In this presentation Gerd walked us through the 7 most important things about the next 10 years in business, technology and culture and guided us with a discovery process to help us design our responses and create a preferred future. Gerd is a searcher and gatherer of futuristic human values. He brings a humanist approach of philosophical questioning to today’s burning issues that impact real life. He plays mentor to a host of enterprises who are trying to drive change and become responsive organisations.

1. The 7 key future
principles of digital
transformation

3. The future is no longer an extension of the present1

4. The end of ‘good enough’

5. The end of ‘good enough’

6. The end of ‘good enough’

7. The end of ‘good enough’

8. The end of ‘good enough’

9. The end of ‘good enough’

10. To remain successful in a totally connected world you must be ready to take leaps, or to pivot
Most industries will be re-build for the age from the ground up, forming ecosystems

11. Technology and humanity are increasingly overlapping2
Ethics in technology: your position on ‘digital ethics’ will be a key differentiator

13. "Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right
(or the power) to do and what is the right thing to do”
adapted from Potter Stewart

14. "Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right
(or the power) to do and what is the right thing to do”
adapted from Potter Stewart

15. "Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right
(or the power) to do and what is the right thing to do”
adapted from Potter Stewart

16. Crucial: maintaining your ‘license to operate’: legally, morally and socially

17. The more connected we become, the more we must strengthen our social contracts, accountability, ethics, rules
SecuritySafety
TrustControl
Rules
Ethics

18. The more connected we become, the more we must strengthen our social contracts, accountability, ethics, rules
SecuritySafety
TrustControl
Rules
Ethics

19. Exponential technologies can bring heaven or hell: this is our governments’ challenge3

21. Hyper-connectivity
We’re at the
pivot point
of exponential
change Smart-everything
The Internet of Things
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
1 2 4 8 16 32 64128
Quantum Computing
Intelligent Assistance (IA)
3 (your imagination)

22. The next 20 years will bring more change than the previous 300 years

23. COMBINATORIAL
HOLISTIC
INTERDEPENDENT
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Future-readiness: the future is no longer a timeframe, it’s a mindset

24. Take an interdependent and holistic view: industries are converging, new ecosystems are forming
Bio-Technologies
Personalized medicine
Cloud / Quantum computingNeuroscience

25. Rapid scientific progress: science fiction is increasingly becoming science fact

26. Rapid scientific progress: science fiction is increasingly becoming science fact

27. Rapid scientific progress: science fiction is increasingly becoming science fact

28. Understanding and immersing in the Megashifts is the key to creating your preferred future4

29. The end of the car as we know it

30. The end of the car as we know it

31. The end of the car as we know it

32. The end of the car as we know it

33. The end of the car as we know it

34. Taking a wider view will be essential: take your customers beyond the obvious!

35. Taking a wider view will be essential: take your customers beyond the obvious!

36. Data is the new Oil . AI is the new electricity. The IoT is the new nervous system.5

37. First we digitised, now we cognify(riffing off Kevin Kelly)

38. Take X and add IA (intelligent assistance)

39. Take X and add IA (intelligent assistance)

40. Take X and add IA (intelligent assistance)

41. Intelligence is the new UI

42. Intelligent machines will change our world more than any other invention before6

43. Intelligence
Smartness

44. Machines do NOT think like humans do

45. We should not give machines the
capacity to improve their capacity

46. The end of routines will not mean the end of human work*7

47. While anything that can be digitized, automated or virtualized, will be…

48. …anything that cannot be digitized or automated will become much more valuable

49. The percentage of human-only tasks over time:

50. Don’t just use technology to be more efficient: use it to do entirely new things!

51. How people (and their enterprises) actually change

52. Civilizations are driven by their technology but defined
by their humanity (and so is your business!)

53. Thanks for
your time!