“What I argue is you need to supplement what your brain can manage on its own. And this is where I think AI comes in… blending the human imagination together with AI’s ability to crunch massive amounts of data—that’s where I think we’re going to see a lot of power in the world of strategy.” – Rita McGrath About Rita McGrath Rita McGrath is one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation. She is consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers globally and has earned the #1 awar...
Feb 05, 2025
“AI can be an unusual voice that gives you fresh ideas, makes you think differently, and provides the kind of fuel that sparks innovation. But ultimately, humans provide the context, the judgment, and the ability to bring strategy to life.” – Christian Stadler About Christian Stadler Christian Stadler is a professor of strategic management at Warwick Business School. He is author of Open Strategy, which was named as a Best Business Book by Financial Times and Strategy + Business and has been tra...
Jan 29, 2025
“We don’t just give creative thinking to the AI, but we actually use the AI to make space for our own creative thinking.” – Valentina Contini About Valentina Contini Valentina Contini is an innovation strategist for a global IT services firm, a technofuturist, and speaker. She has a background in engineering, innovation design, AI-powered foresight, and biohacking. Her previous work includes founding the Innovation Lab at Porsche. Website: Valentina Contini LinkedIn Profile: Valentina Contini Wh...
Dec 18, 2024
“Not everyone can see with dragonfly eyes, but can we create tools that help enable people to see with dragonfly eyes?” – Anthea Roberts About Anthea Roberts Anthea Roberts is Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University (ANU) and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. She is also the Founder, Director and CEO of Dragonfly Thinking. Her latest book, Six Faces of Globalization , was selected as one of the Best Books of 2021 by The Financia...
Dec 11, 2024
“To be a flexible leader is to make sense of the world in a way that allows you to intentionally ask, ‘How do I need to lead in this moment to get the best results for my team and the outcomes we need?’” – Kevin Eikenberry About Kevin Eikenberry Kevin Eikenberry is Chief Potential Officer of leadership and learning consulting company The Kevin Eikenberry Group . He is the bestselling author or co-author of 7 books, including the forthcoming Flexible Leadership. He has been named to many lists of...
Dec 04, 2024
“It’s not just about the AI itself; it’s about the way we deploy it. We need to focus on human-centric practices to ensure AI enhances human potential rather than harming it.” – Alexandra Diening About Alexandra Diening Alexandra Diening is Co-founder & Executive Chair of Human-AI Symbiosis Alliance. She has held a range of senior executive roles including as Global Head of Research & Insights at EPAM Systems. Through her career she has helped transform over 150 digital innovation ideas ...
Nov 27, 2024
“What these tools allow you to do is very, very quickly go from an idea to sort of an 80% manifestation of it. It’s not just about the technology—it’s about understanding how, when, and why to use it to unlock collective intelligence.” – Kyle Shannon “We’ve discovered you can externalize the voice in your head into something you can have a dialogue with, creating reflective moments that result in documentation, not fleeting thoughts. That’s transformative.” – Kevin Clark About Kevin Clark & ...
Nov 20, 2024•41 min
“To me, envisioning a future should involve elements anchored in nature, modern materials, and sustainable practices, challenging Western-centric constructs of ‘futuristic.’ Artisanal intelligence is about understanding material culture, combining traditional craft with modern techniques, and redefining what feels ‘modern.’” – Samar Younes About Samar Younes Samar Younes is a pluridisciplinary hybrid artist and futurist working across art, design, fashion, technology, experiential futures, cultu...
Nov 06, 2024
“When you get a response from a language model, it’s a bit like a response from a crowd of people, shaped by the preferences of countless individuals.” – Jason Burton About Jason Burton Jason Burton is an assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School and an Alexander von Humboldt Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. His research applies computational methods to studying human behavior in a digital society, including reasoning in online information environments a...
Oct 30, 2024
“AI is more of an occasion for organizational redesign than it is a solution to that redesign. However, it’s a great amplifier—it will amplify your problems, and it will amplify good organizational design.” – Kai Riemer About Kai Riemer Kai Riemer is Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, and Director of Sydney Executive Plus, at the University of Sydney Business School. He works with boards and executives to bring foresight expertise and deep understanding of emerging technologie...
Oct 23, 2024•33 min
“The craft of corporate development and training has always been very specialized in providing the right skills for workers, but that provision of support is being totally transformed by AI. It’s both an incredible opportunity and a challenge because AI is exposing whether we’ve been doing things right all along.” – Marc Steven Ramos About Marc Steven Ramos Marc Ramos is a highly experienced Chief Learning Officer, having worked in senior global roles with Google, Microsoft, Accenture, Novartis,...
Oct 16, 2024
“Trust is a key ingredient when you look into Explainable AI; it’s about how can we build trust towards these systems.” – Alex Richter About Alex Richter Alexander Richter is Professor of Information Systems at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. where he has also been Inaugural Director of the Executive MBA and Associate Dean, where he specializes in the transformative impact of IT in the workplace. He has published more than 100 articles in leading academic journals and conferenc...
Oct 09, 2024
“Each of us is creative in our own way. We have the ability to create our own future, but we must first understand that we are creative.” – Jack Uldrich About Jack Uldrich Jack Uldrich is a leading futurist, author, and speaker who helps organizations gain the critical foresight they need to create a successful future. His work is based on the principles of unlearning as a strategy to survive and thrive in an era of unparalleled change. He is the author of 9 books including Business As Unusual ....
Oct 03, 2024
“The beauty of generative AI is that it’s incredibly elastic. With a strong NLU, you can orchestrate different services to do various tasks. Whether it’s something simple like booking a vacation or scheduling a meeting, or something more complex like running a state-of-the-art deep learning model with an AI-powered agent, it becomes really interesting.” – Lindsay Richman About Lindsay Richman Lindsay Richman is the co-founder and director of product and machine learning at Innerverse , a platfor...
Sep 25, 2024
“We have unique capabilities, but it’s crucial to understand that today’s AI technologies, powered by deep learning, are fundamentally different. We need a new paradigm to figure out how we can work together.” – Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi About Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi is Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has won numerous awards for teaching and his papers, including for his article “ Art...
Sep 18, 2024
“Machines are amazing, but they can’t do certain things that only human beings can, like exhibit consciousness, ethics, or the ability to develop social bonds involving emotions, trust, loyalty, and empathy.” – Andrew Likierman About Sir Andrew Likierman Sir Andrew Likierman is Professor and former Dean of the London Business School. Previous roles include Head of the UK Government Accountancy Service and Director of the Bank of England and Barclays Bank. He was knighted in 2001. His current res...
Sep 11, 2024
“It’s not just about foreseeing; it’s also about feeling and sensing. It’s about imagining the smells and sounds of the future. It’s really about being an active player in your future, an active builder of the future.” – Sylvia Gallusser About Sylvia Gallusser Sylvia Gallusser is Founder and CEO of Silicon Humanism, a futures thinking and strategic foresight consultancy. Previous roles include a variety of strategic roles at Accenture, Head of Technology at Business France North America, General...
Sep 04, 2024
“We all have to acquire new information to stay relevant. But if we’re piling new information onto outdated thinking, we need to become more comfortable with lifelong forgetting.” – Erica Orange About Erica Orange Erica Orange is a futurist, speaker, and author, and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of leading futurist consulting firm The Future Hunters. She has spoken at TEDx and keynoted over 250 conferences around the world, and been featured in news outlets including Wired...
Aug 28, 2024
“It’s not about the amount we say; it’s about making what we say really count. We can use some of these tools to write the long version, so that we can then quickly create the short version and really dial in.” – Natalia Bielczyk About Natalia Bielczyk Natalia Bielczyk is Founder & CEO of Ontology of Value, an R&D, EdTech, and consulting agency. She holds a PhD in Computational Neuroscience and is author of three books, including the forthcoming ‘ The Longest Journey: The Ultimate Guide ...
Aug 21, 2024
“It’s not about the amount that we say. It’s about making what we say really count. We can use some of these tools to write the long one, so that we can then go ahead and very quickly write the short version and really dial in.” – Nikolas Badminton About Nikolas Badminton Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is a world-renowned futurist speaker, award-winning author, and executive advisor, with clients including Disney, Google, J.P. Morgan, Microsoft, NASA, and ...
Aug 15, 2024
“AI is not a collaborator. It’s an Oracle, it’s a tool, it’s a thing. I have a query, give me the answer. It’s not a thing where you sit down with the computer like, okay, let’s think about this problem together.” – Brian Magerko About Brian Magerko Dr. Magerko is a Professor of Digital Media, Director of Graduate Studies in Digital Media, and head of the Expressive Machinery Lab at Georgia Tech. His research explores how studying human and machine cognition can inform the creation of new human/...
Aug 07, 2024
“It’s really important that we’re not ceding everything to AI and that we continue to add value ourselves in that collaboration.” – Claire Mason About Claire Mason Claire Mason is Principal Research Scientist at Australia’s government research agency CSIRO , where she leads the Technology and Work team and the Skills project within the organization’s Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Platform. Her team investigates the workforce impacts of Artificial Intelligence and the skills workers w...
Jul 31, 2024
“If you read 1,000 papers and build a powerful representation, humans can interrogate, mine, ask questions, and even get the system to generate new hypotheses.” – Markus Buehler About Markus Buehler Markus Buehler is Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Principal Investigator of MIT’s Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM). He has published over 450 articles with almost 50,000 citations and is on the editorial boards of ...
Jul 24, 2024
“So my overall interest in technology in general, not just AI, is how it supports human potential. And so for me, that’s defined as people being healthy, happy, and really able to fulfill their purpose and potential.” – Nichol Bradford About Nichol Bradford Nichol Bradford is Executive-in-Residence for AI + Human Enablement at The Society for Human Resource Management, focusing on human-AI collaboration. She is also Co-Founder and Partner of Niremia Collective, an early stage venture fund focuse...
Jul 17, 2024
“To use AI for omni-beneficial output, we need to bring to it our best qualities, which are beyond intelligence; it is wisdom.” – George Pór About George Pór George Pór has been researching, teaching, and consulting in the arts and sciences of emergent collective intelligence since 1987, when he was introduced to the ideas by his mentor Doug Engelbart. He is the founder of numerous organizations, including Future HOW, Enlivening Edge, and Campus Evolve. His academic posts have included London Sc...
Jul 10, 2024
“The promises are tremendous and the peril is climate, not AI. “ – Daniel Erasmus About Daniel Erasmus Daniel is the Founder and Managing Director of futures consulting firm Digital Thinking Network (DTN), CEO of AI sense-making platform Erasmus.AI, and creator of ClimateGPT. He has been applying innovative approaches to scenario planning since 1996 for many leading organizations around the world. Daniel is a visiting professor at Ashridge Business School and a fellow at The Rotterdam School of ...
Jul 03, 2024•37 min•Season 2Ep. 51
“AI is going to change humanity into possibly a new species; we could call it a new form of humanity, which is different from what we have today. “ – Pedro Uria Recio About Pedro Uria Recio Pedro Uria-Recio is a highly experienced analytics and AI executive. He was until recently the Chief Analytics and AI Officer at True Corporation, Thailand’s leading telecom company, and is about to announce his next position. He is also the author of the recently launched book Machines of Tomorrow: From AI O...
Jun 26, 2024
“In collective reasoning, one of the fundamental hurdles is coming up with a shared understanding of what we’re trying to do, and where we’re trying to go. “ – Anita Williams Woolley About Anita Williams Woolley Anita Williams Woolley is the Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. She received her doctorate from Harvard University, with subsequent research including seminal work on collective intelligence in t...
Jun 19, 2024
“True creativity comes from humans because it stems from our unique individual experiences of life. “ – Jeremy Somers About Jeremy Somers Jeremy Somers is Founder and Director of AI-assisted creative agency NotContent.ai, and of We Are Handsome. He has extensive experience as a Creative Director, working for brands such as Asos, Canon, Mercedes-Benz, Qantas, Spotify, and W Hotels. Websites: www.notcontent.ai www.jeremysomers.com Instagram: @notcontent.ai Beehiv: notcontent.beehiiv What you will ...
Jun 12, 2024
“If we start to think about humans plus AI, this mindset begins to shape what we are trying to create.” – Ross Dawson About Ross Dawson Ross Dawson is a futurist, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, author, and host of Amplifying Cognition podcast. He is Chairman of the Advanced Human Technologies group of companies and Founder of Humans + AI startup Informivity. He has delivered keynote speeches and strategy workshops in 33 countries and is the bestselling author of 5 books, most recently Thrivi...
Jun 05, 2024
