Blockchain Operating System for the Future: How Emergent Technologies Become Exponential
This talk examines blockchain–and more broadly, decentralization–as the future backbone or “operating system” for emergent technologies in every industry, both new and old. It takes the audience on a journey from our past, present, and future operating systems, highlighting how in addition to a shift in technologies, we are experiencing a broader shift in mindset, which will change how we interact with each other, our businesses, our governments, our finances, our products, and our environment.
Industry / Focus Areas this talk can be tailored to include but aren’t limited to:
Finance
Governance / Cooperatives
Smart Cities
Supply Chain
Digital Manufacturing
Food Production / Agriculture
Internet of Things
AI / ML / Robotics — i.e. Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Drones, Machine Economy
Environmental Impact, Circularity, Waste Management
Organizational Structure – Future Organizations
Leadership
Healthcare
Natural Resource Management and Energy
Space Commerce and Remote Community Governance
Retail
Embracing Innovation with a Growth Mindset
Leaders today are plagued by fear-based decision-making, which leads to incremental innovation, not the radical evolution required to embrace the abundance of exponential growth. This talk investigates the psychology of risk taking, emotional intelligence, and intuition for leaders and organizations in order to innovate from a place of trust and abundance, versus fear and optimization.
Decentralizing Organizations: Future of Work in a Distributed World
This talk examines the exponential shift to distributed teams and workforces and the role of decentralizing technologies such as blockchain, AR/VR, cooperative communities, and gaming in shaping the future of work or elimination of the concept of “work” all together.
Future Civics: Governance, Cooperatives, and Decentralizing Urban Organization
This talk takes the audience on a journey through emerging decentralized and civic organizational models — models beyond multinational corporations and nation-states, models which will carry us into the future of urban niche organizations, space colonies, and virtual worlds.
Shifting Your Mindset from Digital Transformation to Radical Evolution: Designing an Organic Organization for the Future
Organizations today embrace concepts such as innovation and digital transformation, but they are incremental. This talk explores the lessons learned through biomimicry and biological systems and their growing role in organizational evolution, or what I call, “radical evolution.”
Blockchain For Better
This talk breaks down blockchain technology and its applications supporting global humanitarian and environmental efforts.
The Trust Economy: Building a Business in the Trustless World
High level, I would like to craft talks in the following areas:
Future of Work
Future of Governance / Organizations
Future of Community (i.e. Gaming, AR/VR, Decentralized Cooperatives)
Future of Production (i.e. Digital Manufacturing, Vertical Farming)
Future Cities
Future of Finance
I really like exploring, writing about, researching emerging technologies. I’ve founded 3 successful companies, and am focusing most of my energy now on educating business leaders on exponential change. From smart cities and IoT connected trash grids to autonomous vehicles, from cryptocurrencies to enterprise blockchain in supply chain, from gaming to future of work and distributed teams and the tools to support them, from augmented and virtual reality and computer generated celebrity avatars, from vertical farming for wine grapes to additive manufacturing producing on demand clothing and textiles., I like to talk about it all! Entrepreneurship / Inspirational talks around risk taking, personal and professional digital transformation are also a big passion of mine!
