Gerd Leonhard – The Good Future: People – Planet – Purpose – Prosperity.

Over the past two decades, Gerd Leonhard has become one of the top 10 Futurist keynote speakers in the world. 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”.

Gerd Leonhard is a futurist and humanist, a public thinker and he tours the world as a global keynote speaker, consultant and filmmaker. His credo is “People, Planet, Purpose & Prosperity” and he strives to share essential future perspectives and practical wisdom with his target groups. Gerd Leonhard is an advocate of “Die Gute Zukunft / The Good Future”. He has an optimistic, hopeful and practical view of the future.

Gerd Leonhard: “First we imagine something, and then we create the future!”

Gerd Leonhard’s work focuses on the future of people and technology and deals specifically with digital ethics, artificial intelligence, digital transformation and the economic, social and political consequences of exponential technological change. Gerd Leonhard’s keynotes, presentations and seminars are known for their powerful and provocative, but also inspiring, humorous and personal style.

Gerd Leonhard lecture topics

Everything revolves around securing the future of your company, education and training, leading your company into the future, topics relating to 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

Gerd Leonhard offers customized presentations and keynotes on a wide range 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 topics. These include the importance of being human in a world of machines and algorithms and the imminent redefinition of human-machine relationships – as well as the future of work and jobs and the ethics of technology.

Change has been a constant companion in Gerd Leonhard’s life

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 at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and then worked for twelve years as a professional guitarist, composer and producer. Then he began his Internet phase, as he describes it himself – and became an entrepreneur for digital music and media. From 1994 to 2004, he was the founder and CEO of several internet start-ups based in San Francisco. 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 futurologists, speakers and personalities.

Gerd Leonhard: “The future is already here – we haven’t looked at it properly!”

We are rushing headlong into a machine-led world in which our humanity is increasingly being challenged and questioned. Gerd Leonhard challenges us to think about which human values we are prepared 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 to speak 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 desired change themselves. He is also an influential author. He is co-author of the visionary book “The Future of Music” and author of five other books, including his bestseller “Technology vs. Humanity”, which is available in eleven languages.

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

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Gerd Leonhard is one of the world's leading futurologists. In his research, Gerd Leonhard repeatedly addresses topics that are not popular but are essential for companies to succeed. Book Gerd Leonhard for presentations with The Premium Speakers Bureau.