The Age of Infinity - Generative AI & Our Future
Shawn Kanungo
We are on the brink of a revolution based on the meteoric rise of Generative AI, most notably ChatGPT. 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.
In this provocative and counter-intuitive keynote, Kanungo dives deep into the age of artificial intelligence and infinite leverage. He explores why this will shape the future, and how it will impact culture, business, technology, and individuals.
WHAT AUDIENCES COME AWAY WITH:
- Acquire the skills and knowledge to confidently navigate the opportunities presented by AI and infinite leverage.
- Implement strategies to harness the transformative power of Generative AI, cloud technologies, and remote talent.
- Explore how to replicate work effectively in an age where AI provides infinite leverage, transforming communication, collaboration, and creation.
Snowflakes and Fingerprints: How to Attract Top Talent
Eric Termuende
Regardless of where we look, talent shortages are impacting every industry, and competition is fierce. With an entire generation on the precipice of retirement, and not enough workers ready to replace them, the situation is only going to get fiercer. More than ever before, we need to do whatever we can to attract and retain top talent – but what is that? After a decade of research on the world’s greatest places to work, workplace culture and leadership expert Eric Termuende has the answer.
To attract the right talent in today’s environment, we must plant our metaphorical flag in the ground and emphasize what makes us, as employers, different from the rest. This means highlighting not only how and where we work, but also the more intangible aspects of our organization, like our purpose and values. It means leveraging our current employees’ experiences and sharing why they love their jobs. To attract talent in the future of work we need to be loud and proud about the things that make us uniquely us.
In this fun and takeaway-filled presentation, attendees will not only learn how to create their own compelling stories to attract the right talent to their organization, but they’ll also leave with a talent attraction framework they can continue to refine as the world of work keeps evolving.
Like snowflakes and fingerprints, it all comes down to uniqueness. The days of job listings demanding a long list of skills and attributes from potential employees are gone. Instead, we need to talk about the larger workplace experience and the difference our organizations are making in the world.
WHAT AUDIENCES COME AWAY WITH:
Following this opening keynote presentation, Eric will lead an interactive hot-seat session and workshop. This deep-dive is designed to allow audience members the opportunity to interact, learn and practice new strategies that they can later implement in their own companies.
Eric Termuende
Regardless of where we look, talent shortages are impacting every industry, and competition is fierce. With an entire generation on the precipice of retirement, and not enough workers ready to replace them, the situation is only going to get fiercer. More than ever before, we need to do whatever we can to attract and retain top talent – but what is that? After a decade of research on the world’s greatest places to work, workplace culture and leadership expert Eric Termuende has the answer.
To attract the right talent in today’s environment, we must plant our metaphorical flag in the ground and emphasize what makes us, as employers, different from the rest. This means highlighting not only how and where we work, but also the more intangible aspects of our organization, like our purpose and values. It means leveraging our current employees’ experiences and sharing why they love their jobs. To attract talent in the future of work we need to be loud and proud about the things that make us uniquely us.
In this fun and takeaway-filled presentation, attendees will not only learn how to create their own compelling stories to attract the right talent to their organization, but they’ll also leave with a talent attraction framework they can continue to refine as the world of work keeps evolving.
Like snowflakes and fingerprints, it all comes down to uniqueness. The days of job listings demanding a long list of skills and attributes from potential employees are gone. Instead, we need to talk about the larger workplace experience and the difference our organizations are making in the world.
WHAT AUDIENCES COME AWAY WITH:
- Actionable ways to create and share a unique, sticky, and impactful employee value proposition
- An understanding of why creating a ‘best’ place to work might not mean what you think it does (and what licorice, cilantro, and pineapple pizza has to do with it)
- Key strategies for leveraging your best recruiters (your existing team)
- Knowledge of where culture lives, and how to adapt your story based on the team/location you’re hiring for
Following this opening keynote presentation, Eric will lead an interactive hot-seat session and workshop. This deep-dive is designed to allow audience members the opportunity to interact, learn and practice new strategies that they can later implement in their own companies.
Unleash Your Curiosity
Diana Kander
Innovation is the jet fuel of organizational relevance and industry dominance – when was your last breakthrough? Diana Kander provides a revolutionary framework embraced by innovators like Jobs, Bezos and Musk for driving continual disruptive thinking by unlocking employee curiosity. Leaders will learn mechanisms to foster radical ideation, avoid past assumptions, and breed visionary solutions week-after-week.
Through interactive exercises, Diana reveals insider techniques to identify blind spots, question orthodoxy, and systematize imagination across all levels. Attendees will uncover concrete tactics to catalyze the innate creativity within every team member, no matter their function. The result? Turning previously untapped ingenuity into an enduring competitive advantage.
Forward-thinking organizations can no longer afford to leave innovation to chance. This galvanizing and energetic session equips leaders with the tools to point the Weapon of Mass Disruption inward, empowering their workforce to continually revolutionize business as usual. Attendees will walk away armed to institutionalize transformational thinking and unlock game-changing ideas on-demand.
WHAT AUDIENCES COME AWAY WITH:
Diana Kander
Innovation is the jet fuel of organizational relevance and industry dominance – when was your last breakthrough? Diana Kander provides a revolutionary framework embraced by innovators like Jobs, Bezos and Musk for driving continual disruptive thinking by unlocking employee curiosity. Leaders will learn mechanisms to foster radical ideation, avoid past assumptions, and breed visionary solutions week-after-week.
Through interactive exercises, Diana reveals insider techniques to identify blind spots, question orthodoxy, and systematize imagination across all levels. Attendees will uncover concrete tactics to catalyze the innate creativity within every team member, no matter their function. The result? Turning previously untapped ingenuity into an enduring competitive advantage.
Forward-thinking organizations can no longer afford to leave innovation to chance. This galvanizing and energetic session equips leaders with the tools to point the Weapon of Mass Disruption inward, empowering their workforce to continually revolutionize business as usual. Attendees will walk away armed to institutionalize transformational thinking and unlock game-changing ideas on-demand.
WHAT AUDIENCES COME AWAY WITH:
- How to ‘institutionalize’ curiosity in your organization with simple daily habits
- How to dramatically reduce the ‘risk’ of new ideas and supercharge growth
- How to avoid allowing your past success to sabotage your future growth
What Does Success Look Like? Redefining Achievement Beyond the Bottom Line
General Session Panel Discussion
As leaders, you’re often conditioned to define success through narrow financial metrics - revenue, profits, growth rates. But is that the full picture of true fulfillment and accomplishment? This thought-provoking panel challenges conventional notions of achievement, exploring how visionary executives are reframing what it means to be truly successful.
Our lineup of seasoned executives will share their personal journeys of realizing there's more to success than just the bottom line. You'll hear candid stories and insights on cultivating a deeper sense of purpose, meaning and balance across all aspects of life - not just in the boardroom. Rather than chasing status or money at all costs, these trailblazers will discuss the personalized "metrics" they use to measure their own success. They'll offer diverse perspectives on finding genuine happiness through more multi-dimensional approaches that align with their values and create lasting, holistic impact.
General Session Panel Discussion
As leaders, you’re often conditioned to define success through narrow financial metrics - revenue, profits, growth rates. But is that the full picture of true fulfillment and accomplishment? This thought-provoking panel challenges conventional notions of achievement, exploring how visionary executives are reframing what it means to be truly successful.
Our lineup of seasoned executives will share their personal journeys of realizing there's more to success than just the bottom line. You'll hear candid stories and insights on cultivating a deeper sense of purpose, meaning and balance across all aspects of life - not just in the boardroom. Rather than chasing status or money at all costs, these trailblazers will discuss the personalized "metrics" they use to measure their own success. They'll offer diverse perspectives on finding genuine happiness through more multi-dimensional approaches that align with their values and create lasting, holistic impact.
Pre-Conference Session
Working ON Your Business vs. Working
IN your Business
Strategic Growth and Financial Management for Management Companies
As a leader of a community management company, are you working ON your business or just working IN your business day-to-day? Join this peer-led session to create an action plan for strategically growing and structuring your firm for profitability, sustainability and work-life balance.
We’ll share best practices for structuring your company finances and operations including compensation models, outsourcing services, and efficiency improvements. You’ll assess portfolio structuring, ancillary revenue streams, using remote staff, and controlling costs.
We’ll also address common growth barriers and strategies to scale beyond them, discussing signs of fatigue in expanding companies and building resilient systems. You’ll get tips for pacing growth amidst seasonality and capacity constraints in our industry. In addition, we’ll analyze profit optimization tactics to deliver “care not just repair” amidst slim margins.
IN your Business
Strategic Growth and Financial Management for Management Companies
As a leader of a community management company, are you working ON your business or just working IN your business day-to-day? Join this peer-led session to create an action plan for strategically growing and structuring your firm for profitability, sustainability and work-life balance.
We’ll share best practices for structuring your company finances and operations including compensation models, outsourcing services, and efficiency improvements. You’ll assess portfolio structuring, ancillary revenue streams, using remote staff, and controlling costs.
We’ll also address common growth barriers and strategies to scale beyond them, discussing signs of fatigue in expanding companies and building resilient systems. You’ll get tips for pacing growth amidst seasonality and capacity constraints in our industry. In addition, we’ll analyze profit optimization tactics to deliver “care not just repair” amidst slim margins.
Note: The Pre-Conference session will run from 8:00 am - 11:00 am on Wednesday, August 7, 2024. This session is an additional $500. Attendees must register prior to the conference.