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Custom Conference Keynotes

Discover the forces shaping the next decade and how they will transform industries, customers, and work. Brett’s future‑focused keynotes unpack the trends, technologies, and disruptions redefining the competitive landscape — giving leaders the clarity and confidence to navigate what’s coming next. Built on real-world innovation experience, these sessions turn “what’s next” into clear, actionable insight.

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Future Trends & Disruption Keynotes

Discover the forces shaping the next decade and how they will transform industries, customers, and work. Brett’s future‑focused keynotes unpack the trends, technologies, and disruptions redefining the competitive landscape — giving leaders the clarity and confidence to navigate what’s coming next. Built on real-world innovation experience, these sessions turn “what’s next” into clear, actionable insight.

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Innovation, AI, & Emerging Technology Keynotes

From AI and automation to data, digital transformation, and new business models, emerging technologies are rewriting the rules of competition. Brett Wiskar’s Innovation & Emerging Technology keynotes help organisations understand these shifts and translate them into practical strategies that drive growth, efficiency, and long‑term relevance.

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Navigating Uncertainty: How Adaptability Drives Success

The compounding nature of tech driven innovation, a shrinking world, exponential growth in data, mushrooming communication, computational power and tomorrow's businesses being in market today.

If you're building your; skills, career, team and business for today's market then are you really ready for tomorrow.

The last 30 years has seen more change than the previous 100 years - the last decade has seen more change than the previous two. So what is driving these rate of change?

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Uncertainty to Empowerment - agile workshops and decision making

Mastering Modern Choices: From Uncertainty to Empowerment

Humans are terrible decision makers. Yet we let them keep doing it. They make decisions for our businesses day and and day out with limited success and no indication that they're getting better. So why are we so bad at it? What makes us make decisions the way we do? How do we think and how can we do better? A little understanding of these topics might just help our people improve.

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A Faster Future: the New Speed of Change

The worst thing you can do is build today's business for tomorrow.

While you were building your business, your skills, your network, and your team the world changed. If at the heart of all those things you didn't have adaptability at the core then you were building the wrong thing.

The last 30 years has seen more change than the previous 100 years - the last decade has seen more change than the previous two. What is driving these rate of change?

To plan for the future we can't plan based on today we have to understand how change happens and plot our course ahead of the curve.

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Brett delivering the keynote "Ag in the Asian Century Keynote" for TSBE, July 2019

Australian Businesses’ Opportunity to Rise to the Challenge of the Asian Century

The Asian Century is a hot topic for industries across Australia. The term was coined in 2012 by the then Federal Gillard Government in the publishing of a white paper charting a vision for Australian prosperity based on selling our goods to the growing economies to our north. Now nearly 20 years into the 'Asian Century' how does the opportunity stack up and what are our businesses doing to take on the challenge and reap the rewards?

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Psychology of Disruption: Evolution Didn’t Prepare You for Innovation

Move than 500,000 years ago homo erectus descended from the trees, walked upright set out across the savanna headed for Silicon Valley. In order to survive certain physical attributes, skills and cognitive mechanisms became part of our make up but unfortunately these were selected based on their ability to keep us alive and not to help us design the future of our industries.
Not only are we not designed to innovate we're not psychologically wired to cope with the type of change innovation brings. So with that in mind how can you structure your businesses, work methods and culture to allow your business to become a innovation hot spot with a bright future.

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Future of Food

A Hunger For Innovation: The Reinvention Of Food

How technology is delivering new food paradigms – personalised nutrition to the mass market, food and ingredient developed to deliver higher life quality. The arrival of "Clean Meat" and the impact of technology on how we feed our growing population is the focus of governments and corporates alike. More than ever sophisticated capital is looking to invest in agriculture from indoor cropping to the use of CRISPR to produce am unimaginable array of dietary options and making more from less. The future of food couldn't be more different from the recent past. Brett will explore the world of tomorrow through a lens of food and our hunger for innovation.

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