![]() Then I wrote a book called “The Future of Music,” which led to me being called a futurist. So basically I realized I was very good at seeing things ahead of time a little bit. I think I realized in about 2001, when everybody went bankrupt that my vision was better than my implementation. It was an interesting time, but I was too early and ahead of my days. But I started as a musician and producer, and then in the late ’90s I went on the Internet and I did a bunch of music startups. Gerd Leonhard: CEO of The Futures Agency: It’s a long story. But maybe before we start, could you give me just a little bit about your background and how you’ve ended up as such a visionary in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Space these days? Great to have you on the HfS platform today! We’re very excited to have you join us at Cognition, our coming flagship event in New York this September. Phil Fersht, CEO and Chief Analyst, HfS: Good evening, Gerd. ![]() So we sat down with Gerd to get his critique of the future of technology, the emerging quagmire surrounding Digital Ethics and the true potential of Artificial Intelligence.o and how this will all potentially impact our jobs, our societies, our lives, and our humanity… To this end, at HfS we are thrilled to have persuaded Gerd Leonhard, CEO of The Futures Agency, to keynote our HfS Summit, “Cognition: Welcome to the Future of Services”, September 14 – 16, 2016 in White Plains, New York. This is our goal, this September, in White Plains, New York, where we are, once again, bringing together the diverse stakeholders of the operations and services industry to get past the fear, and find the inspiration to drag us out of this transition phase, in which we currently find ourselves. With human brain power and computing power on collision course to become one, the enmeshing of human behaviour and thought processes with self-learning and self-remediating cognitive systems is set to confuse, frighten and – ultimately – inspire us to change our whole approach to managing our technology investments, making data meaningful, collaborating with work colleagues and creating new business models. ![]() Now we have finally managed to get past that frightfully riveting conversation about doing some rudimentary process automation with our invoice processing and customer collections (aka RPA 1.0), we can finally get to the heart of what new technology capability – much of which is already here – is really doing to our world. His credo is simple: People, Planet, Purpose and Prosperity.Futuring Gerd Leonhard will keynote at HfS’ Cognition Summit this September A true thought leader in the futurist space, Gerd is above all a dedicated humanist who believes that all technological progress should further collective human flourishing. His diverse list of clients include governments, NGOs and Fortune 500 companies. Gerd is highly regarded as a global influencer and has advised many business leaders and government officials around the globe. Humanity', futurism meets humanism in a ground-breaking manifesto of critical observation exploring the megashifts that will radically alter our society, economy, values and even our biology. His keynotes, speeches and presentations are renowned for their hard-hitting and provocative style inspiring, humorous, motivational, and always personal. Gerd focuses on the future of humanity and technology, digital ethics, artificial intelligence, future-leadership and foresights. Gerd Leonhard is one of the top 10 futurist keynote speakers worldwide, with over 2,000 engagements in 60 countries and a combined audience of over 2.5 million people.
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