Standards technology development and its adoption has been advancing over the past decades. But the world we live in today is in a much more disunited position. Geopolitical tensions are increasing the risk of geographic fragmentation. And this matters for technology standards. If the world begins to fracture just at the same time our digital worlds start coming together, devices and machines could lose the ability to communicate across borders, limiting the exponential potential of digital innovation. At the Global Standards Leadership Conference 2023 Walter Copan provided a summary of the fundamental importance of global standards and the role of standard setting bodies.
