Gigatrends: Six Forces that are Changing the Future for Billions
Author and futurist Tom Koulopoulos will speak on Gigatrends, six tech trends that are shaping the future of how we live, work and play.
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 14 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.
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 Inc. column is read by over one million people yearly.
Mr. Koulopoulos’ fourteen books include Reimagining Healthcare, Revealing the Invisible, The Gen Z Effect, The Innovation Zone, and Cloud Surfing. His latest book, Gigatrends, looks at the six tech trends that are shaping the future of how we live, work, and play.
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.”
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Gigatrends: Six Forces That Are Changing the Future for Billions
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; connecting the dots between what are often confusing and disconnected trends to make them understandable and actionable. And all of this directly from Tom’s unique perspective of more than four decades on the front lines of the technology revolution.
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.
Gigatrends Trailer: https://youtu.be/Lapx1l4IvYI
This event is made possible by a gift from Ron & Mitzie Underwood.