Anders Indset

Anders Indset is a business philosopher, author and frontier-tech investor. He has written eight books, four of them SPIEGEL bestsellers, has delivered more than 1,200 keynotes in 45 countries, and has been recognised by Thinkers50 as one of the most influential thinkers on the future. His guiding question: what remains of us when AI thinks for us?

Anders Indset: “Whoever takes part in what is becoming defends no yesterday.”

Knowledge was power. Now it is available to everyone: every question has an answer, every decision a draft. What relieves us can also take from us what makes us human. Anders Indset connects philosophy with the state of science and technology and translates both into decisions that leaders can make today. He looks back on two decades of working with multinational companies, is a sparring partner for international CEOs and political leaders, and a guest lecturer at leading business schools.

His keynotes have taken him from Europe across the US to Japan and Malaysia, including the Swiss Economic Forum, the NATO Allied Foresight Conference, XPANSE Abu Dhabi, WIRED Istanbul and the Bitkom AI, Data & Quantum Summit. His style combines Norwegian values and charisma with German intellectual rigour and a rousing, American-influenced stage presence. He speaks English, German and Norwegian, with or without slides, and on request entirely live.

Anders Indset: “Today’s leaders need the philosophy of the past, paired with the scientific insights and technologies of tomorrow.”

Anders Indset Speaking Topics

Anders Indset’s keynotes are tailored to each audience and occasion. These are the topics currently in focus:

• The Topic of the Year – WHAT REMAINS OF US?
  “Allowed to know, no longer required to think.” AI makes knowledge available and takes the work of thinking off our hands. What happens to judgement, responsibility and dignity when we adopt answers without thinking for ourselves? A keynote about the human being in a world that works for us and increasingly decides for us. Your audience takes away how to develop positions of its own from available answers, where helpful relief tips into intellectual dependence, and why dignity, freedom, closeness and time are not exhausted by access to knowledge.

• The Live Keynote – THREE WORDS. ONE KEYNOTE.
  he audience gives three words, and on the spot Anders Indset builds a complete 45-minute keynote from them: no slides, no lectern, a handheld microphone, a clear arc and a close. Every one is different, none is unprepared.

• What comes after digitalisation? – POSSIBILISM
  Between a pessimism that sees mainly risks and an optimism that rests on naive hopes stands possibilism: the conviction that a better future is possible, understood as a task, not a forecast. A stance that moves leaders from administering to shaping.

• AI, judgement and what remains – THE LAST HUMAN AND THE MACHINE
  If machines take over knowledge and intelligence, what is left for us? Why judgement becomes the scarce resource in every organisation that runs on AI, and how leadership protects it.

• High-performance culture rooted in values – THE VIKING CODE
  Why does a country of five and a half million produce so many world champions? What companies, sales teams and family businesses can take from Norway’s performance culture.

• Quantum, life, consciousness – SCI-PHI At the border of physics, biology and philosophy: which economy will quantum technology produce, what is aliveness, what is consciousness? A keynote or a half-day dialogue with a scientist.

Business philosopher Anders Indset: “If we want to understand society, we need to rethink the economy.”

Formats

Keynote (30–60 min., with or without slides), Live Keynote (45 min., on site only), fireside and panel, dinner speech (20–30 min., no slides), executive session (90–120 min. with your leadership team) and virtual (30–45 min.). Suitable for kick-offs, congresses, board and client forums, and evening events. His “Thinking out Loud” events range from small CxO retreats to large-scale events with several thousand participants.

Anders Indset – The Person

Anders Indset was born in Trondheim, grew up in Røros and has lived in Germany for 25 years. A former elite athlete, he has been recognised by Thinkers50 as one of the most influential thinkers on the future in technology, leadership and economics (Thinkers50 Radar, 2018). As founder of tomorrowmensch, he invests in quantum technology, life science, HealthTech and BioTech and helps companies scale their products and services.

His philosophy is a practice of thinking: Anders Indset brings thoughts to life. His driving force is learning, the art of being wrong, and the search for better explanations. His stance is possibilism: neither naive optimism nor doom, but the decision to shape the future instead of administering it.

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