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AI, Data Centres and Trouble Ahead (Issue #285)
Artificial intelligence is arriving with the force of a technological and economic tsunami. It promises breakthroughs in healthcare, education, scientific discovery, productivity…
Most Recent Perspectives
Canada’s Next Economic Challenge: A Call to Chamber Leadership (Issue #284)
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Canada’s economy. More than 98%…
Exposing The Hidden Economy: Why Accounting for Intangible Assets Matters (Issue #283)
The KEI Network begins its September series, In Search of the Future Economy, with…
Fact or Fiction: Data Centres Are Safe
Artificial intelligence may live in the cloud, but the cloud has a very large…
The KEI Network is comprised of an international array of contacts interested in the forces and sources of change. Through our newsletters and public webinars we explore leadership and the clash of public and private interests, innovation and the impact of emerging technologies, including your views, panelists and guests.
Perspectives & Podcasts
The September Series
An exploration of the relevance of intangible assets and the impact of how valuing intangible assets will shape the future economy.
Week 1
The Hidden Economy: Accounting for Assets Ignored Today
Week 2
Leadership Lacking: SMEs Remain Foundational
Week 3
AI, Data Centres, and Trouble Ahead
Week 4
Change Management of the Canadian Economy
Previous Series
AI, Data Centres and Trouble Ahead (Issue #285)
Artificial intelligence is arriving with the force of a technological and economic tsunami. It promises breakthroughs in healthcare, education, scientific discovery, productivity and public administration. Yet it also unsettles assumptions about employment, privacy, democracy and human relevance. As explored in…
Canada’s Next Economic Challenge: A Call to Chamber Leadership (Issue #284)
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Canada’s economy. More than 98% of Canadian businesses are small or medium-sized enterprises. Together they employ approximately two-thirds of Canada’s private-sector workforce and generate well over half of the country’s private-sector…
Exposing The Hidden Economy: Why Accounting for Intangible Assets Matters (Issue #283)
The KEI Network begins its September series, In Search of the Future Economy, with a basic question: are we still measuring the economy we actually have? Traditional accounting was built for an industrial age dominated by factories, machinery and physical…
Fact or Fiction: Data Centres Are Safe
Artificial intelligence may live in the cloud, but the cloud has a very large physical footprint. Behind every AI query are enormous data centres consuming electricity, requiring cooling, occupying land and connecting to transmission systems. As governments race to capture…
Paradoxes Prevail: Converging Crisis Pending? (Issue #282)
In recent issues, we have returned to the ancient counsel Know Thyself—the idea that understanding ourselves is essential to judgment, responsibility, and ultimately leadership. It should not be mistaken for an invitation to become more self-absorbed. Quite the opposite. Knowing oneself should make us…
Fact or Fiction: Safety or Freedom? Are We Becoming Over-Protected?
For generations, progress has meant making life safer. We developed safer automobiles, safer workplaces, safer playgrounds, safer medicines, safer food, safer buildings and stronger protections against crime, disease and discrimination. Few would seriously argue that we should abandon those achievements.…
The Inner Commons: The Future of Mind (Issue #281)
Together, we have explored the emergence of mind, the architecture of attention, memory and perception, and the consciousness, emotions, relationships and creativity through which we become human.
Fact or Fiction: Canada Is Getting Fixed
For years, Canadians have heard variations of the same diagnosis: productivity is weak, investment is leaving, major projects take too long, housing is unaffordable, provincial barriers divide what should be one national economy, and Canada remains dangerously dependent on the…
A New Chapter Begins
For more than twenty years, the KEI Network has been built around a simple belief: that informed citizens, thoughtful leaders, and open dialogue can strengthen our communities, our economy, and our democracy. Join us on our new mission as the Network evolves into a broader platform for ideas, with modernized publications, webinars, and new ways to participate in and support what comes next.
Perry Kinkaide
Founder, KEI Network
Upcoming Events
6 events
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Still Here. Still Curious. Still Provoking.
September 15, 2026
Victoria Golf Course Clubhouse
Join Perry Kinkaide for "Still Here. Still Curious. Still Provoking." at Probus Central Edmonton, September 15, 10:45 AM MT
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Sasha and the Caregiver's Journey
October 1, 2026
St. Albert Seniors Centre at Red Willow Place
Perry Kinkaide shares his caregiver's journey with his late wife Sasha at the St. Albert Seniors Centre, October 1, 9:00…
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The Lost Commons Book Launch: Edmonton
October 2, 2026
Chateau Louis Lounge | Hotel & Conference Centre
20 years. 1,000 voices. ONE book. If the last 500 years were about access to knowledge, this one may be…
Books & Series
New Book
The Lost Commons Audiobook Series
AI, democracy, creativity, listening, human relevance and the future of civic society.
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