Mai 15, 2013
Last week, as part of the ongoing weekly future series on the Morning Show, I spoke about the future of travel and tourism.
Click on the image below to watch a video of the segment.
Mai 3, 2013
I recently gave the keynote at Bridge Point Forum on Future Directions in the Digital Age, the title riffing off the conference’s theme of The Rise of the Digital Age.
I opened by making the critical point that, while the digital world is rising around us at an extraordinary pace, humans are completely analogue. Nothing about humans is digital. While we can conceive of and enact digital processes and thoughts, these are created from fully analogue neural...
April 24, 2013
Yesterday ABC News featured a story on crowdfunding, providing a quick overview of the space for a broad audience.
An edited version of the segment on the 7pm News also appeared on The Business program. Click on the image to see a video of the news segment.
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April 20, 2013
The Hub global movement was founded in London in 2005, and is a very rapidly growing network of so far 30 Hub communities co-working spaces established around the world and over 5000 members.
I first heard of the Hub soon after it was established, but was first directly exposed to the network when I ran a workshop on Crowdsourcing for...
April 19, 2013
Epi Nekaj, the founder of crowdsourcing innovator Ludvik + Partners, first got in touch with me in early 2012 to discuss his plan to run a landmark global event focused on crowdsourcing.
On June 3-7 Crowdsourcing Week will be held in Singapore, bringing the Crowdsourcing Week team’s vision to fruition.
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April 16, 2013
Last Friday I was interviewed for a segment on ABC 7pm News about alcohol advertising on social media. Click on the image below to see the video.
April 8, 2013
I recently appeared on the Morning Show being interviewed about the future of the family. Click on the image below to see a video of the segment.
März 25, 2013
The discussion is heating up around the forthcoming Google Glass augmented reality glasses and what will almost surely be a wave of similar devices from other companies.

Much of the conversation focuses on the ability of Google Glass to...
März 21, 2013
This morning we completed the five-city Tomorrow-Ready CIO event series, run by CIO magazine and sponsored by IBM.
My keynote across the five locations was on the Future of the CIO, using a Future of the CIO framework I recently created. I hope to write a number of posts in the next little while on some of the more important ideas covered...
März 14, 2013
Last night was the announcement of the winners of the annual BRW Client Choice Awards.
Each year Beaton Consulting compiles the opinions of large professional service clients – this year 40,000 of them – who collectively select the best professional service firms in Australia. The results are announced at a gala dinner and published in BRW magazine.
The...
