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8 key insights into the Future of News: Making media relevant to a 21st century audience
By Vanessa Cartwright The news industry is undergoing radical transformation. It is also at the forefront of 21st century innovation. The convenience and hype around live video recording, social media, and a variety of new platforms and interfaces are helping ordinary people to become not only consumers of news, but also creators of news. What […]
6 key insights into the flow of innovation: Creating value in an open world
By Vanessa Cartwright Embedding innovation into business structures is widely seen as vital for the future success of organizations. Innovation is enabling an extraordinary pace of change in the whole structure of who we are, how business works, and how society functions. “Innovation has become a flow, and must be a flow,” observes leading futurist […]
The future of analogue people in a digital world
By Ross Dawson A little while ago, I gave the keynote at Bridge Point Forum on Future Directions in the Digital Age, the title riffing off the conference’s theme of The Rise of the Digital Age. I opened by making the critical point that, while the digital world is rising around us at an extraordinary […]
Passion and the Future of Work
By Ross Dawson A little while ago, I spoke in the keynote session of the Richmond Financial Industry Forum in Interlaken, Switzerland. I spoke on Passion and the Future of Work. Below are some distilled thoughts from my keynote presentation. The future of work is perhaps the most important lens to understand the future of […]
Crowds and the future of creativity and innovation
By Ross Dawson Recently, I gave the opening keynote at the Crowdsourcing Week on Connecting the Crowd: The Future of Creativity and Innovation. Below are the slides for my keynote. Please note that the slides are intended as visual support to my presentation, and are not designed to be meaningful on their own. However, they […]
Avatars Ascending: How robots will affect learning, skill development and jobs
By Vanessa Cartwright “Today, when you get a degree, it is already out of date.” This observation by futurist Ross Dawson reinforces the challenge of keeping pace with the smart machine era. Dawson believes that employment, skills and learning must respond to the growing roles of robots in our lives. Will robots assail or avail […]
How soaring expectations of beauty are shaping technology and society
By Ross Dawson I recently travelled to Provence in the hills above Nice to give the keynote at the annual EuroCIO conference. I used my framework for the future of the CIO to point to the macro drivers of change in technology and society, and how these are shaping the technology function in organizations, and […]
Is bigger data better? Helping “HiPPOs” make big data decisions
By Michael Popp When are data-driven decisions better than those coming from HiPPOs (Highest-Paid Person’s Opinion)? At the annual Thought Leadership Forum in Melbourne, Ross Dawson delivered an insightful keynote speech on this topic. He says that in domains where sufficient data is available and the decisions are definable and tractable, algorithms will surpass human […]
The rise of crowdsourcing in Malaysia
Ross was recently in Kuala Lumpur to do twin keynotes at the National Crowdsourcing Conference organized by Digital Malaysia, and meet with government officials to discuss how Malaysia can best tap the potential of crowdsourcing. The Star of Malaysia, the largest English-language newspaper in the country, interviewed him while he was there for a feature […]
The crime of the century: Stopping the potential of connectivity
Recently Ross Dawson gave the keynotes at the Sydney and Melbourne relaunch events of Nextgen Group, which has restructured and rebranded with the acquisition of 70% of the group by Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) from Leighton Holdings. The group provides networks, data centers, and hosting services, including a 100Gbps link between major Australian cities, and […]
Leadership in enterprise technology must come from all organizational functions
By Ross Dawson Recently I gave the opening keynote at Future of the CIO is absolutely a critical frame, not least because I believe the CIO has primary responsibility for guiding boards of directors and top executive teams to understand the importance of technology in their organization’s future. There is a divergence between organizations in which technology […]
Exploring the future of investment management
By Ross Dawson Recently I was in Amsterdam for the International User Community Meeting of SimCorp, a leading provider of software for the investment management industry. I gave the keynote on the Future of Investment Management and ran a half-day Executive Master Class on Creating the Successful Organisation of the Future. Prior to founding Advanced Human Technologies most of my […]
The Future of Healthcare: Power shifting to the patient
Ross Dawson recently did the opening keynote speech at Australasian Long-term Health Conditions Conference in Auckland, New Zealand. NZ Doctor reported on Dawson’s keynote in an article titled Technology shifts the ‘power’ to patients: Technology is driving a shift of power from institutions and professions towards consumers and individuals, according to futurist Ross Dawson. A […]
The role of the futurist as a leader
By Ross Dawson When I was in Amsterdam recently for client engagements I also gave a keynote to the Dutch Future Society about the role of the futurist. It was a fascinating evening. Given the audience of futurists and those well engaged with the future, my presentation went further out than usual, and the ensuing conversation went […]
The case for the death of cash by the hand of digital currencies
By Ross Dawson Recently I gave the opening keynote at the ATM and Branch Automation Seminar run by Payments Consulting Network. In my keynote I spoke about the broader trends in technology, society, and business, and then looked at some of the uncertainties impacting ATMs and branches. Clearly one of the most important is the future of cash. […]
Could online lobbying be the future of government?
By Ross Dawson Recently I spoke on the potential of crowdsourcing at the EngageTech conference, an event focusing on how government can best use technology to engage with community and citizens. One of the very interesting conversations that emerged at the event was on how interested and informed citizens are on government decisions. It’s a […]
Keynote at Critical Horizons conference: The potential of a connected world
By Ross Dawson Recently I spoke at the Critical Horizons Regional Futures conference held in Bunbury, Western Australia, which “examines emerging global trends and how they might affect regional communities in the South West Region of Western Australia”. It is fantastic that a non-urban region runs a regular event to examine its future. It is […]
Keynote for Optus Business – Five driving forces of connected business
Business networking expert, Ross Dawson recently completed delivering keynotes in six cities as part of a national roadshow for Optus Business. Optus’ annual client event was a morning event for its clients and prospects in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra. The sessions began with Ross’ keynote on Surviving and Thriving in a Connected […]
Keynote speech: Network to Win!
By Ross Dawson Recently, I gave the opening keynote at the 38th annual global conference of international accounting network Kreston International. Below are the slides for my presentation. Note that they are intended to accompany my speech, not to be meaningful in themselves. Kreston are a very interesting organization. With revenues across the network of […]
Reputation measurement in professional services – Keynote by inspirational speaker Ross Dawson
Recently, inspirational speaker and futurist Ross Dawson gave the opening keynote at the AMP Hillross annual convention, with the title of Embracing the Future. Hillross, one of the most upmarket of the wealth management networks, is seeking to lead the rest of the market by shifting to a pure fee-for-advice model, and rapidly developing a […]
The power of social media and future organizations – Social media analyst Ross Dawson
Recently, social media analyst Ross Dawson gave the external keynote at a closed conference for senior client executives run by a major professional services firm. They knew the technical content they were presenting was rather dry so Ross’ role was to provide a highly engaging kick-off to the day which was also practical and useful […]
5 things to tweet and 5 things not to tweet – Twitter expert Ross Dawson
Recently Twitter expert and keynote speaker Ross Dawson spoke at a financial advisor retreat in the stunning Margaret River region of Western Australia, a region of wide-open beauty that is the source of many extraordinary wines. He gave two compelling keynotes at the event on subsequent days, on How to Lock-in Your Clients, and Success […]