Professor Rocky Scopelliti is a world-renowned futurologist whose purpose is to create confidence in our future. His work focuses on one of the defining challenges of our time: how organisations adapt and remain relevant in a world where artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are accelerating the pace of change. His research reframes disruption-not as technology alone, but as the compression of time between waves of change, requiring organisations to continuously renew their capabilities.
His best-selling AI book series on The Evolution of Intelligence includes:
- The Conscious Code - explores the implications of artificial consciousness.
- Synthetic Souls - examines the impact of machines becoming conscious.
- Perceptive Machines - investigates how the digitalisation of human senses and machine intuition will transform human experience.
Together, these works position Rocky at the forefront of understanding how AI is evolving from a tool into a co-existing force alongside humanity.
Extending this thinking into organisations, Rocky has developed the Adaptive Capacity Quotient System™, a framework that enables boards and leadership teams to measure and accelerate their capacity to adapt in an era of continuous disruption. His broader research spans climate transition, generational disruption, and national foresight-revealing how multiple forces of change are converging to reshape industries at unprecedented speed.
As a media commentator, his insights on artificial intelligence and the future of society have featured on SKY Business News, The Australian Financial Review, ABC Radio National, The Economist, Forbes, Bloomberg, and others. As a highly sought-after international keynote speaker, he has captivated audiences across Asia Pacific, the USA, and Europe, including at Mobile World Congress. Each year, more than 100 boards and leadership teams-including Fortune 100 corporations-seek his advice on strategy, emerging technologies, and their future impact.
A distinguished author, his 25+ thought leadership research publications have achieved global recognition, including by the World Economic Forum.
He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Business School. He has previously served as a Director on the board of Community First Bank, a technology advisory board member for REST Super, and a board member of the Australian Payments Council.
Educated in Australia and trained in the USA at Sydney and Stanford Universities respectively, he holds a Graduate Diploma in Corporate Management and an MBA. He is also a graduate and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
