Rocky Scopelliti

Professor | Futurologist | Best-Selling Author - Latest Book ‘Perceptive Machines' at Independent

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Professor Rocky Scopelliti is a world-renowned futurologist whose research is focused on one defining question: what happens when intelligence is no longer uniquely human?

His work sits at the frontier of behavioural economics, demographic change, and emerging technologies—challenging how organisations, governments, and societies understand and adapt to a world of accelerating, compounding change. He is the Series Editor of The Evolution of Intelligence, a landmark body of research that reframes intelligence as an evolving continuum—from thinking, to feeling, to perceiving, and beyond.

As a best-selling author, his books—including The Conscious Code, Synthetic Souls, and Perceptive Machines—map the transition from machines that compute to systems that increasingly participate in human experience, reshaping leadership, identity, and the fabric of society itself.A globally sought-after keynote speaker, Rocky has delivered more than 350 keynote presentations across 15 countries, advising boards and executive teams—including Fortune 100 organisations—on navigating disruption and building adaptive capacity in the age of AI. His insights are regularly featured in The Economist, Sky News,Forbes, Bloomberg, and the ABC.

He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, a graduate of Sydney and Stanford Universities, and holds an MBA and Graduate Diploma in Corporate Management