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Perry Kinkaide
Perry Kinkaide, MSc, PhD, CMC, has spent over 50 years working across academia, government, and the corporate and non-profit worlds. He earned his PhD in Brain Research from the University of Alberta and spent 14 years with the Alberta Government before leading KPMG Consulting's Knowledge Management practice in Edmonton.
Since retiring in 2001, Perry has founded and led the Alberta Council of Technologies Society, now a subscriber base of over 20,000, and built KEI Network from a personal list of 15,000 contacts into a platform for connecting experts, entrepreneurs, and leaders across industries. Alberta Venture named him one of the province's 50 most influential people in 2007.
Perry writes and speaks on economic diversification, emerging technology, and the social shifts reshaping how people live and work. Expect a direct take and a healthy dose of humor along the way.
Weary? What the Fall of Empires Feels Like From the Inside (Issue #293)
I am no historian. I have no credentials for that shelf. What I have is eighty-four years of watching and wondering why — and lately, watching the chaos roiling the United States and the West generally, I have found myself…
Starlink, AI and the Challenge of Global Governance (Issue #292)
An Orwellian warning from orbit: Who controls the networks, who watches the users, and who governs the governors? George Orwell published 1984 in 1949, imagining a future in which an all-powerful Big Brother monitored behaviour, controlled information and sought dominion…
The Public Good—and the Freedom We Surrender (Issue #291)
We are told to tighten our belts. Government needs revenue. Employers need flexibility. Unions need protection. Regulators need compliance. Somewhere beneath these demands stands the individual, wondering when their own needs became the item everyone else could adjust. Each demand…
In Time We Touched: The Sovereignty We Are Losing (Issue #290)
From the melodies of hope to the erosion of personal freedom and human relevance I was born in the 1940s, into a world emerging from war, exhausted but hopeful. We were weaned on the gentle melodies of Frank Sinatra, Bing…
Sovereignty Matters. But Safety Comes First. (Issue #289)
October at the KEI Network is about sovereignty: our ability to retain meaningful control over the decisions shaping our lives. But control carries responsibility. Whether we are debating Alberta’s future or developing artificial intelligence, safety should come first. On October…
Take It Personally: What the Referendum Means to You (Issue #288)
Personalization: The Quiet Reversal of a Hundred Years of Sameness For most of the last century, progress meant making things the same for everyone. The same curriculum, the same broadcast, the same office hours, the same form letter from the…
Sovereignty, Commons—and a Rather Large “What If?” (Issue #287)
September at the KEI Network has been devoted to the future economy: the forces reshaping work, technology, investment, institutions and the assumptions upon which prosperity has been built. October may be rather less tidy. October has long had a reputation…
The Future Economy Will Not Wait (Issue #286)
What intangible assets, artificial intelligence, data centres and crisis teach us about managing change. Throughout September, the KEI Network’s In Search of the Future Economy series examined intangible assets, Canada’s adoption of artificial intelligence, the expansion of data centres and…
Who Defends the Cloud? (Special Perspective)
This Thursday’s KEI Network podcast, “AI, Data Centres and Trouble Ahead,” examines the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure and the questions it raises about electricity, water, land, community costs and economic benefit. One question deserves attention: Who protects the AI…
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…