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Tania de Jong AM on Australian Leadership: “Let’s find leaders who aspire to change the world…”
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Australian Leadership
Tania de Jong talks to Joseph Ghaly and Victor Perton on Australian Leadership. The energetic, vibrant and humorous Tania de Jong AM is the Founder and CEO of Creative Universe, Creativity Australia and Creative Innovation Global. She is the Founder of With One Voice. She is a Soprano who engages her audiences leaving them laughing, inspired and happier.
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Here’s When Machines Will Take Your Job, as Predicted by AI Gurus
Tuesday, 13 June 2017
Big Think
While technology develops at exponential speed, transforming how we go about our everyday tasks and extending our lives, it also offers much to worry about. In particular, many top minds think that automation will cost humans their employment, with up to 47% of all jobs gone in the next 25 years. And chances are, this number could be even higher and the massive job loss will come earlier.
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Creative Innovation 2017 Asia Pacific – Theme Abstract
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Human Intelligence 2.0 – Thriving in the Age of Acceleration
“Things are getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster, simultaneously.” Tom Atlee
Never before has one species been able to conquer or impact so many elements on Earth so dramatically. We are accelerating into the future. The rate of change continues to astonish us, and the awesome power of human ingenuity enables us to make what was once consigned to the pages of science fiction novels reality.
But, the increased progress is creating a parallel sense of existential dread. Are we the masters of our future? Will we set the direction for the economy and the environment? Will we set out the nature of the ethical society we want to live in? Or will events and mistakes overtake us?
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Australia launches machine-learning centre to decrypt the personal genome
Monday, 8 May 2017
Cosmos Magazine
When it made the cover of Time magazine 16 years ago, the human genome project promised a new era of precision medicine: each person’s health care would be customized to their genetic blueprint. Some critics have quipped that so far, the impact on medicine has been minor.
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Facing up to digital disruption: Reinventing the core with bold business strategy
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
McKinsey & Co
Going digital is now a core strategy for many organizations around the world. Our new research sheds light on how digital is slicing across industries and the potential approaches companies can take to integrate digital where it makes the most sense for their business. In this episode of the McKinsey Podcast, McKinsey senior partner Paul Willmott and senior expert Laura LaBerge speak with McKinsey Publishing’s David Schwartz about ways companies can think about digitization within their sector and the potential impact of their digital strategies on the bottom line.
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Creative Innovation 2016 post-conference recommendations paper for Australia’s Future
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Prepared by Terry Barnes, policy consultant and media commentator
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, “the only constant of life is change”. How right he was.
But the pace of change Heraclitus would have experienced several thousand years ago is glacial compared to what we experience today. Technologically, economically and politically, the world of 2017 is light years removed from the world of fifty years ago, let alone the world immediately before the Industrial and Communications Revolutions.
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