Report from Neurotechnology Summit 2025 on the massive potential and dangerous pitfalls ahead

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I attended the first day of Neurotechnology Summit 2025 in Sydney, with some fascinating insights and discussions through the day. 

Australia is a world leader in the space, with Australian born or based leaders in neurotechnology including Synchron, Emotiv, Ultra Bionics, Omniscient Technologies, Cortical Labs, and Resonait, and the leaders of most of them speaking at the event.

My LinkedIn post provides a very high level view of the discussion, and is complementary to this piece in linking to the speakers and pointing to some of their specific contributions. Below is a more detailed description of the key insights from each session. 

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Framework: Agentic AI – core patterns for organization design

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The advent of robust, scalable AI agents will dramatically reshape organizational structure. I created this framework to distil some of the fundamental patterns that will drive successful transformation as we shift wholesale to Humans + AI work.

I have used this in some board and executive briefings as a discussion starter, and first shared this publicly yesterday at Agentforce World Tour Sydney in the opening keynote Executive Experience panel.
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Report: Humanity’s Next Quarter Century: 10 Defining Facets of our Future

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We need to be thinking big picture. What better time when a mind-boggling first quarter century of the millenium has passed, and we dive headfirst into what will inevitably be a defining period for the future of humanity?

Here is my distillation of how we should be thinking about this juncture and the 10 defining factors of this next phase.
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Framework: Levels of AI in Investment Decision-Making

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AI has been used in investment decision-making for decades, with algorithmic trading a major market driver. Now the greatly broadened scope of generative AI is reshaping investment decision-making.

This framework is highly simplified, designed to draw out the spectrum from purely algorithmic decisions through to human-first decisions augmented by AI, across different asset classes. A few comments below.
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AI agents making payments and the next phase of the economy

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The AI agent economy is taking off. Its next phase will be massively expanded by payments between agents and between agents and humans. 

As AI agents grow in capabilities, individuals are delegating tasks to single agents that can perform tasks on their behalf such as research, curation, scheduling, travel planning, or email drafting.

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Framework: AI’s impact on business models and value creation

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AI is reshaping business models and value creation across all industries. Forward-thinking leaders are considering how their business models will evolve and the legion new opportunities for enhanced value creation and capture.

We are very early in discovering the structures that work best, and how to configure across multiple dimensions, including internal value creation based on humans + AI, a diverse array of enhanced customer offers, ecosystemic value co-creation, model scalability, and the coming rise of AI agents as customer intermediaries.

The framework below distills the most important frames for understanding how business models are shifting. This is just an initial top-level view of the elements, I will be sharing more detail on many aspects of this in the near future.

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The Future of Higher Education: Unbundling and rebundling

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This week I gave the keynote for the leadership strategy session of a U.S. tertiary institution with over 120,000 students, on re-envisaging the future of higher education.

As part of my session I shared this framework on unbundling and rebundling higher education. I explain and expand below the image.

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Framework: Creative process mapping for AI augmentation

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For superior Humans + AI creative outcomes we need to focus on process.

LLMs are most effectively applied at well-defined points within broader processes, using precise prompts and context for highly specific tasks such as content generation, ideation, structure mapping, analysis, adaptation, synthesis, evaluation.

The first step is to pull back to the broader process and identify where AI can add value to complex cognitive and creative processes, as shown in this chart. Applications of the chart are shared below.
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Executive and board workshops on AI and future strategy

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Much of my current work is with boards and executive teams on the implications of AI, the future of work, and strategy in rapidly changing environments.

In this overview document I provide details of 6 in-demand workshops, including key content, outcomes, and examples.

  • The Power of Generative AI
  • AI and the Future of Work
  • Framing Your AI Strategy
  • AI-Augmented Strategic Decision-Making
  • Thriving on Overload: Information Mastery
  • Future-Focused Leadership

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How AI will shape the future of creative agencies

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All professional services are being transformed by generative AI, but the impact is especially pointed for creative agencies. Agencies need to reconfigure themselves for a substantially different future.

The nature of the client-agency relationship will rapidly evolve, but in there lies an enormous opportunity to shift to a far more collaborative dynamic where value is co-created in seamless workflows across organizational boundaries.

I’ve distilling some of my recent thinking from client work in the space into this simple framework. I will be refining the high-level framework as well digging deeper into several aspects of this including workflow. I’d love any thoughts or feedback.
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