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  • A large house under construction at golden hour, wooden frame and scaffolding visible, roof trusses exposed, stacks of timber and construction materials in the foreground. Text overlay reads: ARROGANCE VS ATTENTION.
    June 25, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    Arrogance vs Attention

    For twenty years, the smartest people I know have given the same advice on technology: don’t build it, buy it. It was good advice, and there was a reason for it that nobody said out loud very often. Choosing...

    • AI Policy
    • IT Leadership
    • Organisational Culture
    • Outside-In Thinking
    • Technology
  • Two people sitting apart on a sofa, arms crossed, not looking at each other. Labelled 'The Business' and 'IT'. Title reads: Rebuilding Relationships.
    June 11, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    What 4,000 CIOs Taught Me

    Then I walked into the room and something different happened. Not better or worse than the plan. Just real. The kind of real you only get when four thousand people are in front of you and the argument...

    • AI Policy
    • Efficiency vs Effectiveness
    • Future of Work
    • Leadership
    • Outside-In Thinking
    • Technology
  • Aerial view of a park showing a person walking along an informal desire path worn through the grass beside an unused formal paved walkway, labelled 'User Experience' and 'Design' respectively.
    May 28, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    The Elephant Path

    It is 1993. I am working for one of the world’s largest professional services firms, and the way we share information between our office and our clients is by carrying hard drives back and forth on the...

    • AI Policy
    • Leadership
    • Organisational Culture
    • Outside-In Thinking
    • Technology
  • Person standing at a crossroads with diverging path arrows on the ground, casting a long shadow, illustrating the decision point at the heart of automation's opportunity cost.
    April 30, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    The Opportunity Cost of Automation

    This is a story from a project I was loosely involved in during my time at Microsoft - long before generative AI, back when machine vision was the frontier. Microsoft Research were working with an oncologist...

    • Leadership
    • Opportunity Cost of Automation
    • Technology
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Dave Coplin

Keynote Speaker, Author & AI Strategist  | The Rise of the Humans


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