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Despite billions invested in innovation, most initiatives stall after the pilot phase. What’s missing isn’t creativity, it’s structure. In boardrooms across industries, executives are asking the same question: Why don’t our innovation efforts deliver sustained business results? The answer is rarely a lack of ideas. It’s the absence of a disciplined system that turns creative energy into measurable outcomes.

As technology continues to transform our societies, cybersecurity has become one of the most critical pillars of national and regional resilience. Around the world, nations are investing in safeguarding their digital infrastructures, but for the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) this mission carries particular significance.

At TalTech’s MERIT Learning Factory, students and researchers can now work hands-on with the MiR100 mobile robot, a state-of-the-art platform that brings together robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (AI).

The latest edition of World AI Week once again turned the Dutch capital into a global meeting point for artificial intelligence. With more than 7,000 researchers, innovators, and policymakers gathered across dozens of sessions, the event reaffirmed AI’s growing role as an infrastructure for science, industry, and society.