The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all aspects of normal life, with enormous health, economic and social costs. It has also brought home the urgency of a decisive shift to sustainability. In Sustainability Trends Report 2020
My posts on The End of Oil Read my 12 ...
Join me for a brand-new virtual keynote and discussion: 10 essential foresights for our post-corona-future June 12 5pm
This much is certain: The pandemic will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later.
New film: The Great Transformation: Futurist Gerd Leonhard on how #covid19 will impact our immediate future
Free Digital Conference with Futurists Musgrave, Leonhard, Lyngso, Adamson: Covid-19 and The Future of Business
That was an amazing online conference (see details below). New ...
DIGITAL CONFERENCING EPIDEMICS AND TRAVEL BANS DO NOT HAVE TO BE THE END OF CONFERENCES AND EVENTS!
The world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 percent of the planet’s population, reveals a new report from Oxfam today ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.
Real-life events will come back when they can (no telling ...
I wrote this in 2016, in my book Technology vs. ...
EarthFix explains the carbon tax and cap-and-trade carbon-pricing systems as countries aim to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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
The covid19 virus is quickly becoming a major interruptor as far as live events, conferences and generally larger gatherings of people is concerned. I remain hopeful that it can be contained in the next few weeks but I also think we really need to start looking at alternatives for traveling to places and meeting face-to-face (even though I very much enjoy doing that, the environmental costs are staggering, as well). This will take some serious adjusting but I think it can be quite fruitful, as well. Hence I am announcing my first online conference, today, using the amazing ZOOM platform.
New 2020 speaking topic: Why and how SUSTAINABLE will be the new PROFITABLE
Find out more about this event. Converge Capital Conference is ...
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.
Gerd is a Futurist and a humanist, a leading global keynote speaker (on-stage as well as virtually), the author of 5 books including ‘Technology vs. Humanity’ and a film-maker. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in London, and the CEO of The Futures Agency in Zürich / Switzerland. People, Planet, Purpose and Prosperity is Gerd's credo, and The Good Future is his passion.
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