Artificial Intelligence (AI) is certain to play a role everywhere, and robots are dropping in price dramatically while gaining quickly in functionality and skills. The Internet of Things is here, and 'Singularity' is quickly becoming a buzzword that rivals Social Media. 'intelligent machines' are increasingly interconnecting. Human-machine relationships: future scenarios. A native German, Gerd resides in Basel, Switzerland. Gerd is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (London), a member of the World Future Society, and with his company The Futures Agency an institutional member of the World Futures Studies Federation. Since late 2011, Gerd has been expanded the scope of his work to include some of the most pressing global issues such as sustainability, energy and the global shift “from ego to eco”. He now travels around the globe to speak at major conferences and events, company retreats, seminars and in-house trainings on the Future of Business, Sustainability, Media, Content, Humanity, Technology, Marketing, Advertising and Branding and many related topics. com meltdown and the 9/11 crisis, Gerd returned to Europe and found his new calling as author, futurist, keynote speaker and strategic advisor. He then caught the Internet-bug and became a digital music and media entrepreneur, serving as Founder/CEO of several Internet startups, based in San Francisco. Gerd’s background is in the music business in 1985 he won Berklee College’s ‘Quincy Jones Award’ and subsequently spent years working as a professional guitar player, composer and producer. His diverse client list of over companies includes Unilever, Lloyds Bank, WWF, YouTube, Nokia, The Guardian, Google, Sony, Telkom Indonesia, Siemens, RTL, ITV, BBC, France Telecom, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, MTN, The Financial Times, DDB, Ogilvy, Omnicom, the European Commission, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, VISA and many others. With over 1,500 engagements in 50+ countries since 2001, Gerd has addressed over 300,000 executives and professionals, and is highly regarded as a global influencer. Gerd’s keynotes, speeches and presentations are renowned for their hard-hitting and provocative yet inspiring and personal motivational style. In 2006, The Wall Street Journal called Gerd ‘one of the leading Media Futurists in the World’. Gerd is considered a leading voice on a wide range of topics including next-generation digital business models, the opportunities and challenges of a networked society, a sustainable business and cultural ecology, social media and communications, TV / film, radio and broadcasting futures, mobile content and commerce, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship, consumer trends, human-machine futures and AI, big data and automation, next-generation advertising, marketing and branding, and the development of ‘green futures’ scenarios. Gerd is also the host of TheFutureShow and, as well as the Founder of GreenFuturists (a high-level group of leading futurists with a focus on developing sustainable business models). He is the co-author of the best-selling book The Future of Music, and the author of The End of Control, Music 2.0, Friction is Fiction, and The Future of Content. Gerd Leonhard is a widely-known and top-rated futurist, an influential author, an acclaimed keynote speaker and a strategic advisor. Futurist, Author, Keynote Speaker, Think-Tank Leader & Strategist
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