Shara Evans
Technology Futurist
Profile
Shara Evans shows organisations how to take advantage of the opportunities underpinned by emerging technologies.
As one of the world’s top female futurists, Shara is one of those rare individuals who merge incredible technical skills with an innate understanding of the social and economic impact of new technologies.
Current Work:
Regarded as a leading expert on emerging technologies, cyber security, digital privacy and the future of health, humanity and work, Shara is regularly featured on broadcast television. She’s appeared on Sky News, ABC’s Q&A, The Project, Weekend Sunrise, Lateline, and more. She’s recently appeared on Fox and CW Network’s Life 2.0 science documentary series in the USA (nominated for 3 Emmys in July 2021), and, in March 2020 was named by Forbes as one of the World’s Top 50 Female Futurists (one of the few technology futurists featured in the Forbes list.) In 2022, Shara was named as one of the top Australian futurist speakers – one of very few women on this list.
An accomplished entrepreneur Shara is the founder and CEO of leading technology analyst firm Market Clarity and previously founded Telsyte, a strategic telecommunications and technology consulting group.
As a keynote speaker, Shara Evans weaves a narrative of a near future radically different from our current world… but clearly recognisable as the result of today’s newest technological leaps. By contextualising and humanising the research and technology that will shape the next 10-20 years, Shara assists organisations to create and commercialise the products and services of tomorrow.
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Feedback
Shara’s session was a resounding success. She is one of the best presenters we have ever had, drawing on real experience and examples with high-quality presentation materials and a fantastic speaking style. Shara’s deep knowledge of a broad range of topics was very impressive and she really engaged our members in an interesting and challenging session. I would very highly recommend Shara as a keynote speaker.
We’ve been working with Shara Evans for about ten years now, and I’ve seen her speak over many years at many conferences. Her predictions about what’s happening in the future have been spot-on on so many occasions. Shara is now a futurist specialising in telecommunications and technology, and we’re proud to be able to work with her.
“The Fraud and Cyber Crime Group, State Crime Command were very privileged to have futurist Shara Evans as a keynote speaker at our Fraud, Cyber and Identity Crime symposium “Triumph Through a Changing World” at the Intercontinental Hotel, Sanctuary Cove, Australia. Shara has a deep understanding of the global landscape and an intuitive ability to identify where technology will lead us in the future. Her thought provoking presentation gave organisations a valuable insight of the future benefits, risks and threats they face as the impact filters through all levels of society. Shara’s captivating presentation was an event highlight and the impetus for discovery, learning and adapting by the delegates as they participated through the symposium.”
Shara Evans has now delivered two keynote plenary presentations at CeBIT in 2015 & 2016. Shara’s 2016 session on “CyberCrime: From SciFi to boardroom threat - Where the challenges lie in the digital future” was fantastic. We had excellent feedback from our delegates and media representatives Shara is a valued participant in CeBIT proceedings having also delivered a superb keynote in 2015 on the implications of drone technology “Flying Robots: Friends or Foe” which received wide coverage by mainstream media.
Shara is easy to work with, and is happy to tailor her presentations to our exact requirements. I’d highly recommend Shara as a keynote speaker for any technology themed event.
I attended the annual CGU Benchmark Awards on Thursday 1 Sep 16 in Sydney (Cleanaway was a proud winner!), and the keynote speaker was Technology Futurist, Shara Evans. Shara introduced herself to our little group before the event and within few minutes, we were all looking forward to hearing her speak; Shara is engaging and knowledgeable, and the remarkable technological insights she provided were captivating. I’m quite sure that most, if not all, people present left the awards ceremony with minds blown! Shara has been ahead of the curve her entire working life, and in the sci-fi movie field of technology, that is something in itself. We were all speaking to everyone we came across for the next 2 days about her keynote address. Commendable.
CPA Australia recently engaged Shara Evans to speak at 6 locations across Australia at our flagship event CPA Congress. I have never come across a speaker who is as diligent as Shara, and took the time to piece together her presentation to ensure it fit the brief to such exacting standards! Shara has a natural stage presence and great ability to clearly explain complex issues and topics. Consistent feedback from delegates was they really appreciated her insights and how she so expertly dissected the topic and unpacked the repercussions for our audience. If you are after a very exacting speaker that overlooks nothing Shara Evans should be on your shortlist!
The Victorian Water Industry Association (VicWater) would like to express its most sincere gratitude on behalf of our Board, our team and the Victorian water industry as a whole for your involvement in the recent VicWater Annual Conference. Although our formal feedback process has not been completed, the informal feedback I have received from delegates in attendance has been very positive. Many personally commenting to me on the strength and calibre of the presenters over the two days, the synergy in the messages presented and the fact that the event inspired them for the future of the sector. Your specific presentation provided high quality information and raised thought provoking questions that will no doubt influence the delegates thinking and approach into the future.
I engaged Shara Evans as a keynote speaker for a recent event for over 400 senior leaders to share her insights on technology, it’s impact to our customers, and future opportunities for our company. She delivered an outstanding keynote address, which since has created a buzz amongst our leaders. She is highly professional, and her delivery is first class. Shara spent several hours working with us to ensure that the content that was delivered was perfect for our audience - and it was!
We had a fantastic presentation from her. Lots of photos were taken, and we had some really good insights into the direction that we’re going - looking at smart technology [such as] 5G, healthcare, smart cities. We had such an insightful presentation from Shara. Highly recommend that you get to one of her presentations!
Shara’s opening presentation was fantastic! It really exceeded our expectations. It was mesmerising, and really set up our attendees to understand the mega trends that are coming. We couldn’t have done it without you Shara. Fantastic!
She’s inspired our audience of over 350 delegates with all sorts of inviting ideas. Thinking about what the Future of Work is going to look like. She’s delivered information about artificial intelligence, genomics, nanobots, hyperloops… It’s just been an inspiring presentation and the audience was very energised in the break. So many people have just been telling me that she had given them food for thought and caused them to think in a disruptive and different way. Thank you so much Shara for bringing your wisdom to our delegates and thanks for getting us excited about what the future looks like.
The theme of our conference was “Business as Unusual” and we were quite pleased to have Ms Shara Evans join us as one of our keynote speakers. She talked a lot about the future, what’s happening, and gave us insights that as Fijians we can look forward to. The audience participation and feedback was excellent! In terms of the application of that we had to gather questions, Ms Evans had the most questions out of all the speakers. Thank you very much for her [speech] and it was a great conference.
We had some interesting talks from medical professionals on the future of certain medical techniques around breast imaging and we rounded up with Shara Evans to talk about health technology of the future - relating to what we do, what jobs we might have in the future, how long we might live in the future and still be doing mammography. All in all a very thought provoking, interesting talk on where life is going, and where the world is going.
Shara did a fantastic job of talking about the future. But, more importantly, she was able to relate it to our family business members and how they could apply some of the opportunity in their businesses today, as well as longer term opportunities for them to consider for the future. Shara was great! I would not hesitate to recommend her for any conference.
We just worked with Shara Evans as a keynote speaker as well as an interactive session facilitator here at our event. It’s Day 1, morning, and it was a great idea to have Shara kick off our event with her keynote. It was super engaging, super innovative, super forward thinking and definitely left the audience with lots of questions and a high level of engagement as well. It wasn’t just that. For our interactive session we had to chase her out of the room because there were so many people who wanted to stay on and here more from Shara. It was a really great idea to have her facilitate both and it added loads of value to our event. We’d definitely recommend [Shara] and it added super huge value to our event. Super grateful for that. Thank you so much.
Inviting Shara to present at our annual sales and leadership conference was an opportunity to give the rest of the team the time to really absorb the information, as there is a lot of it. When I deliver it, it’s not nearly as concisely as what Shara does. Her presentation was excellent! In just over an hour to deliver that much content in such a meaningful manner was really refreshing. I think everyone left pretty refreshed and inspired by what you [Shara] said because it’s pretty cool.
We brought Shara to the City of Newcastle for the Humble Lecture - the very first one in honour of our colleague Jenny Humble. Our team was quite excited to hear about all of the innovations that Shara was able to share with us. To learn about some of the things on our horizon, and also a little bit further into the future. Some of the things that might shock them, but also some of our team have had a bit of a fear factor and Shara helped humanize that for us. And, it helped us to then also share how the smart city movement in Newcastle is making some of these SciFi [things] into reality for our city.
We engaged with Shara for a CFO breakfast in Sydney. It was a group of about 120 CFOs exploring the future of finance. Shara gave a very in-depth session all about the future of finance and how it’s changing the world of the CFO. Fantastic feedback! Everyone loved it. It ticked all the boxes. It was exactly what we were looking for. It was a pleasure to work with Shara. And, I look forward to once again in the future.
