Ben Hammersley

world’s leading Futurists, Ben Hammersley is the founder and principal of Hammersley Futures, an international strategic forecasting consultancy

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Keynote Speaker Category: Cybersecurity & Dark Net, Digital, Futurist, Innovation, Leadership, Risk, Technology, The Future of Work,

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COGNITIVE RISK AND THE NATURE OF THREAT

We are all bringing yesterday’s war to today’s battlefield. In the modernity of 2020, we have a profound misunderstanding of the nature of geopolitical, commercial, and personal threat. It isn’t kinetics that will get us, but confusion. The post-modern asymmetric reaction to the extreme commercial and military hegemony of the West, or the quasi-Monopoly power of the large corporation is no longer one of physical violence, but of memetic infection, and purposeful, weaponised, confusion. For these audiences, leadership, and strategy, is the art of making the best decisions with the knowledge available. But making those decisions requires accurate data, clear analysis, accurate thinking, without interference. In this talk Ben details the ways that the final line of risk is the individual executive’s ability to think clearly, how this is under specific targeted attack, and how to defend against that. This topic is of deep interest to multinational top tier executives, or those being shaped into becoming so. It can also include follow-up reading, and online sessions.

SKILLS FOR FUTURE LEADERS

We all know the world is changing, and many can give examples of the technologies or trends that are contributing to that change. But that is not the whole picture. In this topic, Ben teaches audiences about the skills, techniques, and cognitive tools that leaders need to both understand those changes and shape their own future. Ideal for executive learning and development programs, or thought-leader positioning customer events, these keynotes are consistently rated as life-changing, with plenty of actionable take-aways for the audience. This topic also extends well into subsequent break-outs and workshop sessions, which can be provided.

THE SHAPE OF THE POST-DIGITAL WORLD

With so much change, so many disruptions and innovations, transforming the culture, systems, and the politics of the world we grew up in, into the world of the 2020s, Ben has found that most of his clients have a mental model of the world that is, if not entirely out of date, then dangerously incomplete. In this topic, he shows the workings and the shape of the interconnected, interdependent, networked, co-arisen modern world, and how it affects the audience’s business and lives. From youth culture in Brazil, to high-speed rail in China, Russian postmodern foreign policy to non-human corporations, weaponized memetic infections to European nationalism, solarpunks to climate mitigation to shadow economies, we provide a true grounding in today, without which you cannot possibly plan for tomorrow. This is especially appreciated by c-suite audiences and has been a repeated hit at evening events with partners and spouses.

Ben Hammersley – Today’s change, tomorrow’s work: the fundamental shifts… – LT16 Conference

BIOGRAPHY

BEN One of the world’s leading Futurists, Ben Hammersley is the founder and principal of Hammersley Futures, an international strategic forecasting consultancy. His main work is in guiding corporations and governmental agencies to think clearly about the future. He specialises in how society reacts to technological innovation: including the future of crime and conflict, the changing nature of the workplace and the market, and the new cognitive tools needed to flourish in the coming decades.

Previously Ben was executive editor of WIRED, the writer and presenter of the BBC’s “Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley” (now on Netflix or Amazon Prime internationally), a war correspondent in Afghanistan, an advisor to the European Commission, a pilot and wilderness media in the USA, the author of 5 books, and the inventor of the word “Podcast”.

All Ben’s talks are written specifically for the client and their event but are based on our ongoing research and consultancy around the world. They are usually 45 minute to 1-hour keynotes with options for Q&A afterwards, but this is, of course, adjustable to fit the needs of the event.

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