AI As The New Industrial Revolution - Understanding The Next 40-Year Cycle

​This guest lecture provides a useful framework to understand the development and potential future of AI as the beginning of a new industrial age, by tracing repeating patterns through historical industrial revolutions. It clarifies where we are in a multi-decade cycle, what might come next, and common repeating dynamics to watch for.

​Chris Kay is a 3x founder, 2x CEO, and venture investor with over 15 years of experience building and backing early-stage startups. He is the Founder and CEO of Multiplicity, a corporate innovation consultancy that helps enterprises accelerate innovation results through the design of innovation strategies, and partnerships with startups to deploy technology pilots, particularly in Commercial Real Estate and Asset Management. Chris is also the CEO and Managing Partner of Kanata Ventures, a Canadian pre-seed fund investing in global B2B startups.

​With a background in financial analysis and innovation consulting experience across Automotive, Financial Services, and Commercial Real Estate, Chris brings a pragmatic lens to understanding emerging technologies.