Innovation Safari – The Webinar – May 2018
On the last Friday morning of each month I gather together the best tech, innovation, invention, rumour, mumbling, memes and stories of the previous 30 days and squeeze them into a 30 minutes webinar focusing on what’s next and after next and dolloping each with a lavish helping of why I think the stories important / not important; what its likely and unlikely consequences may be on humans, society and business; when it might hit (if at all) and what (if anything) you can do about / with it right now and then present it live online, to an ever-growing band of loyal global followers.
Some of the stuff I covered in May 2018’s webinar included:
/ artificially intelligent Tupperware // why privacy doesn’t matter // google everything // voice first computing // WeGrow education raises $11.5 million // OpenClassroom raises $60 million // MobileEye to help 8 million cars see // Sonos leverages its patent to woo Google Assistant // Rental bike company Lime raises $500 million // Twitter to use behavioural signals to rank tweets // Apple has 55 autonomous vehicles on the road // Tinder’s new location services // Xerox cancels $6.1 billion takeover by Fujifilm // Uber’s flying taxis // Facebook dating // WhatsApp founder quits //
Take a look for yourself (and be sure to join me live and free at my next 30 minute webinar on Friday 29th June 2018 @ 8.30 a.m. AEST – book below):
Reserve you free virtual seat for the next 30 minute Innovation Safari Webinar on Friday 29th June 2018 @ 8.30 a.m. AEST:
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is an Innovation Safari?
An Innovation Safari is a structured immersion into the frontiers of technological and social change — visiting organisations, labs, and spaces where the future is being built, then synthesising what it means for strategy. It is foresight in action, not just theory.
Q: What signals were most significant coming out of the May 2018 Safari?
The convergence of AI capability with mass commercial deployment was the dominant signal in 2018. What had been research-grade AI was becoming product-grade AI — moving from academic papers to enterprise software. The speed of this transition was underappreciated by most organisations at the time.
Q: How can organisations build their own innovation scanning capability?
By creating structured processes for visiting the edge — not just reading about it. The organisations with genuine foresight capability send their people to where change is happening, not just to industry conferences about change. The Safari model is one way to do this systematically.
Q: Can Morris Misel deliver an Innovation Safari or foresight immersion for your organisation?
Yes. For innovation safaris, strategic foresight workshops, and keynotes, visit morrismisel.com/event-organisers.
On the last Friday morning of each month I gather together the best tech, innovation, invention, rumour, mumbling, memes and stories of the previous 30 days and squeeze them into a 30 minutes webinar focusing on what’s next and after next and dolloping each with a lavish helping .
When signals like Innovation Safari The Webinar May 2018 emerge, organisations that engage early have the advantage of choosing their response rather than reacting to events. That gap between those who prepared and those who did not is where competitive positioning is actually made or lost.
The most important question is not whether Innovation Safari The Webinar May 2018 will matter, but how quickly it will matter in your specific context. Leaders benefit most from mapping the ripple effects early — not just the direct impact but the second and third-order consequences that arrive later and hit harder. That is the practical work of foresight.
