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Over the past 8 years, Prof. Kane has surveyed over 20,000 executives globally and interviewed over 100 digital leaders. He uses this rich data to speak to companies and conferences worldwide on a number of different topics. Talks usually range from 30 minutes - 2.5 hours, depending on the needs of the client.

The Technology Fallacy. Keynote Address at the 2019 Innovation Roundtable Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark. November 2019.

WebSummit, November 2019. Jacqui Canney, Gerald Kane and Paul Michelman This session will discuss why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology.

Keynote Talk about The Technology Fallacy at the IRI Annual Meeting. April 2019.

While most people believe their industries will be disrupted by digital technology, most also think that their organization isn’t doing enough to respond. Prof. Kane addresses the key barriers that organizations typically face with respect to digital transformation and what they can do to overcome them.

Why do companies struggle with digital transformation?

Many leaders mistakenly believe that they need an entirely different skillset to lead a digitally mature organization or a digitally native generation. The fundamentals of good leadership haven’t changed, but how those fundamentals are expressed may have. Prof. Kane discusses what should and shouldn’t change about effective leadership in a digital world.

How digital leadership IS(n’t) different.

Digitally mature companies exhibit a common set of cultural characteristics, compared to less digitally mature companies - they are more agile, risk tolerant, experimental, and collaborative. In this talk, Prof. Kane describes the characteristics of digitally mature companies, and the steps your organization can take to get there.

how to build a digitally mature organization.

Lab session at the 2019 Innovation Roundtable Summit, where participants applied the lessons from The Technology Fallacy to their own companies.

In this interview from the HBS Digital Initiative's Seminar series on March 22, 2017, Gerald Kane (Boston College) discusses "Wikipedia: The Canary Coal Mine for Online Collaboration" and the digital transformation of the economy.

This talk was given at a local TEDx event in 2014, produced independently of the TED Conferences. It's hard to believe social media having any larger impact on society than it already has, yet that's exactly what Jerry thinks. In his talk, he explores the evolution of social media and gives us glimpses of things to come.

SocialMedia.org's Brands-Only Summit in 2013 is an annual event featuring 16 peer-to-peer collaborative workshops, 12 how-to classes, 12 real-world case studies, 3 brilliant authors, and 2 amazing keynotes.