Monthly Archives: May 2009

Interview on the global and Middle East economy

Ross Dawson, May 31, 2009 at 5:01 pm

Prominent Arabic region magazine Trends did a special issue to accompany the MegaTrends conference where I delivered a keynote last week, incorporating interviews with the three major speakers: Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon al-Nahyan, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourist Authority, and myself. My interview is in the document

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston coming soon!

Ross Dawson, May 29, 2009 at 10:04 pm

While our annual Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum is the biggest Enterprise 2.0 event in Australasia and Asia, the global landmark event for Enterprise 2.0 is definitely the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, coming up on June 22-25. As I am a blogger partner of the conference, you can get a 30% discount by registering through

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Landslide in front of my house!

Ross Dawson, May 28, 2009 at 5:35 pm

Yesterday evening water got cut off to our house, and then the electricity went out. There were sounds of roadwork outside, so I presumed that as had happened before they were digging up pipes in the road and hadn’t bothered to let us know. In the morning my wife Victoria got up and then rushed

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A purveyor of Social Media-Web 2.0-Geek porn

Ross Dawson, May 27, 2009 at 6:58 pm

@webtechman just posted this: For connoisseurs of geek porn who haven’t seen it before, click on the image below for my full Twitter background, comprised of four of our more well-known frameworks, or go to the full pdfs of the frameworks here: Web 2.0 Framework, Extinction Timeline, Trend Blend 2007, and Future of Media Strategic

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The state of the UAE and Gulf economies

Ross Dawson, May 25, 2009 at 1:24 am

Continuing my live blogging of the MegaTrends conference before my keynote this afternoon, there are two sessions on the economy: a presentation from the Ministry of the Economy, and a panel of the chief economists of leading banks. The UAE Minister for the Economy couldn’t make it, so the Director-General of the Ministry presented his

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Keynote presentation: Profiting from Accelerating Change – MegaTrends in Abu Dhabi

Ross Dawson, May 25, 2009 at 1:12 am

Below are my slides for my keynote at the MegaTrends conference at Abu Dhabi. As for all my presentations, note that these slides are designed to accompany my speech and not to be viewed on their own, though may still be useful to people who didn’t attend. Keynote: Profiting from Accelerating Change – MegaTrends Abu

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The MegaTrends of Technology, Business, and Society

Ross Dawson, May 25, 2009 at 1:05 am

In preparing for my keynote at the MegaTrends conference in Abu Dhabi this afternoon I have distilled my thinking into a new visual representation. To gain insights the future we need to understand the intersection of three domains: Technology, Business, and Society. In each of these domains we can distill one driving force that brings

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Paul Krugman on the state of the global economy live at MegaTrends in Abu Dhabi

Ross Dawson, May 24, 2009 at 10:42 pm

The biggest highlight of the MegaTrends conference for me (other than my own keynote ) is the presentation by Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel prize for economics last year, on the state of the global economy. I have a lot of respect for his outlook. Live notes from his speech: The volume of world

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Live blogging the MegaTrends conference

Ross Dawson, May 24, 2009 at 10:37 pm

I’m at the MegaTrends conference in Abu Dhabi where I will be giving my keynote this afternoon. I’ll be live blogging the morning sessions. The conference was opened by His Excellency Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, a member of the Al Nahyan Abu Dhabi royal family, and chairman of Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority and several

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Keynote in Abu Dhabi: The future of the Gulf region

Ross Dawson, May 21, 2009 at 5:38 am

Next Monday I do the closing keynote at the MegaTrends conference in Abu Dhabi. The opening keynote will be by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, while I will close speaking on ‘Profiting from Accelerating Change in a Downturn’. While I will be speaking from a global perspective, I will also be addressing some of the

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Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of AHT Group, which consists of 3 companies: consulting, publishing, and ventures firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy firm Future Exploration Network, and events company The Insight Exchange.

Ross is author most recently of Getting Results From Crowds, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, and Implementing Enterprise 2.0. (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.