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Join this featured SXSW 2025 session where Mike Bechtel, Chief Futurist at Deloitte Consulting, challenges the notion that expertise and specialization are the keys to success. Discover why polymathy, conceptual cross-pollination, and industry convergence may be more valuable in today's innovation landscape than domain specialization. Learn how overspecialization can create blind spots and territoriality that prevent breakthrough ideas from moving forward, and explore strategies for building better spaces for innovation. This one-hour talk examines why the future may favor those who continuously learn across disciplines rather than those who deeply specialize in a single area.
