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Brian Solis’ Keynote Helps Leaders Reimagine Their Business in an AI-First World

Will Artificial Intelligence Outpace Human Genius?

Here’s a quick take from a recent keynote in Italy…

The truth is that no leader has experienced a technology like genAI before, one that performs tasks as well as or better than humans.

What’s clear, we have now catapulted toward a post-digital transformation era. AI has forever changed the trajectory of business evolution, putting ‘business as usual’ in the rearview mirror.

Leaders now face an entirely new set of prospects and challenges that will test their creativity, resilience, and vision.

It’s time to reimagine your business in an AI-first world!

In this rousing keynote, world-renowned futurist and best-selling author Brian Solis will share why this is the moment for leaders to reimagine their organizations for an entirely new future. He will explore why automation is no longer the goal, but instead the norm, why augmentation will be the key to differentiation, and how leaders can forge the *mind shift* required to unlock a new future as an AI-first exponential growth business.

About Brian

Brian Solis is Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow.

He is also a world-renowned keynote speaker, 8x Best-Selling Author, and Futurist who studies disruptive technologies and their impact on business and society.

To book him at your next event, please contact Zach Nadler: zach@vaynerspeakers.com

 

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Unlocking Potential and the Future of Work: An Interview with Espresso Displays Part 1

While in Sydney delivering the locknote at the ServiceNow Sydney Summit, I had the opportunity to meet with my friends at Espresso Displays. We were able to turn my room at the W Sydney into a mini studio. Our conversation explored the future of work in two parts. Here’s part one…

Work is evolving faster than ever before. In an age of uncertainty, its even more important to rethink our relationship to work. Brian Solis, the Global Head of Innovation at Service Now, recently shared insights and perspectives on the next evolutions of productivity and experiences that can create a healthier approach to work.

In this interview, Solis delves into the shifting landscapes of work culture and technology, highlighting the importance of reimagining workspaces, tools, and mindsets.

Solis emphasizes that the best work is achieved not merely by being more productive but through meaningful and inspired experiences. He explores emerging technologies and trends, aiming to reverse engineer business operations and foster innovation.

According to Solis, work is no longer confined to traditional settings; it’s about finding inspiration anywhere, anytime.

“What excites me the most about this is the Playbook isn’t written,” Solis remarks. “Work itself can be anywhere, any place, anytime.” He sees this as an opportunity to unleash creativity and redefine the meaning of work. Rather than viewing work as a constraint, Solis encourages embracing uncertainty and leveraging it to shape the future.

Reflecting on the future of work, Solis emphasizes the need to rethink workspaces and tools. He advocates for spaces that inspire collaboration and creativity, whether physical or virtual. Solis himself travels extensively, relying on innovative tools like the espresso display to stay connected and productive on the go.

“Work reimagined, whether it’s at home or in the office, has to be the same,” Solis asserts. He envisions a world where technology empowers individuals to achieve the extraordinary, transcending the limitations of traditional work environments.

As we navigate the ever-changing landscape of work, Solis reminds us that the future is ours to shape. By embracing uncertainty and leveraging technology, we can unlock new possibilities and redefine the way we work.

Check out the full interview here:

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Brian Solis to Keynote the 16th Annual Drucker Forum in Vienna

Brian Solis will keynote the prestigious Drucker Forum on November 14-15, 2024 in Vienna.

The theme for the event this year is, “”The Next Knowledge Work: Managing for New Levels of Value Creation and Innovation.”

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Brian Solis
Head of Global Innovation, ServiceNow, Digital Anthropologist and Futurist, 8x Best-Selling Author

Futurist: Forbes heralded Brian Solis as “one of the more creative and brilliant business minds of our time.” He was recently named a “top futurist speaker,” by ReadWrite. ZDNet called him “one of the 21st century business world’s leading thinkers.”

Brian helps audiences understand the evolving, complex landscape of digital trends and how they impact our work, markets, and business over time. Whether it’s generative AI, AR/VR or and spatial computing, web3, the metaverse, IoT, digital twins, or robotics and autonomous vehicles and systems, Brian humanizes each wave of emergent disruption to help audiences understand trends and see themselves productively shaping the future. He helps shift people’s mindsets from being overwhelmed, confused, or intimidated to moving forward with curiosity, excitement, and imagination.

Digital Anthropologist: Brian is one of the industry’s first digital anthropologists who helped define the practice and humanized the trends. He observes how technology changes people’s behavior as leaders, employees, or customers and understand their aspirations, their values, how they make decisions, and how they want to work.

Through this research, Brian helps audiences empathize with different generations (Gen-Y, Z, Alpha) and understand how technology creates a cross-generational superset of people with similar behaviors, interests, and aspirations. Brian coined these important groups as Generation-Connected and Generation-Novel.

ServiceNow: Currently, Brian serves as the Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow. In his role, he sets the strategic direction and programming for ServiceNow’s Innovation and Executive Briefing Centers in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Paris, Sydney, and Singapore. Additionally, Brian designs and delivers engagements with customers to advise on digital and business innovation strategies. He writes for leading publications to help executives and customers understand technology and market trends and inspire business model innovation.

United Nations: Brian serves as a special adviser to the UN global innovation team. He develops workshops and keynotes that explore emergent trends and future scenarios, scenario strategies, skills development, and culture and leadership.

Salesforce: As the leader of Global Innovation at Salesforce, Brian gained a reputation as the “CxO Whisperer” because of his ability to translate shifting technology and market trends into actionable strategies. He also has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing companies and helps leaders think differently about current priorities and investments to future proof their organizations. Brian also partnered with leading brands to develop innovation pilots in service, L&D, and commerce, including applications that featured digital humans, 3D/immersive shopping and e-commerce powered by augmented reality.

Brian is personable approachable and engaging. And as one event organizer recently put it, “Brian has a special gift to engage people and help everyone believe they can be part of change.” The Conference Board said it this way, “Brian is the futurist we all need now.”

He’s an eight-time, best-selling, and award-winning author and has published more than 60 research reports on the future of business, work, digital transformation and innovation across industries such as retail, healthcare, financial services, insurance, and public sector. He’s currently working on his ninth book due out later in 2023.

His blog, BrianSolis.com, is among the world’s leading business online resources to his 800,000 followers. Brian also contributes to FastCompany, ZDNet, Forbes, Techonomy, CIO, and Singularity University.

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Brian Solis to Keynote GlobalLink NEXT in NY on June 26th

Brian Solis is set to serve as the closing keynote speaker at the GlobalLink NEXT event in New York City on June 26th, 2024.

GlobalLink NEXT is an annual invitation-only conference hosted by TransPerfect. The event brings together industry professionals, technology & solutions experts, client support teams, and users from around the globe.3

In his keynote, Brian will explore how AI is influencing customer behaviors and expectations and how businesses need to rethink customer journeys and experiences to guide them toward mutually beneficial outcomes.

 

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AInsights: Forgetting Google? Perplexity Pages Craft Expert Content Search Engines Love

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AInsights: Your executive-level insights making sense of the latest in generative AI…

Perplexity, my favorite AI-powered answers engine, just introduced Perplexity Pages. This is a game changer on so many fronts. Let’s start with what it is, and then we’ll get into why this is such a big deal.

As a content creator, I do my research. Then, I assemble the information into an article, blog, video, podcast, website, paper, etc., and publish a link where people can visit to learn more. Perplexity now provides a content creation and publishing platform to conduct AI-powered research, vet the information, document sources, and publish your research as a linkable (and shareable) destination. Said simply, Perplexity Pages uses its artificial intelligence engine to transform research into visually compelling and shareable web pages with just a few clicks.

Here’s an example. Today, I spent time researching how to make authentic bolognese. In my research using Google, Youtube, and Perplexity, I learned that there is one registered recipe and another that’s also widely accepted as authentic. The registered recipe doesn’t not use tomatoes or milk. The other does. After all that work, I assembled, manually, after countless resources on both sides, the process to correctly reproduce both recipes. Had I done this using Perplexity Pages, I could have produced my own, personally researched cook book, at the push of a button, saving a ton of time researching, writing, and assembling pictures and videos. UPDATE: I did indeed channel all research to Perplexity Pages and published my results for all the home chefs out there!

Where was this when I started blogging!?

How does Perplexity Pages work?

1) Define the Topic: Specify the subject matter you want to explore, whether it’s an industry overview, product analysis, or market research.

2) Specify the Audience: Indicate the target audience for your content, such as executives, researchers, or customers.

3) Generate the Page: Perplexity’s AI scours its LLM, curates relevant information, and generates a structured draft with sections, images, and citations. You can prompt Perplexity to generate AI images, upload your own, or use web images.

4) Customize and Publish: Refine the content, add or remove sections, adjust the layout, and publish the Page to Perplexity’s library or share it directly with your audience.

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Pages reminds me of the original Blogger and WordPress combined with Canvas and also Quora if answers were generated by artificial intelligence. It’s part publishing tool, part thought leadership/branding, part subject matter expert, and part designer.

For example, here’s my Perplexity Page that explores Perplexity Pages.

With many pundits, myself included, positioning Perplexity as an answers engine and an alternative to Google, Pages are likely to be indexed by Google itself. This means that Perplexity is providing the tools to help curious thinkers, creators, writers, academics, experts, and researchers, accelerate and elevate their thought leadership using its competitors platform to amplify subject matter expertise and potentially, online visibility and fundability.

Google will respond. In the meantime, this is an excellent tool to learn how to hone AI-powered research and hone your editing skills, validating AI-powered results, and up-leveling the output in every dimension

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Brian Solis Keynote: AI Is Eating the World – Time to Innovate for an AI First World

Brian Solis delivered the keynote at Innov8rs in Los Angeles, “AI Is Eating the World: Time to Innovate for a AI-First World.”

Generative AI is now the fastest growing technology in the world. In this riveting keynote, world-renowned futurist and eight-time best-selling author Brian Solis shares why now is the time to reimagine your business for an entirely new future.

Solis argues why automation is the norm, but not the only end goal. In this session he demonstrates how augmentation becomes the key to differentiation for enterprises that are at the inflection point of thriving or perishing in the age of AI. With the mind shift that this session will initiate, leaders will be able to unlock a new future toward becoming an exponential business.

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Brian Solis Keynote: AI Is Eating the World – Time to Innovate for a AI First World

Brian Solis delivered the keynote at Innov8rs in Los Angeles, “AI Is Eating the World: Time to Innovate for a AI-First World.”

Generative AI is now the fastest growing technology in the world. In this riveting keynote, world-renowned futurist and eight-time best-selling author Brian Solis shares why now is the time to reimagine your business for an entirely new future.

Solis argues why automation is the norm, not a goal. In this session he demonstrates how augmentation becomes the key to differentiation for enterprises that are at the inflection point of thriving or perishing in the age of AI. With the mind shift that this session will initiate, leaders will be able to unlock a new future toward becoming an exponential business.

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The Inception of Our New Spatial Reality: Immerse or Die!

In the worlds of AR , VR, gaming, and spatial computing, Cathy Hackl and Irena Cronin are renowned. I’ve known them for the better part of 15+ years and they are still among my favorite subject matter experts to follow.

I’m proud to share that their new book, Spatial Computing: An AI Business Revolution, is now available.

I’m also proud to share that I had the privilege of writing the foreword and I get to share it with you here!

About the Book

Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution reveals exclusive insider knowledge of what’s happening today in the convergence of AI and spatial computing. Spatial Computing is an evolving 3D-centric form of computing that uses AI, Computer Vision, and extended reality to blend virtual experiences into the physical world, breaking free from screens into everything you can see, experience, and know.

Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution includes coverage of:

The new paradigm of human-to-human and human-computer interaction, enhancing how we visualize, simulate, and interact with data in physical and virtual locations.

Navigating the world alongside robots, drones, cars, virtual assistants, and beyond―without the limitation of just one technology or device.

Insights, tools and illustrative use cases that enable businesses to harness the convergence of AI and spatial computing today and in the decade to come via both hardware and software.

The impact of spatial computing is just starting to be felt. Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution is a must-have resource for business leaders who wish to fully understand this new form of revolutionary, evolutionary technology that is expected to be even more impactful than personal computing and mobile computing.

Foreword – The Inception of Our New Spatial Reality: Immerse or Die!

Apple had its next iPhone moment with the launch of its Vision Pro in 2024. Like in 2007, Apple yet again shifted the trajectory of computing behaviors by developing an intelligent and immersive Spatial Computing platform. And like in 2007, the world will never be the same. An entirely new operating system unlocked entirely new dimensions. These infinite, layered canvases bestowed users with metahuman capabilities. Now, people in any context can interact with information, content, and each other in ways and in spaces that didn’t exist in traditional physical and digital realms. We thus gain access to unprecedented worlds and experiences with unimagined worlds forming in virtual and augmented realms every day.

But wait, there’s more. Eight or so months before the introduction of Apple’s Vision Pro, OpenAI released ChatGPT, introducing generative AI to the masses. In fact, ChatGPT is widely regarded as the fastest-growing con- sumer internet app of all time, reaching an estimated 100 million monthly users in just two months.1 Generative AI is also in its own way giving users superpowers by augmenting their efforts with Artificial Intelligence. In fact, most apps and platforms will automatically integrate generative AI as parts of its user interface (UI). It will just seamlessly blend in to digital experiences. Added to Spatial Computing, AI-powered experiences supercharge human potential by arming them with a cognitive exoskeleton, augmented and virtual vision, and the ability to interact with computers, robots, data, and one another in three-dimensional other-worldly spaces.

And that’s where this story begins.

Humans are now entering into uncharted portals of hybrid realities that are not only intelligent and immersive, but also transcendent. They augment human capabilities to unlock exponential performance and previously unat- tainable outcomes in evolving hybrid dimensions that foster the intermun- dane relationship between physical and digital worlds.

Cathy Hackl and Irena Cronin are about to deliver a transformative inception by planting the idea of spatial innovation to spark your imagination to create new worlds, new ways of working, new ways of learning, new ways of communicating, new ways of exploring, and new ways of dreaming, remembering, inventing, solving, and evolving.

This frontier between the physical and digital world will be shaped by you and fellow readers. You are the architects of these unexplored worlds. You are the astronomers who discover them. You are the pioneers who explore these new territories. And it’s your vision that defines the next chapter of spatial design, experiences, and human potential.

What a virtual world we now live in! Immerse or die!

Brian Solis
Digital Futurist, Anthropologist, Soon-To-Be 9x Best-Selling Author, Metahuman, briansolis.com

 

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The Story Behind The Conversation Prism, A Viral Social Media Infographic by Brian Solis and JESS3

In 2007, JESS3 and I released v1.0 of The Conversation Prism, a map and mental model for navigating the social media landscape at the time.

Fun fact: this became one of the first ever viral social media infographics.

We would go on to release 4 additional iterations and ship thousands of full-size posters.

Who knows, maybe we’ll release the next version one day soon!

This is the backstory. Please watch!

You can find V5.0 here.

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AInsights: At Google I/O, AI Becomes An Extension of All You Do and Create, and Its Going to Change…Everything

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AInsights: Your executive-level insights on the latest in generative AI…

Meet Agent 00AI…your new Q to help you navigate your work and personal lives.

Google hosted its I/O event and everything the company announced isn’t just disruptive or progressive in the realm of genAI, but also to itself.

Let’s run through the announcements and then let’s dive deeper to analyze how they rival OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Perplexity.

For starters, Google announced Gemini AI Integration across multiple key products, which is a sign of the future for next-gen hardware and software products. At some point on the horizon, AI will simply become part of the user interface, acting as an assistant to collaborate with you in real-time, or, eventually, as a proactive agent on your behalf.

Automatic movie/TV show description generation in Google TV.Geospatial augmented reality content in Google Maps.AI-generated quizzes on educational YouTube videos.Natural language search in Google Photos (“Ask Photos” feature). This is huge in of itself. How many pictures do you have on your phone or in the cloud that you’re likely never to see again? You can find pictures simply by describing them to AI!AI assistance for email drafting, summarization, and e-commerce returns in Gmail. Now also please enhance email search! Why is this still a challenge in 2024!?Google I/O in Under 10 Minutes

 

Gemini 2 Model Update

Google also announced a new 27-billion-parameter model for Gemini 2 (latest 1.5 details here), its next-generation AI offering, optimized for efficient performance on GPUs. This larger model can support the largest input of any commercially available AI model.

Veo and Imagen 3 for Creators

Google showcased Veo, its latest high-definition video generation model designed to compete against Sora and Midjourney, and Imagen 3, its highest-quality text-to-image model, promising more lifelike visuals.

These tools will be available for select creators initially.

Audio Overviews and AI Sandbox

Google introduced ‘Audio Overviews,’ a feature that generates audio discussions based on text input, and ‘AI Sandbox,’ a range of generative AI tools for creating music and sounds from user prompts.

AI Overviews in Search

Google Search is launching ‘AI Overviews’ to provide quick summaries of answers to complex search queries, along with assistant-like planning capabilities for multi-step tasks.

Google introduced the ability to ask open-ended questions and receive detailed, coherent responses generated by AI models. This allows users to get more comprehensive information beyond just a list of links.

AI Agents: Google unveiled AI agents that can engage in back-and-forth dialogue to help users accomplish multi-step tasks like research, analysis, and creative projects. These agents leverage the latest language models to provide personalized assistance.

Multimodal Search: Google expanded its search capabilities to understand and generate responses combining text, images, audio, and other modalities. This enables users to search with images or audio clips and receive relevant multimedia results.

Longer Context: Google’s search models now have the ability to understand and incorporate much longer context from a user’s query history and previous interactions. This allows for more contextually relevant and personalized search experiences.

These new AI-powered search features aim to provide more natural, interactive, and comprehensive information access compared to traditional keyword-based search. They leverage Google’s latest advancements in large language models and multimodal AI to deliver a more assistive and intelligent search experience.

What we have yet to see though, are tools for businesses who need to be on the other side of AI search. It’s clear that search behaviors are changing, but how products and services appear on the other side of discovery is the next Wild West.

AI Teammate for Google Workspace

The ‘AI Teammate’ feature will integrate into Google Workspace, helping to build a searchable collection of work from messages and email threads, providing analyses and summaries.

Project Astra – AI Assistant

Google unveiled Project Astra, a prototype AI assistant built by DeepMind that can help users with tasks like identifying surroundings, finding lost items, reviewing code, and answering questions in real-time.

This is by far the most promising of Google’s AI assistants, and for the record, is not available yet. Project Astra represents Google’s vision for the future of AI assistants…and more.

We could also very well be on the cusp of a next-gen version of Google Glass. And this time, it won’t be so awkward now that Meta and Ray-Ban have helped to consumerize wearable AI.

So what is it?

Project Astra is a multimodal AI agent capable of perceiving and responding to real-time information through text, video, images, and speech. It can simultaneously access information from the web and its surroundings using a smartphone camera or smart glasses. The system encodes video frames and speech into a timeline, caching it for efficient recall and response. For example, in the demo below, you’ll see a live video feed panning a room where the user stops, draws and arrow on the screen, and asks the AI assistant to identify the object. In another example, the video feed continues to pan with the user asking it to recognize objects that produce sound. The AI assistant accurately identifies an audio speaker.

Project Astra Key Capabilities

Identifies objects, sounds, and their specific parts in real-time using computer vision and audio processing.

Understands context and location based on visual cues from the environment.

Provides explanations and information related to objects, code snippets, or scenarios it perceives.

Engages in natural, conversational interactions, adapting to interruptions and speech patterns.

Offers proactive assistance and reminders based on the user’s context and past interactions.

Implications for Businesses

Project Astra represents a significant leap in AI capabilities, offering several potential benefits for businesses:

Enhanced Productivity: An AI assistant that can understand and respond to the complexities of real-world scenarios could streamline various tasks, boosting employee productivity and efficiency.

Improved Customer Experience: Businesses could leverage Project Astra’s multimodal capabilities to provide more intuitive and personalized customer support, enhancing the overall customer experience.

Augmented Decision-Making: By processing and synthesizing information from multiple sources in real-time,

Project Astra could assist executives and decision-makers with data-driven insights and recommendations.
Innovation Opportunities: The advanced AI capabilities of Project Astra could pave the way for new products, services, and business models that leverage multimodal interactions and contextual awareness.

While Project Astra is still in development, Google plans to integrate some of its capabilities into products like the Gemini app and web experience later this year. Business executives should closely monitor the progress of Project Astra and explore how its cutting-edge AI capabilities could benefit their organizations and drive innovation.

And that’s your AInsights this time around. Now you and I can think about the future of AI-powered search, work, next-level creations we’ll produce, and how we’ll navigate our world, and our business, with AI by our side.

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