Don Tapscott is a leading authority on the impact of technology on society is speaking at Connected Enterprise! Tapscott was an early proponent of the digitally-enabled collaborative workplace (1978), and among the first to write about the digital revolution. Tapscott's presentation at TEDglobal, "Four principles for the open world", identifies four principles that can transform our increasingly 'open' world into a better place.
Peer into our digital future as Don Tapscott reveals what lies ahead for our digital society.
About Don Tapscott
Don is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world. In 2013,Thinkers50 ranked Don fourth among the world’s most influential management thinkers and was awarded the Global Solutions Award for launching and leading the Global Solution Networks program based at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
He has authored or co-authored 15 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit The Digital Economy changed thinking around the world about the transformational nature of the Internet and two years later he defined the Net Generation and the “digital divide” in Growing Up Digital. His 2000 work, Digital Capital, introduced seminal ideas like “the business web” and was described by BusinessWeek as “pure enlightenment.” Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the best selling management book in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages.
In his forward to Don’s newest book, The Digital Economy: 20th Anniversary Edition, Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman, Google) wrote: “Don remains one of the most perceptive thinkers about the way technology is transforming business and society. Several of his predictions—from networked intelligence to the demands on leaders to embrace technology — have taken permanent hold.” Over 30 years he has introduced many ground-breaking concepts that are part of contemporary understanding. His work continues as CEO of The Tapscott Group, a member of World Economic Forum, Chancellor of Trent University, Adjunct Professor of Management for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and Martin Prosperity Institute Fellow.
Session Information
November 4, 2015 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Looking Back at Twenty Years of the Digital Economy to Predict the Future of Digital
