‘The pace of change will never be as slow as it is today,” said Sue Siegel, chief innovation officer at GE, CEO of GE Ventures, and the summit’s co-chairman, when she opened the conference. “Change is going so fast,” she added. “Today is as slow as it is going to get.

“In the future, you will see the current time as slow, which means things are only going to accelerate – which is a scary perspective. We already…