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Communications Zoom: Free video conferencing tools for K-12 schools. RingCentral: Free video conferencing for educators (K-12 schools), health-care provider, or non-profit. Google: Free, premium version of its workplace video chat tool until July, to help businesses and schools working remotely due to coronavirus. Those features include having up to 250 participants per call, live streaming for up to 100,000 viewers within a domain, and the ability to record meetings and save them to Google Drive. Slack: Free upgrades to paid plans for teams working on coronavirus pandemic research, response, or mitigation. Interested teams can email a special address to get this set up, and a consultation on how best to get started with remote collaboration. Comcast: Free Xfinity WiFi for everyone, with hotspots available to all, including non-Xfinity subscribers. To access the service, look for the “xfinitywifi” network name in a list of hotspots. LogMeIn: Free site-wide licensing for 3 months of its video conferencing solution, GoToMeeting, for eligible organizations (health care providers, educational institutions, municipalities and non-profits). Loom: Free video recording and sharing service for teachers and students at K-12 schools, universities and educational institutions. They have also removed the recording limit on free plans and have cut the price for Loom Pro in half. Intermedia: Free Video Conferencing for all of 2020, and Pro Video Conferencing until 2021. Vonage: Free 3 months of Vonage Business Communications services for educational, healthcare and non-profit organizations within the US, UK, and Australia. Vidyard: Free secure video messaging to enhance internal communications for all businesses. Discord: Free, enhanced Go Live streaming service so that it can now support 50 simultaneous users rather than 10. Dialpad: Free two months of its cloud-based phone system, Dialpad Talk Pro. This also includes video conferences and UberConference Business. Panopto: Free three-month access to capture and distribute video content for businesses, universities, colleges and schools will enable employees and students to continue learning and working remotely. BlueJeans: Free access to video conference service to first responders and NGOs for 90-days. 8×8: Free video meetings to all users. Offers 80+ local dial-in numbers (11 toll-free) from 55+ countries and meetings of up to 50 participants without any time restrictions. Bloomz: Free premium version of its communication service to all schools through Jun. 30, 2020. The software allows users to communicate updates in real-time to parents and students; and share lessons, student work and feedback. EZTexting: Free emergency text alert services to schools. Receive 100,000 free outgoing text messages for six months, access to a set of coronavirus message templates, and one-on-one consulting. Lifesize: Free unlimited licenses for all organizations impacted by coronavirus worldwide are immediately eligible to use the company’s cloud-based video collaboration platform for six months. Ribbon Communications: Free Work@Home licenses are available until June 30, 2020. With Work@Home, enterprises that need to switch their operational model to an all-remote workforce have access to a complete Unified Communications and Collaboration solution. Panopto: Free three-month access to capture and distribute video content for businesses, universities, colleges and schools will enable employees and students to continue learning and working remotely. Yext: Free, new site search product, Yext Answers, for a 90-day period. Eligible businesses will be able to transform their website into a search engine capable of answering consumers’ COVID-19 specific queries in real-time. Jamm: Free audio-visual communication tool used by remote and distributed teams. You can quickly record videos or do a live call with your team. Available for 3 months. ServiceNow: Free software to help organizations digitize workflows, has rolled out several new applications. One that was developed in conjunction with the state of Washington State’s Department of Health manages incident-response workflows and is being made free to other agencies. The other applications, which are free for ServiceNow customers and can be accessed by non-customers too, include ones that help businesses deal with workflows associated with sharing COVID-19-related information and situations in which employees have to self-quarantine. Rev: Free, unlimited call recorder app on the iOS app store. Users can order a transcript of recordings directly through the app. Genesys: Free access to Genesys Cloud with deployment in just 48 hours, comprehensive training and support, and no premiums for volume spikes. Organizations must sign up by April 30, 2020.  Seam Social Labs: Free SMS survey tool to the public sector to use for canceled public meetings and to engage vulnerable populations that do not have access to wifi. Dashly: Free customer support/communication tool for people and organizations fighting COVID-19. Cira Apps: Free communications software. Available to first-responder and emergency organizations, CiraSync Enterprise Edition automates syncing of Office 365 shared contacts and calendars to smartphones. Chatfuel: Free access to all Pro plan features for nonprofits and qualified individuals who are offering emergency aid and information as a public service. Plus, free weekly onboarding and live office hours for anyone who needs help setting up their Messenger bot. Numa: Free business messaging platform and virtual answering service to companies impacted by the pandemic. Whispli: Free platform to keep an open line of communication with employees, who are often working from home for the first time in their lives and have questions regarding the new normal. Boardable: Free 90 days to manage virtual meetings and committees for nonprofits who sign on before the end of April. Otter.ai: Free access for two months to Otter.ai’s enterprise offering, Otter for Teams, which automatically transcribes meetings, distance learning classes and other things. Those who sign up for the service by May 1 will be able to add up to ten of their employees to the service as users. Diligent: Free software available to nonprofits and K-12 school boards who need to conduct remote board meetings during the COVID-19 crisis. Breezy: Free live video interview and assessment capabilities to all organizations for at least 60 days. BirdEye: Free two months of access to communicate with your customers via text messages, web chat on your website, bulk text and email messages. This comes with full access to BirdEye’s online reputation management platform, a centralized inbox to respond to all customer communication, surveys, the ability to update all your online listings

The Top 30 Technologies (ranked in order): 1 Artificial Intelligence AI /Machine Learning / Deep Learning2 Internet of Things IOT / IIOT & Sensors & Wearables3 Mobile & Social Internet — Advancements, Social Networks/Media, Search, Messenging and Livestreams4 Blockchain — Cryptocurrencies, Distributed Ledger Systems, DAOs, DApps5 Big Data — Apps, Infrastructure & Predictive Analytics6 Automation — Information, Task, Process, Machine, Decision & Action7 Robots incl. Drones & Autonomous Vehicles — Consumer/Commercial/Industrial Robots and Robotics8 Immersive Media — VR/ AR/ MR/ 360°9 Mobile Technologies & Advancements — infrastructure, networks, standards, services & devices10 Cloud Computing — Software-as-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Servcie (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) & MESH Apps11 3D Printing — Additive Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping12 CX — Customer Journey, Experience, Personalization & Commerce Tools13 EnergyTech — Efficiency, Storage & Decentralized Grid14 Cybersecurity incl. Adaptive Security — Security, Intelligence Detection, Remediation & Adaptation15 Voice Assistants -Interfaces, Chatbots & Natural Language Processing16 Nanotechnology – Computing, Medicine, Machines + Smart Dust17 CollaborativeTech — Crowd, Sharing, Workplace & Open Source Platforms & Tools18 Health Tech — Advanced Genomics, Bionics & Health Care Tech.19 Human-Computer Interaction — Facial/Gesture Recognition, Biometrics, Gaze Tracking20 Geo-spatial Tech — GIS, GPS, Mapping & Remote Sensing, Scanning, Navigation21 Advanced Materials — Composites, Alloys, Polymers, Biomimicry, Nanomanufacturing22 New Touch Interfaces — Touch Screens, Haptics, 3D Touch, Paper, Feedback & Exoskeletons23 Wireless Power24 Clean Tech. — Bio-/Enviro-Materials + Solutions, Sustainability, Treatment & Efficiency25 Quantum Computing — + Exascale Computing26 Smart Cities — Infrastructure & Transport27 Edge/Fog Computing28 Faster, Better Internet — Broadband incl. Fiber, 5G, Li-Fi , LPN and LoRa29 Proximity Tech. — Beacons, .RFID, Wi-Fi, Near-Field Communications & Geofencing30 New Screens — next evolution TVs, Digital Signage, OOH, MicroLEDS & Projections

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