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Shawn Kanungo is a globally recognized innovation strategist who operates at the intersection of creativity, business, and technology. He previously spent 12 years at Deloitte as an Innovation Expert, working closely with leaders to navigate the complexities of disruptive innovation. His mandate at the firm was to help corporate executives to better understand and plan for the opportunities and threats associated with disruptive innovations.
Kanungo is a practitioner who has worked with hundreds of organizations on their journey to digital transformation. He has been on the ground floor leading complex projects involving artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, cloud technologies, behavioral economics, human-centered design, and film. He is a Partner with Queen & Rook, where he advises leading organizations and executives on disruptive trends and actively invests in early-stage ventures.
Kanungo's work and interviews have been featured in The Globe & Mail, The Guardian, CBC, and CTV. He has been acknowledged in Avenue Magazine's “Top 40 Under 40” and Inc’s 100 Most Innovative Leaders. In 2021, Forbes named him the “Best Virtual Keynote Speaker I’ve Ever Seen.” His debut book, "The Bold Ones," has been recognized as one of McKinsey’s top decision-making books for leaders. His content on innovation has also garnered millions of views, respectively across LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube.
Speech Topics
The Age of Infinity - Generative AI & Our Future
We are on the brink of a revolution based on the meteoric rise of Generative AI. These exponential technologies are transforming the way we communicate, collaborate, and create, revolutionizing industries around the world. However, when everyone has an AI co-pilot, who will stand out? Shawn Kanungo argues that we need more freaks — leaders that are both unique and bold.
With the rise of generative AI, cloud technologies, and remote talent, we’re entering into an age of infinite leverage where our work can be replicated at no cost, and we don’t need permission to get started. As a result, we can build exponential organizations — a new breed of businesses that can be more nimble, flexible, and highly leveraged.
Fearless Government
For decades, we have designed the public sector to be operationally excellent. Today, the game has changed. We are now looking for government to be fearless and an enabler for radical change.
From leveraging automation, ecosystem partnerships and the crowd, Shawn Kanungo paints a vision of how governments can be a catalyst for others to help them drive innovation. He will also help to make sense of the rapidly changing demographic, societal, economic, and technological trends shaping the future of government.
Sharing insights from leading organizations and his own experiences on the ground floor of driving transformation in government – Kanungo reveals the technologies, citizen expectations and service delivery models that will drive the revolution.
Strategy in a World of Disruption
The business world has fundamentally changed forever. The growth and adoption of new technologies is at a dizzying pace. Customer and employee expectations have been pushed forward 10 years due to the pandemic. We are now looking for organizations to be fearless in a changing world.
These drivers are forcing everyone to reimagine their entire organizations. How do we survive? How do we disrupt ourselves before someone else does? How do we deliver better experiences to our clients, customers, and teams? Today, we need to be bold, brave and experimental.
In this awe-inspiring talk, Shawn Kanungo provides an optimistic roadmap for the future. He explores how we can take unexpected approaches to innovation to remain competitive and relevant.
Bold Ones: How to Innovate and Disrupt Ourselves
The world is getting weirder, wackier and wilder by the minute. It has never been more crucial to adapt and evolve with the times. Yet, when faced with radical change, we tend to double down on what made us successful in the past.
Bold Ones is an awe-inspiring and provocative keynote on how individuals can apply the innovations and disruptions occurring around them to become more dynamic and valuable. Specific, actionable techniques—from uncovering ‘secrets’ within your field, to designing experiments, to creating an unstoppable personal flywheel—that will help one evolve and excel will be shared.
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