About Rebecca
Inside the ideas shaping what comes next.
Rebecca Maklad is a keynote speaker, podcast host and advisor working at the intersection of technology, influence and human potential.
For more than two decades, she has worked alongside futurists, scientists and thought leaders, translating complex shifts in technology and society into ideas that help people think differently about what comes next.
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Two decades inside the global ideas industry.
Rebecca Maklad is a keynote speaker, podcast host and advisor working at the intersection of technology, influence and human potential. For more than two decades, she has worked alongside futurists, scientists, thought leaders and cultural commentators, translating complex shifts in technology and society into ideas that help people think differently about what comes next.
Part of the founding team at ODE Management, where she managed some of the country's leading speakers, and former CEO of Future Crunch, Rebecca has spent her career across the global futures and ideas space. As a speaker, she has worked with organisations including Nine Entertainment, ANZ, Ernst & Young, Australia Post and Cuscal.
Her current work explores one defining question: as artificial intelligence changes the value of intelligence itself, where does human advantage move?
Through her keynote The Human Edge and her podcast The Last Human Edge, Rebecca explores the human capabilities that become more valuable as AI advances: Intention, Judgement, Coordination, Adaptability and Meaning. The capabilities that determine whether intelligence creates clarity or noise, alignment or fragmentation, progress or drift.
- Intention
- Judgement
- Coordination
- Adaptability
- Meaning
Not soft skills. The edges that determine whether intelligence creates clarity or noise, alignment or fragmentation, progress or drift.
She also hosts The Last Human Edge podcast, launching July 2026, exploring what it means to protect and develop human capability in a world being reshaped by artificial intelligence.
"When intelligence becomes abundant, advantage becomes human."
From the audience
"Rebecca and Tané immediately captured everyone's attention with their compelling stage presence and intelligent optimism."
Alex Edney
Head of Culture and Diversity, World Vision
The Human Edge
When intelligence becomes abundant, advantage becomes human.
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