Keynote topic
Emerging Technologies
How leaders can understand, evaluate and respond to emerging technologies when their applications, risks and commercial possibilities are still developing.
When a technology is changing faster than certainty, how should leaders decide what deserves attention?
The keynote promise
Emerging technologies create opportunities before their implications are fully understood. This keynote explores how leaders can look beyond hype, examine possible applications and make better decisions while technologies and markets are still taking shape.
Background
Dr Neo has spoken publicly about artificial intelligence in advanced air mobility (AAM), including whether AI should be treated as a set of applications within AAM or as part of the wider AAM ecosystem — a field he also works in through NEO Aeronautics.
What the audience will learn
- How to distinguish technological possibility from practical opportunity
- How leaders can assess emerging technologies without relying on hype alone
- How emerging technologies can create new applications, markets and business models
- The strategic questions organisations should ask when technologies are still developing
- How technology, regulation and ecosystem development can interact
Who it’s for
Business and technology leaders, innovation teams, policymakers, researchers, investors and organisations navigating emerging technology.
Outcomes
- A more structured way to discuss emerging technologies
- Better questions for evaluating technology opportunities and uncertainty
- The judgement to tell whether regulation, infrastructure or ecosystem readiness, rather than the technology itself, is the real constraint
- A basis for deciding where the organisation should explore, experiment or wait
Format & customisation
- Format & duration
- This topic can be adapted to the event format and duration. Specific format availability is confirmed on enquiry — see formats.
- Customisation
- The emphasis can be adapted to the audience, sector, organisational context, event objective and level of technical depth. For example, the session can focus on the technologies most relevant to a particular sector, or on how to weigh opportunity, risk and timing.
Selected speaking engagements
Examples of Dr Neo speaking on this topic in different settings.
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