing trade war with china leads our global report again today as wall weighs Consumer Division c. E. O. Richard you confirmed an indefinite delay in the companys much anticipated new line of laptops while we was set to reveal a new line of windows laptops at c s asia in shanghai this week although they didnt plan on a while announcing a release date trade sanctions imposed by the u. S. Government have hampered wall weighs ability to procure products from American Companies including Microsoft Software and processors made by intel you also told c. N. N. We see on one stay the weiwei may never be able to release their new laptops if the Company Remains on the u. S. Commerce department list. Despite the setbacks in the Consumer Electronics field while his chief strategy architect one sean told the Financial Times while was working with volkswagens audi and a joint venture between chinas g a c and japans toyota busy to prov
Field while his chief strategy architect one sean told the Financial Times while was working with volkswagens audi and a joint venture between chinas g a c and japans toyota to provide their a tech for self driving vehicles the waterway executive added that he expects the vehicles with autonomous driving components in 2021 or 2022 and that they would be available in china and europe. From tech to food in china the countrys consumer inflation grew to its highest level in 15 months and may the Consumer Price inflation rate jumped to 2. 7 percent in may thats the highest level since february of last year the number grew 2. 5 percent in april the spike is mostly due to the ongoing african swine swine fever outbreak in china that is pushing up the prices of pork and weather issues that have caused a shortage of supply of fresh fruits that plus the ongoing trade dispute between the u. S. And china has created uncertainty in chinas economy fresh fruit prices rose in may by a record 26. 7 perc