Keynote Speaker Category: Artificial Intelligence, Covid-19, Digital Transformation, Futurist, Technological Disruption, Technology,
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
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Gerd speaks about things that really matter and that he feels passionately about, with a focus on what he calls ‘Practical Wisdom’. His talks often revolve around how we can ensure that collective human flourishing – socially, culturally, spiritually, economically and
politically – will remain the focus and the main outcome of all scientific and technological progress.
Immersion, engagement and lasting impact is crucial to his engagements. For bigger venues, he uses screens and LED-walls to project custom-made animations and graphics, video-clips and audio to accompany his presentations. He is equally happy to speak at
smaller and more intimate events with or without visuals – as sometimes a great live debate can be just as powerful as any presentation.
- 10 Things you need to know about the future, today
- Artificial intelligence (AI) – the next 10 years
- Technology and humanity
- Defining our future, today
- The 10 Mega shifts:
- Transforming your organisation
- Digital ethics / the ethics of technology
Videos:
The great transformation: Our future. A virtual keynote by futurist Gerd Leonhard (LinkedIn Latam)
Virtual Keynote by Futurist Gerd Leonhard: Alps Cloud Security Summit 2020
We need to talk about AI – a film by Futurist Gerd Leonhard: thoughts on artificial intelligence
Keynotes:
‘The Great Transformation – A post-corona future: what to expect in the next 3-5 years’
This keynote (usually held remotely) addresses topics such as:
- The economic and business impact: the future of jobs, work, commerce and trade
- The geopolitical impact: Europe, the U.S. and China – new power structures?
De-Globalisation?
- The future of capitalism: stakeholder value over shareholder value: finally, a sustainable capitalism?
- The environmental impact: how will this crisis impact climate-change action? How real is the ‘end of oil‘?
- The impact on medical & healthcare: entering warp-drive
- The societal impact: is technological domination and permanent surveillance next?
- The personal impact: fears and hopes, solidarity vs. opportunism, resilience vs desperation • The impact on investing: where will the money go?
- The impact on education, learning and universities (and leadership)
As you may have guessed, this keynote is usually held virtually i.e. as a digital keynote, but in some instances can also be in-person i.e. in ‘real-lif.
As part of this talk, Gerd often present these 4 steps of coping with this crisis:
– focus on survival – pursue radical collaboration – become masters of adaptation – pivot and transform
BIOGRAPHY
Over the past two decades, Gerd Leonhard has risen to one of the top 10 futurist keynote speakers worldwide. With over 2,000 engagements in 60+ countries since 2004, and a combined audience of over 2.5 million people, Gerd has been listed by Wired magazine as one of the Top 100 Most-Influential People in Europe, and as ‘One of the leading media futurists in the World’ by The Wall Street Journal.
Gerd focuses on the future of humanity and technology, digital ethics, artificial intelligence,
future-leadership and foresights. His keynotes are renowned for their hard-hitting and provocative style – inspiring, humorous, motivational, and always personal. Using cutting-edge creative motion design, Gerd’s performances have become a unique immersive experience on the big screen, reinventing the visual side of the conference industry.
His most popular talk at the moment is ‘The Great Transformation – A post-corona future: what to expect in the next 3-5 years’. Gerd believes our world is being painfully but irreversibly rebooted by the Covid19 crisis – and we are not ‘going back to normal’. To many of us, this crisis may feel quite devastating but Gerd believe this also creates a very unique opportunity called ‘The Great Transformation‘.
Gerd is highly regarded as a global influencer and has advised many business leaders and government officials around the globe. His diverse list of clients include governments, NGOs and Fortune 500 companies such as SAP, Microsoft, Google, Accenture, Deloitte, KPMG, Sony, UBS, Tetrapak, Mastercard, BBC, Unilever, Lloyds Bank, WWF, Sony, The Guardian, Telkom Indonesia, Siemens, RTL, France Telecom, The Financial Times, Ogilvy, Omnicom, The EU Commission, VISA, Audi, NetAPP and many others.
A true thought leader in the futurist space, Gerd is above all a dedicated humanist who believes that all technological progress should further collective human flourishing. His credo is simple: People, Planet, Purpose and Prosperity.
Gerd uses his keynotes, presentations, workshops and advisory sessions to deep-dive on complex topics. Recurring themes include the coming redefinition of human-machine relationships, exploring what it means to be human in a world of machines and algorithms, the future of work and jobs, and the ethics of technology. As Gerd likes to say, humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous 300 years – so let’s maintain and protect what makes us human!
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