Last night we had a conversation with Juliette Powell in Sydney. A small group of local digerati gathered for an informal conversation on social networks, taking advantage of Juliette being in Australia for the first time as she tours the world promoting her new book 33 Million People in the Room. Below are the unedited […]
@webtechman just posted this: For connoisseurs of geek porn who haven’t seen it before, click on the image below for my full Twitter background, comprised of four of our more well-known frameworks, or go to the full pdfs of the frameworks here: Web 2.0 Framework, Extinction Timeline, Trend Blend 2007, and Future of Media Strategic […]
Continuing my live blogging of the MegaTrends conference before my keynote this afternoon, there are two sessions on the economy: a presentation from the Ministry of the Economy, and a panel of the chief economists of leading banks. The UAE Minister for the Economy couldn’t make it, so the Director-General of the Ministry presented his […]
Below are my slides for my keynote at the MegaTrends conference at Abu Dhabi. As for all my presentations, note that these slides are designed to accompany my speech and not to be viewed on their own, though may still be useful to people who didn’t attend. Keynote: Profiting from Accelerating Change – MegaTrends Abu […]
In preparing for my keynote at the MegaTrends conference in Abu Dhabi this afternoon I have distilled my thinking into a new visual representation. To gain insights the future we need to understand the intersection of three domains: Technology, Business, and Society. In each of these domains we can distill one driving force that brings […]
The biggest highlight of the MegaTrends conference for me (other than my own keynote :-) ) is the presentation by Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel prize for economics last year, on the state of the global economy. I have a lot of respect for his outlook. Live notes from his speech: The volume of […]
I’m at the MegaTrends conference in Abu Dhabi where I will be giving my keynote this afternoon. I’ll be live blogging the morning sessions. The conference was opened by His Excellency Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, a member of the Al Nahyan Abu Dhabi royal family, and chairman of Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority and several […]
Next Monday I do the closing keynote at the MegaTrends conference in Abu Dhabi. The opening keynote will be by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, while I will close speaking on ‘Profiting from Accelerating Change in a Downturn’. While I will be speaking from a global perspective, I will also be addressing some of the […]
Tomorrow morning I am doing the second day opening keynote at ITAC09 – Information Technology in Aged Care conference. Here is my presentation – as always these are intended to accompany my speech, not as stand-alone slides. Keynote: Transforming Aged Care with Technology View more presentations from rossdawson. I hope to write some more on […]
Fantastic news! Juliette Powell, author of the freshly launched book on social networking 33 Million People in the Room, founder of The Gathering Think Tank, and leading broadcaster and media entrepreneur, is coming to Sydney for the first time next week. To take advantage of this there’ll be an informal gathering: ‘Conversation with Juliette Powell’ […]
