Microsoft invited Morris to join a high-profile panel to launch their Life on Demand whitepaper with Ipsos. He was joined by Microsoft’s Steven Miller, Vivid’s Jess Scully, and Ipsos' Laura Demasi. Morris brought his trademark foresight lens to the panel, unpacking themes from the whitepaper and projecting what tech-enabled living might look like by 2025 and beyond.

When Thoughtworks launched their first-ever Australian CxO event a high-end, invite-only experience for senior executives, clients, and global leadership they invited Morris to set the tone. He opened the evening by stripping away the hype. His framing: the future isn’t something you predict—it’s something you prepare to be responsible for.

As Chair of Griffith University Queensland’s Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability Industry Advisory Board, Morris works with more than 300 researchers to help shape what comes next. His role is to pressure-test emerging ideas, challenge assumptions, and guide the translation of breakthrough technologies into real-world, commercially relevant, and human-centred solutions.

iSelect brought Morris in to keynote a high-level investor and client lunch designed not to showcase product, but to signal where the company was heading. The brief? Unpack the future of insurance, AI, anticipatory platforms, and how tomorrow’s customers will choose, compare, and trust in an era of predictive everything.

Oracle invited Morris to keynote their Modern Business Summit in Sydney—a full-day, senior-level gathering of CHROs, enterprise leaders, Deloitte partners, and Oracle’s global cloud strategy team. He explored the radical shift from career ladders to life portfolios, from job descriptions to task swarms, from workplace policies to workforce philosophies.

Each year, Monash University invites Morris to headline its flagship Computer Games Bootcamp—an immersive, future-facing experience for Year 12 students exploring tech, coding, design, and what’s coming next. But Morris didn’t show up to talk about tools. He came to talk about time, trust, and tech’s ripple effects.

For the global launch of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Activision brought Morris in to translate fiction into foresight. His task: bring credibility, clarity, and real-world connection to a story centred around private military corporations (PMCs), exoskeletons, drones, and a 2059 battlefield shaped by advanced tech.

At the CyberSource Customer Summit in Bali, Morris was invited to deliver the 2020 keynote—a high-visibility session aimed at global clients, product leaders, and payment innovation teams. Held on the main stage between Visa’s global strategy leads and live tech demos, Morris’s job was to provoke the next step in a room already fluent in systems, APIs, and scale.

For the Australian launch of its Titanium suite, Trend Micro commissioned Morris to research, write, and deliver a media-ready foresight report: The Future of Online Security & the Cloud. But this wasn’t just content. It was a strategy. Morris led the qualitative research, framed the foresight, and positioned Trend Micro as the voice of clarity in a rising storm of digital confusion.

Candlefox sits at the intersection of education, marketing, and technology—connecting students to learning providers across Australia, the UK, and beyond. But they weren’t after a trend deck. They invited Morris in for a full-team provocation, from the exec team to the front line, to help them make sense of where learning, platforms, and trust are really heading.

SEEK brought Morris in to work with their leadership team on the future of recruitment, AI in hiring, and the ethical tension between recommendation engines and real people’s lives. This wasn’t a tech talk—it was a mirror. Morris challenged the team to go deeper than user journeys and feature releases.

At ITAC—the Aged Care Technology Summit Morris was invited to address a room full of healthtech leaders, platform founders, engineers, and executives building the next generation of aged care systems. Morris challenged the industry to stop designing for compliance and start designing for dignity.

Morris was invited to deliver the opening keynote at the global Contingent Workforce Summit in Singapore. He challenged the audience to stop optimising operations and start designing systems of trust, where humans, machines, and algorithms don’t just transact—but collaborate.

THQ’s Asia-Pacific leadership team brought Morris in to lead a foresight-driven strategy workshop. The brief? Help their cross-functional executive team navigate a rapidly evolving landscape of consumer behaviour, gaming platforms, business models, and regional growth. Tribe-based immersion, near-future and medium-future scenario work, and brutally honest conversation.

When the Government of Western Australia led a high-level delegation of senior leaders and changemakers to Israel and Silicon Valley, they didn’t just want a tour of startup showrooms. They brought Morris in as a business futurist and integration lead—to ensure the tech they encountered was understood, contextualised, and actionable back home.

As the strategic architect of Retail 2020, Morris designed and launched a full-scale immersive foresight space: a walk-through retail environment showcasing what smart shopping could look, feel, and function like. The experience featured frictionless checkouts, smart carts, AR overlays, data-triggered offers, and ambient AI logic.

Morris joined the Artificial Intelligence panel at MAV Technology’s Annual National Conference a flagship event for government technology leaders across Australia. The theme was transformation, but the deeper conversation was trust: How do councils build, adopt, and lead with AI without losing their communities or their teams?

Cummins brought Morris in to facilitate a foresight session with their executive team to help Cummins rethink their product, service, and supply chain strategies in light of market shifts and global uncertainty. Morris used his proprietary BreadCrumb Innovation® method to provoke serious strategic rethinking.

When IDG invited Morris to keynote the CIO100 Symposium & Awards (India Edition), they weren’t looking for another digital transformation pitch. They wanted foresight. Urgency. A view from the edge. And a reason for their most senior CIOs to rethink not just their strategy but their role.