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Thought Leadership Debates

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As the leading learned and professional society for IT, the BCS aims to ensure that it is always at the forefront in thought leadership.

It does this by providing opportunities that allow experts from research and practice to exchange views.

In a rapidly changing scientific and technologically-driven world, essential in this process is the bringing together of key players from a wide range of disciplines and industrial sectors.

Recent debates

A grand challenge is an aspiration, a large topic area which might lead to big advances in 20 years, without participants necessarily knowing how to get there at the start. Grand challenges are made up of projects which also lead to advances, but in this case the researchers do know how to get there.
A grand challenge is an aspiration, a large topic area which might lead to big advances in 20 years, without participants necessarily knowing how to get there at the start. Grand challenges are made up of projects which also lead to advances, but in this case the researchers do know how to get there.