Rocky Scopelliti

Interested in ‘what’s on the other side’ and how Australian leaders and professionals feel about it.

This presentation uses the insights gained from the Australia 2030 Research centre on the eight megatrends and predictions about future tipping points that collectively will define Australia's political, economic, environmental, socially, and technological standing over the coming decade.

This unique Australian first research involved 170 CEOs and Board Directors and some 700 Australian professionals who participated in the quantitative and qualitative study.

Rocky shares their political, environmental, regional, demographic, innovation and technological views about the decade ahead and how they believe it will impact Australia and the world. The research includes 37 predictions about what to expect this coming decade as the 4th Industrial Revolution unfolds and importantly, the tipping points or signposts to watch out for and what their impact will mean to you, your organisation, your industry.

This presentation prepares leaders, professionals and industries for a post COVD-19 world. In this highly engaging presentation, audiences will gain insights into:
• What issues are predicted to affect Australia and the world this coming decade and how do we feel about the impact of technological developments on our personal, professional and family lives.
• What are the concerns about jobs, the workplace and who or ‘what’ are trusted most to control our best interests.
• How demographic changes associated with the aging population and the rise of Millennials to be our leaders, impact the way we live, work and play.
• Predictions and the ‘signposts’ into the most disruptive emerging technologies this decade and how they will impact us.

What happens when artificially intelligent machines become conscious? How will artificial consciousness shape our lives, industries, and societies?

In this groundbreaking keynote, Rocky Scopelliti delves into the transformative implications of artificial consciousness, drawing on insights from his acclaimed book, The Conscious Code. As we stand at the intersection of human ingenuity and machine intelligence, this presentation unpacks the societal, ethical, and technological impacts of this emerging frontier.

Based on years of research and thought leadership, Rocky explores how artificial consciousness will redefine our relationship with technology, influence our sense of identity, and reshape industries and professions. From the rise of synthetic minds to the ethical dilemmas they present, this keynote provides leaders with a roadmap to navigate the opportunities and challenges of this profound paradigm shift.

Audiences will discover:
• The tipping points that will signal the emergence of artificial consciousness and how they will impact businesses, industries, and society.
• Ethical and societal considerations, including trust, transparency, and the changing nature of human-machine relationships.
• Practical strategies for professionals and organizations to adapt to and thrive in a world where machines think, feel, and evolve.

This thought-provoking keynote challenges leaders to prepare for a future defined by accelerated change, presenting insights and predictions that are both visionary and actionable. It’s a must-hear for those eager to explore what lies beyond the threshold of artificial consciousness.

This fourth Industrial Revolution is characterised by emerging technology breakthroughs with potentially highly disruptive effects. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, virtual and mixed reality, 3D printing, biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials science, energy storage, blockchain, fifth generation mobile networks (5G), satellites, space technologies, quantum computing and many more.

While our traditional linear view of the future may have served us well in the previous Industrial Revolutions, they are unreliable predictors of the future. We need new exponential thinking about the needs of societies, value creation, behaviour of markets, and economic performance or survival in the fourth Industrial Revolution.

As technology is so intertwined with life now, this presentation will lift you out of your comfort zone and engage you on:
• What emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, nanotechnology will fuse our digital, physical, environmental and biological worlds
• The need to move away from ‘linear thinking’ to the new ‘systems leadership’ thinking - described as cultivating a shared vision for change, collaborating with all stakeholders of a global society, and executing to garner system benefits.
• The new industries that will emerge this decade resulting from these major technological shifts and their impact on smart cities, future of work and life expectancy.
• The skills revolution. As the 4th Industrial Revolution runs on knowledge, how we need a concurrent revolution in training and education.

Some of the most potent innovation taking place today do not involve breakthrough technologies, but rather the creation of fundamentally new business models. This presentation explores how the emerging technologies of the fourth Industrial Revolution enable new business models to perform in ways that traditional models of the past, simply cannot achieve. This is the point upon which a traditional value creation system, becomes decoupled from its relationship to growth, supply of scare resources and time. That intersection is where disruption tipping points occur. This effect is what I refer to as the ‘new economic physics’ where our traditional notions of value creation through systems of production, distribution and scale are becoming decoupled through dematerialisation, disaggregation and disintermediation.

We are now seeing 7 emerging business models slated to redefine business over the next few decades. And today, while countless businesses are anchored by a mentality of maintaining - competing solely on operational execution - it is more vital than ever to leverage these business models for success in the 2020s.

In this presentation, your audience will learn to reset their traditional thinking by exploring:
• The fourth Industrial Revolution: A world where neither age nor size or reputation guarantees you’ll be around tomorrow.
• The DNA of what makes platform-based, data-intensive and capital-light business models and how your organisation can transform to compete 'exponentially'
• Transforming to an Enterprise 4.0 – one that is platform-based, predictive, self-learning and self-adapting to its ecosystem intelligentially, autonomously and in a distributed manner
• How the dematerialisation, demonetisation and democratisation of technologies will put powerful tools in the hands of individuals globally - where in the past they were reserved for major corporations

Youth voice matters. Millennials and GenZ accounted for 33% of the global population in 2020, making them the largest demographic across the globe. Youth have now become a leading indicator for social, political, economic, cultural and technological development.

For political parties, their global voice will increasingly influence policy direction. For businesses, their value will influence economic performance. For employers, their technological proficiency will see the adoption of emerging disruptive technologies and work structures that fundamentally change our world at rates and scales of unprecedented levels. For society, their values and beliefs will influence our cultures. Audiences will discover how demographic change associated with youth and the fourth Industrial Revolution collectively influence the way we think about our future.

In this presentation audiences will learn:
• How demographic disruption will impact the world, businesses, societies and financial markets around the world
• What emerging technologies of the 4th Industrial Revolution in the hands of youth, will bring on change at unprecedented rates not experienced before
• How capitalising on the significant representation of youth in a population, could possibly return to a nation, industry or organisation a demographic dividend.

The disruptive impact of a generation that is dematerialising physical goods into the digital on-demand world, disaggregating inefficient and costly processes separating them into frictionless experiences, and disintermediating by cutting out the non-value-adding middleman in their relationships