Keynote - Shawn Kanungo

Strategy in a World of Disruption

Digital disruption’s impact is pushing organizations beyond the traditional IT model.  Speed is now the new currency. In order to stay ahead, the best IT organizations are leveraging automation, ecosystems, and reimagining how work gets done. Similarly, citizen and customer expectations have changed more in the last 10 years than in the last 100 years combined.

Shawn outlines a bold roadmap to achieving success in a world that is constantly changing. His presentation will discuss how we can develop an exponential mindset, and provides specific steps to real innovation and change.

In this awe-inspiring talk, Shawn also explores how IT leaders and organizations can take unexpected approaches to innovation to remain relevant.

Workshop Topic: The 'Disrupt Yourself' Competition

The objective of this workshop to learn how to disrupt yourself through rapid experimentation. This will be a highly immersive group competition - think Hunger Games meets American Idol. You will actively apply exponential technologies into your organization, and build an experimentation roadmap. At the end, you will have gone through a series of exercises to develop a concept and plan on how to disrupt your organization
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As a globally recognized innovation strategist and bestselling author, Shawn Kanungo works at the intersection of creativity, business, and technology. He spent 12 years at Deloitte working closely with leaders to help them better plan for the opportunities associated with disruptive innovation. 

Since leaving Deloitte, Kanungo has worked with hundreds of organizations on their journey to digital transformation. He’s led complex projects incorporating artificial intelligence, cloud technologies, behavioural economics, Web3 and more. Today, Kanungo is a Partner with Queen & Rook, where he advises leading organizations and executives on disruptive trends and invests in early-stage ventures.

Kanungo’s work has been featured in the Globe and Mail, The Guardian, CBC, and CTV. He’s been recognized by Edify Magazine as one of their “Top 40 Under 40”. In 2021, Forbes called Kanungo the “best virtual keynote speaker I’ve ever seen”.

A prolific content creator, Kanungo’s content on innovation has garnered millions of views across LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook. His bestselling debut book, The Bold Ones offers a playbook for individuals to become bolder and push their careers and companies forward. The Bold Ones has been touted as one of McKinsey’s top decision-making books for leaders.