In a hat-trick of a week, Tania de Jong AM has this week walked away with three prestigious accolades, being named one of the Top 100 Women of Influencce by the Australian Financial Review; number 33 of the Top 100 Most Influential Australian Entrepreneurs by Richtopia; and a finalist for Social Entrepreneur of the Year by Third Sector Awards.

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The European Business Forum is the premier event for business leaders in Europe. It brings together the continent’s top business people with the world’s leading management gurus in “the Davos of business thinking”.

The forum is hosted by Thinkers50, the world’s leading network of business thinkers, and located in Odense, Denmark.  “Making better choices” is the theme of this year’s forum. Business leaders face more choices than ever before, and there are few limits to the ways a business can grow. In fact, in a world of infinite possibilities, the hardest part is often deciding what not to do – to make choices. As part of this forum Tania will be delivering a keynote on building a culture of innovation and fostering creativity within your organisation.  For more information and to book tickets

The robot revolution is inevitable.

In fact, you could comfortably say it’s already upon us.

As automation and artificial intelligence evolve at breakneck speed, our policies and institutions are frantically chasing their tails to keep pace.

This disruption presents one of the most pointed challenges to modern economies – and Australia is not immune. continue reading »

I want to tell you straight off what this story is about: Sometime in the next 40 years, robots are going to take your job.

I don’t care what your job is. If you dig ditches, a robot will dig them better. If you’re a magazine writer, a robot will write your articles better. If you’re a doctor, IBM’s Watson will no longer “assist” you in finding the right diagnosis from its database of millions of case studies and journal articles. It will just be a better doctor than you.

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