<p>Futurist Mike Walsh shares his provocative view of the future of business – and how corporations can navigate and thrive while dealing with emerging technologies.</p><p>Mike has gained a reputation as a futurist who challenges his audience to rethink their concept of technology and how it will disrupt their own lives. Mike customizes his message to each audience’s needs, drawing on wide-ranging research, while providing a blueprint for corporations to re-invent their futures. He also broadens his message to corporate culture and strategies for engaging consumers. While these tumultuous times mean more risk, Mike takes a positive and optimistic approach to dealing with disruption and change. His take: we all have the potential to design our own path, by harnessing the power of technology.</p><p style="text-align: center;">“Great companies are built on culture. Mike Walsh’s prescient vision of the algorithmic company of the future is no robot army of soulless analytics dashboards, but a living, breathing organism—a community of humans who respond to motivation beyond compensation; purpose and impact; decision-making and autonomy; location and collaboration.”</p><p style="text-align: center;"><i> - Brian Halligan, founder & CEO of HubSpot</i></p><p>As the founder of the consulting firm CEO Tomorrow, Mike advises his executive clients to re-imagine their companies for the future. He provides corporate leaders with new ideas that will support and guide their teams in a world transformed by automation, Artificial Intelligence, and algorithms. </p><p>Mike travels the world as a consultant, creating case studies and gathering intelligence among scientists, writers, entrepreneurs, and other futurists. His weekly podcast Between Worlds explores these questions about emerging trends with thought-leaders. </p><p>Mike’s latest book, <i>The Algorithmic Leader: How to be smart when machines are smarter than you</i> offers guidance on how to reinvent leadership and organizations. He has also written <i>Futuretainment: Yesterday the World Changed</i>, <i>Now It's Your Turn</i>, which alerts readers about how consumer behavior has evolved amid the rise of the Internet, social media, user-generated content, and mobile devices. The book focused on the media and entertainment industry, but Mike has studied how other industries and sectors are adapting to this new era.</p>
CEO of Tomorrow, a global innovation consultancy
<ul><li><strong>New Rules for a New World</strong></li><li>The pandemic not only changed our way of life, it accelerated the arrival of a radical new future of work. While for many of us hybrid work is a new and unexpected challenge - it is just the start of a much bigger transformation set to reshape the nature of organizations themselves.</li><li>Whether it be engaging customers through digital channels or leveraging AI, algorithms and automation to reinvent how we deliver value - we are likely to experience in the next decade, a century’s worth of change. Not every organization will make it, but those that do will never be the same again. And for leaders, now more than ever, it is a time to upgrade their capabilities, embrace new technologies, and reimagine what they do.</li><li>Mike Walsh's inspiring new keynote presentation will offer audiences an insight into the organizations and leaders that are successfully navigating this period of change, and how to create a playbook for their own transformation. Becoming future-proof is more than just about getting through a crisis - it is about being ready for the new world that awaits us on the other side.</li><li><strong>The Algorithmic Leader</strong></li><li>We live in an age of wonder - cars that drive themselves, platforms that anticipate our needs, and robots capable of everything from advanced manufacturing to complex surgery. Automation, algorithms, and AI are transforming not only business but every facet of daily life. While many fear that robots will take their jobs, the rise of machine intelligence begs a more important question: what is the true potential of human intelligence in the 21st century?</li><li>In this dynamic keynote, Mike Walsh, futurist and author, will present a vivid portrait of a brave new world orchestrated by machines that think, and how tomorrow's leaders can upgrade their capabilities to survive and thrive in an age of accelerating technology. Audiences will walk away with an insight into the companies, technologies and global forces shaping the age of machine intelligence, as well as a set of tailored next actions on how to redesign their organizations, reimagine their roles and reinvent the way they make decisions.</li><li><strong>The AI Powered Organization</strong></li><li>This keynote explores why now is the time for radical reinvention. ChatGPT and the rise of generative AI platforms are just the beginning of a much bigger algorithmic revolution that is set to reshape the future of work itself.</li><li>Rapid shifts in technology, customer needs and competitor dynamics allow companies to build resilience to changing environments and integrate not only cutting edge technologies but also embrace a new generation of talent. </li><li>Whether it be how we engage our customers, how we automate our processes or even how we make decisions as leaders - the ability to effectively transform data into value will be at the heart of 21st-century business. Building an AI powered organization is crucial to your company’s future survival.</li><li><strong>What Leaders Need To Know About the Metaverse</strong></li><li>The Metaverse is more than a gold rush; it will be an alchemical transformation in the way the world works. Over the next few years, we will see a rapid convergence between the digital and real world driven by increasingly sophisticated devices, decentralized blockchain technologies and AI platforms capable of generating persistent, immersive and collaborative experiences indistinguishable from reality.</li><li>Mike Walsh's new keynote presentation will demystify core Metaverse technologies and concepts like NFTs, DAOs, DeFi, XR, DeSO, GameFi and Web3. In addition, with a playbook style approach, he will provide insights into what it will take to pioneer Metaverse applications, experiment with new ways of working, and attract and develop the right kind of talent to help you achieve your goals.</li><li>The time for action is now. Every organization and industry will be impacted by the next iteration of the Web and its radical interfaces, infrastructure and investment models. The question for leaders is no longer what is the Metaverse, but rather - what is our plan for it?</li></ul>