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And then the robots came

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Talkat NZ Tech Rally 2025 · on Friday, 2025-05-16· [ai-assisted-development]

speaker

name:Bron Thomson
linkedin:bron-thomson

resources

video:https://youtu.be/pL2sxRCpqdI
slides:none on file

summary

A digital agency that peaks at 90 staff rides COVID into years of disruption, sees sickness rates skyrocket in 2021 and is forced to make 20 of 60 redundancies after a public‑sector pipeline disappears, then confronts rapid AI adoption. The concrete prescriptions are: adopt quarterly scenario planning and strategic responsiveness instead of five‑year plans, keep a pizza wheel portfolio of revenue streams, maintain larger cash buffers, train T‑shaped generalists, let teams experiment with new AI tools and share failures openly.

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chapters (4)

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 2:46Springload's journey from 2020-2025
  3. 12:55Bron's frameworks for uncertainty
  4. 22:13How to run a business when future is so unpredictable

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