Jack Shaw Innovation and Change Management Strategist, Global Thought Leader and Emerging Tech Futurist

In an age where AI technologies like ChatGPT and Google Bard are transforming our world, it's crucial to understand not just their immediate applications, but their long- term impact. This keynote, "Navigating AI's Transformative Era: Avoiding Strategic Blunders," addresses this vital need.

Jack Shaw explores AI's potential to reshape industries, societies, and global economies, highlighting recent advancements and their implications. He delves into the importance of a strategic, long-term vision to leverage AI effectively, and why simply focusing on short-term implementation can be the biggest strategic blunder.

Through compelling Near Future Scenarios, Jack illustrates the transformative power of AI in various sectors, urging leaders to develop strategies that anticipate and shape this rapidly evolving landscape.

In a world brimming with newly minted AI 'experts,' Jack Shaw stands apart with nearly 40 years of experience in AI. His insights go beyond immediate AI applications, offering a seasoned perspective on its long-term transformative potential. As a former head of a commercial AI software division and a speaker with over 25 years of experience enlightening global audiences on AI, Jack provides unmatched expertise.

His presentations are not just informative but visionary, equipping leaders with the foresight needed in this AI-driven era. Jack's unique blend of deep AI knowledge, business acumen, and engaging speaking style makes him the ideal candidate to address this critical topic.

Blockchain technologies are redefining business models and processes in every industry: manufacturing, distribution, retail, healthcare, energy, transportation, and governmental agencies. Jack describes how your organization can benefit too.

Discover how crypto and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s) are changing the landscape for payments and financial services, and how decentralized finance (DeFi) will disrupt everything from borrowing and lending to securities trading and insurance.

AI is transforming business, society, and the world. Jack shares real-world examples of how leading businesses are using Al to reduce costs, improve service, and spark innovation.

From connected cars to smart cities, remote robotic surgery, and self-configuring factory floors, 5G and IoT are about to deeply disrupt your business and your industry. Jack shows you how to design your 5G/IoT strategy for competitive advantage.

How Extended Reality, AI, and Blockchain are creating a new
paradigm for business and society. Learn about NFT’s and DAO’s. And see how they’ll integrate to create highly immersive, virtual experiences that transform how we interact and do business.

Major, game-changing technologies used to come along about once a decade, and one at a time. Now they come every year or two, and they come in bunches! Currently, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, 5G Wireless, Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented / Virtual Reality, and 3D Printing are each driving accelerated rates of change. Combined, their synergies are making change go exponential.

The only way for organizations to survive these exponential changes is through radical innovation. And fortunately, the same technologies that are driving these changes are enabling that innovation.

At the same time, executives ask how businesses can plan for the future when critical disruptions from pandemics, to global supply chain issues, to climate change threaten to turn strategies on their heads.

In this presentation, Jack Shaw describes how manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and professional
services firms can visualize, plan for, and execute the radical innovations needed to evolve from responding to change to initiating it. And how, by using Dynamic Digital Transformation, they can manage strategic disruptions and turn a future of threats into a future of opportunities!

Radical innovation is the only way businesses can keep up with the accelerated rates of constantly changing technologies.  What was once a major upgrade every decade has quickened in speed and volume, with multiple changes now coming every year. Fortunately, the same technologies that are driving these changes also enable the ability to innovate with agility, completely transforming how we interact and do business.