Driven at first by digital transformation, the astounding growth of the learning technology market is now fueled by new realities facing the workers and workplaces.

Pop your headsets on and two people can be in the same room – one virtually, one literally – and have a meeting. They can take notes, write on virtual whiteboards.

Remote work isn’t new. It’s long been trending at Silicon Valley start-ups and some old-school companies that begrudgingly allowed it as a perk for special employees. But, thanks to Covid-19, it’s being implemented at speed and scale.

Can you build new technological capacities during a global crisis? Yes – if you make the right decisions regarding your people.

In the coming decade, companies will increasingly need to compete on the rate of learning.

Apoorv Saxena, lead product manager at Google, on why interest in artificial intelligence is growing, what is likely to happen in the near future and which challenges will take longer to overcome.