Tim Middlemiss

Principal Consultant at Pale Blue Advisory

Tim Middlemiss is the founder of Pale Blue Advisory, and one of Australia's most experienced and adaptable social impact leaders. He led global engagement for LeapFrog Investments, a global leader in impact investing which saw the largest ever single investment into impact, and built the Foundation and impact-led growth strategy for Harrison.AI, a rapidly scaling health-tech company. As Chief of Staff to former World Vision Australia CEO, Tim Costello AO, Tim played a key role in driving initiatives for one of the largest humanitarian organisations globally. Before that, Tim co-founded the award-winning, for-purpose creative studio Agency, which worked on hundreds of impact projects across Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, and the United States. Agency was awarded Best New Agency by the Global Net Awards, and was recognised as one of Westpac’s Businesses of Tomorrow.‍Now, at Pale Blue Advisory, Tim lends his expertise to champion real impact as a value driver for businesses, tech companies and society at large. Tim was named an inaugural Obama Foundation Leader for Asia-Pacific in 2020.

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Welcome to Abundance - The Economic Problem is Solved. So… What Next?

Congratulations, humanity - you did it! We solved scarcity. Food, water, energy, and shelter? Infinite. Everyone has what they need. But instead of utopia, things are… weird. The old rules don’t work. People are restless. Governments are scrambling to justify their existence. The economy? Well, what even is an economy when everything is abundant? This thought experiment throws us 50 years into a post-scarcity world where we wrestle with the real challenges of abundance. How do people find purpose when survival isn’t the game anymore? Does ambition still exist? How do we decide who gets what when there's no pressing need to fight over resources? And do we actually want to live in a world without scarcity, or does struggle make us who we are? This isn’t a history lesson. It’s a test run of the future. And you, the audience, are here to help figure out how to make it work (or why it might all go horribly wrong).