Location
Voco Kirkton Park, Hunter Valley
Cost
POA
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3 – 7 May 2027, Hunter Valley – Now Accepting Expressions of Interest
I participated in a UtopiaX (SingularityU Australia) executive program on the recommendation of my leader. As a corporate strategist, my day job involves looking into the future, so a small part of me coming into the program questioned “I’m so busy, is this a good use of my time?”, “will I learn anything new?” Yet, standing still to immerse myself in the program helped me go faster with a clearer path. I departed the program with a new perspective on how fast the future is coming upon us, and inspired by the far-reaching potential of exponential technologies to help solve the wicked problems of the world. Now I am on a path from insight to action to design the future.
Katerina Karanikolopoulos
Strategy Director APAC, Bupa
YouVolution: Humanity at the Heart of the Future
We are living through an extraordinary time of change. As technology evolves at an exponential pace, it is reshaping every part of our lives – how we live, work, connect, and care for the world around us. These changes bring exciting possibilities, but they also challenge us to think deeply about the kind of future we want to create.
At UtopiaX, we believe this is not just a technological revolution – it’s a human one.
We are entering what we call the Age of the Great Convergence – a time where human values and technological progress must align to shape a future that serves people, communities, and the planet. This convergence demands new ways of thinking, leading, and being.
The YouVolution project is our invitation to pause, reflect, and design the future together. It’s about reimagining what’s possible when we lead with curiosity, compassion, and purpose. We explore the intersection of humanity and technology not just to predict what’s coming, but to consciously shape it – with heart, mind, body, and spirit.
Understanding how to navigate this era of transformation is at the core of what we do. Whether it’s within enterprise, civil society, or global ecosystems, our mission is to help people and organisations harness change as a force for good.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” – Alan Kay, Computer Scientist
Leading Into the Future by Design
In this Age of the Great Convergence, the most forward-thinking organisations are no longer asking if change is needed – they are asking how they must evolve to meet the moment. What kind of leadership is required in a world where human potential and technology must work hand in hand?
What does responsible, future-ready business look like in a world facing complex challenges and extraordinary opportunities? And most importantly, how can we ensure that progress serves not just profit, but people and planet? To thrive in this new era, organisations must reconnect with their most human capacities – creativity, empathy, courage – and learn to integrate them with the vast potential of emerging technologies. It’s this synergy that drives meaningful transformation.
At UtopiaX, we help leadership teams ask deeper questions, challenge assumptions, and build the mindset and capabilities to lead with vision and responsibility. Because the future isn’t something we passively inherit – it’s something we can actively shape.
Discover First
The YouVolution Program is a four and a half day immersive experience that examines how converging technologies and our humanity will shape our future and explores ethical leadership in a world of rapid change. Engage in insightful dialogue with uncommon partners and build a supportive community of like-minded peers.
We call this the Age of the Great Convergence – a time when disciplines, technologies, cultures, nations and communities are coming together. We now have the power to shape a different future and unlock the potential for transformative impact by 2030 – tackling some of humanity’s most urgent and meaningful challenges.
Join fellow leaders to uncover vital insights and frameworks that will help you craft a legacy designed to benefit not just the present, but generations yet to come. We have the chance to be the ancestors our future needs.
You’ll gain practical tools to help your organisation boldly integrate exponential technologies with an expansive, future-ready mindset. Learn how patterns of trust can be woven into the fabric of your life, your business and your community. This is essential as we learn to lead with agility, clarity and resilience through an era of accelerating change and uncertainty. Amid the uncertainty, we can build conscious connected networks based on trust and provide the stability our world needs.
Together, we’ll explore core human motivations, share proven approaches from diverse organisations, and reflect on the design principles that support innovation, even within long-established institutions.
4.5 Days of Total Immersion
1. Beyond Traditional Education
We’ve experienced great agility and adaptability during this time of accelerated change. Nothing happens without growth, deep learning and the courage to envision the future.
2. Global Cohort of Changemakers
The Great Convergence of knowledge, skills and connections will be fundamental to ensuring organisations lead communities to growth, strength and purpose.
3. Trust
We will explore together the ways we can weave the patterns of fundamental trust within our own lives and in our businesses and communities. We can make visible the essential invisible value of trust.
4. Value Networking
Collaboration across minds and fields is paramount to our future success. All sessions are designed to optimise networking experiences.
What you will learn
Converging Technologies
Web 4.0, the Metaverse, Augmented Intelligence, robotics, AR, VR and all that is yet to come. How will the convergence of technologies change the way we live? And how is it already?
Moonshots & Mindsets – Tomorrow’s Innovations
Moonshots were once the domain of large corporations and governments. Shifting mindsets to shoot beyond the moon is now everyone’s responsibility.
Artificial Intelligence
Your AI strategy is integral to success. How can you use it to problem solve and enhance decision making capabilities?
Building Trust in an AI World
A future where the AI you use assists each person, business and community as an ethical trust agent for wellbeing. AI as the loom upon which the best of humanity can weave its future.
7Ds of Exponential Organisations
Success in the future will evolve through digitisation, deception, disruption, dematerialisation, demonetisation and democratisation. As the world continues to decentralise, the future will approach us with greater velocity.
Big Data and Hyper Personalisation
Data is not a collection of siloed information. Data is the collection of human habits and expectations. We have the ability to hyper personalise every aspect of life.
Frameworks and Tools
From Decision Science to Urbanisation, Mobility to the Future of Food, best practices require unique methods to succeed.
Exponential Businesses
We have seen exponential growth in action. How will this translate into the day-to-day operations of organisations?
Design Principles of Innovation
Innovation is at the intersection of User Experience, First Principle Thinking and Future Forecasting.
The Great Convergence
Past, present and future, humanity and technology, minds and fields. We are creating a future from the intersection of all that we know.
Who should attend
Corporate Executives
C-Suites, managers, innovation leads and future leaders from courage and impact driven corporations.
Small Business Executives
Future-focused leaders and game changers in the business who push their teams to the next level.
Leading Academic Experts
Leaders in research, innovation and creativity across all learning institutions, accredited and non-accredited.
Government Leaders
Ready to embrace long-term thinking, strategy and personal and community investment in What’s-Next.
Founders
Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs and teams from Australia’s most successful small to medium businesses and startups.
What are the benefits
Disrupting Through Growth
Be the disruptor not the disrupted. The YouVolution Program ensures being at the forefront of change with confidence, courage, trust and respect.
Leading with Kindness and Courage
Thrive – don’t just survive. Be the change. Moonshot Thinking emphasises a curiosity and decision making mindset.
Transformation and Execution
Develop your framework and roadmap for immediate implementation – personal and business. Heart is the way to transformation. Strategy is the way to execution.
Networking
Expand your professional networks with innovative, like minded thought leaders. Collaboration is universal.
Presenters
Christina Gerakiteys, Darren Tasker, Ian Haycroft, Alexandra Joy, Franziska Iseli, Olivera Tomic, and Indigenous Elders.
Please email help@utopiax.global to find out more.
Get In TouchI participated in a UtopiaX (SingularityU Australia) executive program on the recommendation of my leader. As a corporate strategist, my day job involves looking into the future, so a small part of me coming into the program questioned “I’m so busy, is this a good use of my time?”, “will I learn anything new?” Yet, standing still to immerse myself in the program helped me go faster with a clearer path. I departed the program with a new perspective on how fast the future is coming upon us, and inspired by the far-reaching potential of exponential technologies to help solve the wicked problems of the world. Now I am on a path from insight to action to design the future.
Katerina Karanikolopoulos
Strategy Director APAC, Bupa
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