Technological Disruption, AI and Resiliency Skills
Dr Katerina Thomas PhD
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- KaterinaThomas
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- Anywhere
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- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
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- Professional
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- Expensed: Free, but paid travel expenses
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- Business
- Updated:
- 15th April 2021
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here. There are emerging general-purpose technologies that are being applied across multiple sectors and industries, including AI, blockchain, biotechnology, nanotechnology, genomics and the Internet of Things.
Corporations around the world have been automating their business, technology by technology, process by process. Rapid advances in robotics, Big Data and AI have begun disrupting entire industries and technology, with obvious effects on jobs and people. Lured by the prospect of sizeable productivity gains, these ‘smart’ companies have been accelerating the adoption of intelligent algorithms.
No doubt, there is an exciting future ahead. New technologies will solve large portions of our environmental challenges, prevent tens of thousands of deaths each year, save millions of hours in productivity gains and create new industries we can’t currently imagine. But there is a dark side to AI’s adoption too. As we move to a more digitised, AI-driven world, there will be additional pressures on our mental health and well-being as we strive to keep up with the pace of change.
The talk focuses on how can you adapt to ride this wave of technological disruption today and thereby avoid becoming an irrelevant human in the age of intelligent machines.
Views: 557 | Enquiries: 4About Dr Katerina Thomas PhD
Katerina Thomas is an entrepreneur, writer and scholar in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial resilience. Katerina has a special interest in cognitive–behavioural therapy and disruptive technologies, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI).
Katerina is an author of the book Generation AI: The Rise of The Resilient Entrepreneur. Part investigation and part playbook for the future, Generation AI: The Rise of the Resilient Entrepreneur explains why to stay relevant, many will turn to entrepreneurship. However, only resilient and adaptive people who can think in unpredictable and creative ways will be able to benefit from the forthcoming rapid technological advancements and ride the next entrepreneurial wave.
An educational professional by day and writer and mentor by night, Katerina received her PhD in philosophy from Aston University and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Katerina’s mission is to teach business owners the critical action steps needed to build entrepreneurial resilience, survive business challenges, and use powerful strategies to review, reinvent and relaunch their businesses. She hosts the Mental Wealth for Entrepreneurs podcast, which is all about building entrepreneurial resilience and approaches to mental well-being. The podcast explores authentic stories of entrepreneurs about their ups and downs on their entrepreneurial journeys and also challenges and combats the stigma around mental health – all tied together by Katerina’s mission to help people become resilient entrepreneurs.
When she is not writing, teaching or podcasting, Katerina spends most of her time teaching and reading to her son, and walking in the countryside. An avid nature fanatic, she feeds her addiction by going for long walks in nature parks and forests with her son and two Italian Greyhound dogs on weekends.
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