MEMBER
Gerd Leonhard

MEMBER TYPE
Think Tank

FOCUS
Tech vs. Human

WORK
CEO of The Futures Agency and Founder of The Good Future Project

SUMMARY
Gerd Leonhard is a Keynote Speaker, Author, Futurist & Humanist, CEO of The Futures Agency, Film Maker, and Founder of The Good Future Project.

Gerd ranks as one of the top 10 futurist keynote speakers, worldwide, with over 1600 engagements in 50+ countries during the past 2 decades and a combined audience of over 2.5 Million people. He is also a leader in Virtual Keynotes and Video Seminars. Gerd has written 5 books including the best-selling ‘Technology vs Humanity’ (2016), now available in 12 languages.

Gerd’s films on the future of technology and humanity, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence have reached millions of viewers, and are regularly shown at many conferences and at in-house corporate training.

Gerd’s client list includes most Fortune 500 companies as well as many governments and NGOs. Gerd is a global influencer in the field of digital ethics (the ethics of technology). He is a pioneering keynote speaker using animations, video, and audio in fascinating new ways.

Gerd is also a filmmaker running his own film studio, TFAStudios, and the CEO of TheFuturesAgency, a global network of 50+ leading futurists.

Gerd is considered a leading voice on a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence and cognitive computing, the opportunities and challenges of being human in an exponential society, a sustainable business and cultural ecology, TV/film, radio and broadcasting futures, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship, ‘hard-future’ consumer trends, (wo)man-machine futures, the IoT, big data and automation and many others

In 2006, The WSJ called Gerd ‘one of the leading Media Futurists in the World’, and in 2015 Wired Magazine appointed Gerd #88 of the top 100 influencers in ICT in Europe. Gerd's keynotes, speeches, and presentations are renowned for their hard-hitting and provocative yet inspiring, often humorous, and always personal motivational style.

Gerd is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (London) and a member of the World Future Society. A native German, Gerd resides in Zürich, Switzerland, and also maintains an office in San Francisco. He presents both in English as well as in German.

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