Chair: Andreas L. Opdahl
The digital transformation of the society has disruptive implications on all sectors, and conceptual modelling will be no exception. This keynote will cover some of the emerging impacts digital opportunities will have on the way conceptual modelling is conducted and the type of conceptual models needed. First, the move from an age of automation to an age of digitisation shifts the attention from corporations to people leading to a higher demand for digital identities, ‘personal conceptual models’ and a requirement to capture birth-to-death value chains. Second, the pressure to reduce innovation latency will require improvement patterns and predictive capabilities demanding ‘proactive conceptual models’ which will serve as recommender systems for their users. Third, a shift towards ‘real-time conceptual modelling’ will increase the relevance of mining and context-aware solutions leading to a higher alignment between conceptual models and the reality they are depicting. The presentation will end with some further predictions on the nature and research opportunities of ‘conceptual modelling 3.0’.
