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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.
AI and the Future of Connection (Issue #245)
Artificial intelligence has emerged as both a profound opportunity and a serious risk, challenging not only institutions but the individual human experience. The following article advances that conver
Is Canada’s SOVEREIGNTY At Risk – Fragile and under Siege (Issue #244)
- Fragile and under Siege Canada’s sovereignty has always existed within America’s orbit—protected yet pressured by its proximity. As trade, defense, and AI integration deepen, partnership risks becom
TECHNOLOGICAL SOVEREIGNTY: Who Rules the Code Rules the World
Today, it means data, compute, and control of artificial intelligence. From America’s private-sector arsenal to China’s state-directed strategy, from Europe’s regulatory “third way” to Canada’s new so
THOUGHTFUL SOVEREIGNTY – Reclaiming Reason in an Age of Protests and Outrage (Issue #241)
Policy has yielded to performance, and free speech has morphed into protests, posturing, and free outrage. We react faster than we reflect, and democracies everywhere are straining under the rise of p
240 Fact of Fiction Tariffs
Fact or Fiction - US Tariffs Backfire U.S. export controls on advanced AI chips (Oct. 2022) aimed to hobble China, but instead catalyzed a rapid, parallel Chinese semiconductor stack. Nvidia—once ~20–
ENERGY SOVEREIGNTY – Powering Intelligence in an Integrated World (Issue #240)
As AI’s hunger for computation rivals nations’ energy demands, control over power grids has become control over intelligence itself. This article and the associated webinar examines nuclear renewal, f
SOVEREIGNTY under Siege – Robots At the Door (Issue #239)
We are concluding 2025 with a series "SOVEREIGNTY under Siege" exploring various threats to what we value: our nation our jobs, and ourselves. The first episode explores the impact of robotics. Automa
The Age of Creativity – AI Masters How. Humans Retain Why! (Issue #238)
In this new age of creativity, success no longer lies in execution but in intention: the ability to discern, direct, and define purpose. Jeff Uhlich explores how AI, as a computational mirror, reflect
AI Intensifies Competition Sparking Creativity (Issue #237)
We've been discussing the forces and sources of change as insights to the future, but if they are, is the impact on Canada any different than on others, for example, the US? My musing led me to two pe
Two Frontiers of Transformation: Inner and Outer Power (Episode #3)
The KEI Network invites you to explore two seemingly disparate forces of change: self and creativity, power and energy. The first article, "Listening Within" explores the interior revolution now under