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Future trends – What should we be ready for?
What are the biggest future trends we have to get ...
What to expect for 2021: My new video series (first batch)
Humans tend to wait until something really bad has happened before we react and make real changes: Witness nuclear weapons and Covid-19. But now we've learned something: being prepared, developing foresight and thinking exponentially will be essential to our future success (or plight).
24
Feb 2021
New Video: Futurist Gerd Leonhard Q&A Session at IEEE Global Conference on AI and IoT Dec 13 2020
This was a great event and we will publish the ...
08
Jan 2021
New: Gerd.Live #3: thoughtful conversation with Jennifer Morgan, CEO of Greenpeace: climate change and with/post-covid futures
I'm having a riveting conversation with Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director ...
05
Oct 2020
Covid-19 is a trial run for climate change
We ain't see nothing yet. And still I maintain that ...
14
Aug 2020
2021 will bring the Great American Pivoting
under a new and decidedly more coherent political leadership, America will once again rise to a responsible and reliable global player fuelled by technology, and this will commence in early 2021.
10
Aug 2020
Good review of my virtual keynote in Hong Kong @HKTDC – E-Day: Covid the Transformer
Nice in-depth review of my talk at HKTDC in Hong ...
29
Jul 2020
The U.S. Is Lagging Behind Many Rich Countries. These Charts Show Why (must-read via the NYT)
“The United States is different. In nearly every other high-income ...
08
Jul 2020
New video of my virtual Keynote at Brazil Futures Summit: our future with/post Corona
This is part 1 of my virtual keynote at the Brazil Futures Summit on June 19, 2020, showcasing my new virtual keynote style with immersive 'weather-man animations'. For more details on the event please go to https://wfuturismo.com/summit/ In this talk I share my thoughts on the with/post corona future and what I call the Great Transformation: BigTech, BigHealth BigState. Survive, collaborate, show solidarity, adapt, transform.
25
Jun 2020
Video of my new Virtual Keynote / Talk: 10 Key Future Foresights, HD on Youtube
Join me for a brand-new virtual keynote and discussion: 10 essential foresights for our post-corona-future June 12 5pm
05
Jun 2020
Manhattan Faces a Reckoning if Working From Home Becomes the Norm (via NYT – Must-read!)
Still, when the dust settles, New York City could face a real estate reckoning.
13
May 2020
New film: The Great Transformation: Futurist Gerd Leonhard on how #covid19 will impact our immediate future
New film: The Great Transformation: Futurist Gerd Leonhard on how #covid19 will impact our immediate future
02
Apr 2020
Press-release: Announcing TheConference.Digital – Working, meeting, collaborating and conferencing online is the Future.
Announcing TheConference.Digital: new concepts for digital events and online conferencing, presented by Gerd Leonhard and The Futures Agency
18
Mar 2020
The 2 biggest challenges of this decade: Climate-Emergency and Dehumanisation (Technology).
I wrote this in 2016, in my book Technology vs. ...
08
Mar 2020
I sure hope the future of keynote speaking does not look like this – but conferencing is definitely moving ONLINE now!
COVID19 is becoming a major disaster for event and conference organizers, and of course for keynote speakers like myself. Pretty much every event is being cancelled right now. Maybe this is a good time to reboot the idea of doing entire events 100% online
05
Mar 2020
Must-watch speech by Paul Polman (former Unilever CEO) at SDG Business Forum 2019
Paul Polman, SDG Advocate and Co-Vice Chair of the UN Global Compact Board, made a passionate call-to-action to the companies everywhere at the 2019 SDG Business Forum.
