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Ci2016 SPEAKERS
Prof Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japan)
Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Osaka University; Winner best humanoid award four times in RoboCup; Named one of the top 100 geniuses alive in the world today
Dr Abigail Allwood (USA)
Astrobiologist, Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA; first female principal investigator on a Mars mission
Dr Daniel Kraft (USA)
Physician-scientist, inventor and innovator; Founder & Executive Director, Exponential Medicine; Medicine Track Faculty Chair, Singularity University; TED speaker
Martin Ford (USA)
Leading expert on the robot revolution, artificial intelligence, job automation and the impact of accelerating technology on the economy and society; Author: Rise of the Robots
Professor Tanya Monro
South Australian Scientist of the Year, Telstra Business Women of the Year, Prime Minister’s Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year
Ramez Naam (USA)
Computer scientist, futurist, award-winning author; Energy & Environmental Systems faculty member, Singularity University
Scott Anthony (Singapore)
Strategic transformation and disruptive innovation expert. Partner of Innosight and author of The Innovator’s Guide to Growth and The Little Black Book of Innovation
Stephen Heppell (UK)
Professor at Bournemouth University and Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid; One of the most influential academics in the field of technology and education globally
Professor Michelle Simmons
Scientia Professor of Physics, University of New South Wales; Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow; NSW Scientist of the Year
David Gonski AC
Chairman of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd and Coca-Cola Amatil Limited
Dr Alan Finkel AO
Dr Finkel commenced as Australia’s Chief Scientist on 25 January 2016. He is Australia’s eighth Chief Scientist
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Creative Innovation 2019 – Looking Back on the Conference that changes minds
Ci2019 Reflections Paper
by Terry Barnes
Policy consultant and political writer and commentator
Deep Conversation at Ci2019
On 26 September 2019 the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia sounded an alarm. The cause of its concern was Australia’s slipping in the ranking of 63 nations on the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Digital Competitiveness Index[1].
The Index compares digital competitiveness against three key overall criteria: knowledge, technology and future readiness. While Australia slipped only one place in the overall survey, from 13th to 14th, CEDA warned that we were way down the rankings in more than a few key areas, including:
- Agility of companies (45)
- Communications technology (54)
- Digital/technological skills and training (44); and
- Graduates in sciences (53).
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Digital Megatrends: A perspective on the coming decade of digital disruption
CSIRO Data 61
This report explores plausible futures using methods of strategic foresight pioneered at CSIRO’s Data61. We explore the coming decade of digital disruption through the lens of six interlinked megatrends using a Venn diagram to emphasise their interconnectedness.
A megatrend is a significant shift in environmental, economic and social conditions that will play out over the coming decades. The concept was introduced by US professor John Naisbitt in his best-selling book of the same title in the early 1980s. Today’s megatrends are widely used by large organisations, particularly in the technology sector, to describe trajectories of change taking us toward a new and different future.
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‘Robots’ Are Not ‘Coming For Your Job’, Management Is
Gizmodo
Listen: ‘Robots’ are not coming for your jobs. I hope we can be very clear here—at this particular point in time, ‘robots’ are not sentient agents capable of seeking out and applying for your job and then landing the gig on its comparatively superior merits. ‘Robots’ are not currently algorithmically scanning LinkedIn and Monster.com with an intent to displace you with their artificial intelligence.
Nor are ‘robots’ gathered in the back of a warehouse somewhere conspiring to take human jobs en masse. A robot is not ‘coming for’, or ‘stealing’ or ‘killing’ or ‘threatening’ to take away your job. Management is.
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The Rich Kid Revolutionaries
The New York Times
This country is rigged in favor of making the very wealthy even wealthier. That’s what Democrats keep saying on the 2020 campaign trail. And it’s what some of the people who have reaped the rewards of this rigged system think too. Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Roy Disney, is one recent high-profile example. On Tuesday, she called out the “naked indecency” of the $65 million in compensation that goes to Disney’s chief executive, Bob Iger. That figure, she noted, is “1,424 times the median pay of a Disney worker.”
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Digital Innovation Festival Victoria 2019
The Digital Innovation Festival (DIF), is a unique initiative to develop, demonstrate and promote technology innovation across every sector of the economy and society. DIF2019 runs over two weeks from 23 August to 6 September.
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