Digital Wellbeing and Human Performance Speaker
Colin Corby is the speaker who helps people perform at their best in a world that is increasingly designed to capture their attention.
“If technology and AI can increasingly do the thinking, communicating and decision-making for us, what do we need to do to remain capable, focused and fully human?”
Book Colin Corby for thought-provoking keynotes that challenge audiences to rethink their relationship with technology and build healthier, more human ways of working with it.
Keynote Topics:
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The Mindset of a Digital Athlete
How to protect attention, manage energy and perform at your best in an always-connected world. -
Being Human in the age of AI
How to embrace AI without outsourcing our thinking, judgement, creativity and agency. -
Is your digital footprint killing the planet?
What our digital lives are really costing the planet — and what happens when AI accelerates the cycle. -
Customised talks
Tailored around your organisation's people, technology, culture and business challenges.
Watch:
TEDx - Are We Losing our Human Identity to Technology?
Thriving Minds podcast - How Technology is Destroying Your Focus and Health
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The Mindset of a Digital AthleteWhat happens to human performance when technology and AI can increasingly do the thinking, communicating and decision-making for us?
AI can make producing an answer easier while making knowing whether the answer is right harder.
It can make us faster, but does faster mean better?
And if technology allows us to produce more in less time, does that time become ours or are we simply expected to do more?
This is the AI Acceleration Tax: the human cost of accelerating the way we work.
Because our competitive advantage isn't simply our ability to use technology. It is our ability to think critically, create, focus, recover and switch off.Drawing on more than 30 years as a technologist, his work as a digital wellbeing and human performance expert, and his experience as an endurance athlete, Colin Corby explores what it takes to remain capable, focused and fully human in an AI-powered world.
At the heart of the talk is the Digital Athlete Mindset:
Because sustainable performance isn't about demanding more from people.
It's about managing the capacity that produces it. -
Being human in the age of AI
What should we remain capable of doing for ourselves?
AI can increasingly answer our questions, generate our ideas and shape what we pay attention to. But what happens when we begin to outsource the very things that make us human?
In this thought-provoking talk, Colin Corby explores the relationship between technology, attention, curiosity, imagination and human agency. Drawing on ideas from neuroscience, technology and philosophy, he asks whether our growing dependence on AI could change not only how we work, but how we think, experience and understand the world.
Colin asks some difficult questions about whether we have already reached a tipping point — and, more importantly, what we can do now to protect our curiosity, imagination and agency, and build our human resilience for an AI-powered future.
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Is your digital footprint killing the planet?
The hidden environmental cost of our digital lives — and what happens when AI accelerates it.
We have become accustomed to thinking of the digital world as clean. There’s no smoke, no traffic and no factory chimney in front of us. Yet behind every search, stream, stored file and AI-generated response is a physical infrastructure consuming significant amounts of energy, water and precious resources.
And now AI is accelerating the cycle — requiring ever more powerful infrastructure while making it possible for us to create and consume ever more digital experiences.
But not all AI is the same — and the difference really matters.
So where does responsibility lie?
Colin Corby explores the hidden environmental cost of our digital lives and asks some difficult questions about the AI-powered future we are creating.
