DAY ONE // Monday 1 April
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MORNING
Master Classes (9:00am – 11:30am) includes morning tea (11:00am – 11:30am)
- MC 1: Paul Cobban (Singapore) – Building the Best Bank in the World through Culture by Design
- MC 2: Emma Martinho-Truswell (UK) – What leaders need to know about AI, and the human challenges of leading in the age of AI
- MC 3: Andrew Horsfield – Amplify your impact – Developing agility to continually evolve
- MC 4: John Pickering – How behavioural science can help you change the world
Deep Conversation over Lunch (12:00pm – 2:00pm)
Human Intelligence 2.0 – A Collective Future? How will we manage the transition?
With Geoff Mulgan CBE (UK), Emma Martinho-Truswell (UK), Professor Kathleen Richardson (UK), Dr Simon Longstaff AO (Australia), Paul Cobban (Singapore)
Moderated by Peter Hunt AM, Investment Banker & Engaged Philanthropist; Founder Greenhill Australia, Chairman Grameen Australia, So They Can, Founder Women’s Community Shelters
AFTERNOON
Early Afternoon Master Classes (2:15pm – 4:45pm)
includes afternoon tea (4:15pm – 4:45pm)
- MC 5: Dr Etienne Van Der Walt (South Africa) – Using neuroscience to build resilience for high-end innovation
- MC 6: Professor Kathleen Richardson (UK) – Challenging ethical paradigms for the one or the many: Are democratically informed technologies better?
- MC 7: Yamini Naidu – Hooked: How to connect, engage and inspire with storytelling
- MC 8: Dr Richard Claydon (Hong-Kong) – The Future of Culture – How can organisations develop cultures that hardwire innovative behaviour
LATE AFTERNOON
Late Afternoon Master Classes (4:15pm – 6:45pm)
includes afternoon tea (4:15pm – 4:45pm)
- MC 9: Dr Carl Smith (UK) – Enhance your Cognitive and Creative Capacities; Cross Reality (XR) Design Experience Framework
- MC 10: Jon Yeo – Talking your truth in times of transition
- MC 11: Rachel Audigé – Solving wicked social problems – using the problem!
DAY TWO // Tuesday 2 April
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8:30am – The Official Opening of Ci2019 with VIPs, speakers, performers and politicians.
Following this, each session will involve keynote speakers, a scholarship winner (60 seconds) and will be followed by a Q&A/Conversation with the audience.
MORNING
Plenary 1 – A Collective Future – The REAL Challenges and Opportunities (9:30am)
- Dr Alan Finkel AO, Australia’s Chief Scientist
What kind of society do we want to be?
- Emma Martinho-Truswell (UK), Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Oxford Insights
What everyone in your organisation needs to know about AI, and why AI means we need to change the way we lead
- Dr Geoff Mulgan CBE (UK), Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
Collective Intelligence – how to combine the best of human and artificial intelligence?
- Provocateur – TBC
MORNING TEA & NETWORKING (11:00am)
Plenary 2 – Sexy Robots – Feeling, Loving and Working (11:30am)
- Liesl Yearsley (USA), CEO and Co-founder, A.Kin
Human-AI Co-evolution
- Professor Toby Walsh, Leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence
The future of work in a world of AI and robots
- Professor Kathleen Richardson (UK), Professor of Ethics, Culture of Robots and Ai, De Montfort University
A dystopia in the making? – the rise and rise of ethics of robotics and AI
- Provocateur: Dr Charles Day, CEO of the Office of Innovation and Science Australia
LUNCH & NETWORKING (1:00pm)
HOT SPOTS (2:00pm)
Grab a delicious lunch, connect with someone new and then join a HOT SPOT conversation with some of our speakers and other experts.
AFTERNOON
Exponential Conversation Plenary 3: Work 2.0 – Learning to Adapt (2:50pm)
- Christy Forest, CEO & Executive Director, Livehire
- Professor Jane Den Hollander AO, Vice-Chancellor, Deakin University
- Melinda Cilento, CEO, Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA)
- Speaker – TBC
AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING
Day Two Concludes (5:00pm)
GALA CONFERENCE DINNER AND DISRUPTIVE DEBATE Q&A (6:30pm – 11:00pm)
Sofitel Melbourne On Collins Ballroom 25 Collins Street Melbourne
Q&A: Capitalism and Democracy: Do they have a future?
Fine food, wine, a Grand Disruptive Debate featuring Ci2019 Speakers. The evening will also feature world class entertainment, sensational songsters Pot-Pourri and the With One Voice choirs.
This dinner will support people suffering from loneliness, depression and isolation through Creativity Australia’s life-changing With One Voice program.
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DAY THREE // Wednesday 3 April
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MORNING
Plenary 4 – Innovating at Scale – Reinventing large Organisations, Government and Democracy (8:45am)
- Bureaucratic inertia vs incumbency and brand power: Is technology working for or against our large organisations
- How do major organisations inoculate themselves against catastrophic disruption?
- Entrepreneurism vs Intrapreneurism – Innovating from within
- What does disruption mean in the context of Government service delivery?
- Is technological change undermining or reinforcing our democratic systems?
Technological advancement has seen the rise and fall of many large organisations. Some have effectively reinvented themselves – challenging the stereotypical image of ponderous bureaucracies. Our public institutions and democracy itself, are also not immune from the impacts of new technologies.
These presenters will explore some of the disruptive forces bearing down on our largest companies and institutions and consider various approaches to thriving in the face of rapidly changing customer and societal expectations.
- Paul Cobban (Singapore), Chief Data & Transformation Officer, DBS
World’s First Invisible Bank
- Jane King, Deputy Commissioner, Design and Change Management Australian Taxation Office (ATO)
- Kim Williams AM, Former CEO, News Limited; Foxtel; the Australian Film Commission & Musica Viva
- Provocateur: Doron Ben-Meir, Vice-Principal Enterprise, Chancellery Executive of the University of Melbourne
MORNING TEA & NETWORKING (10:30am)
Plenary 5 – Intelligence 2.0 – An augmented future (11:00am)
- Dr Etienne Van Der Walt (South Africa), Co-founder and CEO, Neurozone
Fundamentals 101: Preparing the brain for the future of work
- Dr Carl Smith (UK), Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) and Principal Research Fellow at Ravensbourne University
Reality Hacking as Intelligence Augmentation
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE:
- Ray Kurzweil (USA), Director of Engineering at Google; world leading inventor, thinker, futurist, and best-selling author
The Future of Intelligence, Artificial and Natural
- Provocateur – TBC
LUNCH AND NETWORKING (12.45pm)
HOT SPOTS (1.45pm)
Subject matter HOT SPOTS around the Sofitel with selected speakers and provocateurs. Choose your area of interest and join a circle discussion.
AFTERNOON
Plenary 6 – How will we manage the transition? (2:40pm)
- Dr Simon Longstaff AO (Australia), Philosopher, Executive Director of the Ethics Centre
Ethics in the Machine Age
- David Gonski AC (Australia), Chairman, ANZ Bank; Chancellor, UNSW; President, Art Gallery of NSW
How do we transition humans and business in a world of AI?
- Professor Rufus Black (Australia), Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania
- Provocateur: Tania de Jong AM, Founder Creative Universe, Creativity Australia & Creative Innovation Global
CONFERENCE CLOSING CELEBRATION WITH SPEAKERS AND DELEGATES (4:15pm)
AFTERNOON TEA AND POST CONFERENCE DRINKS IN SOFITEL’S LOUNGE (4:45pm)
Ci2019 CONCLUDES (5:30pm)
