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Keynote SpeakerMJ Petroni

Cyber Anthropologist, Futurist, Faculty Member at Singularity University

MJ Petroni specializes in helping others understand the mental models necessary to navigate digital opportunities. As a cyborg anthropologist, MJ studied shows like Star Trek at university, but not (just) for fun. Their field of study addresses the complex relationships between humans and machines, exploring how we shape technology and... Read more

Biography

MJ Petroni specializes in helping others understand the mental models necessary to navigate digital opportunities.
As a cyborg anthropologist, MJ studied shows like Star Trek at university, but not (just) for fun. Their field of study addresses the complex relationships between humans and machines, exploring how we shape technology and how it is reshaping us.

They help organizations increase their Digital Fluency in preparation for future technologies, attending not just to tools but also the thinking, skills, data, and business models which comprise new value creation.
MJ’s work focuses on raising the lowest common denominator of Digital Fluency for individuals, teams, and entire organizations.

Since founding Causeit, Inc. in 2006, MJMJ Petronihas shifted thinking for hundreds of global enterprises, including NTT, Accenture, Volkswagen, the Gates Foundation, SWIFT, and several major financial and media companies, raising Digital Fluency among hundreds of thousands of professionals.

MJ Petroni sits on the Accenture Tech Vision Advisory Board and is a faculty member at Singularity University.

Popular Talks by MJ Petroni

  • Digital Fluency
    Digital transformation is creating a world where businesses must test new, exponential strategies while maintaining incremental business functions to keep the lights on. How can we manage this balance between old and new? To lead our companies into the future, we need to increase our digital fluency across five pillars:...
  • Trending Technologies: From the Mouths of Nerds
    It can be difficult to sort fast-fading fads from technologies that might spark the next digital revolution. From cutting-edge fields like quantum computing to emerging tech like augmented reality, there’s always something new and exciting in the headlines. Knowing the basics of these technologies, how they can be used and...
  • The Future of Work: Distributed, Not Disrupted
    The global COVID-19 pandemic pushed most companies to adopt work-from-home policies and flex schedules, and the growth of the gig economy may be changing the way we think about work altogether. It’s clear that most industries need Digital Fluency rather than traditional mental models to ensure productivity, efficiency and collaboration....