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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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
The Inner Commons: Becoming Human (Issue #280)
Beginning with The Lost Commons: Human Relevance Under Siege and continuing now with The Inner Commons: Knowing One’s Self, we have been following a question that becomes more important as the forces