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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.
Dehumanizing The Public by Selling Fear in The Attention Economy (Issue #255)
The article traces how fear has evolved from staged spectacle to ambient condition — delivered not occasionally, but continuously, through the device in our hands. The smartphone is not simply a commu
Why Organizations That Confuse Stability with Survival Fail to Adapt (Issue #254)
From universities and hospitals to corporations and government agencies, “sustainability” has become a universal aspiration. Yet too often it is interpreted as preservation rather than adaptation. The
253 AI’s Enlightenment — To Embrace Humanism
AI’s Enlightenment — To Embrace Humanism Fact or Fiction Fiction: AI itself is on the verge of moral enlightenment and will soon guide humanity away from catastrophe. Recent discussion sparked by a WI
Bits At the Door – When Change Doesn’t Knock (Issue #253)
History suggests we should be more wary of what is quiet. Civilizations are rarely undone by threats that announce themselves. They are more often reshaped by forces that arrive incrementally, integra
When Silence Is Strategic – As Power Dissipates (Issue #252)
They erode capacity, weaken resilience, and quietly mortgage the future. Waiting, in those cases, is not wisdom; it is neglect dressed up as caution. But silence while waiting imay not be abdication.
Canada’s Internal Weather System: Why Leadership Must Act—Together (Issue #250)
These were not treated as isolated disruptions, but as predictable outcomes when democratic systems defer difficult decisions. Pressure, once absorbed too long, does not fade; it concentrates. This we
The Gathering Storm: Why Waiting Has Become The Most Dangerous Policy (Issue #249)
Protesting, long regarded as a legitimate and even necessary expression of public discontent, is increasingly crossing a troubling threshold. What was once civic pressure is, in many places, sliding i
INTRODUCING 2026: Thinking Forward. Preparing for change. (Issue #248)
As we open 2026, the KEI Network is launching a new year-long inquiry shaped directly by what we as Canadians—especially youth—told us throughout 2025: 1. The future is arriving faster than many of us
Sovereignty, Responsibility, and Resilience – Setting Goals for 2026 (Issue #247)
Sovereignty is not preserved by protection alone; it is earned. Seedlings raised indoors must be hardened off before planting. Gradual exposure builds strength; skip it, and the plant wilts—not from n
The Future of SOVEREIGNTY – Maintaining Control in the Age of Converging Threats (Issue #246)
I paid less attention to landmarks and more attention to conversations. What I heard was not loud confidence or bold promises, but something quieter and more important: people still believe that famil