Airport Technology - Adele Berti

In the long term however the pandemic could help catalyse investment in new technologies and radically reshape the industry.

In a media briefing held last week, Cuatrecasas [Paul Cuatrecasas, CEO of investment banking firm Aquaa Partners and author of Go Tech or Go Extinct] explained how the current health crisis might spur investment in different segments of robotics and drone technology. These changes were all meant to happen even before the spread of the pandemic, but will now accelerate, forcing all industries to rethink their ecosystems and shift towards a stronger adoption of new technologies. 

 “Because of COVID-19, there’s a lot of discussions that we will be more insular, and we won’t be travelling as much because of this kind of fear [of disease transmission]”

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