Tech Tempest®
Empires don’t die. They pivot.
Eight civilisations that once ruled the world are back, competing to build it again. Enterprise teams and senior students make the calls technology is forcing, and live with what they cost.
Across every profession, the routine work is being automated. A scan reads the image, a model drafts the contract, a tool writes the first version of the code.
What is left is the deciding. Working out what a client actually needs. Weighing evidence that points both ways. Choosing under time and budget pressure, then defending that choice when someone challenges it.
Nobody learns that from a lecture. You learn it by deciding, and by finding out what your decisions cost. That is what a Tech Tempest day is for.
Eight great civilisations return as companies in today’s market, competing to build the next generation of services for one of the world’s largest industries. One world, three ways in. Each works on its own.
Up to eight teams compete as ancient civilisations turned technology companies, bidding to win one demanding client. They research the market, design an offer, price a five-year bid on real economics, and defend it. Then the Tempest arrives and settles what each posture was worth.
The Great Stink redesigns a banking process with automation and AI agents. The Great Fire turns the same models on insurance claims. Cyber Tempest is a crisis with incomplete information and AI advice that may be wrong. Each runs on its own, or inside a Tech Tempest day.
A journey through the opportunities and the risks as machines do more of the work: how AI got here, how it works and where it fails, what agents can do, and what it means for your own path. Open in any browser, nothing to book.
Open The EyeSenior secondary students. A facilitated day, mapped to the Australian curriculum.
EnterLeadership, risk, strategy and delivery teams. Conference session to full day.
EnterDelivered to hundreds of students in schools across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, and to business leaders through enterprise partners across Australia. Created by Dr John Burgin after four decades in the technology industry.
Hold Shift and type 1, 2 and 7. The three characters that come out are the three things SHIFT127 is trying to do: fun learning to succeed in a changing world.
A day people want to be in the room for, rather than one they sit through.
Aimed at the questions that matter now, not the ones that were settled years ago.
The joining character. Complex things made easier, so everyone in the room can take part.