Gerd Leonhard

Over the past two decades, Gerd Leonhard has become one of the top 10 futurist keynote speakers worldwide. With over 2,000 engagements in more than sixty countries since 2004 and a total audience of over 2.5 million people, he has been listed by Wired Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in Europe – and by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the world’s leading media futurists.”

“The future is no longer a time frame, it is a MINDSET.”

Gerd Leonhard is a renowned futurist and humanist, a thought leader with a global presence. As a sought-after keynote speaker, advisor, and filmmaker, he travels the world to share his knowledge and vision. His books and talks focus on key future topics, inspired by his guiding principle: “People, Planet, Purpose & Prosperity.” Advocating for an optimistic and actionable vision of the future, he is a strong proponent of “The Good Future.” Gerd Leonhard combines visionary insights with practical wisdom to inspire people worldwide.

Gerd Leonhard Lecture Topics

Here everything revolves around, securing the future of your company, education and training, leading your company into the future, topics around philosophy, social issues, the future of our humanity, media scenarios and many other business topics!

Digital Darwinism – Winners and Victims of the Digital Transformation
Accelerated technological change and the Internet are revolutionizing business, work and leisure. Discover what you need to be prepared for in the next five years. What opportunities and challenges will companies and organizations face? Gerd Leonhard sheds light on developments and shows new ways forward.

Further lecture topics by Gerd Leonhard

He offers customized lectures and keynotes for a variety of topics.

• The good future – Yes, we can.
• Artificial intelligence and the future of humans
• The good future – why it’s real and how to shape it
• The 10 most important reasons about the future
• Green is the new digital – Sustainability is becoming the new profit
• The exponential transformation: How organizations can define and shape their preferred future

The future revolution: The next 10 years will bring more change than the last 100 years.

Gerd Leonhard – The good future?

Our world is changing faster than ever before, driven by profound geopolitical shifts, long-standing complex conflicts and regional wars, the accelerating climate crisis, the breathtaking pace of technological change and the disruption that comes with the meteoric rise of the rise of AI. What was once unthinkable or considered impossible is fast becoming the new normal and science fiction is increasingly science fact. Science facts. The excitement about amazing new technologies is real, but so are concerns about the future like never before. So how might we reset, e.g. rebranding the future as ‘good’? How could it become a reality? How can humanity move beyond amazing science and cool tools to more collaboration and TELOS? Gerd Leonhard believes the Good Future is real and achievable – and he’s ready to explore it with you!

In his engagements, he addresses very important issues. These include the importance of being human in a world of machines and algorithms, and the coming redefinition of human-machine relationships – but also the future of work and jobs, and the ethics of technology.

Change has been a constant companion in the life of Gerd Leonhard.

From professional artist to Internet entrepreneur and author to today’s visionary thinker, speaker and CEO of The Futures Agency in Zurich. In 1985, he won the Quincy Jones Award from Berklee College of Music in Boston and then worked as a professional guitarist, composer and producer for twelve years. Then he began his Internet phase, as he describes it himself – and he became a digital music and media entrepreneur. From 1994 to 2004, he was founder and CEO of several San Francisco-based Internet startups. After the dotcom bubble burst in March and during the 9/11 crisis, Gerd Leonhard returned to Europe. There he discovered his talents as a futurist and in 2007 founded The Futures Agency, a global network of over forty leading futurists, speakers and personalities.

Gerd Leonhard: “The future is already here – we weren’t really looking!”

We are rushing headlong into a machine-driven world where our humanity is increasingly challenged and questioned. Gerd Leonhard challenges us to think about what human values we are willing to stand up for – before “being human” changes its meaning forever. “The future is already here – we haven’t really looked!” Gerd Leonhard travels the world speaking at leading conferences, events and seminars. He helps other people as well as companies and government organizations to deal with the “future shock” and to shape the intended change themselves. He is also an influential author. For example, he is co-author of the visionary book “The Future of Music” and author of five other books, including his latest bestseller “Technology vs. Humanity” (September 2016), which is already available in eleven languages.

Gerd Leonhard’s films on the future of technology and humanity, on digital transformation and artificial intelligence have reached millions of viewers. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London) and an Advisory Board Member of the Indian and Canadian Research Institute. He lives in Zurich and presents in both English and German.

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