Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc Blogs March 10, 2023 China’s all-in approach to the metaverse could spell trouble for U.S. tech supremacy China is poised, and perhaps more determined than ever, to make the metaverse central to its economy in the future. China wants to expand the VR industry output to 350 billion yuan (U.S. $48 billion) by 2026 — six times the level of 2021 — showing it aims to become a world leader in the emerging metaverse economy. Blogs May 15, 2023 Hyperbole, hype and hope? Trillions of reasons why the metaverse matters Ever since Steven Spielberg put the metaverse on the mainstream map in 2018 with his science-fiction adventure film, Ready Player One, based on Ernest Cline's novel of the same name, there has been a slow but steady drumbeat of momentum building around the potential and possibilities of this brave, new, immersive world. Sure, the metaverse had been talked about long before 2018, but once… Blogs January 19, 2026 Protiviti's Perspectives on the Silver Review This four-part blog series presents Protiviti’s perspectives on how the Victorian Public Service can turn the Silver Review from a cost‑cutting exercise into a system‑level reform opportunity that strengthens financial sustainability, digital capability and service delivery. It positions Protiviti as a partner in designing and assuring the governance, risk, finance and technology changes needed… Video December 19, 2025 Designing Fair Finance: The Playbook for Trust, Inclusion and AI Governance In an environment where financial services are rapidly digitising, CIOs are under increasing pressure to ensure that innovation doesn’t outpace responsibility. At Money20/20, Protiviti’s Melissa Desjardins, director, CIO solutions, financial services, sat down with Amanda Estiverne-Colas of the National Alliance for Financial Literacy and Inclusion (NAFLI) and Evan Feeney of Consumer Reports to… Podcast March 28, 2023 Future of Crypto Innovation and Regulation Over the past year, as one crypto organisation after another has been beset by fraud or declared bankruptcy, countless headlines have surfaced warning of the death of the crypto industry. Yet the damage has been largely contained. The developments have raised many questions about digital assets, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology as well as regulation and other factors that may help the… Blogs July 20, 2021 What Do Thriving Organisations Have in Common? Business Agility The Digital Age is forcing businesses to seek new ways to avoid falling behind and better serve their customers. Business agility enables organisations to respond quickly to market changes and employee or customer demands without compromising quality. Traditional hierarchical siloed methods no longer work in this environment. Companies seeking speed, innovation and greater customer focus have… Podcast November 30, 2022 Podcast | Quantum-Inspired Applications with Icosa Computing We’re getting close to practical advantage with quantum computing when running optimisation algorithms. Companies interested in being leaders in their industry should already be considering how to harness this promised power with use cases that solve their business problems. But some companies want a better solution that’s advantageous today, even if it’s only quantum-inspired. Join host… Podcast Transcript July 20, 2023 Transcript | NSW Chief Data Scientist Ian Opperman on ways we’ll use the metaverse in future VISION by Protiviti interviews Dr. Ian Oppermann, the New South Wales Government’s Chief Data Scientist working within the Department of Customer Service and expert on the future impact of technology on society, about how we’ll use the metaverse in the future. Dr. Oppermann is also an Industry Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and served as CEO of the New South… Podcast July 12, 2023 Podcast | Using AI to Improve Quantum Computing with Q-CTRL AI is disrupting almost every industry right now, so it’s not surprising that machine learning techniques are being used to improve quantum computers and accelerate the coming of fault-tolerant systems. Applications may have an advantageous business impact sooner than we thought. Join Protiviti’s Konstantinos Karagiannis for a chat with Michael Hush from Q-CTRL and learn how they’re squeezing a… Podcast May 29, 2024 Podcast | Quantum AI Compression: Smaller LLMs without Losing Performance — with Multiverse Large Language Models are … large. Forget Bitcoin and recharging electric vehicles; the grid could be toppled by powering AI in a few years. It would be optimal if AI could run on more underpowered edge devices. What if there was a quantum-inspired way to make LLMs smaller without sacrificing overall performance in combined metrics? We explore a way to do that and other advanced ideas like… Load More