AI DISRUPTION
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
The Difference Between 27 Years and 27 Months
Mike Evans isn’t another AI expert who discovered it in 2023 and rebranded. He’s the speaker who’s been tracking the seven-force convergence disrupting work since 1995, with AI as the most recent accelerant, not the original threat.
While most speakers woke up to AI when ChatGPT launched, Mike was already on stages for Fortune 50 companies explaining the forces that would reshape work. AI didn’t create his framework. It confirmed it.
Mike Evans has been preparing organizations for exactly this moment. For 27 years.
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WHAT THE BUILDERS OF AI ARE SAYING
It’s as if this tsunami is coming at us. It’s so close we can see it on the horizon, and yet people are coming up with explanations — ‘oh, it’s not actually a tsunami, that’s just a trick of the light.
Knowledge is now worth zero. Everything we’ve talked about is based on scarcity of knowledge. That scarcity is gone.
The risk is it gets deployed so fast that people don’t have time to adjust. Companies should be thinking about how they’re going to handle that.
THE 7-SIDED PINCER MOVEMENT
AI isn’t the only threat. It’s the accelerant on six other forces that were already converging on your organization. Most speakers address one. Mike Evans shows you all seven — and how they multiply each other.
- Force 1: Revolutionary Software — Software is becoming like pizza: custom, bespoke, made at the moment of use. The winner-take-all software era is ending.
- Force 2: Robotics & Automation — Physical automation eliminating manual labor across every sector.
- Force 3: Globalization — Your competitors operate from the other side of the planet at a fraction of your cost.
- Force 4: Outsourcing — Functions that required in-house teams are now outsourced to specialists.
- Force 5: Digital Disruption — Entire business models replaced by digital-first alternatives overnight.
- Force 6: Disruptive Competition — Startups with no legacy infrastructure redefining your market.
- Force 7: AI — The accelerant that multiplies the other six forces exponentially.
THE 5-INGREDIENT KRYPTONITE DEFENSE
If knowledge is now worth zero — and the CEO of Anthropic agrees it is — what IS worth something? Five things that AI cannot replicate:
- IDEAS — Generating insights no algorithm can produce from your specific context
- SPEED — Deploying faster than competitors who are still debating whether to act
- TALENT — Human judgment, relationships, and capabilities AI cannot fake
- DISTINCTION — Being the only one who does what you do, in the way you do it
- LEADERSHIP AT ALL LEVELS — Activating ownership and agency throughout every layer of your organization
These aren’t theories. They’re battle-tested across 27 years and 34 Fortune 50 companies.