ABOUT bruce
DR BRUCE MCCABE PRESENTS ON THE FUTURE
Dr Bruce McCabe is a global futurist and international keynote speaker who presents on the future of medicine, computing, artificial intelligence, energy, genomics – wherever the game-changers happen to be. He travels constantly and works across all industry sectors.
Bruce has explored emerging technologies and how innovation happens for 30 years. He began his career at IBM in 1988 and went on to hold senior roles at IBM, WordPerfect, Novell and Gartner. In 2002 he founded S2 Intelligence, a think tank to support organizational innovation through grounded research. He served as an independent adviser to a long list of multinationals, state and federal governments, universities and science labs. When not speaking he writes novels about the near future.
BRUCE'S APPROACH
ENGAGE
We schedule a call with Bruce to discuss your audience, event goals and topic preferences in detail. Bruce confirms fees and we forward a document to make sure we have everything exactly right.
BUILD
Bruce goes to work, conducting research, selecting the right stories and preparing beautiful visuals. Every presentation is customized.
DELIVER
Bruce delivers a unique, high-energy show, taking your audience on an exhilarating thrill-ride into the future that has everyone scoring your event a ‘must’ for next year!
BRUCE’S SPEAKING PHILOSOPHY
Customize every show to the audience.
Tell stories about game-changers that are real and coming and amazing.
Never use bullet points on stage, only beautiful images supporting compelling stories.
Stay afterwards for 1:1 discussion during coffee breaks, etc – this is where magic happens!
Help people think differently, expansively and optimistically about their future.
Share positive developments they don’t see on the nightly news.
Inspire people to go after opportunities in their future.
Take questions on any topic.
Make it FUN!
PIONEERING RESEARCH
Bruce is widely recognized for his pioneering research in innovation and the adoption of new technologies. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 essays, columns and research papers, delivered more than 500 presentations on five continents and holds a PhD in organizational and technological innovation from the University of Technology Sydney.
Other CONTRIBUTIONs along the way
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney (2019-2022)
Entrepreneur in residence, National ICT Australia (2011)
Non-executive Director, NSW Writer’s Centre (2014-2018)
Co-founder Yuruware, a cloud-based disaster recovery start-up. Subsequently acquired by Unitrends.
Founder, KPMG Innovation Advisory practice (2009)
Industry Research Fellow, Built Environment Innovation Lab, UTS (2016-2018)
Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Engineering & IT, UTS (2007-present)
Preliminary speaker for Bill Clinton on his visit to Melbourne (2001)
Chair, e-business stream, National Broadband Future Forum (2010)
CSIRO Long Term Science Planning (2008)
Co-founder, Future Forum (2008)
National ICT Australia 2020 planning (2007)
National E-Health Strategy (2008)
DIISR Innovation Council stakeholder workshops (2009)
APCA study on innovation in Australia's payments system (2009)
National Office for the Information Economy e-business advisory panel (2002-2004)
UTS Future Vision Group (2007)
AGIMO National Government Interoperability Framework (2005)
ACCC investigation into competitive effects of online business models (2001)
ACMA anti-spam and online content regulations (2004)
ATO investigation into e-commerce and taxation (2001)
Weekly newspaper columnist, The Australian (2003-2006)
Monthly columnist, Managing Information Strategies (2002-2003)
Monthly columnist, Business Online (2002)
Monthly columnist, Australian Personal Computer (1996-1999)
Author, The Future of Business (S2 Intelligence, 2007)