<p>One of the world’s leading futurists, Tom Koulopolous shares insights in technology trends and breakthroughs, the future of work, and innovations in healthcare.</p><p>Tom Koulopoulos is Chairman and founder of Delphi Group, a 30-year-old Boston-based think tank named one of the fastest growing private companies by Inc. Magazine, and the founding partner of Acrovantage Ventures, which invests in early-stage technology startups. He is also the author of 13 books, an inventor with several patents, an Inc.com columnist, the past Executive Director of the Babson College Center for Business Innovation, the past director of the Dell Innovation Lab, and a professor at Boston University.</p><p>His insights have received wide praise from luminaries such as the late Peter Drucker, the father of modern management; Dee Hock, founder of Visa International; and Tom Peters, who called his writing, “a brilliant vision of where we must take our enterprises to survive and thrive.” His <em>Inc</em>. column is read by over one million people yearly.</p><p>Mr. Koulopoulos’ thirteen books include his most recent, <em>Reimagining Healthcare</em>, <em>The Bottomless Cloud</em>, <em>Revealing the Invisible</em>, <em>The Gen Z Effect</em>, and <em>Cloud Surfing</em>. His forthcoming book, <em>Gigatrends</em> (February 2024), looks at the seven tech trends that are shaping the future of how we live, work, and play.</p><p>Tom’s keynotes blend humor, insight, and a cutting-edge view of the future in a way that’s customized to each audience. According to Tom’s mentor, Peter Drucker, Tom’s writing “makes you question not only the way you run your business but the way you run yourself.”</p>
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<ul><li><strong>Gigatrends: Seven Tech Trends That Are Changing Everything</strong></li><li>Gigatrends looks at the greatest technological shifts of the 21st century and lays out a roadmap to navigate the change, disruption, and opportunities they will create. From the Metaverse and Web 3.0, to the emergence of Digital Workers, from Frictionless Commerce to Blockchain, the Global Healthcare Crisis to Generation Alpha, Gigatrends sheds a bright and insightful light on the many unanticipated ways that technology will shape the future.</li><li>Like all of Tom’s keynotes, Gigatrends is customized for each audience and takes a decidedly behavioral approach to describing how technology will shape us, our organizations, and the world—providing a practical roadmap for organizations that want to thrive in the 21st Century. At a time when uncertainty seems to be looming large over every aspect of our lives, Gigatrends sets a course for the future that is realistic, fascinating, and above all, hopeful.</li><li><strong>The Future of Work</strong></li><li>Companies are struggling to navigate a perfect storm of economic, workforce, and market disruption the likes of which we have never seen on such a large and prolonged scale. However, that doesn’t mean that it can’t be done, only that we need to be creative and courageous enough to change the way we approach much of what we’ve come to accept as the way we work and run our businesses.</li><li>In this keynote, Tom provides a roadmap for navigating the future of a workplace where humans and digital workers will work side by side, marketplaces where friction is virtually eliminated, the role that AI will play in reimagining work, and the critical issues of managing Gen Z and Gen Alpha. This is a watershed moment in history; some companies will reinvent themselves and the way they engage with employees, customers, and partners, while others will be left behind. Simply put, there is opportunity in the uncertainty. The takeaway will be a positive and realistic look at how to reimagine the work.</li><li><strong>Reimagining Healthcare</strong></li><li>American healthcare is on the precipice of an enormous transformation, brought on by an aging demographic, new diagnostic tools, therapies, pharmaceuticals – and the exponential rate of technology advances. These changes are creating an unprecedented opportunity to build a future that puts the patient at the center of an incredibly rich healthcare ecosystem – one with the power to positively and dramatically impact our quality of life. With the ability to capture and store data about every healthcare interaction, we will be able to predict disease and illness – better than we can currently predict tomorrow’s weather forecast. It could be an amazing future in which healthcare becomes a fundamental human right accessible and affordable to everyone.</li><li><strong>Revealing the Invisible: How Artificial Intelligence is About to Change Everything</strong></li><li>The world is at the precipice of one of the most dramatic shifts in history: the transition from an industrial society to one that is based on a deep understanding of an entirely new form of knowledge capital, behavior – our behaviors, as well as those of the intelligent machines that we are building. And it’s not just human behaviors that are being captured and analyzed. AI-powered autonomous vehicles, smart devices, algorithms – and intelligent machines will all exhibit behaviors. In this very near future, every person and digital device will have its own digital-self – a digital twin which knows more about us than we know about ourselves. These intelligent objects will communicate with each other across vast digital ecosystems, creating a level of collaboration and transparency we can barely imagine today. Your digital-self will be one of your most valuable assets, requiring radical new technologies and approaches for how you own, protect – and share – your digital behaviors. Fascinating, engaging, and incredibly timely – this keynote provides a front row seat to the future of business and our lives in the 21st century.</li></ul>