In February this year, I posted this about artificial intelligence and jobs: “In short, we don’t know what we’re doing. Firstly because we don’t have the intellectual capacity or processes generally to think widely enough about the systemic impacts across our economies, and secondly because we’re close to creating something that we (pretty quickly) won’t understand anyway.” There have been a few examples of AI creating […]
‘London Underground to undergo massive clean-up after experts find nine of the world’s most dangerous superbugs’ says the news today. Not before time. Anybody involved with air quality issues in London has long known that the tube network is a toxic environment. It’s also (unfortunately) the only way to get around much of London in a sensible time for most of the day, which is […]
The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) just published a discussion paper called ‘Artificial Intelligence: the next digital frontier?’ Like most MGI output, it’s full of interesting data, in-depth background, some strong analysis, great graphics, and a case study or two, but the executive summary is disappointing. It just sounds a bit… desperate. MGI knows that most of their readers (the ones that matter – executives […]
Entrepreneur, CxO/board advisor, futurist, writer, presenter
Founder of The Bathwick Group, and some other companies
Authored dozens of research papers, spoken at or chaired hundreds of conferences around the world
Written regularly for national newspapers and trade publications; CNBC Europe’s weekly ‘Behind Tech Stocks’ expert for two years
Executed projects with many of the world’s leading IT brands, including IBM, Microsoft, HP, Oracle, Cisco, Accenture, BT, Capita, EY, Intel, KMPG and Vodafone
Consulted on disruptive and competitive advantage strategies for a number of leading companies across finance, industrial, automotive, aerospace, and media sectors
Worked on projects and approaches to create competitive advantage through emerging technologies with a number of Government departments in the UK and with the EU
Between 1998-2001, an adviser to the UK Department of Trade and (Lord) Peter Mandelson on the UK’s response to dotcom developments
Alumnus of Imperial College London, was an adjunct professor at the Jersey International Business School, graduated the MIT NCAI/Machine Learning program, and is a fellow of the RSA
Founder of non-profit Deliver Change in 2012 working on projects around smart technologies for healthier, more liveable cities. Co-founder of AirSensa, an IoT/big data company
Co-founder of The Yondrr Group, using advanced technologies to transform the real estate sector
