Podcasts

The Centre for the Digital Economy inspires, ideates and incubates to rapidly re-imagine and reshape strategic opportunities in the digital age. Allowing exploration between research and industry and the digital economy, The Digital Week podcast series provides engaging commentary by thought leaders:

Automation: Hype vs. Reality

How long until we’re sipping Piña Coladas while robots do all the work?
QUT’s Professor Kevin Desouza joins Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz to break down the hype vs. reality of job automation and discuss why in a digital world, digital natives are most out of work:

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Hiding in Plain Sight – Part One – Trends shaping the way we work

In part one of a three part series exploring future trends surrounding working, living and thinking, Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz and Dr Paula Dootson discuss trends shaping the way we work:

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Hiding in Plain Sight – Part Two – Trends shaping the way we live

In part two of a three part series exploring future trends surrounding working, living and thinking, Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz and Dr Paula Dootson discuss trends shaping the way we live:

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Hiding in Plain Sight – Part Three – Trends shaping the way we think

In part three of a three part series exploring future trends surrounding working, living and thinking, Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz and Dr Paula Dootson discuss trends shaping the way we think:

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Interactive Business Models

Recently a large insurance company in the US announced they would no longer underwrite traditional life insurance policy, and instead get customers to share personal data via wearable devices.

Dr Paula Dootson and Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz discuss the implications for customers and how this model could disrupt other industries:

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Blockchain with Leeanne Kemp

Leeanne Kemp, CEO of Everledger, joins Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz to discuss her leadership journey, the realities and capabilities of blockchain and of course, jobs of the future:

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Digital Maturity

Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz and Dr Mark Pedersen of KJR discuss Digital Maturity with Oliver Bolton:

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The ART of Digital

Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz and Professor Michael Rosemann discuss the ART of Digital with Oliver Bolton:

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Responsible Technology

Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz and Brisbane’s Chief Digital Officer Cat Matson discuss Digital Maturity with Oliver Bolton:

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Opportunity

Researcher and PhD student Anna Oberländer, joins Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz and Professor Michael Rosemann on The Digital Week. Anna is visiting QUT to conduct research exploring Opportunity Management. Together with Michael Rosemann, Anna is investigating how organisations can best capitalize on opportunities:

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Will the benefits of automation be shared equally?

QUT’s Professor Rowena Barrett joins Oliver Bolton and Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz to discuss the growing disparity between profits and wages, due to the increased amount of automation in our economy:

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Earlier podcasts

• The Digital Week – Leadership in the digital age (Jocko Willink, Marek Kowalkiewicz and Oliver Bolton)
• The Digital Week – Digital Confidence (Marek Kowalkiewicz and Cat Matsen)
• The Digital Week – Healthcare: from evolution to revolution (Monica Bradley and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Health 5.0: the evolution of the healthcare industry (Monica Bradley and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – The role of government in the digital economy (Monica Bradley and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Are you digitising or digitalising (Marek Kowalkiewicz, Michael Rosemann and Monica Bradley)?
• The Digital Dialogue – with the founders of Audeara (Monica Bradley, Chris Jeffery and James Fielding)
• The Digital Week – Digital Strategy of the Future (Monica Bradley, Marek Kowalkiewicz and Paula Dootsen)
• The Digital Week – Evolution of Employment (Monica Bradley and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – The Big Wave of Job Creation (Monica Bradley and Dr Matthew Flynn)
• The Digital Dialogue – with special guest Michael Evans (Monica Bradley)
• The Digital Week – Digital Human Rights (Monica Bradley, Nicolas Suzor and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Dialogue – Digital Brisbane 2.0 (Monica Bradley and Cat Matson)
• The Digital Week – Industrialisation of Innovation (Monica Bradley, Michael Rosemann and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Fake News (Monica Bradley, Michael Rosemann and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Retail: 5.0: Check-out the Future (Monica Bradley, Michael Rosemann and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Consumer Deviance (Monica Bradley and Paula Dootson)
• The Digital Week – Hiding in Plain Sight: Trends that will Shape the Economy (Monica Bradley, Michael Rosemann and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Proactive Government (Monica Bradley and Pete Townson)
• The Digital Week – The Secret Code: High Growth Firms (Monica Bradley and Rowena Barrett)
• The Digital Week – Blockchain (Monica Bradley and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Accelerating Ideas: The Sprint (Monica Bradley, Marek Kowalkiewicz and Ben Sorensen)
• The Digital Week – The Proactive Organisation (Monica Bradley and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Opportunity (Monica Bradley, Michael Roseman and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Environmental Sensing (Monica Bradley, Michael Rosemann and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Dialogue – Professor Karl Kautz
• The Digital Dialogue – Smart Cities: People, Place and Technologies (Monica Bradley, Marcus Foth and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Digital Community (Monica Bradley, Michael Rosemann and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Dialogue – Neuroplasticity with Professor Selena Bartlett
• The Digital Week – Disruptive Innovation (Marek Kowalkiewicz and Michael Rosemann)
• The Digital Dialogue – Professor Antonio Liotta
• The Digital Dialogue – Hackerspace Brisbane (Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Digital Intelligence (Monica Bradley, Michael Rosemann and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – The Innovation Nation (Monica Bradley, Michael Rosemann and Marek Kowalkiewicz)
• The Digital Week – Digital Identity 3.0 (Monica Bradley and Michael Rosemann)
• The Digital Dialogue – Tracey Gosling (Australia Post)
• The Digital Dialogue – Rethinking Regulation in the Sharing Economy (Bronwen Morgan and Dr Nick Suzor)
• The Digital Week – Silicon Valley meets Bris-Vegas (Monica Bradley, Michael Rosemann and Marek Kowalkieweicz)
• The Digital Week – Digital public goods (Monica Bradley and Michael Rosemann)
• The Digital Dialogue – Clive Whincup (CIO of Woolworths)
• The Digital Dialogue – Disrupting the electricity sector (Robert Perrons and David Ferguson)
• The Digital Week – Education 3.0 (Monica Bradley and Michael Rosemann)
• The Digital Week – Using Digital to drive game changing value creation (Monica Bradley and Michael Rosemann)
• The Digital Week – The Digital Divide (Monica Bradley and Georgie Sommerset)
• The Digital Week – Do digital natives think differently?
• The Digital Week – Is data changing my behaviour (Monica Bradley and Megan Houghton)?
• The Digital Week – Smart City Gamification (Monica Bradley and Michael Rosemann)
• The Digital Week – Sharing Economy Regulation
• The Digital Week – A date with disruption (Monica Bradley, Michael Rosemann and Trent Lund)
• The Digital Week – Are you a data fashionista (Monica Bradley and Michael Rosemann)?