How to Transform Strategy for the AI Revolution
What AI changes in business models, competitive advantage and strategic planning — and how leaders can distinguish meaningful shifts from short-lived excitement.
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David Rowan
Founding Editor-in-Chief, WIRED UK | Futurist, Investor & Innovation Author
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WHY DAVID
What David brings to the room.
Rowan translates emerging technology into concrete strategic implications, helping executive audiences separate real change from hype and understand what innovation means for their sector now.
KEYNOTE TOPICS
Ideas built for the stage.
The Next Five Years of Exponential Technology
A sector-specific view of AI, robotics, quantum computing and other fast-moving technologies, translated into concrete implications for incumbent businesses.
What Real Innovation Looks Like
Lessons from organisations around the world that moved beyond innovation theatre to change products, services, incentives and the way work actually gets done.
Human Talent in the AI Era
Why culture, judgement and the ability to attract exceptional people may become more strategically important as technology commoditises more tasks and capabilities.
David Rowan is a technology journalist, investor, author and keynote speaker best known as the founding Editor-in-Chief of WIRED magazine in the UK. He has delivered more than 900 keynotes and moderated conversations for global companies, governments, WIRED and the World Economic Forum. His reporting and research have taken him through startup ecosystems and research labs around the world, giving him direct access to founders, technologists and investors building emerging technologies.\n\nRowan is the author of Non-Bullshit Innovation: 17 Proven Ways to Transform How You Work, based on a 20-country search for organisations creating meaningful change rather than innovation theatre. Alongside speaking, he invests in early-stage technology companies and runs venture funds focused on areas including health-tech and climate-tech. His stage work connects AI, exponential technologies, talent and innovation culture to decisions incumbent organisations need to make now.
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