ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Smarts on demand, transforming everything...
Introduction to Generative AI and AI Chatbots
A hands-on tour of AI chatbots that shows how to prompt successfully, integrate wisely, and safeguard privacy, turning hype into productivity without risking your data.
Agentic AI: What it is, and how it will transform business
Beyond the hype: design, supervise, and scale AI agents that deliver measurable value without blowing budgets or your reputation.
Best Practices for AI in the Organisation
Equip your organisation for the next five years of AI: policy → practices → protocols, real value now, and a sober view of what’s next.
De-Risking AI
Cut through AI hype with a playbook to de-risk privacy, sovereignty and hallucinations: policy, procedure, and protocols you can put to work today.
New Tools, New Skills - Using AI to Improve Productivity and Performance
A hands-on playbook for using AI to streamline workflows, sharpen decisions, and measurably raise productivity, starting today.
Building Resistance:
Thriving careers during the AI transition
Measure your automation risk, then crush it, with practical tactics to stay indispensable as 'agentic' AI rewrites every job description.
The Human Factor
Wikipedia and Reddit are more valuable than ever - every organisation needs to learn how to copy their 'human' practices.
Opportunities in automation
Find the fast ROI: a practical tour of automation opportunities that cut costs, kill bottlenecks, and free talent for higher-value work.
EDUCATION - Educators, students and institutions facing into big changes...
Educating in the Age of AI
From Socrates to Scratch to synthetic worlds, equip educators to turn AI’s disruption into deeper relationships, stronger learning, and credible assessment.
Mentoring, Peer & Lifelong Learning
Future-proof your org with a simple playbook: mentor deeply, pair with intelligent tools, and turn continuous skilling into your unfair advantage.
AI and Learning: From the Student’s Perspective
Inside the learner’s head: how AI feels, fails, and fuels progress—and how educators can turn it into motivation, mastery, and meaningful assessment.
INNOVATION - Get ahead of the curve to make the most of opportunities...
In the Syntheverse
Discover how the combination of AI and VR fuse into a ‘Syntheverse’ that turns training and operations into living simulations, with huge benefits. (More here)
Insights from the Consumer Electronics Show
An executive-level debrief of CES, separating real momentum from showroom hype, plus detailed reports of what to keep your eye on over the next year.
Bespoke Futures: The intersection of Intelligence and Manufacturing
Meet the near future of work where every employee has an AI tutor and every smart tool becomes 'agentic', unlocking faster learning, safer workflows and higher throughput.
AI-led innovation
AI tools transform ideation, collaboration and creation, fostering 'tiny teams' punching far above their weight.
LEADERSHIP - Take your organisation to new heights...
Leadership in the age of AI
Learnings from leaders who publicly embrace AI tools and workflows set the tone for whole-of-organisation transformations.
Getting in front of change (and staying in front of it)
Learn from a futurist how to build a sensing system for weak signals, turning them into fast, defensible moves.
UNTHINKABLE: 'Wargaming' for boards & C-Suites
Turn black swans into board-ready playbooks: simulate catastrophic scenarios and leave with decisions, not decks.
Nobody knows anything (about productivity)
If the old playbook worked, 2020 would’ve broken business; it didn’t. Now we get to rewrite the rules that matter.
FINANCE - Money and banking are changing, opening incredible opportunities...
Friction is Good:
Lessons Learned from Virtual Assets
A blueprint for viable, agreeable governance. Because the cost of under-regulation is existential.
Making Stablecoins work
Programmable payments that actually matter: the opportunities when escrow, milestones, and conditional release get baked into money itself.
Post-Classical Finance
Compute = finance: tear down the wall between quants and engineers, or get Fairfax’d by the next wave.
Kidnapped by the Financial Illuminati!
The new payments reality: jurisdiction matters, data must travel with funds, and architecture choices decide market access.
FUTURES - How we will work, live and play in the mid-21st century...
High Flyer: A Tour of the Mid-21st Century
A vivid tour of the mid-century: medicine, new materials, quantum breakthroughs, and much more, translated into actions leaders can take now.
Future Cities
WFH permanently changed how we use our cities. Now destinations for leisure and entertainment, the cities of the mid-21st century come alive at night, and on weekends - the best are pleasure gardens for all to visit and enjoy.
Transport Futures
Micromobility, autonomous vehicles and eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft transform the transportation landcape in the mid-21st century.
A Three-Day Week before 2050
The future of work looks far more productive. We'll take some of that productivity home with us, as work-life balance gets a needed readjustment.
LIFESTYLE & LEISURE - Living longer, staying healthy and being connected...
And Now for Something Completely Human
Better than biohacking: the three habits that outlast pills and programs and compound well-being for decades.
Dancing with Data: AI, our devices and our health
How wearables + AI become a 24/7 health coach—turning steps, sleep and signals into personalised, proven actions.
Traveling Companion: Mid-21st Century Travel & Tourism
Meet the 'agentic' travel companion—your on-device guide, concierge and narrator that turns every trip into a curated story.
After you're gone: Digital afterlives come of age
From headstones to headsets, AI has turned life’s digital trail into living, conversational memorials.
MODERATOR & FACILITATOR - Recent events...
GrowSpot 2025
One-on-one interview with Yamini Rangan, CEO of HubSpot about their emerging strategy as an AI-first company & service..
AICD Tech Governance Forum
MC and panel moderator across a day where board members learned how to make good decisions in a rapidly changing (and frequently fraught) technology landscape.
'The Augmented Advantage' SxSW Sydney
A panel with three C-Suite executives - including the CEO of L'Oreal ANZ - on how they grow their organisations into productivity and innovation.
AJBCC Plenary Panel
Three CEOs. One Australian of the Year. Australia-Japan Business Chamber of Commerce. Moderated an epic conversation about today and tomorrow.
Testimonials
Mark Pesce demystifies the concept of AI, making it approachable, digestible, and most importantly, empowering. Regardless of your audience's familiarity with AI, Mark will undoubtedly leave you feeling enlightened and inspired by the power of AI and its integration into our future lives. - Justin Fraser, XEROCON
I have had the great pleasure of working with Mark Pesce for close to a decade around A/NZ - Without a doubt Mark is consistently one the best speakers we have had on the CFO Magazine Symposium Series - Engaging, on point, insightful and always entertaining - I can’t recommend Mark Pesce highly enough! - Richard McBride, CFO Symposium
Mark was fantastic to work with. - Elissa Rontani, Learning Environments Australasia