After Dinner Speakers
Founder & CEO, ETA Tech Advisors | Former Alphabet X & Waymo
Automation, generative AI and machine learning are converging, creating self-perpetuating innovation like never before. As part of Google's self-driving company Waymo, which launched robotaxi and robo-trucking services, and as an adviser to X, the Moonshot Factory, Tim has hands-on experience with leading-edge technology.
Tim breaks AI down in simple terms to prepare audiences for their automation journey. He dispels myths, cuts through the hype and clarifies the state of play so organisations can seize AI opportunities while minimising the negative impacts. The talk can be tailored by sector: healthcare, construction, financial services, legal, insurance and real estate.
Moonshots: Combining Courage, Audacity and Technology to Achieve the Impossible
Courage, audacious goals and disruptive technology together identify a third way of achieving success: commercialising radical solutions and challenging what we thought was possible.
Tim spent years at Google X, the Moonshot Factory, where a project sits at the meeting point of a global problem, a radical solution and breakthrough technology. Self-driving cars are a defining example, and Tim worked on exactly that project, helping the X team bring Waymo to market. In this talk he takes audiences on a journey to think big, fear less and land the moonshot.
Key takeaways:
- How moonshots focus on three questions: can they solve a global problem, can they do it with breakthrough technology, and can the technology be commercialised?
- The latest moonshots, from electric and automated vehicles on land, sea and air to 3D printing, vertical farms, drone delivery, robotics, carbon capture and digital wellness
- Practical tips from someone who knows the pitfalls first-hand and how to avoid them
- How to use "Yes, and" instead of "No, because" for a more successful journey
The Future of Work: Leading in the New Never Normal Workplace
Whether remote, onsite or hybrid, the future of work is upending preconceived notions of leadership, team performance, the workplace and work-life balance. Generative AI is already disrupting tasks in professional services, while manual tasks in manufacturing and construction are being robotised.
Workplace culture is the glue that keeps organisations together. Tim gives audiences practical experience with emerging technology tools to build an effective, competitive and resilient work culture with wellness at its centre.
Key takeaways:
- Leadership
- Cross-functional teams
- Design thinking and systems thinking
- Rapid prototyping
- Change management and moonshot strategy
- Innovation, work culture and wellness
Real Smart Cities: The Future of Life and Work Is Not What You Think
More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that trend is accelerating. Cities are increasingly vulnerable to the complexity this growth brings. Our way of life has changed more in the past five years than in the previous 50, and the next ten will bring even greater change.
AI, automation, blockchain, biological planning and on-demand "lifestyle as a service" are converging. Tim explores the intersection of AI, sustainability and innovative infrastructure, and why government, business and educators must work together on real smart policies.
Key takeaways:
- How key trends are converging on the future of living and working, and how to prepare your organisation
- How technology companies are building "lifestyle as a service" models, with AI-enabled super apps integrating all aspects of life
- How to safeguard your community as data, privacy and sovereignty raise big societal questions
