Rocky Scopelliti is a world-renowned Futurologist whose purpose is to ‘create confidence in our future’. His pioneering behavioural economics research on the confluence of demographic change and emerging technologies, have influenced the way we think about our social, cultural, economic, and technological future.
His most recent works, Perceptive Machines – The Future of Feeling AI and What It Means for Humanity (2026) and Synthetic Souls – What Happens When Machines Become Conscious? (2025), explore the emergence of artificial perception and the awakening of synthetic consciousness. His first best-seller in this acclaimed AI trilogy, The Conscious Code (2023), examined the original question: Can humanity be engineered, coded in an algorithm, and become mindful? Building upon these foundations, this book The Conscious Code: From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Consciousness extends this exploration into the ethics, governance, and collective evolution of consciousness itself.
As a media commentator, his unique insights have featured on SKY Business News, The Australian Financial Review, ABC Radio National, The Economist, Forbes, Bloomberg and many others. As a highly sort after international keynote speaker, his presentations have captivated audiences across Asia, Indo Pacific, the USA and Europe including Mobile World Congress.
Rocky’s signature keynote series’ Surviving the Age of AI – The Adaptive Capacity Quotient Series and The Future of AI – The Conscious Intelligence Series explore topics including:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Future of Work
- Future Trends
- Innovation
- Emerging Technologies
- Digital Transformation
- Workforce & Skills
- Organisational Adaptability
- Demographic Change
- Human–AI Collaboration
- Customer Experience
- Education
- Healthcare Innovation
- Technology