Futurist & Humanist | Vooraanstaand Expert op het Gebied van de Toekomst
Gerd Leonhard is niet alleen een toonaangevend expert op het gebied van de toekomst, hij is ook een humanist die gelooft dat alle wetenschappelijke en technologische vooruitgang de collectieve menselijke bloei moet bevorderen.
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De afgelopen twee decennia is Gerd Leonhard uitgegroeid tot een van de top 10 futuristische keynote sprekers wereldwijd. Met meer dan 2.000 optredens in ruim 60 landen sinds 2004, en een gecombineerd publiek van meer dan 2,5 miljoen mensen, is Gerd door Wired Magazine uitgeroepen tot een van de Top 100 Meest Invloedrijke Mensen in Europa, en door The Wall Street Journal als ‘een van de toonaangevende media-futuristen ter wereld’.
Gerd Leonhard richt zich op de toekomst van de mensheid en technologie, digitale ethiek, kunstmatige intelligentie, toekomstgericht leiderschap en vooruitzichten. Zijn keynotes staan bekend om hun krachtige en provocerende stijl – inspirerend, humoristisch, motiverend en altijd persoonlijk. Met behulp van geavanceerd creatief motion design zijn Gerd’s optredens uitgegroeid tot een unieke meeslepende ervaring op het grote scherm, waarmee hij de visuele kant van de conferentie-industrie opnieuw uitvindt. Terugkerende thema’s zijn onder meer de aanstaande herdefinitie van mens-machine relaties, het onderzoeken wat het betekent om mens te zijn in een wereld van machines en algoritmes, de toekomst van werk en banen, en de ethiek van technologie. Zoals Gerd Leonhard graag zegt: de mensheid zal de komende 20 jaar meer veranderen dan in de afgelopen 300 jaar – dus laten we behouden en beschermen wat ons menselijk maakt!
Gerd wordt zeer gewaardeerd als mondiale influencer en heeft veel zakelijke leiders en overheidsfunctionarissen over de hele wereld geadviseerd. Zijn diverse klantenlijst omvat overheden, NGO’s en Fortune 500-bedrijven zoals 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, de Europese Commissie, VISA, Audi, NetAPP en vele anderen.
Als echte thought leader in de futuristische ruimte is Gerd Leonhard bovenal een toegewijd humanist die gelooft dat alle technologische vooruitgang de collectieve menselijke bloei moet bevorderen. Zijn credo is eenvoudig: People, Planet, Purpose en Prosperity.
Gerd Leonhard heeft zijn hele leven besteed aan het omgaan met verandering, als professioneel artiest, internetondernemer, auteur en nu als visionair denker en spreker. Hij was oprichter/CEO van verschillende internetstartups, gevestigd in San Francisco. In 2002, na de dot.com-crash en de 9/11-crisis, keerde Gerd terug naar Europa en ontdekte hij zijn nieuwe roeping als futurist.
Gerd reist de wereld rond om te spreken op toonaangevende conferenties, evenementen en seminars, waarbij hij individuen, bedrijven en overheidsorganisaties helpt om te gaan met de ‘future shock’ en verandering te omarmen. Gerd is ook een invloedrijk auteur. Hij is co-auteur van het visionaire boek ‘The Future of Music’ en auteur van 5 andere boeken, waaronder zijn laatste bestseller ‘Technology vs. Humanity’, nu beschikbaar in tien talen.
Gerd’s films over de toekomst van technologie en de mensheid, digitale transformatie en kunstmatige intelligentie hebben miljoenen kijkers bereikt. Hij is fellow van de Royal Society of Arts (RSA, Londen) en lid van de adviesraad van de Indiase en Canadese onderzoeksinstituten.
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 I think it also creates a very unique
opportunity for what I call ‘The Great Transformation‘.
We have reached peak ‘digital transformation’ – if you haven’t heard about why you and your business need to ‘go digital’ or ‘transform into a digital organisation’ you just may have lived under a rock during the past 5 years 🙂
But now that this initial “transform or die” hype is winding down we are entering an era where it is no longer just about upgrading your IT-systems or investigating new business models. Now it is all about making sense, staging experiences, and creating tangible human benefits.
We must therefore TRANSCEND TECHNOLOGY so that we can focus on what really matters: human flourishing and (customer) happiness. We must invest as much in humanity as we invest in technology. Today’s unique opportunity is to re-humanize technology so that it serves a deeper purpose.
When humans are treated like algorithms the loss of trust is pre-programmed – and losing trust is something no organisation can afford. If you don’t want to end up like some of the global social media platforms who are now facing a jaw-dropping loss of trust, regulation and anti-trust legislation, put the HUMAN back into the centre of everything you do, and the future will be yours!
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Scientific break-throughs, exponential technological progress, economic growth and jobs often dominate the discussions when we ponder the future. However, as the world is going rapidly digital, I believe it is our humanity that needs the most attention, and it is our humanity that will make all the difference in a world dominated by algorithms and smart machines. Our future is to become more human, not less, and the biggest danger today is not that machines will eliminate us, but that we become too much like them!
Consider how quickly the world is changing: data is now really the new oil, artificial intelligence is becoming the new electricity, and the Internet of Things could well be the world’s new nervous system. Digital giants and social media platforms have replaced banks and energy conglomerates as the most powerful companies in the world. Algorithms, AI and bots are gearing up to run the show in every industry. What will happen to humans when machines become truly intelligent? What about privacy, secrets, mystery, serendipity, emotions, intuition, imagination, consciousness, and…free will?
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I often start my talks by stating that the future is already here but that we’re just not paying enough attention. I also suggest that the future is no longer a mere extension of the present because the changes that are now impacting every aspect of our lives are exponential, combinatorial and interdependent. The future is no longer a time-frame, it’s a mindset.
‘Tomorrow’ is happening increasingly faster than we think, and it is therefore vitally important to boost our future-readiness, to nurture a future-mindset, and to ‘futurize’ ourselves as well as our organisations.
In this talk, I share my approach to observing, understanding and imagining the future, both on a personal as well as on an organisational level. The future is not something that just happens us – it is something we create!
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The top 20 global technology brands and digital platforms are growing exponentially while many incumbent enterprises and former household-name-brands are forced to ‘pivot’ and dramatically reinvent themselves, or face sudden disintermediation and irrelevance. Witness the media industry, or recently, the incumbent car industry giants in Europe. In this eye-opening session, Gerd looks at how to evolve into a future-ready organisation based on understanding and exploiting The Megashifts, a key meme first presented in Gerd’s recent book Technology vs. Humanity.
The Megashifts include digitisation, automation, datafication, virtualisation, robotisation, and others (for a total of 11), and understanding them is the ticket to future success. The Megashifts are fuelled by a multitude of game-changers such as The Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, deep learning and robotics, new human-machine interfaces (such as voice-control and intelligent bots). In this riveting talk, Gerd depicts the key trends, reveals the likely minefields and identifies the key opportunities, dishing up a mixture of future-shock and awesomeness to stimulate some serious thinking.
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Science fiction is increasingly becoming science fact. Witness the dramatic technological advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, human genome manipulation, autonomous vehicles and quantum computing. I reckon that in 10 years technology will be almost limitlessly powerful! It is for these reasons that I believe that the ethical and humane use of technology can no longer be an afterthought, but that it is in fact an existential challenge.
If we define ethics as “knowing the difference between having the right or the power to do something, and doing the right thing”, who, then will decide what is right, and who will be “mission control for humanity”? Technology is morally neutral until we use it (hat-tip to William Gibson) – and we will use it absolutely everywhere in the near future. Do we need a ‘Digital Ethics Council’?
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AI has become a global buzz-phrase that hogs our attention everywhere – yet the very idea of AI is being frequently misinterpreted, misunderstood and misrepresented. Hopefully this presentation can clear up this confusion! From a non-academic perspective I explain the differences between what I call IA (intelligent assistance), AI and AGI (artificial general intelligence), and what each of them could mean for our near-future.
I depict what is real and what’s not so real (yet), and where things are going in the next 5-7 years. Examples are usually drawn specifically from a client’s domain or industry. This talk also includes some elements from the Technology vs. Humanity talk, as outlined above, and often addresses the impact of AI on work, education and jobs, as well.
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The automation of everything, the rise of smart machines and AI: what is the future impact on jobs and employment?
Automation is everywhere, already: from electronic bridge-tolls to connected cars with dash-cams and self-parking capabilities, to digital wallets and mobile payment platforms, to networked medical devices and quantified-self applications, to sensor networks for traffic control and robotic nurses for the elderly – and this is only the beginning.
The next 5 years will bring rapid advancements in all areas of AI, robotics and the Internet of Things, and almost all of them will bring more automation to every sector of our society (and I am sure this will not always be a good thing, either). I believe that in the near future we need to focus on human-only jobs and non-routine tasks that only humans can undertake, focusing on creativity, design, tacit pattern recognition, negotiation and other ‘soft skills’, on right-brain capabilities or on emotional context (EQ).
However, unemployment is very likely to soar, regardless, as ever smarter and cheaper machines increasingly automate all routines. So will we see the rise of a minimum guaranteed income (i.e. get paid without working) in some developed countries such as Switzerland? The very concept of work and ‘earning a living’ will need to be re-imagined, and soon. The end of routine is not the end of human work!
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Successful businesses always maintain a constant conversation about the future: what lessons need to be operationalized today in order to avoid future irrelevance or worse, extinction? For one thing, it is essential to understand that everything that can be digitized, automated or virtualised, will be.
Cognification, automation, disintermediation and robotization and 7 other Megashifts are now taking place across all industries, globally, not just in B2C sectors like media, content and marketing. Exponential change is certain to be the #1 challenge/opportunity in the next 5-7 years.
How can we – and our organisations – become better at understanding the new challenges and opportunities, and move faster to develop the mindset and implement the transformations that are required? How will a company prosper in a world that is quickly becoming hyper-connected and interdependent? What skills and mindsets will we need, and what should remain human even if it is inefficient?
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In this brand-new talk I share my observations and foresights on three sectors: science & technology, business & society, and mindset & philosophy; customized for every specific client and their industry.
Science and technology: We are confronted with 9 game-changers: data, cloud, AI, quantum computing, the Internet of Things, blockchain technologies, 3D printing, augmented and virtual reality and genetic engineering (biotechnology).
Business and society: the game-changers above result in 11 Megashifts that impact how we live, across the board: digitization, datafication, personalization, cognification, augmentation, robotisation, automation, disintermediation, platformization, virtualization and simulation.
Mindset and philosophy: In response, we need to adopt a future-ready mindset and philosophy based on the understanding that the future is exponential, convergent, combinatorial, circular, holistic and human-centric (the 6 future principles).
“You have to think about the future while doing the present so that the present is going in the right direction”
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In this fast-paced talk, I cut to the chase. Only my most important future-observations make it into this presentation. Culled from my firehose-like-mix of recent reads, news, reports, research, videos and films, and influenced by the many brilliant people I meet and speak to, this constantly updated keynote lays out the top-10 things I find most relevant for our immediate future. This talk is highly customisable and can cover almost any desired segment within business, society, technology and humanity.
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Gerd’s visionary speech challenges the very core of our beliefs
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Gerd is a pleasure to work with, and I highly recommend his services
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Gerd actively searches a positive story for humanity
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Rhere is space for both humans and technology to live together
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Gerd’s presentation was a huge success
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Gerd definitely pushed our executives’ thinking forward
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