Entries by Ross Dawson

The only good reason to speak is to change people

I have been a professional speaker for over 18 years, alongside the various entrepreneurial endeavors that have kept me busy over the last couple of decades. It is a great privilege. Speaking is a truly wonderful way to make a living. I get to travel all around the world, having done paid speaking engagements in […]

How far will the shift in power to individuals go?

A few weeks ago I gave the keynote at the Asian Forum on Enterprise for Society in Manila, Philippines. The conference began as Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility in 2002, this year celebrating the anniversaries of the convenors, 50 years for Asian Institute of Management (AIM) and 60 years for Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation […]

Using stress scenarios to manage risk and enhance strategy

I recently ran a small project for the technology division of a major financial institution that is planning its workforce requirements over the next 3-5 years. They recognized that there are substantial uncertainties to their planning, including how financial services will be delivered, the types of technologies that will be used, the specific skills that […]

Keynote slides: Business in the Age of AI

This morning I am giving a keynote at Oracle CloudWorld Sydney on Business in the Age of AI. Below are the slides to my keynote. As always, my slides are designed to provide visual support for my presentation, not to be useful on their own, however may be of interest even to those who didn’t […]

Sydney – Explore the future of sex: the evolving intersection of technology and human sexuality

My company Advanced Human Technologies launched the web publication FutureofSex.net in 2011, seeing it develop into one of the most prominent publications globally in the space today. At the time I wrote about the reasons for launching the publication, including simply that it is a very important topic for us all to explore, given the […]

Periodic Table of Disruptive Technologies and Innovation

My colleague and friend Richard Watson and I have created a number of visual frameworks together over the years, including the Trend Blend series , the original Extinction Timeline and What will appear and disappear. Richard has continued to create wonderful frameworks, with his latest a Periodic Table of Disruptive Technologies and Innovation (full size […]